Meeting 'formerly known as 1000' September 28, 2009
Trey Haddad, President Chris Garcia, Vice-President Dave Gallaher, Treasurer Galen Tripp, Sargeant at Arms Barbara Johnson-Haddad, Secretary held at Coco's, 1206 Oakmead Parkway (Lawrence Expressway/101 fwy), Sunnyvale Began 8pm We established a party jar 29 people attended Secretary’s report: the minutes of meeting 999 were accepted as 'xjy5$#no carrier' the Treasurer reported that last week we took in $24.25 in the regular jar and $1.75 in the party jar the VP reported that there is a new 'Drink Tank' out, he didn't watch 'Twilight' and he has the best girlfriend in the world! The President had nothing fannish to report - except that hockey season was opening soon The Party Committee reported that there will be a BASFA party at Silicon on Friday night & there will also be a BASFA party at SorcererCon over Thanksgiving The Millennium Bug Committee reported that meeting #1000 will be done at Silicon Sunday, in the quiet bar at 8pm Glenn asked the sense of the meeting about buying old con Tshirts and got the general response of 'sure, why not' Announcements: [tall] Kevin announced that he;s doing Match Game at Silicon on Sunday at noon Dave C announced that Book Expo America will be in NYC until 2012 Galen announced that Stephen Straus will be doing live music at Nabolom Bakery in Berkeley on Saturday mornings Radar announced that she's doing Silicon programming, so if you have questions, come see her Jo announced that audible.com is having a sale & since he's now employed by Skype - in SF - he's likely to miss meetings Mike announced that KFJC is going into fund-raising mode Andy announced that he'll be attending a Saturday morning [early!] meeting of PenSWAG & if you're attending Silicon invited others to be driven there by him [3-4 others] - contact him Ken announced that he's running Silicon TV, channel 37 Glenn announced that memberships for World Fantasy Con = Oct 31-Nov 1 - are STILL sold out - really Chris announced that Gail Carriger's book 'Soul Less' is already out at Borders Stellen announced that he'd like to read the Oct 2008 Analog Reviews: I reviewed direct2drive.com - a site where computer games can be bought and downloaded - as a great site - and they are having a $5 per game sale right now; Chris agreed Ken reviewed the re-opened Retro-dome [where the Winchester 25 theatre was] as he saw 'Schoolhouse Rock Live' there & he had a great time [evil] Kevin reviewed Hooters - as a restaurant review - as the food was so so and the company was worth more than full price; there were comments Harold reviewed 'Inglorious Basterds' as go see it - and don't buy pay-for-TV fights - because they'll be on peasant TV the next week & said that the 'big-bad' for this season's 'Dexter' will be played by John Lithgow Chris reviewed 'Nashville' as the best film from the 70's - absolutely worth full price - reviewed 'Into the Aether' as the most pretentious comic made in the US and 'Baby Got Back' is the perfect wedding song Dave C reviewed SFX's 'Comic nook Heroes' as comprehensive Jo reviewed his bike ride as having a tire blow was bad, but having it blow out in front of a repair shop was 'priceless' [tall] Kevin reviewed radio ads for the Fox animated blovk as <<there were many shouted comments then for several minutes>> Stellan reviewed seeing a Microsoft ad for having install parties for Windows 7 - with suggestive bleeps added - as greatly naughty Chris reviewed the DVD set of 'Buck Rogers in the 25th century' as she very much recommends it Ed reviewed a picnic as there was lots of sun, hot weather and he had fun we did auctions: birthday auctioned off Linda for $20.00 to Chris; birthday auctioned off Geri for $10.00 to Ken; then video & a Marvin watch for $8.00; ponies for $1.00; videos for $0.50, $1.50, $4.00; & brass cranes for $2.00 We adjourned at = 9:58 And the rumor of the week was: 'there was tongue' -- ******************* She/whispered/'Oh/my/goodness/what/are/all/these/squirrels/doing/here?' [email protected] *******************
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