Nuclear energy is a baseload - meaning it's power that you can run any time you want, day or night - and carbon-free.

Software is a gas ! It expands to fit the container it is in !

Most estimates of the mortality risk posed by asteroid impacts put it at about the same risk as flying in a commercial airliner. However, you have to remember that this is like the entire human race riding the plane - it is one of the few risks that really could wipe us all out.

Pressure cookers are relatively inexpensive, they're in every kitchen store, your grandma probably had one, but a lot of people don't. A pressure cooker is interesting because by pressurizing the vessel, you're able to cook much hotter than the boiling point of water, and still have water be present.

I was good at math and science, and I got lots of degrees in lots of things, but in a parallel universe, I probably became a chef.

A blowtorch is a wonderful thing. You can get one of those for about 25 bucks at Home Depot. And there's a ton of things that you can use a blowtorch for, in browning a steak or touching up the browning of a chicken or making creme brulee.

Bill, we left megalomania behind a long time ago. Now we are gigalomaniacs.