Meeting #1566 - Monday, 7 September, 2020
Called to order at 20:05
Total of 11 log-ins
The minutes of meeting 1565 were accepted as: Probably available somewhere.
Treasurer. Same as last week?
Vice President: Nothing Fannish to report.
Vice President for Life (Tamera Capp): Being sucked in to Harry Potter
political fics, as well as writing her own Harry Potter fic.
President: Not present.
No committees reporting.
No new business.
DaveC posed a question to the group. And was answered.
Announcements:
Gerald:
Launch window: 0200-0430 GMT on 11th (10:00 p.m.-12:30 a.m. EDT on (10th/11th)
Launch site: Pacific Spaceport Complex, Kodiak Island, Alaska
A commercial small satellite launch vehicle developed by Astra will make its
first orbital launch attempt. Astra says there will be no payloads on this test
flight. Scrubbed on Aug. 2 due to upper level winds and boat in range. Scrubbed
on Aug. 4 and Aug. 6. Delayed from Aug. 30 due to poor weather forecast. [Aug.
28] see: www.spaceflightnow.com <http://www.spaceflightnow.com/>
Lisa:
Festival of the Living Rooms #4 this weekend FB and YouTube. Performances by
many, including the Capps! Music by people around the world from their living
rooms.
facebook.com/groups/1606369249486666
<http://facebook.com/groups/1606369249486666>
Howierd:
Climatalogical: Denver is going form 100 to snow at 3am.
The Capps are living this.
Reviews
FredM:
Caught part of Dragoncon over the weekend. Payed the $10, to make sure he could
see George Robb. Also watched a couple other skeptic track panels. Fell down on
finding the full schedule grid (at the end of the 20-page getting started doc.)
Some tracks run the whole convention (so much that it’s almost its own con!)
Cliff went to part of it. No Discord community like other OnlineCons. Liked
some of the old panels, including some of the past panels. Panel on cooking,
eating and growing food on Mars was riveting. The $10 grants access to the
panels for the whole year.
Howierd:
Star Trek Lower Decks imdb.com/title/tt9184820/ Was avoiding because he’s kind
of lazy watching Comcast more than his streaming, and not fond of animation
based on live action. Not disappointed, but not that good. Characters more
frenetic than they need to be. Good job of cultural things on other planets.
Goes further than they cold have for the Enterprise… Surprised at the romantic
(and non-romantic) pairings. All in all, wouldn’t pay extra for it, but worth
full price.
Valerie: Enjoying it. Trying to spoof its own franchise. More realistic humans
vs. utopian ideal in the live-action shows. They actually feel a bit like
con-goers! Fun in-show referencing the history.
Ken: Interesting to note that it kind of follows from the original animated
series with a cat-person.
Cliff: Recommends the DC Fontana story “Yesteryear”, a Larry Niven story and a
sequel to Tribbles.
DaveC
Finished watching season 1 of Stargirl. Enjoyed it very much. 20 years after
the Justice Society of Amerca is all killed off by the Injustice Society.
Stepdaughter of the sole survivor is chosen by the cosmic lamp. Enjoyable.
Material taken most seriously of DC TV adaptations – more intelligently
written. Recommends.
Valerie: Was not impressed by episode 1 - so conventional… But then she gets
her group together, and has came around on it. Feels like runaways.
Gayle
DC Fonatana nostalgia trip… Was recently reading reviews of Galaxy Quest on
IMDB. People who thought it was not funny seemed to be non-Americans. Asked DC
what she thought of it was, and the response was that she was ROTFL. Gayle
would gives it an 8/10 stars.
Cliff: Showing off his Obama Hope style “Never Give Up…” mug. Was opposite The
Matrix for the Hugo. Cory Doctorow was presenting the award for that category
and said “Never Give Up…” and a roar from the audience finished with “Never
surrender.” The co-cretors were excited to win. Cliff was so the nerdy kid
who’s parents were glad when he was outside, that he had to show the film to
his parents. Re-watched the ending and noticed that Guy expects to die (but
doesn’t)
MetOpera Streaming: The Tempest. Got caught up in it. Modernization of
Shakespeare. Scenery was beautiful, singers wonderful.
Rumor of the Week:
California fires are larger on the inside.
Adjourned at: 21:08
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