SFLIS Minutes - February 7, 2001

- Movies and TV:  Buffy valentine special next week.
  Stargate is doing ok.
  Anyone see Atilla?  It's better than most recent tv movies.  It's good.
  It has sex.
  There's a milk commercial with the Avengers.
  Xena-Behind the Scenes.  It's a Jerry Springer-type thing.  Will they do
  a valentine show?
  Jack of All Trades has been dropped and Cleopatra 2525 has been expanded to
  an hour.  Opinion here seems to be that Jack was the better of the two shows.
  There's an A&E biography of Hulk Hogan.
- Riverside, birthplace of James Kirk.  He was conceived under a pool table in
  a bar?  Trekfest in the summer.
- Gordon R Dickson died on Jan. 31.
- Waldenbooks at Sycamore Mall has reopened for a while.  There's supposed to
  be a new anchor store there sometime.  Talk about specialization - a store
  that sells only anchors?
- Marty has some worthless things, or so he says.  A couple anime CD-ROMs.
  Can you recognize the background on the SWAMP flyer?
- Did anything significant happen in 1769?
- Getting high off of pepper.
- For the SWAMP/SFLIS fest, there are 2 weekends that look good.  We'll see
  about reserving some rooms.
- When will HDTV be a necessity?  2 years ago?  8 years from now?  Will it ever
  happen?  IPTV is ready, occasionally brags about it.  Are there any tv's that
  can receive it?  Not very many - they're too expensive, no market for it yet.
- And after a bit of discussion on that topic, we end the meeting.





Feb 11, 2001 09:18 from Mortika
re: 1769.
Assuming you mean the Current Era dating, and assuming you're not looking at
alternate histories established in some sf setting:

*  Austria occupies Lwow and Zips region of Poland.
*  Mme. de Berry becomes mistress of Louis XV.
*  Virginian Assembly dissolved.
*  Napoleon I born in Corsica.
*  Jean-Francois Ducis produces "Hamlet" in Paris.
*  Lorenzo Ganganelli elected pope.  Takes the name Clement XIV
*  :Letters of Junius," (anonymous attack on men in public life, exposing
   corruption) published
*Painter Joshua reynolds is knighted.
*  Joseph Elsner, who will become Choin's teacher, is born.
*  Cognot constructs the first steam road carriage.
*  First lighting conductors in buildings.
*  Alexander von Humbolt, German naturalist, is born.
*  Old Blackfriar's Bridge is built in London.

All this from "The Timetables of History," an amazing reference book by based
on Werner Stein's "Kulturfahrplan."
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