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August 26 § Conucopia § 1999 nasfic § Anaheim,
california § issue
| Urgent!
Urgent! Due to a
database error, the schedule for Readings on the
Program Grids is incorrect. The schedules in the
main body of the pocket program are correct,
however, so please ignore the Readings List on
the grids themselves. Thanks!
~Carol Loessin
Party,
party, boys.
Thursday.
Room 423, San Jose in
2002, 9 pm.
Room 471, Conolulu
Westercon, 9 pm.
Friday.
Room 423, San Jose in
2002, 9:00 pm
Room 453,
Christian Fandom, 8:23. (Christian Fandom is
an inter-denominational fellowship of Christian
fans of science fiction and fantasy. All are
welcome at our party.)
~Ron Oakes
Room 471,
Conolulu Westercon, 9pm.
OASIS –
9:00 pm (Organization for the Advancement of
Space Industrialization and Settlement).
~Gail Bondi
Arizona Conventions:
LepreCon 25, DarkCon, HexaCon 9, CopperCon19,
TusCon 26, and WesterCon 2002 Bid.
~Pat Connors
BAUDTOWN BBS:
We will be showcasing the new iMAC along with a
treat of Baudtown BBS (Fri/Sat).
~Sundance
Bekinnie
No one lives forever:
It's an Irish Wake Friday Night. Presented by
AgamemCon3. Toast the recently departed John
Sheridan and Babylon 5 in true Irish Wake
fashion. Stop by the AgamemCon3 table for room
number. AgamemCon3 asks that you drink
responsibly.
~Pam Buck
Saturday.
Room 423, San Jose in
2002, 9 pm.
You too can have your party
listed. Get your information to the Newsdesk
(beyond Registration) right away.
James White.
Note on James White's funeral:
the service will be Friday morning at 10 am; the
cremation is at 1 pm, local time Northern
Ireland.
~Geri Sullivan
Oops!
Error in the pocket program:
Jean Lorrah's reading is at 10 am Saturay in Room
312. Her autograph session is at 1 pm.
~Jean Lorrah
Copy protected?
We're sorry for the colored
ink. We're running out of black. If you need a
copy with black ink, please come to the newsdesk,
located beyond registration.
Overheard in the
newsroom: He
owes me $20 because he's only eating, you owe me
more because you're getting dressed.
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NIGHT FLIGHT TO OZ. There's rumoured to be a flock of fans
flying south at the end of the Conucopia season.
It might be a good idea for everyone filling
those few planes that go out for a timely arrival
in Melbourne to wear their Conucopia badges in
the airport and the plane, for a nice
con-on-the-flight as it goes...
There's bound to be only so
many planes and more than enough fans to fill at
least a quarter of them, so here's your chance to
do something worthwhile in those dreary hours
spent high above.
~Jan van 't
Ent
Overheard in the Staff
Lounge: If you play with it too much,
it'll explode.
Bid Withdrawal.
The Seattle in 2002 WorldCon
BID deeply regrets to announce its withdrawal
from the race due to severe hotel problems. Our
congratulations and best wishes go to the San
Francisco BID. See Becky Thompson at the ChiCon
table if you would like further details on the
Seattle situations.
~Becky
Thompson
We have
1840
members
as of
1:30 pm
Thursday
Kids move up.
Children's Programming has
moved from Room 304 to Room 1908 (The Governor's
Suite). Go up on the elevator until you run out
of up.
Fan Party Guide.
Having a party? What better
place to advertise than The Note in God's Eye.
All we need is the name of the party, the time
and day(s), and the room number. Even if you do
not have your room number yet, let us know.
The Official Fan Party handout
regarding hotel rules and party resources is
available at the Information Desk. Anastasia
Hunter, the Fan Party Liason, can be contacted
through the Newsdesk beyond Registration .
~Anastasia
Hunter
Gaming addition.
AD&D Game, Gencon Playtest.
10:00 am Friday, Rancho Los Palmas Room
(Downstairs). Estimated time, 4 hours.
~M. Irwin,
Dungeonmaster
Overheard in the Hall: Everyone's
been bathed, bombed twice, and combed.
