Meeting 794
October 10, 2005
Trey Haddad, President
Nathan Slerm-r & Chris Garcia, Vice-President
Dave Gallaher, Treasurer
Galen Tripp, Sargent at Arms
Barbara Johnson-Haddad, Secretary
Began at 8:02 pm
18 people attended
Secretary’s report: the minutes of meeting 793 were accepted as ‘crackers’
Treasurer’s report was that last week we took in $23.25
VP reports = preeminent VP Nathan reported that the BASFA party was a
great success - thank you Ed! [we applauded]; then Chris reported that
he is an official hoax candidate for mayor of San Jose & that a new
‘Drink Tank’ is out
The President reported that the Browncoats have our party stuff & we
still need a regular party maven
The party committee reported that the spent the money we raised last
week and they made up the rest they spent - and that the money raised at
the party was donated to Silicon’s charity - the Diabetes Society of
Santa Clara
Ed volunteered to be the permanent BASFA party maven and we gleefully
accepted. Yay Ed!
Announcements:
Kevin announced that tomorrow is the 60th anniversary of IBM Research
Chris reminded us that we had been thinking of decorating an Xmas tree
for the city and were we still interested & he will investigate details;
then he announced he is one of the 3 editors for ‘SFSF’ now
Reviews:
I reviewed Silicon as I enjoyed the convention and was glad the
newsletter worked out; reviewed ‘Advent Children’ as a movie well worth
full price twice & reviewed ‘Wallace & Grommet - Cure of the Wer-Rabbit’
as silly and fun and worth full price - and that it had better acting in
it than in many of the summer movies I’ve seen this year
Kevin reviewed the Silicon premiere of “Ready, Steady, Sew’ as the
showing went well
Andy reviewed ‘SiWire’ as nicely laid out, easy to read & that it had
useful information now and then
Ed reviewed ‘Serenity’ as really great & reviewed Silicon as lots of fun
& needs to grow bigger & he enjoyed his party there a whole lot
Chris reviewed Silicon as he was terrified of the new parking gates but
thought it a good smaller convention & well-programmed & he missed
seeing the Stargate (drat!)
Andy reviewed Silicon’s night life as great & better than Baycon’s
Nathan mentioned he had so much fun at the Silicon parties Friday night
that he couldn’t move the next day - until the afternoon when he went
back & thought it was worth full price - plus the cost of tickets to
Robo-nexus that he forgot to go to
Dave G reviewed Silicon as fun
Trey reviewed Silicon as fun, but a little sparse
Ed announced a book signing at ‘The Other Change of Hobbit’, Tuesday
night, 7pm with John Ringo - so go there
Dave G reviewed driving in Campbell with the train gates malfunctioning
as not worth full price & Dace C follow-on’d that because of this he had
a tour of downtown Campbell
We adjourned at = 8:55 pm
And the rumor of the week was ‘there will be a new anthology called
‘Alternate Campbells’.’
