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MITSFS Meeting Minutes
Friday, November 3, 2006
MITSFS meeting called to order, 1700 SST, Kevin Riggle, President and Skinner, presiding; Christian Ternus, Pseudo-Onseck, recording.
Minutes read.
Motion to commend the minutes for being in the tradition of Onseckretarial work passes 14-1-0+Spehn.
Note for the Skinner or Onseck: go back and fix last week's minutes.
BING!
There are a bunch of new magazines on the shelf. If you'd like to read this month's F&SF or Analog, they're up there.
BING!
A question about indefinite-time business results in the onseck losing his place in the minutes.
Ig Nobels were sponsored in part by the Harvard Science Fiction Society (HRSFA). Have we ever, do we now, and will we ever care about the Ig Nobels? LSC will be handling this.
The Mythbusters don't believe in MIT, and consequently will be arriving tomorrow to prove or disprove the existence of the mythical 'hosed freshman'.
Motion that we are all at Schroedinger's MIT chickens 4-2-8+Spehn.
Motion that we should all be glad that how much the Skinner hates Fragile Things didn't come up this meeting passes 21-3-2+Spehn.
Jake Beal's sources are 'comprehensive'.
ALGOL
BING!
Motion about whether the Skinner has to bing succeeds in its failure 7-8-0+Spehn. MITSFS is truly a Red Queen situation.
Move to ban both panting and de-panting fails for lack of a second.
Albanian motion fails for lack of a second.
Finger motions fail for lack of seconds.
BING!
The Skinner imagines impulses in Fourier space caused by binging. He can create delta-functions with his bare hands.
Asa is going back to Colorado. He got into his school!
Motion to award Asa the Order of the Golden Banana and a free box of used books passes 12-2-2+Spehn.
BING! Meeting adjourned, 1830 SST.