Re: [AGA-sc] Navarro stuff

[Larry Lampert <l_lampert@yahoo.com>]

Hey Erik,

Hi Erik,

Interesting comments from your conversation with Luis.

Yea, Jeff offered for either he or Mike to speak just
to help us out. He was certainly not looking for a
"Gig". Yes, a big part of the reason they want to be
involved is because of Amano, but it is not the only
reason.

Call me when you can. I can never figure out when to
try to call you with the time change and all. 

Thanks,
Larry

--- Erik Olson <erik@thekrib.com> wrote:

> We had Luis Navarro out to speak at our club last
> week, and he stayed at 
> our house as the first leg of "Kathy and Erik's
> Month of Guest Hell...did 
> I say Hell? I meant 'Fun!'"  (My sister-in-law
> showed up the day Luis 
> left, and my parents arrive the day after she
> leaves, and one of our 
> nephews will be here right after that..but I
> digress.)
> 
> His talk was great -- really fired up our membership
> (me included). 
> He didn't do the demo like he'll do at NEC, just
> powerpoint, but there 
> were 15-20 minutes of questions to his 45-minute
> talk.  He's gotten better 
> at his speaking since 2003, and with amplification
> there were no problems 
> understanding.
> 
> I've never seen our mailing list so active too. 
> People looking for nerite 
> snails, shrimp, etc.  Will be interesting to hear
> how the NEC goes.
> 
> Always interesting to hear the perspective of
> someone inside the whole 
> 'system'.  Some of it's obviously fit only to repeat
> over beers in the 
> hospitality suite, but also some useful info for our
> convention this year:
> 
> * Ghazanfar is now this hardcore crypt keeper, and
> might be a good choice 
> for a speaker.  I gather he's gone to Europe to one
> of the meetings even. 
> Are we all lined up for speakers at this point?
> 
> * Luis is very close to the Senskes, and is
> surprised to hear Jeff is 
> speaking again.  According to him, Jeff Senske
> doesn't like speaking.
> He'd really rather not do that sort of thing, unless
> it's photography. 
> He's probably doing this because it's an opportunity
> to be there while 
> Amano's there.  Larry, I'll talk to you more on this
> over the phone.
> 
> * Iron Aquascaper was very popular from the folks
> he's talked to/read 
> posts from, but Luis thinks Iwagumi challenge would
> be interesting because 
> Amano could judge it... hmm...
> 
> * ADA products are about to go up 40%, or may have
> already done so.
> 
> I'm sure I'll remember more later.  Oh yeah, he was
> approached by 
> Luto/Ghori shortly after the 2006 convention, told
> "We're going to 
> revolutionize the AGA and we want you to help us!"
> and never heard a word 
> about it again.  That was amusing.
> 
>    - Erik
> 
> -- 
> Erik Olson
> erik at thekrib dot com
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