A few weeks ago, JDB earned a new paint job. The site is more than four years old now, and even if it’s not exactly well-worn — even if, thankyouverymuch, the posts are sometimes as sporadic as the author is spastic — it probably needs a new look. The blogging platform that I use, WordPress,… Read More A New Look, an Old Hook
A year or so ago, for a yawningly routine service story I was hacking out for WebMD, I interviewed a dentist about what people do wrong when they brush their teeth. Hey. It’s a (partial) living. This is how it went: We all know what we mess up when it comes to brushing. We do… Read More On the Job
From our start, we struggle with the idea of being perfect. We are taught that “practice makes perfect,” but that “nobody’s perfect.” Philosophers tell us, wisely — they’re not philosophers for nothing — that “perfect is the enemy of the good.” Yet the pursuit of perfection is widely expected. It’s considered noble. Nobody aims to… Read More Scenes from my bulletin board: Being Perfect
My kid, because he’s a good kid and it probably didn’t cost him much, slipped his old man a guest subscription to The New York Times a few months ago. He “gets the paper,” as we used to say, in digital form, because he likes to cook — the kid is different, in a very… Read More The failing NYT
Almost 20 years have passed since The City Too Busy to Hate last hosted The Big Game. But it’s happening again. The Super Bowl is coming to Atlanta. In a sobering, unavoidable, undeniable fact, the Super Bowl — brace yourself, COTNS — already is here. Tom Brady rolled into town over the weekend. The team that the… Read More Super Atlanta
I bought a new laptop. It has a keyboard. And a screen. It has a bunch of “ports,” which is a fancy laptop-type word for a place to plug things into. It has a good battery so you don’t have to, you know, always plug a plug into a port. After the laptop love of… Read More Know what you don’t know
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