For our lovely secretary, to append or paste into the minutes, should she find
that convenient. He was one of the immortal heroes of humanity whose
contributions transcended all border and ideology. We do not often see his
like.
--Best, Gerald
>From the Air Force Association "Daily Report" 15 October 2019
Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov, First Man to Walk in Space, Dies at 85
Alexei Leonov, the first person to make a spacewalk and the Russian most likely
to have been first on the moon if the Soviet Union had won the space race, died
in Moscow on Oct 11 at age 85. Leonov was one of the first class of cosmonauts,
having been a Soviet air force pilot, and was the last survivor of that group.
He walked in space in 1965, barely making it back inside his Voshkod
spacecraft. He also commanded the Russian half of the 1975 Apollo-Soyuz Test
Project, the first linkup of Russian and American spacecraft in orbit. In later
years he was a writer and painter, penning a history of the space race with
American astronaut David Scott. Read the full story by John A. Tirpak.
Gerald D. Nordley
gdnord...@aol.com
www.gdnordley.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Kennita Watson via Basfa <basfa@lists.basfa.org>
To: Ken Patterson <dpriso...@dvillage.org>
Cc: Ken Patterson via Basfa <basfa@lists.basfa.org>
Sent: Mon, Oct 14, 2019 11:33 pm
Subject: Re: [Basfa] BASFA Meeting #1521 – Monday, October 7, 2019
While occasionally someone will mention Ghandi in referring to football or
bread, nine times in ten people are referring to the greatest peacenik ever.
I must say the instructions for removing a word from the dictionary are
confusing, though I almost do it accidentally on my phone every few days... If
I had "Ghandi" in my dictionary, I think I'd try to remove it just to make me
think twice when I see it.
In any case, thanks for stepping up. Cheers.
Live long and prosper -- Kennita On 10/14/19 10:52 PM, Ken Patterson wrote:
While my previous email is in quarantine (I included a screenshot) there’s
also the Ghanaian football player Ghandi Kassenu, and Ghandi Bread (an Iranian
sugar loaf) so the dictionary isn’t the problem…
Again, you get what you pay for (as I only do the meeting notes because when
Barbara’s not there, no one is willing to do the job…)
-Ken
On Oct 14, 2019, at 21:42, Kennita Watson <kenn...@kennita.com> wrote:
Note for future: Google and Wikipedia both steer you to "Gandhi". Usually
free works fine. Use off-brand or proprietary search engines at your peril, or
use multiple ones to get consensus. Out of curiosity, what spell checker told
you "Ghandi" was correct?
Live long and prosper -- Kennita On 10/14/19 9:01 AM, Ken Patterson wrote:
I’m a lousy typist and speller (and spell check apparently steered me wrong).
You get what you pay for…
On Oct 14, 2019, at 08:18, Kennita Watson via Basfa <basfa@lists.basfa.org>
wrote:
For Obi-Wan's sake, it's "Gandhi"!
Live long and prosper -- Kennita On 10/13/19 7:50 PM, Ken Patterson via Basfa
wrote:
BASFA Meeting #1521
Monday, October 7, 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 Denny’s, Milpitas
Called to order at 20:00 with 15 People in attendance
Established a Party Jar
Secretary Report
The minutes of meeting #1520 were posted online and accepted as: Reading in
exile
Treasurer Report
Meeting #1520
- Regular Jar: $2.00 | $15,543.79
- Party Jar: $11.00 | $259.08
Vice President Report
- Thanks to Denny’s for taking us on short notice.
- Black Bear only closed this week for kitchen remodel. This should also
help precipitate the alcohol licensing issue.
No President Report No Committee Report
New Business
Ken Patterson
- We’ll need to make sure our contact info with Black Bear is up to date so
these sort of things may not happen in future.
Announcements
Fred
- Season 3 of The Orville will be late in 2020 (on Hulu). Seth is busy, and
wants to do a really good job.
- Andrew: Shorter season, but longer (full hours, not commercial TV hours)
Carole
- On Saturday, November 9 she and Bill be hosting a PenSFA party at their
house at 8 pm. Encouraged to bring finger food or desserts to share. Contact
her for more info.
Ken
- I had a show on Sunday celebrating the 50th anniversary of Monty Python’s
Flying Circus. It’s on the broadcast archive at kfjc.org for two weeks.
- DaveC: There was an article about how Python was saved from the BBC’s tape
wiping prcatice.
Reviews
evilKevin
- On Sunday he ran the Rock and Roll 10k/half marathon. It seemed smaller
this year. Great weather in the first hour. Ran three minutes faster. Finished
fifth in his division, and 78 overall. Yay, but ow!
Bill
- A month and a half ago he and Carole were at the Worldcon in Dublin.
Hotels were around the convention center, with the parties in the center.
Crowd size was not properly anticipated. Some events were in a nearby theatre.
Had fun with panels. Smallish art show. Masque was quite good. For the evening
activities, you had to queue at noon to get seating assignment. They would have
to do better facility management if they want him to go again. Line management
did improve from the first day.
- Carole: Queueing for evening shows not handled well. Was outside in rain
and wind.
- eVilKevin: Firecode would not allow that crowd inside
- Carole: Art show was so far away. Was going to exhibit, but glad she
didn’t. Heard that sales didn’t seem to do well.
- DaveG: Initial apprehension, but Spring did better.
- evilKevin: Small pieces moved, but larger ones didn’t.
- Gerald: From an author’s viewpoint, signings were moved from the dealers
room to the third floor - and attendance was sparse. If possible, it should be
where the books are being sold.
Carole
- This weekend she and Bill went to play about Ghandi at the Cuberly
community center, buy the Natak company (a local Indian theatre group) Well
produced for amateur/semi-pro. Different understanding of Ghandi than the film
(which he was god like, where the play had him more flawed) They do four to six
plays a year. Worth while.
- Bill: What stood out was the Indian treatment of Ghandi as a holy man–and
holy men do strange things...
Fred
- Read “Not Fade Away” by Cliff Winnig, in the colloection Straight Out of
Deadwood (from Baen) Came out a few days ago. Fairly good. Old Wild West with
strange creatures. Not his normal fare, but was worth full price (eBook)
Ken & Jerry
- We saw Monty Python and the Holy Grail the Quote-along on Friday and
Hairspray the Sing-along on Saturday. Great fun, especially with all the people
who had never seen either in the audience.
There was an auction
Meeting adjourned at 20:55 and the Rumor of the Week was: Next Monday BASFA
will be meeting somewhere in California.
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