MITSFS meeting called to order, 1700 SST, Ed Keyes, President and Skinner, presiding; Kat Allen, Onseck, recording.
Minutes read.
Motion: Miko Miko Nurse
Chickens 3-0-4+Spehn
BING!
Motion to commend Google
Fails for ``It goes without saying''
Motion to recognize that Google is orders of magnitude larger than
everybody else and the source of all things
Fails for lack of a second.
``It could have been a clever publicity scheme, or maybe they lost track of how many people they are''
``Maybe someone at the publishing house said ``Hey, I like these two authors'' and sent them an offer, and the author said, ``Hey, I can get $40,000 for writing one book, or $30,000 for co-writing... this is a good deal!''
Motion: Commend nefarious plots of this kind
Passes 4-0-1+Spehn
Discussion of Byzantine Policies which are somehow causing three door instantiations to be less feasible than one door.
Discussion of $10,000 doors and bribing the four year old in charge of the whole mess.
Discussion of arbetrage around the Institute Door Provisioning System. Discussion of accidental door-sized holes appearing in rooms and plausable deniability.
``But it's all in the minutes! Foiled Again!'' - ED
``Stata cost $4 billion dollars. For that, we can build an entire Student Center out of Lego...''
Discussion about how we will *NOT* have ``bookshelves that think'',
or MindStorm buildings.
``There are at least 50 books in this room alone that talk about how
that's a really bad idea''-BTS
In other WarCouncil rooms, there are clever plans to renovate the basement and do clever things with it. The Hobby Shop is definitely moving into the place currently occupied by the Computer Connection. This is a plan in the ``hmm, what should we do?'' stage, but it has Professor Slocum involved.
``I think we should divide the sub-basement into three things: one third for storage lockers, one third for video games, and one third for the development of morlocks'' -JM
``Speaking of which, has anyone heard about what's moving into Arrow
Street?''
``They're certain that lots of people will be interested in paying
exorbitant rents and charging reasonable prices for excellent food.
Well, if not excellent, or even good, its food that, while
Benedict wouldn't feed his dog, he is happy to feed the students''
``And all this will happen Real Soon Now. And, speaking of which,
have we heard about TZ recently?''
Motion to have TZ start selling advertising so that they can purchase
space downstairs?
Chickens 3-4-1+Spehn
Discussion about following the MicroSoft development model: have multiple issues of TZ in the pipeline at the same time. Other discussion ensues concerning the possible repercussions of this model.
Discussion of telephone-pole and rubberband systems for renovations.
Elections May 7th
Picnic May 8th
BING!
ALGOL
Motion: Albanian Motion for anyone who has said the word ``Usual'' Passes 12-7-3+Spehn BING!
There are at least three people more than usual who are taking notes on this meeting. They're from Harvard, in an anthropology class on SciFi and its greater implications for society. Their paper assignment is to observe a science fiction group.
BING!
In the future, we hope to get to the picnic without going to Cape Cod.
``There is a simple way to prevent this ...''-JFC
``You mean by blowing up Cape Cod?''-JM
``Two ways...''-JFC
``Blowing up the bridges?''
``Having the picnic in Cape Cod?''-Brad
``Okay, there are many ways to prevent this...''-JFC
``To prevent that mistake, Miller Motion''
Fails 9-13-0+Spehn
Singing begins: ``Skinner won't go to Cape Cod, to Cape Cod, to Cape
Cod...''
The singing somewhat continues as BTS makes a motion:
``To make sure that all of the food, the ham, the turkey, the gavel,
the bread, the watermellon, the banana, the frisbees, and all the
other picnic-related things be put NOT IN JUSTIN's CAR' so that if
this happens again we can still have a picnic.''
Passes 10-0-4+Spehn
Meeting adjourned, 1730 SST.