CALENDAR OF EVENTS
Codes
ACW all children welcome; BYOB bring your own beverage; CO clothing optional; C/D cat/dog at residence; FE fictitious event; FFE fragrance-free event; FFO finger food only; LCR light carpet rules (no red wine or other staining substances; can also mean no shoes); MO members only; NC no children; NPC, PC no public calendar, public calendar; NMPCW new members, prospects, and candidates welcome; NS, S, S/NS, SO no smoking, smoking, provisions for both, smoking outside; NXM not exclusively Mensa event; RSE regularly scheduled event; WBC well behaved children; WCD, WCE, WCI, WCP wheelchairs difficult, easy, impossible, possible; RSEs are reprinted verbatim unless an update is received by the deadline for the issue in which a change is requested.
Note: Children under 18 must be accompanied by a parent or legal guardian.
Web Calendar Policy
Our policy is not to list events on the Web calendar unless requested to do so by inclusion of the “PC” (“public calendar”) code. If the PC code is not included, your event will default to NPC (no public calendar) and will not be included in the Web calendar. Home addresses (and directions to same) are not listed on the Web, but city and contact information such as telephone and e-mail are unless requested otherwise.
Meetup
SFRM maintains a MeetUp group for events announced on short notice. See meetup.com/SFMensa
To List Your Event
Length limit: 120 words. Submit items to the Calendar Editor at . Items must be received by the deadline listed in the calendar to guarantee inclusion. Items must include host’s name, date and time, location, and applicable codes (above), and should also include phone (including area code) or e-mail address. Notices are published on a space-available basis subject to the discretion of the Calendar Editor. The policy for inclusion in the calendar is based on the SFRM bylaws.
Note to Readers
While a few events are still on hiatus because of an abundance of caution surrounding COVID-19 (and are noted below as “cancelled for July”), most events have resumed meeting in person or are Zoom events. Some hosts may require the wearing of masks, and some hosts are choosing outdoor seating for their dining events. Please continue to check here for updates as well as join our Meetup group (www.meetup.com/SFMensa) where we have several impromptu virtual events happening.
WEEKLY EVENT
None at this time.
End of June
June 27 – Sunday
12n Cafe Discussion: Global Warming. See July 4. (RSE Su)
7p Channing Club. See July 25. (RSE 4 Su)
28 – Monday
8p Monterey County Mensa Monthly Meeting. See July 26. (RSE last M)
30 – Wednesday
Brainstormer Trivia Night is cancelled for June. PC (RSE last W)
6p 21 Lessons for the 21st Century Book Discussion: One chapter a week. This week we’re reading Chapter 8, RELIGION: God now serves the nation. See July 7. (RSE W)
July 1-7
July 1 – Thursday
6p Who We Are and How We Got Here Book Discussion: One chapter a week. We’re reading Who We Are and How We Got Here by David Reich one chapter at a time. It’s an illuminating account of all that studies of human DNA have taught us about the ancient world and their bearing of our origins on our present. This week we’re reading Chapter 2, Encounters with Neanderthals. This is a Zoom event. The login details are listed on Meetup. Hosted by Pia Smith. PC (RSE Th)
2 – Friday
Movies That Matter is cancelled for July. PC (RSE 1,3 F)
3 – Saturday
6p Start The Month Right. It’s barbecue time! At Elna and Adrian Tymes’ home in Mountain View. Come celebrate the 41st year and longest running monthly social event in all of American Mensa (at Elna’s home every month since 1981)! Potluck dinner, unstructured socializing, games, and talk. Bring bread, salad, or dessert to share, and YOB; hamburgers and hot dogs available or bring your own meat to grill. $1 donation requested. No reservations needed. Info (650) 969-6650. Guests of Mensans must be accompanied by the member. PC, SO, WBC, WCD, C/D (RSE 1 Sa)
4 – Sunday
12n Cafe Discussion: Does hardship make a person stronger? In case you were wondering, the cafe discussions have so far been lively, interesting, and you always come away with something to think about in the week to come. Drop in and stay for as long as you like. This is a Zoom event. The login details are listed on Meetup. Hosted by Pia Smith. PC (RSE Su)
