Minutes of BASFA meeting #1020 on 22-Feb-2010 Meeting was called to order at 8:04pm by Chris. 19 people attended.
We established a party jar. The treasurer underhandedly attached a rider to the party jar motion, making Stellan acting secretary. Secretary's report: the minutes of meeting 1019 were accepted as "Failed for lack of a second". Treasurer's report: Last week we took in $8.50 in the regular jar, for a total of $11537.21, and $1.25 in the party jar for a total of $1086.05. Dave is still adapting to working from home, and this goes double for the cat. There was no president present to present a president's report. VP's report: There is a new "Drink Tank" out with a cover by Mo, and a new "Journey Planet" with stuff about alternate history by amongst others Johnn Scalzi, Chris and Barbara. Announcements: Glenn announced that Bill Humphries has 2 full tickets for this year's Worldcon in Melbourne for $75 each. Mo announced that the Silicon BoD is meeting tomorrow (Tuesday the 23rd) at 7:30pm in the Denny's at 3715 El Camino Real, Santa Clara. Upcoming conventions were announced: (Ken?) Gallifrey is this upcoming weekend in the LAX Marriott. It is large, 1100 ppl having preregistered and the Titanic party is Friday night. At the same time in San Diego is Condor, at the Handlery Hotel, GoH CJ Cherryh. (Mo) Contact is March 26-28, at NASA Ames. (Dave) Norwescon is April 1-4th at the Airport Doubletree in Seattle. (Adrienne) 2010 California Ghost Hunters con is May 21-23 at the La Quinta Inn in Hayward; tickets are $150, and includes two haunted houses and a cemetery. (Lisa) Consonance 2010 is March 5-7 at the Hilton in Newark. Howeird announced that technology, religion and tradition has come together; the Dalai Lama is on Twitter. Reviews: Glenn reviewed books by Patricia McKillip: He reread the "Riddle Master" sequence [1976-79], but it did not age well; she got better later. "Od Magic" [2006] was better and interesting. Andy reviewed the 3rd qualifying round [Gothenburg] of "Melodifestivalen" [Swedish Eurovision Song Contest] as the worst yet; one of the winners was a real downer of a song [Darin w "You're Out Of My Life"] about a girlfriend leaving. Worth download. Stellan reviewed "1635: The Dreeson Incident" by Eric Flint and Virginia DeMarce as the dullest yet in the "Ring of Fire" shared universe. Worth borrowing. Maybe. Dave Reviewed the NBC coverage of the Olympics as The Wrong Stuff, and that he understood the deliberations of the German curling team beter than the British, who were mostly Scots. Mo followed on by noting that the figure skating costumes were spectacular and could have belonged in "Blades of Glory", and those were just the men's... Chris reviewed the movie "Adams Apples" as typical Danish comedy, full of pain and sorrow; funny and very, very dark. Adrienne reviewed the movie "Fanboys" as one character reminded her of Chris. She has now seen all the Academy Award nominees, and "Hurt Locker" was a relly good war movie, directed by a woman [Kathryn Bigelow]. Howeird reviewed the restroom doors at Netflix, where he now works, as they are labeled solely with movie star posters, and on his floor they are from Planet of the Apes, so it's hard to tell which is the men's room. We auctioned off a book for $.50. The rumor of the week was "Olympic cake using gold medal flour" We adjourned at 8:45pm _______________________________________________ Basfa mailing list [email protected] http://lists.basfa.org/listinfo.cgi/basfa-basfa.org
