There’s no shortage of bad taste in Las Vegas.

Why is the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame building made of glass? Shouldn’t it be made of … rock?

Do plants get jet lag? By that I mean, what would happen if you took a plant from a place on the planet experiencing fall and put it directly into a place experiencing spring? Would it bloom or go dormant?

I suppose stupid questions like these are why countries have quarantine laws . . .

The great thing about Australia is that you can never get lost. If I take a wrong turn in America I could wind up in Canada, Mexico, or maybe even Texas. Not so in the land of Oz! Here I can walk in any direction and as long as I’m dry, I’m still in Australia.

It’s almost perfect, really. It keeps Aussies in pleasant little clusters, mainly along the coast.

Now if only this country can figure out how Steve Irwin escaped it’ll be all set. Crikey!

Before there were submarines, what did they call submarine sandwiches?

Is there anything more useless than the “neutral” gear of a car’s automatic transmission? It doesn’t do anything! What a waste of effort having to shift over it every time I need to get to the useful “drive” and “reverse” gears.

During the downtime at this week’s tradeshow, I got into a conversation with our booth neighbors about coffee. The other guys were telling me that the secret to Dunkin Donuts‘s famed coffee is the osmosis filtering they do with the water.

That got me wondering if any consumer-level coffeemakers exist which also “brew” the water, too. It might not be as complicated as osmosis, but a coffeemaker which highly filtered the water, or distilled it even, would make great-tasting coffee I would think.

Then again, distilled water often tastes flat, which makes sense since distilling it removes all but the water molecules themselves.

I wonder how a coffeemaker with superior filtering could be built.

I’m not a packrat, I’m a “compulsive recycler.”

When people from different timezones meet, the East Coasters seem to be industrious (waking up early) while the West Coasters seem to be party animals (staying up late).