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[turps]

I'm pulling the newsletter together right now and have a question. What kinds of post would you label meta in terms of the popfandom? I was discussing this with one of the popscouts last week, and I want to know what others think. So, any thoughts?

Now onto the boring stuff.

I don't know where the last few days have gone. Lots of stuff and tv watching mostly. I've discovered Criminal Minds. How did I not know about this show before? And also caught up on various shows, both downloaded and on the Sky Plus. There's also been much sleeping, I'm sure my body knows I'm off to Camp Sparkle soon and is storing up sleep in readiness, and annoyance at computer issues. Talking of which. Can anyone recommend a good free anti virus? I've always had Norton but my subscription ran out and I can't afford to renew just yet.

Saturday we went to the nearby old hillside cemetery to do a litter pick with the scouts. It was a lovely spring day, sunny and reasonably warm in the shelter of the cliffs. After being issued with bags, gloves and grabbers we set off into the woods, picking up anything that shouldn't be there. The old cemetery is an interesting place. It's nothing like a modern cemetery, instead the graves are set in the woods, on levels on a hillside. There's headstones from the late 1800s amongst the trees, soldiers and mine workers and the important people. All buried close together, their resting places covered with ivy and leaves. The paths have been cleared and shored up now, so it's easier to walk around, which is good, because that bag got heavy.

Yesterday was a duck race organised by the Scouts. Sadly we got there too late and all the ducks were home when we arrived. So we went on to the beach, where it was freezing, so we bought food at the nearby Morrisons and had a picnic in the car.

And that's that for my news, exciting I know. Except Corey has been awarded his place at the school we wanted. Not that there was much risk he wouldn't. We're in the catchment area and his primary school is a feeder school to the secondary one. But still, it's nice to know he definitely has a place. Now we start to save for the uniform, because, ouch.

Comments

[ephemera.livejournal.com]

it's mad to think that Corey's going to secondary school in September!

also : camp! *squee*!

also also : the meta thing - I think I know it when I see it, but it's really hard to define out of the box.

[turps33.livejournal.com]

I know! Secondary school seems like such a grown up thing. I swear, the years pass so fast.

also : camp! *squee*!

It's so soon!

The meta thing makes my head hurt. I just guess half the time and hope people forgive me if they click a link and think, wtf, that's not meta!

[urbanoceanix.livejournal.com]

I use AVG. It's free and it's never given me any trouble.
http://free.grisoft.com/doc/1

[saba1789.livejournal.com]

I really like my AntiVir (http://www.free-av.com/).

Also, sounds like you had a great weekend :-) .

[ihearthings-ii.livejournal.com]

hmmm, sparkly meta for me is mainly writerly meta. or more in-depth sort of analysis of the boys's characters, stuff like that.

wheee, Camp Sparkle!!

[toeprint.livejournal.com]

I think the fandom opinions meme going around a while ago provided some meta discussion. If I'm wrong, the answers are still fascinating nevertheless.

[rikes]

Try AVG for antivirus, AdAware for adware and Zone Alarm for firewall. All have been recommended to me by geeks. :)

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[toeprint.livejournal.com]

Meta also includes discussion about fannish identity.

You might also want to check out [Bad username or site: http://community.livejournal.com/metafandom/ @ livejournal.com] and
[Bad username or site: http://community.livejournal.com/metabib/ @ livejournal.com].

[withdiamonds.livejournal.com]

What I think about sparkly meta is that there isn't enough of it anymore. I think of it as stuff like talking about footage, the music, writing, group history, info and anaylysis and opinion about present day activities for each of the boys, and bitching about JC's non-promo for his never-to-be-released CD. That sort of thing. People don't seem to do much of it nowadays, certainly including me. I used to love to read posts about that sort of thing. Maybe we all know each other's stories and opinions already? That's one of the nice things about when someone new comes along. We get to see their reactions to classic footage that we all know so well.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_bettina_/]

Criminal Minds is a great show, I like it a lot. Derek Morgan is very pretty and Reid is cute as is Garcia :-D.

[vaudevilles.livejournal.com]

Yay Corey getting into the school you wanted! And good on you for the Wombling.

[nopseud]

{seconds the rec}

We both use it, and it's been very good and much easier to use than Norton. I also have Ad-Aware -- sometimes it picks up on things which the Grisoft anti-spyware misses, and v.v.

[rikes]

I totally agree! People (including me, obviously) just post pictures and media, but nobody really says much in the posts or the comments, let alone make separate posts for that kind of stuff. Must remember to pay attention to that in the future.

[turloughishere.livejournal.com]

Duck race? Live ducks or rubber ducks? Rubber I presume 'cause the notion of racing live ducks boggles me completely :-)

Good news about Corey's school even if the uniform is expensive! At least with a uniform he won't wear out his ordinary clothes as fast, or hopefully start demanding fashionable brands "like all the other kids at school have" when he gets a bit older.