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 being Shakespearian
Fails for lack of a second
Motion: Quack
Passes 5-0-1+Spehn
BING!
We got an Amber prequel from a place that specializes in bad books.
We have a 119 page Terry Goodkind book. The meeting is collectively in
shock.
``I really enjoyed 'Wizard's First Rule', when I first read it, but every book since has been exactly half as good as the book before, and they're on about book 8...'' -ED
A horrible Pun from Malcolm results in an Albanian Motion
Passes 6-1-0+Spehn
The super washer-buffer squeegee machine was back to clean up the Technique flood, which was compared to a mini-zamboni.
Motion: Charter a committee to evaluate the possibility of taking the
ice rink as Library space.
Passes: 6-1-0+Spehn
BING!
CJ Cherryh books are really popular donations.
ALGOL without a usual trip to Khatavar. BING!
The CPs have decided that sending their officers to visit 4-5 FSILGs per night is a good idea.
``I assume they are checking for alcohol, freshmen and other controlled substances'' -BTS
``If freshmen are outlawed, only outlaws will have/be freshmen'' -ED
There is a Dead Chicken mode. If you don't have a number you need, you just pick something and move on. It has incredible performance.
Amazon has taken 120,000 books and made them full-text search able, and they are working on putting in more. ED searched on himself, and found that someone had quoted a section of his web-page in a book.
ED wrote the original HackMaster, and is thus a scapegoat for the loss
of millions of bytes of data on Palms.
JFC, looking at the web page, notes that the page was last updated in
1998.
BTS motions that, given JFC and other people's inability to use
computing machines, we start acquiring all the documents relating to
``Interface Guidelines'' which claim that normal people might be able
to use Computing Machines, and reclassify them as Science Fiction.
Fails for lack of a second, with the Albanian-translated comment that
nobody in the Society knows what a normal person looks like.
New people are checking out books. They tried to apologize, but we told them that we *wanted* books to be checked out.
``That's Chinese with a Swedish accent, in Albanian'' -ED about Malcolm.
Discussion of HackMaster the Game, HackMaster in ``Knights of the Dinner Table'', and AD&D 3rd Edition.
JFC relates a favorite quote from Project Athena about doing UNIX on old Macs: ``Here is where it patches the ROM''
BTS and ED reminisce about the Palm OS and the Mac OS, and how each have evolved.
Our Illustrious Skinner is featured on a webpage, ``between a generic
teenage basement hacker and a serial killer'' -JFC
http://www.item.ntnu.no/ peterc/pilot/ga/gallery.html
Motion: to compensate all people who make applications for teensy
weensy software with a banana
Passes 8-0-4+Spehn
Meeting adjourned, 1734 SST.