Meeting 925 April 21, 2008
Trey Haddad, President Chris Garcia, Vice-President Dave Gallaher, Treasurer Galen Tripp, Sargent at Arms Barbara Johnson-Haddad, Secretary Began 8:00 - [with thingies] 24 people attended a party jar was established a TAFF jar was established Secretary’s report: the minutes of meeting 924 were accepted as 'porn chowder' Treasurer's report was that last week we took in $11.73 in the regular jar [and there were no other jars] VP Report - a new 'Drink Tank' is out - issue 166-ish, maybe, a thing happened, he went to England and wrote 50,000 words on it for TAFF and the chicken strips are excellent The President had nothing fannish to report - but did say 'hi' to visitors from afar, Teddy and Tom, here for Costume Con A motion passed to name Teddy and Tom BASFA's ambassador to the Far Isles & since Teddy is currently their dead monarch, teddy was named ambassador to the dead, while Tom is the ambassador for the living And then Andy paid for BASFA memberships for both Teddy & Tom Note - if there is a BASFA meeting at CC26 the meeting number will be 'CC26' Announcements Frank Wu announced that he found a pile of BASFA tshirts and brought a bag of them for us to paw thru. ['Swag!'] Glenn announced that the SJ Museum of Art is showing robot art [about robots, not by robots] through Oct 19 [evil] Kevin announced that CostumeCon 26 will be this weekend & the prereg numbers are 650 and they only have 800 program books [there were follow ons about the con] Reviews: Fred reviewed Cheryl's podcast as pretty good, informative and worth full price Glenn reviewed 'Freedom & Necessity' by Steven Brust and Emma Bull as a novel written in journal form and he enjoyed it & reviewed that old punch cards make good bookmarks Chris reviewed shipping a difference engine as don't use DHL - they dropped it - and they'll still have the party May 10th at the Computer History Museum, and he reviewed the Sonoma Film Festival as great - with free food and free drink before each film and worth full price since he volunteered and reviewed England as he got pictures of a swarm of paparazzi stalking a celebrity as ironic and reviewed wandering around and getting lost in the streets of London as worth full price [35 pounds] to take the taxi back to his hotel Andy reviewed the Little Sheep Mongolian hot Pot in San Mateo as difficult to find parking for and nice, with scary Chinese liquor and was worth full price & reviewed Blue Ginger in Milpitas as the food was good, it had the world's worst signage, was expensive and almost worth full price & reviewed trying to install Windows XP on an old machine as -not- worth full price Frank reviewed seeing movies as research as fun; 'Street Kings' was worth matinee, but he paid full price for it; 'Forbidden Kingdom' was worth matinee, but he paid full price for it again; '21' [silence ... we stared at Frank] was reviewed as not very good, '10,000 BC' as he liked it and it was a mindless spectacular and he walked out of 'Prom Night' and rated it as not worth sneaking into Dave G reviewed live netcasts as a wonder of modern technology [tall] Kevin reviewed Indian cricket and Indian commercials as fun and entertaining Lisa reviewed the CC26 program book as well done and produced very quickly we then did auctions: Mo's lemon curd for $5.00; squirrel gum for $0.50; licorice Altoids for $2.00; a booklet of Japanese recipes for $1.00; then birthday auctioned off Cheryl for $35.00 to [tall] Kevin & birthday auctioned off Cricket for $10.00 to Dave C We adjourned at = 9:39 And the rumor of the week was: 'your corflu is strong, but mine is stronger' _______________________________________________ Basfa mailing list [email protected] http://lists.basfa.org/listinfo.cgi/basfa-basfa.org
