Meeting #1585 - Monday, 18 January, 2021
Trey Haddad, President
Ken Patterson, Vice President
Dave Gallaher, Treasurer
Galen Tripp & Laser Pistol Packin’ Mama, Sergeants at Arms
Barbara Johnson-Haddad, Secretary
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Called to order at 20:05
Total of 15 log-ins
The minutes of meeting 1584 were accepted as: Yay, Kitties!
Treasurer
0 taken… Regular $15,632.83 Party $230.58
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Vice President: Nothing Fannish to report.
President: Not present.
No committees reporting.
No new business.
Announcements:
Howierd
NASA attempted a rocket fire test. Lasted only approximately 1.5 min – should
have been 8. NASA will investigate why it aborted. (Gerald has no extra info,
other than NASA is more cautious…)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/nasas-delayed-deep-space-rocket-suffers-test-failure-on-the-ground-11610863851
<https://www.wsj.com/articles/nasas-delayed-deep-space-rocket-suffers-test-failure-on-the-ground-11610863851>
Gayle
Managed to wrangle her new AirPod Pros to work. Is now more mobile while on the
computer.
DaveC
Off-World Designs is stepping down from the T-Shirt business. They currently
have a sale. www.offworlddesigns.com <http://www.offworlddesigns.com/>
Lisa: They are retiring, and are willing to sell the business.
Lynn
Landed a contract gig a week ago. Not permanent. Tech writing for ATT.
Instead of consonance this year there will instead be nonsonance March 5-7 in
conjunction with festivals of the living room. www.consonance.org
<http://www.consonance.org/>
Yochanan
The Doctor Who New Year episode is available on Amazon Prime for $3.
Reviews
Todd
Finally watching The Expanse. Halfway through season two. Enjoying it. Did read
the book, but didn’t remember much. Amazon Prime.
Yochanan: Loves the expanse. Eagerly awaiting every new episode.
Candy
Attended Arisia this weekend. Excellent panel on Octavia Butler. Liked that you
only had to log-in once for the whole weekend.
Gerald
Virgin Galactic’s first time in orbit. Also first orbit for an air-dropped
liquid rocket.
Pacific Storm by Linda Nagata. Near term spy v. spy thriller. Anticipates some
of the recent events… Well written and paced. Released 2020, Hugo eligible.
Craig
New Graphic Book: Kent State: Four Dead In Ohio by Derf Backderf (author of the
comic strip The City). Finished last night. Fans of history will like it.
Little local touches.
Lynn
Watched the (Elton John) film Rocketman free on Amazon Prime. They took
liberties. Was entertained. It was worth more than the price.
Yochanan
Read the Star Trek novel To Reign in Hell by Greg Cox. Takes place between
Space Seed and Wrath of Khan. Enjoyed it.
On Amazon Prime: Utopia. 8 episode season. Deals with pandemic (has a fiction
disclaimer on each episode). Discovered there’s a UK version (2 seasons of 6)
which is different, but the names are the same.
Lisa
Good to be home. Got COVID test today (due to recent hospital stay) Drive
through at Kaiser Skyport. Went smoothly. Felt like a Sci-Fi catastrophe
waiting in line in the car.
Yochanan: Also did his test there. Fast Efficient. His sister did the Kaiser on
Cottle Rd. and it was more disorganized.
Howierd: In Las Vegas someone posted picture of people lined up around the
block for vaccinations, but it was really a line for powerball tickets (and not
even in Vegas!)
JohnO
Got around to Goodbye 2020 on Netflix. Funny. Comedians and actors recapping
the year. Worth finding and watching.
WandaVission on Disney+ (part of the massive MCU phase IV) Surreal. Set in
’50/‘60s domestic sitcom. There is something else afoot… End credits have
things in the graphics. Recommend. Bit of a mind-bender.
Rumor of the Week:
I don’t think Mr. Trump is ever going to tell us the details on his wonderful
new health plan.
Adjourned at: 20:56
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