4p Albany Hill Hike. Join us for a one-hour scenic and historic hike up and around Albany Hill. The trail is steep in spots, but the views are expansive. Special bonus: We have scheduled the Sather Tower Solar Beacon to shine directly upon us as we arrive at the top of the hill. Meet under Pacific East Mall Jumbotron just behind the bus stop on the east side of Pierce St. between Central Ave. in El Cerrito and Washington Ave. in Albany. Free parking is available in the mall lot, which is seven tenths of a mile from the El Cerrito Plaza BART station. Please contact Roberta Maguire to make sure she is in town at robertamaguire/a/t/hotmail.com or (510) 292-6370. PC, ACW, NMPCW, NS, WCI, NXM (RSE 1 Su)
5 – Monday
6p Online Board Games. Come explore some board games that can be played on the Web. To prepare, it’s best if you create an account at boardgamearena.com and walk through the “Can’t Stop” tutorial. We’ll meet online with Zoom to establish voice contact, then we’ll decide on a game to try out. RSVP on the Meetup calendar if possible, otherwise contact Karl Heuer at puzzles/a/t/sfmensa.org or (650) 648-3594. PC, NMPCW, ACW
6 – Tuesday
5:30p Tuesday Tipplers returns! (NOTE NEW TIME.) We meet at San Rafael Joe’s, 931 4th St., San Rafael 94901. Join us for drinks and conversation in the bar at 5:30p and stay for dinner at 7p. Park on the street or in the city garage at Lootens Pl. and 3rd St. (the restaurant has a back door to the garage). Carole Taylor, caroleptaylor/a/t/sbcglobal.net or (415) 472-1207. PC (RSE 1 Tu)
Intelligencer Deadline. Deadline for calendar events, advertising, members’ free ads, and all other content. See above for information on submitting events. PC (RSE Tu after 1 Sa)
7 – Wednesday
6p 21 Lessons for the 21st Century Book Discussion: One chapter a week. We’re reading 21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari one chapter at a time. This week we’re reading chapter 9, IMMIGRATION: Some cultures might be better than others. This is a Zoom event. The login details are listed on Meetup. Hosted by Mickie Winkler and Maria Gomez. PC (RSE W)
July 8-14
8 – Thursday
11:45a South Bay Lunch is back! Meet at Scrambl’z, 5055 Almaden Expressway, San Jose 95118 (near Hwys. 85 & 87), (408) 269-2900. Voted one of the best breakfast restaurants around. Extensive menu online at www.scramblzalmaden.com. Sandra Anderson, (408) 997-3187. PC, NMPCW, WCE (RSE 2,4 Th)
6p Who We Are and How We Got Here Book Discussion: One chapter a week. This week we’re reading Chapter 3, Ancient DNA Opens the Floodgates. See July 1. (RSE Th)
9 – Friday
M Weisley’s Café will be dark in July. PC (RSE 2 F)
GenX Food and Movie Night is cancelled for July. PC (RSE 2 F)
10 – Saturday
4p Big Ideas Reading Group: The Tyranny of Merit – What’s Become of the Common Good by Michael J. Sandel. (NOTE: We are meeting online via Zoom. E-mail host Chris Boyd as below if you might want to be included in the online meeting or to be updated on any changes in venue.) Sandel argues that to overcome the polarized politics of our time, we must rethink the attitudes toward success and failure that have accompanied globalization and rising inequality. He highlights the hubris a meritocracy generates among the winners and the harsh judgement it imposes on those left behind. He offers an alternative way of thinking about success, more attentive to the role of luck in human affairs, more conducive to an ethic of humility, and more hospitable to a politics of the common good. For August 14 on Zoom: Livewired by David Eagleman. We have a list of books read at www.bigideasreadinggroup.com/BIRG2.html. For questions and directions please contact Chris Boyd at snoboyd/a/t/sbcglobal.net. PC, NMPCW, NXM (RSE 2 Sa)
11 – Sunday
12n Cafe Discussion: Like Father like Son or …? See July 4. (RSE Su)
12 – Monday
11:30a Monday Munchers. Back from the pandemic and rising up from the old Ethnic Dinner, a lunch group in Marin dedicated to trying different restaurants. This month we will visit The Spinnaker, 100 Spinnaker Dr., Sausalito 94965, (415) 332-1500. RSVP by Thursday, July 8, to Elizabeth Calaway at (415) 456-9220 or elizterrycalaway/a/t/aol.com. PC (RSE 2 M)
