MIT Science Fiction Society

84 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, MA 02139

MITSFS Meeting Minutes

Friday, September 05, 2003

MITSFS meeting called to order, 1700 SST, Ed Keyes, President and Skinner, presiding; Kat Allen, Onseck, recording.

Minutes read.

Move to approve the minutes as suggested.
Passes 12-1-5+Spehn

Move to commend the minutes while being explicitly apologetic, while condemning them for not being nearly apologetic enough
Passes 14-3-2+Spehn

Move to commend the minutes for being almost but not quite up to ALC's style.
Barely passes 7-6-3+Spehn

BING!

Committee Reports

Pseudo-JourComm

TZ is asymptotically approaching doneness. People are writing reviews.

CoufComm

The Imperial College Science Fiction Society (ICSF) is interested in trading spares, buying spares, or doing useful things like that. We are working out details.

Move to commend Google for being a benevolent dictator
Passes 9-5-3+Spehn
(Even if it isn't, we want to be on it's good side)

Something strange was moved by Malcom. It failed for lack of a second.

fweekcomm

We got 10 new members last Friday and Saturday, but have not yet put them all into the list.

One of our new members is a pre-MIT fan of the minutes.
Motion to commend the recent Onsecks and pseudo-Onsecks
Passes 12-8-0+Spehn

Motion to commend the member, too
fails for lack of a second

On a mishearing,
Motion to commend the number ``2''
Passes 14-2-1+Spehn

Pseudo-BondageComm or Rosfap

Some people sent us magazines. How nice of them. They might be professional... they have COLOR COVERS!

BING!

Old Business

Discussion of trinary logic gates, base 4 RAM, and analog computers.

Motion to commend the calendar for changing, and for being the least sketchy Boris month yet.
Passes 8-2-1+Spehn

Motion to condemn the months ``September, October, November, and December'' for not being the 7th, 8th, 9th, and 10th months, respectively
Chickens 2-2-5+Spehn

ALGOL

BING!

New Business

We have new plastic drawers to hold our T-Shirts. Hooray!

Discussion of scary Japanese Anime involving people made of bean curd. Albanian motion to protect us from the bean curd
Passes 8-2-4+Spehn

A motion in Albanian occurred, which failed for lack of a second.

Our bulletin board is uncovered. It's a little worse for the wear.

We have a new black chair in the library. We're not sure how we got it, but it has some topological issues.

BING!

Future Business

Motion to condemn the chair for being insufficiently banana colored.
Passes 9-3-0+Spehn

Meeting adjourned, 1730 SST.

Respectfully submitted,

Kat Allen, Onseck