I’m sure I have felt just about every human way there is to feel in life, many times over. One thing I don’t remember often feeling is bored. I can find something interesting to occupy my mind in anything and everything. As evidence of this fact, I present this photo—in which I am wearing my Stan Laurel face and a bejeweled, fancy Bow Tie o’ the Day, while happily reading Henry Petroski’s history of the toothpick. Yes, I really do find even the evolution of the modern toothpick captivating. Based on the length of Petroski’s THE TOOTHPICK, toothpicks have had at least 353-pages of stick adventures throughout their existence. Go, toothpicks!