Norwich Science Fiction Group

Today's topic: Colonial Independence. In Space.
Nobody else read Atlantis fanfic or CJCherryh so I had much to talk about and little to discuss on those.
Also there was talk of Blakes 7 and DS9 and Firefly.
And then there was talking about comics. which doesn't fit the theme, but I'm on a comics thing lately, so.
Was good talkings.

Norwich was full of very many humans tonight. Very. Many. Because there was the olympic torch thing, which I did not see nor want to. Too many humans. Even when we left the pub there was tons of people wandering around, including small child people who were worrying about barely staying on the pavement. I like it better when there's less crowds, but I'm pretty sure all the pubs were more pleased this way.
Also there was someone at the boat pull up place at the Ribs, which is like the second time I've seen that. They have a balcony over the river, there's a boat word for it, and boats can just stop at the pub right there. It's cool.

On the way back I went to Tesco and got lots of egg and potato omlette things. I should check the nutritional info on those but they taste so good. None my other things are there any more though so I sulk and go shop somewhere else. Which will be inconvenient because I'm much better at shopping near midnight than at most people times.

Words that are not in fact interchangeable

SHIELD and SHEILD (hint: the little wiggly line of you're spelling it wrong has the knowing on this)
Lightning and lightening (Thor is a god of Lightning. Seriously. You can look it up.)
wreck and wreak
loath (or possibly loth) and loathe
bear and bare
ups and up's, downs and down's (it's not just a thingy that means there's an s on the end. it's either what's left of an i as in it is or it's saying belongs to, like becca's grammar tips. if it's just a plural, it just needs an s.)
pouring and poring over
eek and eke out
past and passed
adieu and ado
Noble and Nobel
whined, wined and winced
hoard and horde
might and mite peeved


oh so many more. Join in in the comments. Especially if you know whatever ones I do, there's bound to be some.



also: A spellchecker and/or Google Translate is not an adequate beta reader.
Betas got popular for a reason. It is a nice reason. Of sentences that actually mean what you meant in your head.



It would be annoying to just go beta the whole fandom in the comments, yes?
Yes.
(and come to think my previous attempts at beta managed to annoy even people who'd asked me. not so much of the good then.)

Iron Man playlist?

Does anyone have a Tony Stark kind of playlist?
I keep ending up listening to Shoot to Thrill and it's getting a little burned in now
yet I know not what else would be his kind of thing.

Music. Very varied.

And humans think of all of it. Evolution somehow leads to heavy metal. Awesome.