Check out this article on Banana Extinction.

I thought bananas taste different now than the ones I remember from my childhood. All this time, I thought that this difference was due to the foggy nostalgia. Now I have a better explanation.

This is exactly why I like diversity in my lawn. If creeping charlie and dandelions go extinct in other parts of the world, I’ll have a ready bio-reserve.

Since Jan asked so nicely …

Getting to Know Me

Things I plan to do before I die:

1. Hike a really long trail.
2. Found a real company with employees and everything.
3. Visit most or all the continents.
4. Take one really great landscape, still life or abstract photo.
5. Write a book.
6. Get another race car and finish a race well.
7. See my children doing well in life.

Things I can do:

1. Learn new things.
2. Fix & break stuff.
3. Swing Dance.
4. Speak in public.
5. Blog.
6. Cook.

Things I cannot do:

1. Sing on key or harmonize.
2. Care about Michael Jackson and a variety of other celebrities.
3. Clap in time to music without peeking at other people to make sure I am staying on the beat.
4. Knit.
5. Play a musical instrument.

Things that attract me to my wife:

1. She laughs at my jokes and wry side comments.
2. She is wicked smart.
3. She is a dedicated and caring mom.
4. She really values fun.
5. Her obvious physical charms.
6. Location, location, location.

Celebrity crushes:

1. Kirsten Dunst (I still don’t understand what she see in Spiderman.)
2. Natalie Portman, but only in Garden State
3. Julia Roberts
4. Sarah McLachlan
5. Sandra Bullock, Susan Sarandon, Bonnie Raitt, Patricia Clarkson, Elisabeth Moss, Katie Holmes (but only in “Pieces of April”)