Meeting 1225 January 20, 2014 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
Began at 8:03 - with some thoughts on FurCon 24 people attended A party jar was established The minutes of meeting 1224 were accepted as 'secretary death stare' the Treasurer was not here the Vice President was not here The President had nothing fannish to report Reminder = there will be 4 Hugo nomination meetings, held Feb 3 & 10 - and March 3 & 10 Announcements: Lisa announced that there will be a play coming up called 'Silent Sky' about sexism and star-gazing Ken announced that the Legion of Rasselon meeting will be at the IHOP on Steven's Creek near Lawrence, 7:30 pm Friday Jan 24 & announced that the new Retrodome will show 'The Princess Bride' quote-a-long this weekend & that he & Geri plan to visit Disneyland in Hong Kong in the near future Tom announced that Potlatch is still crowd-sourcing for panel suggestions - check www.potlatch.sf.org - dates Feb 21-22-23 Beth announced that she is doing a classroom project involving football jerseys - so needs to borrow football jerseys - contact her JC announced that Nerdvana Podcast episode 22, part 3, & episode 23, part 1, will both be released this Wednesday Reviews: Lisa reviewed FurCon as being a lot of fun - with good science panels & good gaming design information there - she enjoyed it - and there were some follow-ons Brad reviewed having given a panel talk some time back and now he found a book called 'The Cave & the Lion' based on the same idea Tom reviewed a book - 'Touched by an Alien' by Gini Koch as silly but enjoyable & also reviewed a fanzine, 'Trapdoor' by Robert Lichtman, as the writing is awesome & it's available on efanzines.com Bill reviewed 'The Year's Best SF', edited by Dozois as it didn't fit in his bag - but still a good read and worth reading Carole reviewed her new handmade coat as worth the effort Beth reviewed Lynda as a pie maker extraordinaire - and that the banana-toffee pie she made was so very good Adrienne reviewed Oscar contenders - 'Despicable Me 2' as cute, worth cable & Carole agreed that it ws enjoyable JC reviewed playing 'Dalmuti' as it's even better when played with a full group, hats and the right chairs Mo reviewed shopping at Safeway as the decorated cake was lonely after the 49ers lost Josh reviewed Gregorie as he has poutine on the menu & that taking the toppings off it and putting them on the potato puffs was worth way more than full price then we did auctions - tasty, tasty auctions we adjourned at 9:12 pm and the rumor of the week was: 'none of my pots have latches' -- ******************* She/whispered/'Oh/my/goodness/what/are/all/these/squirrels/doing/here?' [email protected] *******************
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