http://www.dmsfs.org Read! Imagine! Think! Wed, 31 Dec 2008 01:00:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Meeting topic and dinner location to be announced later. http://www.dmsfs.org/#20090109 This year's SACC begins with an overdressing evening on New Year's Eve. Festivities begin at 7:00 pm. Please dress in your finest and bring snacks and drinks to share. The Roth Hotel and Convention center will be open continuously until things wind down Saturday night/early Sunday morning. We will be watching Iowa's bowl game, should they end up on New Year's Day. Families are welcome through most of the weekend. Saturday will be our annual no-kids day. The theme for Saturday will be vampires. Come as a vampire, vampire hunter, or vampire groupie. Entertainment will include episodes of HBO's "True Blood." Please contact Les Roth if you would like to host a meal. Food and drink donations are welcome throughout the weekend. A limited amount or crash space is available. If you have any questions please contact Les at les@trans-iowa.org or 515-224-7654. http://www.dmsfs.org/#20081232 Dave Reed's latest SF video downloads; Dinner @ CiCi's Pizza 4349 Merle Hay Road. http://www.dmsfs.org/#dec12 Jon Mohning, DMSFS VP and Dinner Cat Herder reports that dinner after the 12/12 DMSFS meeting will be at CiCi's Pizza. We have reserved the party room, under the name Des Moines Science Fiction Society, starting at 8:15pm. Address and contact information: CiCi's Pizza 4349 Merle Hay Road Des Moines, IA 50310 Phone: 515-252-1616 www.cicispizza.com http://tinyurl.com/cicispizzadsm There is no meeting December 26th due to the Christmas Holiday. http://www.dmsfs.org/#nomeeting Dave Reed's latest SF video downloads; Dinner: To Be Announced later http://www.dmsfs.org/#dec12 There is no meeting November 28th due to the Thanksgiving holiday and December 26th due to the Christmas holiday. http://www.dmsfs.org/#nomeeting DemiCon 20's ConCom is pleased to announce that Joe Haldeman will be the Author Guest of Honor! Joe was Author GoH at DemiCon 2 and Joe's wife Gay is our regular and welcome guest at most DemiCons. http://www.demicon.org/20/ As soon as we can figure out the best long-term logistics of it, we'll be setting up a Google Calendar feed for DMSFS meetings and other events (including DemiCon events like ConCom and Dept. Head Meetings) and maybe even TICC events. You will be able to "subscribe" to this calendar in many computer calendar programs such as Apple's iCal, Microsoft Outlook, or of course in your own personal Google Calendar, and probably in other web-based calendars as well. So you can see what we're working towards, here's a "sample" DMSFS calendar feed you can add to your calendar. This is NOT the final feed and may change or even split into separate feeds for DMSFS, DemiCon and TICC by the time we're finished working on it. We have XML and iCal addresses available. Or you can just view the DMSFS Calendar in your web browser. IMPORTANT:Not all the times shown may be accurate, especially the DemiCon ConCom and Dept. Head meetings or any TICC events at this time. http://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=5jkcm0sl2sib07qruea12e84bo%40group.calendar.google.com Rachelle Hrubetz passes along the following web site link from John Lars Shoberg and Keith Stokes in KC with photos from DemiCon 19 at the Midamericon.org Fan Photo Archive. http://www.midamericon.org/photoarchive/08demicon01.htm Jon Mohning, your Humble Paradox Wrangler, wants you all to know that because of his loss of time-sense from the Halloween season, his actual deadline for Winter Paradox submissions is this weekend (11/15-11/16) instead of last weekend as previously reported. He thanks those of you that gave him things for the Paradox by that deadline. He's still gladly accepting articles, recipes, filks, reviews, pictures, puzzles, etc. http://paradox.dmsfs.org/ Book Discussion: "Little Brother" by Cory Doctorow, Dinner: Famous Dave's on 86th/22nd. http://craphound.com/littlebrother/download/ Join us at DemiCon 20, The Big Two-Oh at the Hotel Fort Des Moines on May 1st-3rd, 2008. http://www.demicon.org/