The biggest problem with working at a treadmill desk: the compulsion to announce constantly that you are working at a treadmill desk.

Sometimes, the Internet can feel like a middle-school playground populated by brats in ski masks who name-call and taunt with the fake bravery of the anonymous. But sometimes - thank goodness - it's nicer than real life.

Oversized houses, like oversized cars, seem to be a particularly American fixation.

I think the real reason is that life has no meaning. I mean, no obvious meaning. You wake up, you go to work, you do stuff. I think everybody's always looking for something a little unusual that can preoccupy them and help pass the time.

I think part of a hero construct is overcoming loss, or being abandoned, or having to make your own way in the world.

Orchid hunting is a mortal occupation.

When it comes to consumer electronics, I'm a big fat sucker, because even though I know you should never, ever buy anything until the second version of it is released, I just can't resist. I live in a state of perpetual Beta.