A couple weeks ago, I spent two or three days tracking down the directors of a Netflix documentary (trailer below) for an article I wrote for the HowStuffWorks website. Not two or three full days, of course. That’d be stupid. If I did that, my freelance efficiency rating (in the language of advanced metrics they use… Read More Scribe stealing
I like to think that I’m not cheap. Or not that cheap, anyway. I’m not the guy that taps my pockets when the bill comes. I don’t throw down $10 when, you know, my share is probably closer to $15. I don’t break out the calculator to make sure the bill is divided correctly. But,… Read More A list about $
In the five or six or seven years that my friend Lloyd and I played basketball together, we covered each other, by my ultra-conservative count, 500 times. At least once on each day we played, which was usually twice a week, most weeks of the year. Inside, outside, on the blacktop courts at the middle… Read More Lloyd
I’m not sure when it started, but at some point in my lifetime, multitasking became cool. The whole concept of doing a bunch of things at once went from what unorganized, harried people did to keep their heads above water — all that screaming and dog-paddling and trying not to drown — to something that… Read More Multitasking my ***
When I was a kid of about 10 or 12, I loved two things: the Baltimore Orioles and the Apollo space program. I liked my family OK, too, I suppose. But, truthfully, with nine of us banging around the old inn (our house was, literally, a revolutionary-era inn), I could take them or leave them… Read More Space
It is January 25, 2018. It’s late. It is often late. My birthday, not that I particularly am into my birthdays, has come and gone. My heart-versary — two years now, and I’m feeling good — has passed, too, on that same day. I probably ought to come up with a better verb than that.… Read More Another time, perhaps
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