As recent rains came pummeling down, I idled at my work desk wondering what to wonder about -being a pathological wonderer, which I, uh, often wonder about. Hey, it was raining real hard, a’right? Anyway, out of proximal convenience, I took to pondering a nearby piece of hook-and-loop material, something that almost always goes by the tradename Velcro, which is a French acronym gleaned from the combo-term velours croché, meaning velvet hook. That trivia alone piqued my further interest.