Tip your Maid
Your maid works hard, you
should knock her over, er, I mean, give her a
tip. For the very best maid service, leave $1 per
person per night on your pillow each morning.
Rah! Blood drive!
Don’t forget to give blood
on Friday from 1:00 pm to 7:00 pm in the Orange
County Ballroom Salon 3. Each donor will receive
a Bob Eggleton poster, a cloisonne pin, a chance
in a nifty drawing, and the satisfaction in
knowing that you have helped to save four lives.
Sign up now at the information desk.
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STARSHIP
TROOPERS DEBUTS IN SECRET. The Sci-Fi Channel will debut
"Roughnecks: The Starship Troopers
Chronicles," a new CGI series, with very
little fanfare starting at 7:30am TOMORROW
(Friday morning!) Actually, it just hit the
Internet today that the debut was occurring with
virtually no warning. It will then begin daily
showings at 7:30am on Sci-Fi locally starting
Monday.
L.A. folk who don't have the
Sci-Fi Channel are also in luck... Channel 9
(KCAL) has picked it up and will be running it at
7:30am beginning on Tuesday, September 7. Many
areas around the country are not getting it
locally, so count your blessings.
This new CGI series, based
loosely on both the Heinlein novel and the film,
is supposed to have some incredible effects and
is completely computer generated.
~Shaun Lyon
There are few things in this
world that cannot be solved by large or small
applications of chocolate.
~Hazel the
Bear
Carl 54, Where are you?
The convention office would
like Carl E. Aschmann to report to the
Gold Key Room for something of interest.
Reclassified Ads.
LOSCON 25 needs you to
volunteer to help us out! As a way to
seduce you to the dark side (well, sorta...), we
are pleased to announce that both NASFIC and
WesterCon have donated member-ships to the
Volunteer Department.
The person who works the most
hours overall will get the NASFIC membership. The
drawing will be held for the WesterCon membership
at the end of the Con. To be eligible for this
WesterCon drawing, you must have worked a little
bit (like one hour!). So come on over and
volunteer.
~Ed Green
Attention Costumers!
There will be a gathering in a room. The location
and time have not yet been determined. Watch this
space for further details.
Roommate needed Fri
& Sat night. Contact Monica Boyd.
Leave a message on house phone.
Free sex changes
offered at registration. Judy Bemis is
now a man, and she didn't even know it.
~Geri Sullivan
Meet Jerry
NASFiC GoH Jerry Pournelle is a
very active member of the Los Angeles Science
Fantasy Society. Here is another one of Jerry's
funniest quips and gaffes taken from the LASFS
minutes.
Christian McGuire showed a
clipping of The Wall Street Journal
article about Philip K. Dick. It was very
complimentary about sf and Dick’s writings,
saying he really reached the limits of science
fiction. Jerry Pournelle asked, "Does it
also say he was crazy as a bedbug?"
[4/29/99]
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More
Meet Jerry
For Matthew B. Tepper, the most
memorable moment of the LASFS picnic was when he was
pursued by angry bees who stole his chicken. This erupted
into an entomological debate, as Jerry Pournelle
wondered, "Are you sure they weren't yellow-jackets?
Honeybees don't eat meat." Matthew said all he knew
is, "They buzzed, had stingers, and got into places
I didn't want them." [7/31/97]
This reminded Jerry Pournelle of
another dramatic miscue. An actress pissed off the stage
manager of an opera house. Her part called for the
delivery of a dramatic line before jumping offstage as
though to her death. The next night the stage manager
replaced the pillow she usually landed on with a
trampoline, so that her dramatic line went, "We'll
meet in hell! ...in hell! ...in hell!" [7/31/97]
"Sideburns likes to begin his
Earthlink tech support calls on a cheerful note. He
demonstrated his nauseatingly hearty welcome. He pulled a
variation on one caller, apparently with great success --
sort of a Marvin voice, I think. Sounded a lot like the
Director of NASA, just after his secretary announces that
Dr. Pournelle is on the line." [07/24/97]
~Mike Glyer
Gaming
Now has a chalkboard in their room. All
of their scheduling can be found there
Illegitimi non carborundum.
