During one of those awkward moments when only me and the CTO showed up on time for a meeting, he tried to fill the awkward silence by asking what I was working on.

I told him about building wireless moisture sensors and putting them in my houseplants. When the master controller, written in FORTH, senses one is too dry, it lights up an LED telling me which one should be watered.

He asked me why FORTH. I told him, "If it's good enough for deep space probes, it's good enough for houseplants."

Then everyone else showed up and I haven't had to speak to him again.