MIT Science Fiction Society
84 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02139
MITSFS Meeting Minutes
Friday, MONTH DAY, 2007
MITSFS meeting called to order, 61.2 Ksec SST, Kevin Riggle, President and Skinner, presiding; Christian Ternus, Onseck, recording. Minutes read.
Motion to approve the minutes as having (at one time) been read passes 10-5-3+Spehn.
PP: ``Your laptop may be an extension of your body, but it is not a limb!''
BING!
If you've submitted reimbursement forms recently, well, they've been turned into SAFO. Yaaay.
When submitting reimbursement reports, paper-clipping them is acceptable. Stapling them is marginally acceptable. Gluing them together is not.
Look, shiny new TIF.
KR went to the ASA General Body meeting. We may not get our money back, but we may get a splufty new card reader.
The Winter Break Time Warp begins a week from today. Time during the time warp does not count towards fines.
CJT and CAK brought over the last two boxes of books.
JSB began the Incremental Purge, also known as The Forever Purge.
Kate is going to be doing a Book Talk on Gardens of the Moon.
Terry Pratchett was diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimers.
I'm not sure that Objectivism is in the book of mental disorders.
Much of the Reserve Section got moved around.
KCR shelved the remainder of the Circulating To-Be-Shelved books.
Motion to award Karl the Order of the Yellow-Colored Fruit, First Class passes 10-2-6+Spehn.
The Skinner feels like he did something, but he can't remember what.
Paige is done with 170, so she will be unhosed now.
I hear that 170 is done with 170.
BING!
Things happened last week.
ALGOL.
BING!
Without the usual content.
So, I hear there's this guy. He wrote a book, or something. Teaches a class or two.
All-around awesome guy - Professor Joe Haldeman!
Haldeman: ``Well, I do have [The Accidental Time Machine] memorized, but if you guys have a copy...''
Professor Haldeman reads from The Accidental Time Machine, to much acclaim.
KCR: ``Children of the 80s! This ... is ... a ... Magtape!''
KCR picked up a $20 infrared webcam.
BING!
I hear there are finals soon! Then, people will be going home.
Inventory will be happening on January 12th. Warehouse cleanout will be on January 16th.
In the future, there will be network again in W20.
Motion to send a banana into the future to determine MIT's fate passes 19-2-3+Spehn.
BING! Meeting adjourned, 66.6 Ksec SST.