If it's on the Internet, then it's gotta be true.

People are using GPS systems to find millions of little hidden objects throughout the world - often as simple as a piece of Tupperware hidden in the woods. You go to a website, you get the latitude and longitude to get the specific location of a certain specific hiding space, and then you go there and see if you can find it.

As Jeopardy devotees know, if you're trying to win on the show, the buzzer is all. On any given night, nearly all the contestants know nearly all the answers, so it's just a matter of who masters buzzer rhythm the best.

I always feel a certain sense of reverence in libraries, even small city ones that smell like homeless internet users.

You live overseas, you see these exotic places and you want to know about them. But, weirdly, it also made me homesick for all these very prosaic places in America.

I always bring my kids vacation souvenirs printed in Comic Sans, so they know I love them but not unconditionally.

Twitter makes you a comedian in the same way that digital cameras make you a photographer