The seedlings, puny and ankle high when they should be knee high by this time of year, are his second planting.
Like the early Apple II of Mr. Jobs, it is too puny for many tasks, including sequencing the entire genome of a person.
I'm awfully jaded about monotonous browser tabs, puny headlines and boring boxes all over the place, aren't you?
Intelligent monsters know how to use them and a puny gnome is a lot less puny if it zaps you with a wand of lightning.