Received information about Minicon 33. If you send your prereg off by midnight tonight, it's only $25. Starting tomorrow, it's $30. Hey, it beats $60 at the door. Hotel information is also available.
Iowa Humanities Board sent us some information about grants.
This is Astronomy week, and Beltane is today.
Next Anime Show--May 4. Sunday in C107 Pappajohn. You can also catch these shows at Demicon.
Anime Shows will be in C107 Pappajohn all summer. Summer show dates are May 25, June 8 and 22 and July 6 and 20.
Demicon is this weekend. Icon will have a room party there at 9pm on Saturday, room to be announced.
Should check out the Charles Piehl stuff in the the opening TIC skit, which receives rave reviews from critic Mick Hitch. "It's the best TIC skit I've ever seen performed. Got to it. See it if you can."
Gregg has a copy of Growing Up Weightless he's willing to lend out for next week's book discussion.
Next week's book discussion is Growing Up Weightless (if you used inductive reasoning and already figured that out, on to the next part of this posting for you!)
4 weeks from next week we discuss Arthur C. Clarke's 2001.
Lynda suggests maybe we read double award winning books. If it's read the Hugo and the Nebula, maybe we should read and discuss it?
Michele reports that the Science Center trip was a good time.
Jon suggested a Pathfinder Probe party in July to celebrate the probe's arrival on Mars.
Bryon reminds that the Jupiter 2 takes off this October. Perhaps during Icon weekend?
Astronomy news--a plume of antimatter shot out of the Milky Way this weeks. No kidding. Maybe there really is a black hole at the center of the universe...
More about Growing Up Weightless--13 year old gaming boy is the main character. This is a slice of life story. Not every event leads to a plot point.
Last Tuesday some of Gene Rodenberry and Timothy Leary were launched into space.
TV:
--A "very special" Voyager (uhoh) --New Millenium --New XFiles (much discussion over the Cancer Man's shooting last week) --Last Sylvester McCoy Dr. Who this week. Survival. --New Deep Space Nine.
Yes, Virginia, Dr. Who is still in limbo.
On to renaming books and eating dinner.