aadler | (no subject)

3:30PM Central Afghan Time

Well, let’s see. Recent events.

sroni2004 (to whom I have previously alluded) joined the LJ community, and surprised and pleased me with 1,800 new words on her sequel to “God Save the Queen”. If she continues at this rate, I’ll be starting my part of it by the end of the year.

News from WriterCon indicates that they might be ready to do a new convention by summer 2006. I’m not sure how I feel about that. I’d love to see WriterCon II, but there’s a possibility that I might get extended in Afghanistan. I’d hate for it to take place at a time when I couldn’t attend.

I recently acquired — by PX purchase and from Amazon.com — DVDs for the only seasons of Kolchak: the Night Stalker and Firefly, plus the first season of Veronica Mars; and just today I got Afghan bootlegs of five movies, including Serenity. I have enough unwatched DVDs to keep me occupied for some time to come … but, if I want to continue turning out decent, consistent story copy, I have to carefully limit my indulgence. So it may be weeks before I see Serenity (being as I’ll want to go through the complete Firefly first) … and I’m due to get Season 4 of 24 in the next month or so.

Sometime in the next few days, I’ll look to begin a story I’m calling “Glass Ceiling”. This is the one I’ve had in the back of my mind for a couple of years now. Plus, it will lay groundwork for another big idea I’ve had lurking for about as long.

Oh, and I volunteered for one of the five-question interviews that ludditerobot is currently running. (He, and the other people taking part in it, call it a “meme”. What’s a meme? For that matter, what — in fanfic/television context — is meant by “meta”? I’m always needing to have terms and rules explained to me.)

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Mime : A unit of cultural information, such as a cultural practice or idea, that is transmitted verbally or by repeated action from one mind to another.

It's not a meme if you don't spread it, copy it, tag people with it. That's pretty much it.

Meta, from metadata : Data about data; "a library catalog is metadata because it describes publications"

So, from my understanding it's information about the show that's not actually a part of the show. How one character's arc mirrors another, the real life issues such a thing represents, that sort of thing. Then again, meta is not an exactly consistently used word, so, slightly different interpretations might exist.

Thank you very much. I hate not knowing something everyone else knows.