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  I expect to live long enough to see “smart” toilet paper that wants you to rate your wipe.

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  BINGPOT!!! I definitely used to have that book in my collection, and I just found a synopsis that mentions a giant telescope mirror the aliens built in a moon crater - I definitely remember that part from the story. Great catch!

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  What's the best practical joke you played at work? TL;DR: I created a rumor that our company was being bought out, which by sheer coincidence had implications at the CEO level. Back in the mid-90s, the day before April Fools Day, I wrote a fake Wall Street Journal article about Toshiba buying up our company’s stock, i.e. a hostile takeover. As a clue that it was fake, I made the Toshiba spokesman’s name Igata Takashawa. I scribbled an illegible name on a printed copy and left it on a rand...