BASFA minutes for Oct 12 Meeting 1002
October 12, 2009 Trey Haddad, President Chris Garcia, Vice-President Dave Gallaher, Treasurer Galen Tripp, Sergeant at Arms Barbara Johnson-Haddad, Secretary held at Coco's, 1206 Oakmead Parkway (Lawrence Expressway/101 fwy), Sunnyvale President, Vice President, and Secretary fled Dave Gallaher, acted as presiding officer Adrienne Foster, hog-tied as minute-taker Began 8ish pm 13 people attended We postponed reading the minutes of meeting 1001 Treasurer reported we took $67.65 in the regular jar at meeting 1000 We collected $95.00 in the tip jar for the waitress, providing she removed obligatory 20% gratuity from everyone's checks Dave G. reported by proxy for the VP that a new Drink Tank will be out soon and Chris only saw Twilight twice over the weekend. Announcements: We had pumpkin pie on the menu. Ken announced Doctor Who Producer Barry Letz died and his book is coming out this month. Kevin R. announced that Yipe #0, the inaugural issue, should be ready by the end of the week. Mo announced that Alternative Press Expo, which is being produced by the folks who bring us Comicon, will be this weekend and is taking a year off from working on conventions. She also thanks everyone for going to Silicon. It had 500-600 attendees this year. Glenn repeated that World Fantasy Con is still sold out and reminded us about the Thanksgiving conventions, including Loscon, Sorcerercon, Orycon. He also added that SMOFcon will be in Austin this year. Reviews: Dave C. says wolfgangsvault.com has music from Bill Graham's concerts for free and it is definitely worth full value. Fred went to a signing for Richard Dawkins's Greatest Show on Earth and also bought And Tango Makes Three, a children's book about penguins forming a family. Both were worth full price. Eric went to the Lacrosse event NASA Ames to watch stuff smacked into the moon so scientists could see if it had ice water. He's ready to go again. Perhaps the moon will hit Earth back. Lisa saw Toy Story I & II and said the 3D was not apparent for the most part. She also saw Bright Star, which was about John Keats. It was an absolutely gorgeous, period piece, but sad because he died. Ken had a "lovely weekend." He and Jeri ate a Basin Way restaurant and thought it was nice, if overpriced. They also saw The Producers and thought it was well done, but it closed this weekend. He recommends hopping in a time machine to go see it. He also had a kidney stone, which kept him from going to his high school reunion. Nice hospitals still aren't worth getting a kidney stone. Andy said he and Kevin went price shopping and took pictures of the items they were considering. It was totally worth full price. They also went to Renegade's Bar for Athena's Hookers' Ball, hosted by Lady Cassandra, also worth the time. Andy set up his printer to replace the little cartridges with a reservoir tank and it's definitely worth full price. Adrienne saw Invention of Lying and gave it 3 out of 5 stars. It's worth matinee price or adding to a Netflix queue. Glenn went to Forest of Nicine Marks and said it beautiful. It was also the center of Loma Prieta. He said mobile phones explode when servers overload. Dave G. reviewed Oraclecon as not giving away blankets. Larry Ellison's influence has limits. We auctioned a few things, but agreed that most of the stuff was Chris-worthy, so we saved most of it for our next meeting. The rumor of the week was "The second luna terra jaialai tournament will be held at Arecibo." We adjourned 9:30ish. _______________________________________________ Basfa mailing list [email protected] http://lists.basfa.org/listinfo.cgi/basfa-basfa.org
