Meeting 1026 April 5, 2010
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 at 8 pm - by fiat & with igossip We established a party jar 24 people attended Secretary’s report: the minutes of meeting 1024 were accepted as '1024' & the minutes of meeting 1025 were accepted as 'now with more underpants' the Treasurer reported that last week we took in $10.50 in the regular jar and $8.25 in the party jar no Vice President or report The President had nothing fannish to report - except that they Giants have the best record in baseball - and we said 'hi' to Jeff Orr [aka 'Aatheus' of furry fandom fame[, visiting us here for the 1st time Announcements: Chris announced that local authoress, Gail Carriger, is nominated for a Campbell award & she announced that 'Tiny Prints' is starting a new line of customized greeting cards - at a special rate if you sign up for them now Adrienne announced that Hugo nominations are out - and there are BASFA-ians in the nominations - & there were follow-on's Glenn announced that conventions exist Reviews: Dave G reviewed Norwescon [around 3500 attendees] as similar to Baycon in some respects, and that troubles with the Doubletree chain is endemic to the chain - plus that he, Dave C & Spring each had a different day of possible food poisoning there; that the Match Game went well, it didn't -seem- like a crowded con and all in all it was an enjoyable time, well worth the trip; Glenn follow-on'd that a Westercon membership was a Match game prize Glenn reviewed 'a sf-nal weekend' in which he spent time in Second Life, partificpating in Cheryl's virtual panel at Eastercon Spike reviewed Wondercon as fun, even if she wasn't up on all of the fandoms represented there; there were follow-on's that the autograph tables needed a better system, but it sounded like a pleasant chaos; Andy commented about the 'attractive nuisance theory' of line [mis]management; Mo reviewed that the times were bad but she thought the con was great; Lisa opined that the venue was reaching its maximum capacity and Saturday was over-stuffed, [evil] Kevin and Andy braved the crowds and made it halfway across Dealer's before his [Kevin's] 'brain gave out' Andy reviewed the '11th Hour' as a worthy start to the new series and worth stealing; and also reviewed the book of 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo' as you can read it before seeing the movie and the movie won't be spoiled, as a good read and easier to get into than the movie, worth full price Ken reviewed 'his' new ipad as shiny; Mo drew a picture on it [with turtles] & Ken likes that it has color, it is fun to play with and Mo would like it to have a larger screen Adrienne reviewed Psycho Donuts as interesting and creative but too sweet; Mo follow-on'd that she recommends the Key Lime and that it has local art in the shop; then Adrienne reviewed 2 episodes of 'Sparticus' as [suggestive], in need of more male nudity and wondered if they were acting Jo reviewed Vegas as windy and he learned a trick we did auctions: birthday auctioned off Chris for $6.00 to me; birthday auctioned off Jo for $5.00 to Jo; then auctioned off a book for $1.00, videos for $0.25, $0.25; candy for $1.10; $0.25, $0.50; CDs for $5.00; cupcakes for $2.00; magazines for $2.25, $1.00; a DVD for $2.25; games for $2.50, and PCMCIA cards for $2.00 We adjourned at = 9:50 And the rumor of the week was: 'All your Jackie Chan belong us' -- ******************* She/whispered/'Oh/my/goodness/what/are/all/these/squirrels/doing/here?' [email protected] *******************
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