4p San Francisco Pub Get-Together. Stop by after work or, if you don’t work downtown, just come anyway. All Mensans and their guests are welcome, provided that they are at least 21, at Patriot House in 2 Embarcadero Center (Sacramento St. between Front St. and Davis St.), SF 94111. Take the inside escalator to the 3rd floor, then turn right. Look for the Mensa logo on our table or ask one of the waitresses to find us. Starting at 4p, but arrive when you can and leave when you’re ready. We will be there for several hours. They have discounted dinners from 4p until 6p, with the kitchen closing at 8p and the bar closing at 9p. RSVP preferred on Mensa’s Meetup site at www.meetup.com/SFMensa, less preferred by e-mail to Barry Krasner at bwkbwk/a/t/pacbell.net. If you find that you can’t come after RSVPing “Yes”, please change your RSVP to “No” before the event takes place. PC, NC, NS, NMPCW (RSE 2 M)
13 – Tuesday
6:45p Puzzled Pint. (NOTE: If Game Control has not chosen a pub, this will instead be a virtual event on Zoom. Contact Karl as below for instructions on how to connect.) Who likes PUZZLES? The kind where part of the game is to figure out what you need to be doing in the first place? Want to do it as part of a team, so you can bounce ideas off each other, and let someone else do the parts that you find uninteresting? This is a monthly event held in the Bay Area (and simultaneously elsewhere in the world), at a convenient pub where we might order food and drink before or during the game. RSVP to Karl Heuer at puzzles/a/t/sfmensa.org or (650) 648-3594 (voice or text) to reserve your spot and learn the address; it’s almost always either Sunnyvale or Mountain View, near Central Expressway. PC, NMPCW, NS, NXM (RSE 2 Tu)
14 – Wednesday
5:55p Berkeley-Oakland Restaurant Group (BORG). Assimilate delicious food and interesting conversation at a good restaurant somewhere in the central East Bay. Vaccinated attendees only and masked when not eating and/or drinking, please. Limited seating. e-mail or call ahead for the location on or after July 7. RSVP by 5:55p on July 13. Please bring cash. Cathy Roha, catroha/a/t/gmail.com, (510) 207-2345. PC
6p 21 Lessons for the 21st Century Book Discussion: One chapter a week. This week we’re reading Chapter 10, TERRORISM: Don’t panic. See July 7. (RSE W)
July 15-21
15 – Thursday
Pub Trek will take the form of Howard Ingram’s Second Wake this month. See July 17. (RSE 3 Th)
6p Who We Are and How We Got Here Book Discussion: One chapter a week. This week we’re reading Chapter 4, Humanity’s Ghosts. See July 1. (RSE Th)
16 – Friday
Movies That Matter is cancelled for July. PC (RSE 1,3 F)
6:30p Asian Palo Alto Dining. Join us for Burmese-Chinese cuisine at Green Elephant Gourmet at 3950 Middlefield Rd., Palo Alto 94303 (in the Charleston Shopping Center). Good food, good conversation. I really like the restaurant. (Think coconut milk and pumpkin.) To reserve, contact Susan at Susan.Heimlich/a/t/gmail.com or at (650) 714-4972 (call or text) by Wednesday, July 14. Ask for Susan, and please bring cash. PC, NMPCW
17 – Saturday
3p Howard’s Second Wake. Howard Ingram was a life member of Mensa and a frequent contributor to RGs and Asilomar. We are calling this his Second Wake because he held his First Wake 16 years ago for his 60th Birthday Party. That one was a blast and this one will be as well! We will celebrate his life at Plymouth Jazz & Justice Church (UCC), 424 Monte Vista Ave., Oakland 94611. There will be photos and Howard memorabilia for everyone to reminisce over, live music, pot-luck food, and drink to enjoy just as Howard would want you all to do. If you wish to contribute to the pot-luck, please contact Howard’s sister Denyse at grandmanysie/a/t/hotmail.com or (510) 585-1998. Please join us in a toast to the good times at Howard’s Wake in lieu of the regularly scheduled Pub Trek. I will bring some beer to share. Rosemary Greenlaw, rbgreenlaw/a/t/gmail.com, (408) 206-4905. For additional details please see the article elsewhere in this issue. PC
7p Teton Tea. Teton Tea Parties are folk-singing parties going back to the 1950s. We welcome both traditional folk singing and singer/songwriters. Our meetings are currently on Zoom. Join the Zoom meeting: us02web.zoom.us/j/6912937135?pwd=WVlpMEs1SCs0c1FoZk5seUhoREVaZz09. Meeting ID: 691 293 7135. Password: berkeley. Hosted by Kevin Langdon, kevinlangdon86/a/t/yahoo.com. PC
