Joe Beernink
Author of NOWHERE WILD, NOWHERE HOME
Monthly Archives: April 2013
Two weeks ago, I started a new job. Not surprisingly, my last post here was 15 days ago. As I expected, things got really busy, really quickly. I’m not quite ready to do a full write up on what going back to work has been like… I’m going to wait until I’m closer to a full month to do that. But I do have a few random technical notes I thought I’d… Read More
Looked out the window while eating breakfast this morning, and saw a rainbow. So I took a picture—because, you know, that’s how we roll around here. But after taking a picture, I discovered it was actually a DOUBLE-RAINBOW. A double–SUNRISE–rainbow. How cool is that?
Arthur C. Clarke’s Third Law states that “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” From a science fiction writer’s point of view, that’s a fantastic law. It allows me to create stories around futuristic ideas that no one here, today, can debate because, dude, to you it’s all magic—you’re not technologically advanced enough to understand it. So I can’t be wrong. Right? Ahh. Well. Within reason, perhaps. Recently, however, I’ve come… Read More
If you look at the list of TV watched below, you’ll see that my TV watching seemed to decrease in March. And it probably would have… except that what isn’t seen there is the return of baseball, plus the fact that my wife and I have been completely immersed in re-watching all 7 seasons of The West Wing. We’re part-way through Season 7 now, so I expect this splurge to end soon…. Read More
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