Meeting 1246 June 16, 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 8:02, with Howeird in a great shade of grape-l 30 people attended The minutes of meeting 1245 were accepted as 'minutes flashing before my eyes' The Treasurer reported that last week we took in $44.00 in the regular jar & $30.10 in the party jar The Vice President was not present The President had nothing fannish to report The Sports Committee has 4 tickets left for the BASFA outing to the Giants versus the Dodgers game, Friday, Sept 12 - view reserve seats in 307 for $33/each Announcements: Beth announced that Nervana podcast, episode 29, 'Superdads', will be out on Wednesday [evil] Kevin announced that the gofundme crowdsourcing to send tiki dalek to Worldcon reached its goal Tom announced that the Tuesday before Worldcom the Globe Theatre will have a production of 'Julius Ceasar' in the afternoon and 'Cleopatra' that night Mo announced that Eric Larson helped her move things last weekend and she is very grateful for the help - and that she still could use help - please contact her Dave C announced that he is looking for input about a documentary regarding a not made film about 'Dune' & the opinion of the crowd was that it was not worth buying for $41 & he announced that the April 2014 "cargo Cult' is out & announced that Evolution Expo 2014 will be at the Oakland Marriott June 27-29 Adrienne announced that she is still clearing out her father's shope and still has more work to do Ric announced that Fanboy Planet's podcast, episode 357 is out and there is a Reading Rainbow Kickstarter now Howeird announced that Casey Kasum died & announced that there are a LOT of community theatre productions out there Ken announced that 'Apple Scrumper' is still available as an ap Geri announced that California Xtreme is July 12-13 at the Hyatt Regency in Santa Clara Reviews: I reviewed 'Edge of Tomorrow' as much better than I expected - worth full price - and it has the added benefit of getting to see Tom Cruise get killed again and again and again Adrienne reviewed the latest episode of 'Orphan Black' as awesome Howeird reviewed Atari day at the Sunnyvale public library as fun Chris reviewed Nina Allan's 'Spin' as an alternate history book and had beautiful language in it Joni reviewed Google as it sees all and recommends ... poorly Tom reviewed 'Ancillary Justice' by Ann Leckie as totally worth reading and may get his #1 Hugo vote & reviewed 'Neptune's Brood' by Charlie Stross as a rolicking space adventure & is currently re-reading Robin Hobb's series Beth reviewed 'Orange is the New Black' as the show is good and inspires her to use the treadmill Ric reviewed the season finale for 'Game of Thrones' as very well done - and there were many comments Fred reviewed a documentary, 'Honest Liar' are very good we did auctions we adjourned at 9:30 and the rumor of the week was: 'The book is not a spoiler' -- ******************* She/whispered/'Oh/my/goodness/what/are/all/these/squirrels/doing/here?' [email protected] *******************
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