BASFA meeting number 913-ish began at 2002 hours, with Eric Larson
presiding as president and Glenn Glazer as the emergency holographic
secretary[1]. No actual officers were present.
It should be noted for the record that BASFA found itself outside of our
usual room having been preempted by what someone said was a stock club.
A regular jar and a TAFF jar were established.
The secretary rose under a point of personal privilege to note the
increased noise level when we are outside of a closed room. He
encouraged people to speak more loudly than usual and was only partially
successful. The secretary apologizes for the paucity of these notes,
but many people were difficult to hear.
A motion was made to postpone the reading of last week's minutes to next
week, which passed. Move to postpone the treasury report failed for
lack of a second under some out of order debate on whether it was even
meaningful or not.
A motion was made to have the officers contact Coco's management to
permanently resolve the room issue, which passed unanimously.
Orders of the day were altered to put officer reports last.
Announcements:
Glenn: Today is the 50th anniversary of the patent of the Lego brick.
Lisa followed on with Google modified its name on the home page for this.
Adrienne said she had a quickie. Glenn suggested this might not be the
sort of review we want here. After a nonplussed pause, she said there
was a Superbowl pool at work and others were welcome to join. Glenn
said that he wanted to repeal the Patriot act and Harold volunteered to
pay for the pun.
Reviews:
Harold reviewed the quiche and salad at Coco's as "Don't." and
Cloverfield as "so-so".
Dave Clark followed on with his disappointed surprise at this review
as he enjoyed it.
At this point Chris showed up, becoming the first real officer present,
but refused to take over leading the meeting.
Lisa reviewed FurCon. Lots of fun, 380 people in the furry parade.
Daniel followed on with "The most fun I've had at a Bay Area con."
It is a young group and worth full price.
Dave followed on by saying that the food at the hotel restaurant has
risen above the level of fuel.
Daniel rejoined this by saying that the service has never been
less than excellent.
Chris followed on by saying that for once he just went to
programming and still had a blast.
There was general discussion of a live action "chess" game that
appeared to have rules rather outside of normal chess like lightning bolts.
Glenn relayed a number of registration issues that Allie encountered
and noted.
Julie reviewed "Torchwood". 2nd episode very disturbing and may be cut
in America.
Adrienne followed on saying she really enjoyed the acting.
Chris reviewed the season finale of "Pushing Daisies" as having
excellent structure and acting.
Daniel went back in the orders of the day to announcements and announced
that the head of the Greek Orthodox Church and the head of the Mormon
church died on the same day. No one really knew what this meant, but it
was noted that they were never seen in the same place at the same time.
One book was auctioned to Glenn for $5.
Officer reports:
Chris said there were two and half issues of "Drunk Tank" coming up.
Two issues of DT proper and "one Little Thing". Glenn moved to have
Chris's Little Thing put in the same container as Adrienne's quickie and
was correctly ruled dilatory.
The meeting adjourned at 2037 hours with BASFA's rumor of the week being
"Coco's: Two groups enter, one group leaves."
[1] Damn it Kathryn, I'm a secretary, not a doctor!
--
If a homological adjective is one that is true of itself, e.g.,
"polysyllabic", and a heterological adjective is one which is
not true of itself, e.g., "bisyllabic", then what about "heterological?"
Is it heterological or not? -Grelling's Paradox
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