SFLIS Minutes - July 3, 2002

- Convergence is this weekend.
- BBC to revive Dr. Who next year.  Is this for real or just a rumor?
  Somebody's saying that the BBC has hired a scriptwriter from Buffy to
  work on a new Dr. Who series, but the BBC says they haven't.
- News article:  A guy from North Carolina bought a case of expensive cigars,
  insured them against fire, smoked them, then filed a claim saying they were
  all destroyed in a series of small fires.  The insurance company was forced
  to pay because they didn't specify which types of fires were covered.
- A toy robot that transforms into a firetruck, or vice versa, is at the
  meeting today.
- The presidents aren't here today, so who's in charge?
- Who will play Dr. Who if they do make more of them?
- Men in Black 2:  If you've seen the first one, you've seen this one.
- Now we have some amusing stories involving embarrassing things to do with
  a tv station's live van.  Like take it through a low-clearance drive thru,
  or extend the antenna through some high voltage power lines.  We hear
  about some unfortunate people's experiences.
- Minicon.  Has it bottomed out yet?  Will it be able to recover?
- And now for some reason, we're talking about fire poles and what's the best
  way to get back up if you change your mind after sliding down one, and a
  winch that can take you up a 2000 foot tower as you hear the cable
  stretching while the tower sways in the wind.  Which way will a tower
  go if it falls?  It depends on which of the guywires breaks.
  KCRG's Hiawatha tower was hit by a small plane in the '60s.
- Next week after SFLIS we have Mindbridge, followed by Galaxy Quest.
- Wouldn't it be nice to see some outtakes from Junkyard Wars, showing
  some of the disasters and accidents that happen?  How about something
  like that for ICON?  An SF-related Junkyard Wars type of thing.
- More entertaining behind-the-scenes stories from KCRG.
- Does anyone want a freeze dryer?  Or a stand-up freezer full of containers
  that say 'Danger - toxic?'
- And we end with some high speed internet access and caps on downloads.