Sailboats are the slowest form of transportation on Earth with the possible exeption of airline flights that go through O'Hare.

Spreadsheet: a kind of program that lets you sit at your desk and ask all kinds of neat "what if?" questions and generate thousands of numbers instead of actually working.

Crabgrass can grow on bowling balls in airless rooms, and there is no known way to kill it that does not involve nuclear weapons.

The science fair has long been a favorite educational tool in the American school system, and for a good reason: Your teachers hate you.

The letters in 'Brace Beemer' can be arranged to spell 'Embrace Beer.'

The method (of learning Japanese) recommended by experts is to be born as a Japanese baby and raised by a Japanese family, in Japan. And even then it's not easy.

I'm always writing new books so I don't dwell on the ones I've already done. I think that's a habit from being a newspaper guy because you're always writing columns and you can't reflect on the ones you've already done.