MIT Science Fiction Society
84 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02139
MITSFS Meeting Minutes
Friday, September 19, 2008
MITSFS meeting called to order, 61.2 Ksec SST, Ekaterina Kuznetsova, President and Skinner, presiding; Christian Ternus, Onseck, recording.
Minutes read.
Motion to banana fails by Skinnerial decree.
Motion to commend the reading of the minutes as being fast but legible chickens 7-3-7 plus Spehn
Kate has not slept.
BING!
mgentile shouldn't have sat next to the gavel.
We sent out mail about prentices. Also, Nancy (nshen) became a prentice!
Pianocomm has sent out a list of projects that prentices should take!
The purpose of prentii is to flip out and shelve books.
Don't let the Gor books out! No! Nooooo!
mgentile is going to poison her brain in the name of science.
Jourcomm sent mail to the social list, so we should get more stories, yaaay.
I think there is science fiction today, but nobody knows. It's a surprise. Maybe Farscape.
The Onseck reinforced some of the dividers and membership sheets.
Warcraft books in Chinese! Uh, woo?
The LHE got Treasurer-trained!
Dexhamster is up to 7200 lines.
We should put some boxes. Of books. In the Secret Catapult. On the Moon.
The Thunderbunnies are not a mail handling system.
There will be a special meeting of the Instrumentality tomorrow at 5 PM or whenever the book-getting mob gets back, whichever is later.
Trojan would like to request a special Magic Dance.
We are going on an odyssey off-campus tomorrow at 9:30 AM to pick up an obscenely large number of books from a gentleman who has run out of space. We have $300 of banker's boxes.
Kevin paid the warehouse bill, which was overdue.
BING!
BTS tells us a story about his ancient check, issued to him for $7.50 when he was an undergrad and subsequently reissued every so often.
KKB: ``So... you've come here to fight for your seven dollars?''
BTS: ``And fifty cents!''
BING!
We'll just forget about the usual motion.
ALC: ``Yarr, it be -''
KCR: ``BANANA!!''
The motion is seconded, and passes 12-3-2 plus Spehn.
BING! Meeting adjourned, 66.6 Ksec SST.
There is a talk being given about Tolkien and Language on Monday.
There is also a talk being given by Neal Stephenson on Sunday!