Sept 7 BASFA meeting minutes
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basfaMinutes of Meeting #1566
Monday, September 7, 2020
Trey Haddad, President
Ken Patterson, Vice President
Dave Gallaher, Treasurer
Galen Tripp & Laser Pistol Packin’ Mama, Sergeants at Arms
Barbara Johnson-Haddad, Secretary
held online, in exile
Called to order at 20:05
Total of 11 log-ins
The minutes of meeting 1565 were accepted as: Probably available somewhere.
Treasurer. Same as last week?
Vice President: Nothing Fannish to report.
Vice President for Life (Tamera Capp): Being sucked in to Harry Potter political fics, as well as writing her own Harry Potter fic.
President: Not present.
No committees reporting.
No new business.
DaveC posed a question to the group. And was answered.
Announcements:
Gerald: Launch window: 0200-0430 GMT on 11th (10:00 p.m.-12:30 a.m. EDT on (10th/11th)
Launch site: Pacific Spaceport Complex, Kodiak Island, Alaska
A commercial small satellite launch vehicle developed by Astra will make its first orbital launch attempt. Astra says there will be no payloads on this test flight. Scrubbed on Aug. 2 due to upper level winds and boat in range. Scrubbed on Aug. 4 and Aug. 6. Delayed from Aug. 30 due to poor weather forecast. [Aug. 28] see: www.spaceflightnow.com
Lisa: Festival of the Living Rooms #4 this weekend FB and YouTube. Performances by many, including the Capps! Music by people around the world from their living rooms.
facebook.com/groups/1606369249486666
Howierd: Climatalogical: Denver is going form 100 to snow at 3am.
The Capps are living this.
Reviews
FredM: = Caught part of Dragoncon over the weekend. Payed the $10, to make sure he could see George Rabb. Also watched a couple other skeptic track panels. Fell down on finding the full schedule grid (at the end of the 20-page getting started doc.) Some tracks run the whole convention (so much that it’s almost its own con!)
Cliff went to part of it. No Discord community like other OnlineCons. Liked some of the old panels, including some of the past panels. Panel on cooking, eating and growing food on Mars was riveting. The $10 grants access to the panels for the whole year.
Howierd: = Star Trek Lower Decks imdb.com/title/tt9184820/ Was avoiding because he’s kind of lazy watching Comcast more than his streaming, and not fond of animation based on live action. Not disappointed, but not that good. Characters more frenetic than they need to be. Good job of cultural things on other planets. Goes further than they cold have for the Enterprise… Surprised at the romantic (and non-romantic) pairings. All in all, wouldn’t pay extra for it, but worth full price.
Valerie: Enjoying it. Trying to spoof its own franchise. More realistic humans vs. utopian ideal in the live-action shows. They actually feel a bit like con-goers! Fun in-show referencing the history.
Ken: Interesting to note that it kind of follows from the original animated series with a cat-person.
Cliff: Recommends the DC Fontana story “Yesteryear”, a Larry Niven story and a sequel to Tribbles.
DaveC = Finished watching season 1 of Stargirl. Enjoyed it very much. 20 years after the Justice Society of Amerca is all killed off by the Injustice Society. Stepdaughter of the sole survivor is chosen by the cosmic lamp. Enjoyable. Material taken most seriously of DC TV adaptations – more intelligently written. Recommends.
Valerie: Was not impressed by episode 1 - so conventional… But then she gets her group together, and has came around on it. Feels like runaways.
Gayle = DC Fonatana nostalgia trip… Was recently reading reviews of Galaxy Quest on IMDB. People who thought it was not funny seemed to be non-Americans. Asked DC what she thought of it was, and the response was that she was ROTFL. Gayle would gives it an 8/10 stars.
Cliff: Showing off his Obama Hope style “Never Give Up…” mug. Was opposite The Matrix for the Hugo. Cory Doctorow was presenting the award for that category and said “Never Give Up…” and a roar from the audience finished with “Never surrender.” The co-cretors were excited to win. Cliff was so the nerdy kid who’s parents were glad when he was outside, that he had to show the film to his parents. Re-watched the ending and noticed that Guy expects to die (but doesn’t)
MetOpera Streaming: The Tempest. Got caught up in it. Modernization of Shakespeare. Scenery was beautiful, singers wonderful.
Rumor of the Week: California fires are larger on the inside.