Matthew B. Tepper immediately took up
the following motion:
"We 'the undersign' wish to have
Christian B. McGuire to get a Mental exam for have try
and win the Bid for the 99 NASFIC Convention for
L.A."
The motion was signed by a slate of
LASFSians expert in having their brains examined, Greg
Bilan, Mike Glyer, M. "S." Galloway, Mike Stern
and Joe Zeff. Tepper called for the vote -- all in favor
say aye, all opposed, say aye. Strangely enough, the
motion carried.
Jerry Pournelle said, "As a doctor
of psychology, and as the one asked to be guest of honor
of this thing, maybe I should be the one to conduct the
examination?"
Sandy Cohen asked, "Did you
accept?" Jerry admitted he had, and Sandy moved to
amend the motion. Which just goes to show you how much
times as change -- here was Sandy Cohen, whose command of
Robert's Rules was the direct cause of them being ousted
as the society's rules of order, trying to amend a motion
that had already been approved by vote of the members.
Put him in line for the next mental exam, eh? [September
4, 1997]
*******************
Jerry Pournelle contributed his
definition: "A paragraph is a group of sentences
which expresses a single thought which is summarized in a
topic sentence." Phil Castora said, "That's
when you write them, Jerry." The President
appreciated what he called this "free writing less
from a pro." Larry Niven agreed and added, "No
need to repeat it, unless Steve Barnes is present."
The meeting erupted. [September 4, 1997]
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The President closed the meeting by
hurling bits of foam rubber at the crowd (that had been
packed around Rotsler's Hugo and left on the front
table.) Tom Safer retorted, "My program is not about
foam rubber!" Dr. Pournelle got up and said,
"Well, I'm leaving then." [Meeting 3135,
September 11, 1997]
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Doug Crepeau's Y2K Cassandra Committee
Report was that most Mac applications are immune as long
as you don't open files with dates in them. Next year
such files will interpret dates ending in 89 as being the
year 2089. Doug alluded to some Y2K problems he's already
reported about ATM's and sewers. Glyer agreed -- he'd
never go to an ATM in a sewer again.
Crepeau also had a news item on a
podiatrist who was doing surgery on UFO abductees to
remove implants from them. Dr. Pournelle was thrilled to
learn that's where he could get that procedure done.
Pournelle sarcastically added that he also has a Y2K
program that changes the days of the week -- to Mondak,
Tuesdak, Wednesdak.... Matthew Tepper said, "Thank
you, Jerrk Pournelle!" The meeting was temporarily
paralyzed. [Meeting 3209, February 11, 1999]
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Tom Collins heard there will be a new
show on the Sci-Fi Channel in March about someone who
falls through a wormhole and finds himself in a corner of
the universe he's never been to. Tom said Jim Henson is
doing all the critters. Someone felt the need to call
out, "Productions" as if Tom thought Henson was
still around to do this work. Pournelle ironically added,
"No, it is Jim Henson. Call it 'The
Reanimator'." [Meeting 3209, February 11, 1999]
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Jerry Pournelle explained Steve
Stirling's presence at the meeting as a side-effect of
Baen Books having paid the fellow's way to LA where he
was collaborating on some work with Dr. P. Or as Jerry
said, 'Stirling has the same arrangement as with Niven,
except I'm on top now.' The entire membership
simultaneously gasped for breath. Jerry scrambled to
recover, 'Let me rephrase that. Er, let Niven
rephrase that!'" ("Menace of the LASFS", De
Profundis 200)
Program Changes.
Eric Hoffman will not be attending the
convention due to illness in family.
Add Jordin Kare to the following
panels:
Inventions Someone Needs to Invent
Space Travel: Near Term & Far Out
The Art Show Auction will be moving to
11:30 am Sunday in Salon F, rather than 2:30pm.
Please join us!
The Autograph session Friday at 1:00pm:
added Lisa Silverthorne.
~Shaun Lyon
Patrick Neilsen Hayden is missing his
first panel due to flash floods in New York. He's on the
plane now for his next panel.
~Geri Sullivan
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