Minutes of Meeting # 1496 Monday, April 15, 2019 Trey Haddad, President Ken Patterson, Vice President Dave Gallaher, Treasurer Galen Tripp & Laser Pistol Packin’ Mama, Sergeants at Arms Barbara Johnson-Haddad, Secretary held at the Black Bear Diner, Milpitas
The meeting was called to order at 20:00 with 15 people in attendance… A party jar was established The Minutes of meeting #1493 were posted online prior to the meeting and were accepted as having been posted online. Correction to minutes 1493 from DaveC: Dave in fact hated the music he found on Spotify, and is now an indication of being old. Treasurer Report #1495 Regular $11.85 Party $9.75 Total Regular $15,444.53 Party $69.73 The Vice President had nothing fannish to report. Welcomed Ursula, who found us on FaceBook. The President was MIA with the Secretary Committee Reports Sports Committee The Sports committee had an internal interview. Hope all goes well. San Jose Giants tickets are here, and being distributed to people who purchased. Announcements Diane There’s a convention: SpaceAccess this Thursday through Saturday at the Marriott Silicon Valley Landing in Fremont. She’s running hospitality. Incredible speakers. Gerald: The hotel has a limited number of presidential suites that would be useful for parties. The executive suites are odd. The management is not really amenable to parties either... Gayle Notre Damme Cathedral caught fire. Much damage. Most of the vault survived, some stained glass is damaged, and the roof is gone. Lot of art was removed to safety. DaveC Convention: Norwescon at the Doubletree in SeaTac, across from the airport. Mary Robinette Kowal is GOH. Phillip K Dick Awards. Doesn’t recognize any of the booksellers who aren’t also publishers. JohnO This Saturday at 4 p.m. his taiko group, Wadaiko Newark, will be performing at the McGregor Center in Newark. Ken The author Gene Wolfe passed away, after a long productive life. Reviews DaveW Started Hugo finalist reading. Related work: Astounding: John W. Campbell, Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, L. Ron Hubbard, and the Golden Age of Science Fiction by Alec Nevala-Lee. Interesting. Felt like it started as a Campbell biography, but was asked to add more well known authors. Interesting especially after reading a Heinlein bio. Credit to how the author explores how it wasn’t just the men working among themselves, but had help from their wives. Will rank high on his ballot. New perspective. DaveC Was hoping to review his colonoscopy. Results were satisfactory. Went home and ate crackers until he felt better... evilKevin Went to 3Below’s A Spoonful of Sherman. 55 songs from the Sherman family. 95% music, 5% talking about the history of the family. Amazing show for people who grew up on the Sherman songs. Relentlessly “Family is good” heteronormative story. Performance is amazing, first act holds together better than the second. Ken: Robert J "Robby" Sherman was in attendance that night. Did a Q&A after the show. Diane Catching up on reading. Stephen Barnes anthology Assassins and Other Stories (2010) Got some new offerings, fun to see the tales he can weave. Worth full price, and wishes she’d found it when it first came out. Vikas Facebook Ads. Simple to use. 2-3 clicks. You can adjust how much money it’ll spend. Others can boost your post as well. Hit 1K views for SpaceAccess in just a few days, for just a few bucks. JohnO SpaceX Heavy Falcon launch. They seem to have it down. Beautiful launch, and all three boosters landed cleanly. Worth loosing half-hour of work over. Amazing that they can mount cameras all over the rockets. Gerald: First stage fell off the platform into the ocean. There’s enough of them to continue with their schedule. Gerald: In the game of golf, an amazing confluence that lead to Tiger Woods coming back and winning. There was no auction. Meeting adjourned at: 20:58 and the rumor was: If you defer maintenance, you’re going to take a lot of heat.
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