BASFA Meeting 1380 January 9, 2017 Trey Haddad, President Ken Patterson, Vice President Dave Gallaher, Treasurer Galen Tripp, Sergeant at Arms Barbara Johnson-Haddad, Secretary held at the Black Bear Diner Began at 20:00 29 people attended
We established a party jar The minutes of meeting 1379 were read by the VP and accepted as Taste Great The Treasurer claims that the jar is safe in his office in his new home awaiting an archeological dig. The Vice President had nothing fannish to report The President was absent. Announcements: JC - More Nerdvana this week. Download. Also, Jan 28 at 7pm at Keplers: Pablo Hildalgo will be there and Nerdvana will interview re: Star Wars. Gerold - Space X got rained out, rescheduled for Saturday, 14 January. Carole - Next Weekend is Further Confuision, and the last weekend of January will be ConFlikt in Seattle. Dave G - Hugo Award Nominations now open. Reviews: evilKevin - SF Novel: Swallow the Sky by Chris Mead. A rollicking space opera. Highly recommend. Available on Amazon for eBooks. Andy - Would like to review Sherlock, but would be spoilery. Not sure if he liked it, but will definitely be watching next weeks. Brad Passengers (film) Entertaining for a Hollywood film. But gets less like able as it goes on. Worth Matinee. SF Novel: Death's End by Cixin Lin. Highly recommend - especially if you like the first 2 in the trilogy. DaveC - Been getting Windows Service key about to expire calls, but not his review. First Church of the Sacred Silversexual. Performances of Bowie songs. Worth standing for 3.5 hours. Carole - Saw Sing. Enjoyable, funny. Feel good film. Matinee or DVD. Animals behaving stereotypically. John O Passengers - did not live up to the hype, but enjoyable. Plot on rails, some telegraphing, a few Easter eggs. Saw in 3D, really well. Some science good, some really wrong. Book: The Plant Killers - 3 novels by Robert Silverberg from the '50s. Sort of interlinked, but not really connected. Rip roaring space operas. Recommend. Book: My sisters song by Gail Carriger. Short sweet and bloody. Definitely readable. Books: The Niantic Project: Ingress & Ingress: Level 8 - based on the game. By Felicia Hajra-Lee. Fairly superficial, details on weapons. Pulls treads of the game into an understandable story line. Aetheus. Went to Canada. Sea to Sky gondola tour. 15 minute ride upto the summit. Snow and trees. Good 4-hour trip. About $45 pp, worth full price, eh. We did auctions We adjourned at 20:56 and the rumor of the week was: This is an obscure reference.
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