BASFA Meeting 1288 April 6, 2015 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 7;59 pm - ... early 31 people attended We established a party jar The minutes of meeting 1287 were accepted as 'the Thrill is back' The Treasurer reported that last week we took in $2.50 in the regular jar & $1.00 in the party jar - and then 2 weeks ago we took in $4.95 in the regular jar & $15.00 in the party jar The Vice President was missing [week 2] The President greeted visitors - Matthew, who found us with Google 30 minutes before & he really likes robots & June, a long-time reader of sf & fantasy & also Sarah, visiting us from 'one of those Carolinas' The Sports Committee reported that it's opening day & we're still sold out of tickets for the BASFA baseball outing for the May 9th Giants game Announcements: [evil] Kevin announced that Thinbot took the gold at Robogames last weekend JC announced that Nerdvana Podcast, episode 37, part 3 will be out Wednesday & that this Saturday is tenatively scheduled to record episode 38 Dave G congratulated BASFAs Hugo nominees Chris Garcia & Spring Adrienne announced that she's been under the weather and missed meetings Fred announced that APE, Alternate Press Expo will be in downtown SJ the 1st weekend in October Brad announced that there's a graphic novelization of Heinlein's 'Citizen of the Galaxy' & announced that ge will be giving a paper at the annual conference for the SF Research Assoc Lisa announced that there's a Renaissance Festival this weekend Geri announced that Dan Ackroyd will be signing vodka bottles at the Cambria BevMo, Thursday 2-4pm Reviews: Dave G reviewed the Science Fiction Outreach Program as giving away free books for 3 days at the Emerald City ComicCon and a good time was had & he reviewed Norwescon as a good convention Btradford reviewed 'No Requiem for the Space Age' by Matthew Tribbe as he recommends it Adrienne reviewed season 4 of 'Game of Thrones' as it held her attention & reviewed 'Arrow' season 1 as she really enjoyed 'that guy taking his shirt off' but wasn't impressed with the storyline Ken reviewed 'Thunderbirds are Go' as fab Beth reviewed 'Edge of Tomorrow' as excellent, excellent, excellent & JC reviewed it as extremely enjoyable Andy reviewed Robogames as exciting and spectacular, several times; [evil] Kevin related some of the robot combat results & it sounded like fun Diane reviewed 3 books, Cooper's 'Edge of Dark' as tight writing, well worth reading & reviewed Hodder's 'The Return of the Discontinued Man' as absolute drek - avoid it & reviewed Dave Walton's 'Super Position' as awesome and well-written we did auctions we adjourned at 9:17 and the rumor of the week was: 'Odds are I'll try to Chuck the minutes narration next week, too' -- ******************* She/whispered/'Oh/my/goodness/what/are/all/these/squirrels/doing/here?' [email protected] *******************
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