Writing for InterLink

I was asked to write something for InterLink. Gee... what should I write about? RVC replacement, perhaps? (Why did I hear Dana Carvy's "Church Lady" voice in my ear when I wrote that?) The trick is to figure out how to condense ten pages of data into a ~500 word article.

Still Getting Hassled by Yash

Some members complain about letting their addresses be available to other members. Officers are required to allow their contact info be available to members. Today I got this "Thank You" card in the mail:

This is from the creator and leader of the A&E SIG Consortium, Yash Talreja, the same asshole who cost AML well over $10K in legal fees to get him to stop illegally using the Mensa name and Logo.  Same guy who is STILL using the Mensa logo for at least one of his groups:

Same guy who bought the domain "robincrawford.com" (seems to be defunct now) in order to denigrate me during the recent election. Same guy who libels me here and here.

I have complained to AML a few times, but no one seems to be concerned about my reputation or the on-going harassment.

Ah, the rewards of serving Mensa!

Links to Some of My Reports

Matt helped me set up DropBox, and now I have several of the big reports I've written for Mensa available for anyone who wants to download and read them:


The RVC Conundrum Background Paper 2011
The Local Group Service & Funding Report 2011
Governance Task Force Report 2010
InterLoc Background Paper 2010
Name & Logo Workbook 2009
Local Group Service & Funding Report 2006

RVC Replacement Proposal

My RVC Conundrum Background Paper is done. Wanna see it? 


Keep in mind this is not an AMC proposal, nor was it developed by the Governance Blueprint Task Force. This is plain vanilla member Robin's work and proposal. How it will be received I cannot predict, but at least the necessary dialogs will be shaken back to life, this time with plenty of hard data to consider.


Thank you to Howard and Pam at the National Office who kept answering my requests for information. Thank you to Marc for helping sum up the previously floated solutions' pros and cons and to the current and past RVCs who took time to answer my questions about their jobs.

Not-So Erudite

So I was sipping morning coffee and surfing the various social media sites I'm on, and came across this link to a blog post: 15 Things White Girls Love to do on FaceBook (no one I know).  I was cracking up as I recognized nearly everything she listed.

What is really amusing to me is that most of my Facebook and Twitter friends are Mensans, and the outside world somehow expects us to be far more erudite than we really are. But noooo... we're just as inane and dorky as everyone else. I think this is comforting in a way.

(Thanks, Leah!)

AMC Meeting in Las Vegas

So apparently there was an AMC meeting this weekend. I have to wonder why, since there was no advance discussion with members of agenda items before the meeting via the AML Forums, Facebook, RVC Columns, or even on Grapevine, nor commentary from any of the 21 officers we sent to Las Vegas during the meeting. I did see a few pictures on Facebook of some jolly times in the casino and restaurant, so I know not all the planes went down, which is good. 


Hope they all had a nice time and I look forward to hearing what was accomplished.