My wife, a keen gardener of heirloom tomatoes, says it’s because the varieties that sell commercially are bred for long shelf-life and nothing else.

I have a job where the consequences of making a mistake are Significant.

I have a crafting hobby because I can suck at it with no consequences at all, and sometimes I make something cool.

I’ve started a fire in the kitchen. Not by messing up, but by using a toaster built in the 1950s and designed to toast bread as a secondary function to killing you. It was thirty seconds of horror, and then things were okay. The toast was in the sink under a stream of water and the toaster was unplugged.

It’s important to realise that even if a fear comes true, things will be okay. Get a kitchen-suitable fire extinguisher. Learn to use it. Don’t use death as an ingredient like I did. Understand that even if things go wrong, you’ll fix it. Your ability to deal with shit is bigger than the shit you have to deal with.

He’s probably not the only CEO who needs an acting coach to teach him how to blink.

I don’t get it.

I had no idea it was such a mystery why wet dogs shake themselves dry.

The time to post this was a week ago.

The wealthy have an out. Peter Thiel, for example. He has a private compound in New Zealand he can bug out to if it gets too hot where he is right now.

I’d be kind of impressed with myself if someone disliked me enough to make a voodoo doll of me.

Lazy post. Just a link, nothing else.

Two machines designed to do the same job in the same environment look similar? Nah, that doesn’t track.

I would LOVE that.

I wish we could be as certain about ‘read’.

Last week I texted my wife “I desire chicken” and Autocorrect tried to change it to "I desire children. I don’t, Autocorrect. In either sense! What sick game are you playing…?

What bugs me most is whether ‘biannual’ means twice per year or every second year.

YOU DON’T SAY.

Riker without the beard looks like the kind of guy who would steal people’s lunches from the office fridge.

Okay, now explain to me which is the best Star Trek captain and why anyone who disagrees needs to die by cheesegrater in a three-day ordeal.

🙂

Some people here take themselves way too seriously. Not every conversation needs to be an argument.

I’m much more likely to stab myself in the teeth than the fleshy part of the face.