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The day you stop listening.
An interesting but arguable bit over at the Graun, about when people stop listening to music. Or really, to new music. Early 30s according to th…
John Birmingham
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Elana conducts Appy's the Covid Tracking App's Exit Interview
I should probably have thought of doing this myself. (Via ASB)
John Birmingham
Aug 17
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Lonely guy movie night.
Jane is away for a few days with work, and naturally, I have regressed to extreme caveman status. Cooked up a tasty pork butt on the weekend, an…
John Birmingham
Aug 8
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Birthday weekend
I am smarter than you because I arranged to have a son who turned into a baker's apprentice. Thus I get little penguin cupcakes for my birthday.
John Birmingham
Aug 8
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One year after the forbidden apple juice.
It was about a year ago this week I got out of hospital after lung surgery. And that was after three months of pretty debilitating illness, an i…
John Birmingham
Aug 2
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AI image generator for sci fi book covers
Tip o’ the propeller beanie to Brian Beard who pointed me at midjourney, a spooky fucking art bot that generates pretty good imagery from a few …
John Birmingham
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"Australian man finds his childhood Matchbox car – five decades after it went missing in England" - The Graun
OMG. I felt this story so much. Dude lost his favourite matchbox car, and found it, one the other side of the world, half a century later. When …
John Birmingham
Aug 2
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25 years of Stargate.
I remember when I used to stare at the expensive box sets of SG1, wishing I hadn’t become a freelance writer so I could afford to buy them. Now,…
John Birmingham
Aug 1
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Apocalypse ready tiny home on wheels!
Man, I wish I’d known about this when I was writing the Zero Day series. Although I don’t know if anybody would have believed it. This dude boug…
John Birmingham
Aug 1
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The Storyteller’s Heaven
Congrats to Jason for the launch of his latest splodey/thinky sci-fi mash up. It’s the story of a 21st century combat vet who survives long enou…
John Birmingham
Jul 31
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Another book I'll never write.
I had a great idea for a spy novel that I can't write because it would be waaaayy to literary. Security Clearance. Or maybe just... Clearance. I…
John Birmingham
Jul 28
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Another book I'll never write.
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Very naked. And muddy. And crazed. (No, not Splendour in the Grass).
I mentioned over at my paid blog last Friday that I have become addicted to a reality TV series. Naked and Afraid. The legends edition, or some …
John Birmingham
Jul 26
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Very naked. And muddy. And crazed. (No, not Splendour in the Grass).
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