18 – Sunday
12n Cafe Discussion: The end justifies the means or …? See July 4. (RSE Su)
2p Speaker Meeting: “Graphologists”. Adam Brand will outline what graphologists look at, whether or not the subject is scientific, and explain what signatures can tell about a person. In the modern world there is very little writing available for examination, apart from signatures and occasional hand written notes. Yet there is a large amount of information that can be gained from these sources. Handwriting is a complex process, so an understanding of how the psychological, neurological, and physiological states of a person affect handwriting is important when questioned documents are examined. Graphologists are trained to evaluate the expressive entirety of writing. This is a Zoom meeting; see Meetup for login details. PC
21 – Wednesday
6p 21 Lessons for the 21st Century Book Discussion: One chapter a week. This week we’re reading Chapter 11, WAR: Never underestimate human stupidity. See July 7. (RSE W)
July 22-30
22 – Thursday
11:45a South Bay Lunch. See July 8. (RSE 2,4 Th)
6p Who We Are and How We Got Here Book Discussion: One chapter a week. This week we’re reading Chapter 5, The Making of Modern Europe. See July 1. (RSE Th)
23 – Friday
6:30p Virtual Happy Hour. Mix up your favorite beverage. Bring out some happy-hour munchies and join us for a virtual relaxing time. Please RSVP on Meetup for the Zoom Link. Hosted by Judy Unger, junger2040/a/t/gmail.com. PC (RSE 4 F)
24 – Saturday
6p Online Board Games. See July 5.
25 – Sunday
12n Cafe Discussion: Why do we collect things? See July 4. (RSE Su)
2p Monthly Gathering: “Forensic Linguistics: Language Issues in Three Murder Cases” with long time Mensan Joe Devney. Language is an important part of the legal system. A lot of evidence in court is language evidence. But linguistics, the formal study of language, is underutilized in American courtrooms. The subfield of forensic linguistics, or language and law, is concerned specifically with areas in which language and the law intersect. This talk uses three real-life murder trials to illustrate where a linguist could, or did, help interpret the meaning of evidence. This is a Zoom meeting; see Meetup for login details. PC
7p Channing Club is a wide-ranging discussion group which has been meeting, in one form or another, for over half a century. There are no assigned topics; we discuss whatever is on participants’ minds. Our meetings are currently on Zoom. Join the Zoom meeting: us02web.zoom.us/j/6912937135?pwd=WVlpMEs1SCs0c1FoZk5seUhoREVaZz09. Meeting ID: 691 293 7135. Password: berkeley. Hosted by Kevin Langdon, kevinlangdon86/a/t/yahoo.com. PC (RSE 4 Su)
26 – Monday
8p Monterey County Mensa Monthly Meeting. MCM will hold a monthly Zoom meeting on the last Monday of the month. This will be a standing event, and we send out the link to our members the night before. We will plan presentations, speakers, and games nights via this online platform, so watch your e-mail for regular updates. If you wish to participate send e-mail to MCM LocSec Heidi Van der Veer at LocSec/a/t/monterey.us.mensa.org. PC (RSE last M)
28 – Wednesday
Brainstormer Trivia Night is cancelled for July. PC (RSE last W)
6p 21 Lessons for the 21st Century Book Discussion: One chapter a week. This week we’re reading Chapter 12, HUMILITY: You are not the centre of the world. See July 7. (RSE W)
29 – Thursday
6p Who We Are and How We Got Here Book Discussion: One chapter a week. This week we’re reading Chapter 6, The Collision That Formed India. See July 1. (RSE Th)
FUTURE FLASHES
12n Cafe Discussion: Topic TBA. See July 4. (RSE Su)
4p Albany Hill Hike. See July 4. (RSE 1 Su)
3 – Tuesday
5:30p Tuesday Tipplers. See July 6. (RSE 1 Tu)
4 – Wednesday
6p 21 Lessons for the 21st Century Book Discussion: One chapter a week. This week we’re reading Chapter 13, GOD: Don’t take the name of God in vain. See July 7. (RSE W)
5 – Thursday
6p Who We Are and How We Got Here Book Discussion: One chapter a week. This week we’re reading Chapter 7, In Search of Native American Ancestors. See July 1. (RSE Th)
7 – Saturday
6p Start The Month Right. See July 3. (RSE 1 Sa)