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MITSFS Meeting Minutes

Friday, September 16, 2005

MITSFS meeting called to order, 1730 SST, Andrew Clough, President and Skinner, presiding; Kevin Riggle, Onseck, recording.

Motion to accept the minutes as being fasionably obscure passes 11-1-4+Spehn.

Minutes read.

BING!

Committee Reports

MuleComm

Thanks to Margaret, books are here (the second half of the Vance Integral Edition and a donation of some form or fashion)!

OneThousandMonkeysComm

Should we be investing in the BANANA PROJECT?

GlobalHyperMegaNetComm

Margaret went to the Mall and bought real-people clothes for the Career Fair. And bought a hat.

"I don't think they would really like it if I came dressed as a Commissar. Unless LucasArts is there."

Yelena: "Fuzzy wuzzy was a hat."

AlohaLensComm

John: "Could the Star Chamber sort of vaguely get into the same place?"

Pseudo-MobComm

Is MobComm still mourning the ghost of the Space-Crime Continuum? There's a SFBC flyer on the bulletin board which hasn't been dealt with.

Pseudo-JourComm

Kat relays through Kevin (technically post-meeting): TZ is being printed this weekend ``come hell or high water.'' John notes that we have high water.

Onseck

The Onseck went to University Stationery today and ordered an address stamp and box of erasers. They should be here next Thursday. He also updated the listing for the Society in the MIT Office Directory.

Mumbling about Rats (Vox Sciurorum)

John was assaulted by a squirrel this week. He ran out of food on the windowsill this week, so it jumped inside onto him.

John: "Judging by the force of impact, I've been feeding it too much."

BING!

Old Business

Discussion about the movie The Terminator and a possible black-and-white predecessor to it ensues. Harlan Ellison comes up for the usual reason (hint: think lawyers).

The Onseck is commanded to put http://www.petoffice.co.jp/catprin/english/ in the minutes.

Usual motion.

ALGOL BING!

New Business

Margaret: "Dogs are genetically modular - they must be made by Ikea."

The Society considers a breeding program to produce larger or smaller domestic cats.

The Society says hello to the new freshman (Sarah) by lots-0-1+Spehn.

BING!

Future Business

In the future, Wheel of Time 11 will be released. Andrew: "And I've preordered it!"
Andrew: "The next one will be good."
Kevin: "That sounds like denial."

Yelena: "A Feast of Crows is coming out! I need to find out who George R. R. Martin will kill in this book!"

"The characters have a half-life of three books!" (in reference to Robert Jordan)

"A friend of mine just got laid off from Teradyne - twenty years."
Andrew: "So, do you know if Teradyne is a good place to work?"

Someone online is advocating the solution Hiro Protagonist uses for housing in Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash for housing survivors of Hurricane Katrina.

Margaret: "I don't want to pet the f-king laama!"
"Isn't that against our sexual harassment policy?"

The Society wonders whether Pluto has been stripped of its "real planet" status yet.

Motion "Down with Pluto!" passes by Skinnerial decree.

Motion "Banana!" (13-11-2+Spehn) passes.
Motion "Plantain!" (2-5-5+Spehn) passes.
Motion for a matrix vote (4-3-14+Spehn) passes.

Andrew: "It's a matrix - take the derivative."

Meeting adjourned, 1830 SST.

Respectfully submitted,

Kevin Riggle, Onseck