This last week we sent out a newsletter about our annual board meeting – we’d love for you to join us and make your voice heard! Everyone who has ever attended a Doxacon Seattle event is welcome and eligible to vote – we will be considering whether and how to amend our bylaws, which define our operation as a non-profit organization. Those who attend will also be eligible to be on the Board of Directors – there will also be opportunities to join the 2025 Planning Committee and/or the Volunteer Crew. For more information, please drop us an email via our contact page.
Also also – we are yet open for proposals for programming at Doxacon Seattle 2025. Our theme is “Extasis: Escaping Reality in Pursuit of Truth”. We’d love to hear YOUR ideas and expertise – no need to have everything worked out, but if you’ve got something you’d like to consider, we’d love to help you build your idea into an exciting session! Visit our guidelines page for more information.
August 12 – On this day in 1990, FMNH PR 2081 – the most complete Tyrannosaurus rex specimen – was discovered in Hill City in South Dakota by Sue Hendrickson. It was nicknamed ‘Sue’ in honor of its discoverer and its final home is now at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, Illinois. The Chicago Sun Times recently had an interview with Sue (the discoverer, not the dinosaur!) – check it out at their website.
August 13 – Mars has long been an object of curiousity and wonder – the question of life on Mars (or colonizing the red planet!) continues to energize much of our off-planet efforts. But you might be surprised to konw that not only have we been looking at but even making discoverings about Mars for hundreds(!) of years. Today marks the the 382nd anniversary of the discovery of the southern polar cap of Mars by Christiaan Huygens (1642). Read more at the German Aerospace Center.
August 15 – Nowadays it seems that we live in a Star Trek renaissance – we’ve had several new series come (and go) – Discovery, Picard, Lower Decks, Strange New Worlds, and Prodigy. There’s even a television film coming up in 2025 titled Section 31! But the livelihood of the series was not always so assured. After its second season in 1968, it was slated for cancellation. When fan Bjo Trimble (whose birthday is today) found out, she organized an extraordinary letter-writing campaign to save the show, allowing to continue for a third season and arguably setting the stage for all that has followed. Read about her at the official Star Trek website.
August 16 – Today is the anniversary of the first color sound cartoon titled Fiddlesticks. Directed and animated by Ub Iwerks (previously of Walt Disney), it features a character titled Flip the Frog and was the first sound cartoon to be photographed in color.
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