Adjourned at: 21:08
Monday, September 7, 2020
Trey Haddad, President
Ken Patterson, Vice President
Dave Gallaher, Treasurer
Galen Tripp & Laser Pistol Packin’ Mama, Sergeants at Arms
Barbara Johnson-Haddad, Secretary
held online, in exile
Called to order at 20:05
Total of 11 log-ins
The minutes of meeting 1565 were accepted as: Probably available somewhere.
Treasurer. Same as last week?
Vice President: Nothing Fannish to report.
Vice President for Life (Tamera Capp): Being sucked in to Harry Potter political fics, as well as writing her own Harry Potter fic.
President: Not present.
No committees reporting.
No new business.
DaveC posed a question to the group. And was answered.
Announcements:
Gerald: Launch window: 0200-0430 GMT on 11th (10:00 p.m.-12:30 a.m. EDT on (10th/11th)
Launch site: Pacific Spaceport Complex, Kodiak Island, Alaska
A commercial small satellite launch vehicle developed by Astra will make its first orbital launch attempt. Astra says there will be no payloads on this test flight. Scrubbed on Aug. 2 due to upper level winds and boat in range. Scrubbed on Aug. 4 and Aug. 6. Delayed from Aug. 30 due to poor weather forecast. [Aug. 28] see: www.spaceflightnow.com
Lisa: Festival of the Living Rooms #4 this weekend FB and YouTube. Performances by many, including the Capps! Music by people around the world from their living rooms.
facebook.com/groups/1606369249486666
Howierd: Climatalogical: Denver is going form 100 to snow at 3am.
The Capps are living this.
Reviews
FredM: = Caught part of Dragoncon over the weekend. Payed the $10, to make sure he could see George Rabb. Also watched a couple other skeptic track panels. Fell down on finding the full schedule grid (at the end of the 20-page getting started doc.) Some tracks run the whole convention (so much that it’s almost its own con!)
Cliff went to part of it. No Discord community like other OnlineCons. Liked some of the old panels, including some of the past panels. Panel on cooking, eating and growing food on Mars was riveting. The $10 grants access to the panels for the whole year.
Howierd: = Star Trek Lower Decks imdb.com/title/tt9184820/ Was avoiding because he’s kind of lazy watching Comcast more than his streaming, and not fond of animation based on live action. Not disappointed, but not that good. Characters more frenetic than they need to be. Good job of cultural things on other planets. Goes further than they cold have for the Enterprise… Surprised at the romantic (and non-romantic) pairings. All in all, wouldn’t pay extra for it, but worth full price.
Valerie: Enjoying it. Trying to spoof its own franchise. More realistic humans vs. utopian ideal in the live-action shows. They actually feel a bit like con-goers! Fun in-show referencing the history.
Ken: Interesting to note that it kind of follows from the original animated series with a cat-person.
Cliff: Recommends the DC Fontana story “Yesteryear”, a Larry Niven story and a sequel to Tribbles.
DaveC = Finished watching season 1 of Stargirl. Enjoyed it very much. 20 years after the Justice Society of Amerca is all killed off by the Injustice Society. Stepdaughter of the sole survivor is chosen by the cosmic lamp. Enjoyable. Material taken most seriously of DC TV adaptations – more intelligently written. Recommends.
Valerie: Was not impressed by episode 1 - so conventional… But then she gets her group together, and has came around on it. Feels like runaways.
Gayle = DC Fonatana nostalgia trip… Was recently reading reviews of Galaxy Quest on IMDB. People who thought it was not funny seemed to be non-Americans. Asked DC what she thought of it was, and the response was that she was ROTFL. Gayle would gives it an 8/10 stars.
Cliff: Showing off his Obama Hope style “Never Give Up…” mug. Was opposite The Matrix for the Hugo. Cory Doctorow was presenting the award for that category and said “Never Give Up…” and a roar from the audience finished with “Never surrender.” The co-cretors were excited to win. Cliff was so the nerdy kid who’s parents were glad when he was outside, that he had to show the film to his parents. Re-watched the ending and noticed that Guy expects to die (but doesn’t)
MetOpera Streaming: The Tempest. Got caught up in it. Modernization of Shakespeare. Scenery was beautiful, singers wonderful.
Rumor of the Week: California fires are larger on the inside.
Adjourned at: 21:08
