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MITSFS Meeting Minutes

Friday, 18 June 2010




010 MITSFS meeting called to order, 66.6 Ksec SST, Paul Weaver, President and Skinner, presiding; lemur (DWR), Onseck, recording.

020 Minutes read.

030 Motion to commend the minutes for having such a strong description of the valient struggle against the magazines, which was very true to life passes 6-0-0 plus Spehn.

BING!

BING!

Committee Reports

LarvalComm

035 Kat says the larva is very cute. Brian says that she is a ferocious reader. Or at least she devours books.

LHE

040 I think I was on some committees that did something or something.

Star Chamber

050 We still have a new keyholder--Cathy--but her initials might have changed to something that I'm not sure I know how to put into the minutes.

Onseck

060 The dusting supplies people wanted--and the book repair tape--have mostly come.

Skinner

070 The Star Chamber did some work.

BING!

Old Business

080 NH: Has anyone actually been picking up packages?

090 KKB: People have been picking up packages. We got ten since Wednesday.

100 Star Chamber in General: We love SAO because we get our mail and packages in a much more timely manner than we used to.

105 COME FROM 320

110 KKB: Isaac Asimov is still dead. The magazines are still in California.

120 COME FROM 230

130 KKB: The entirety of ALGOL can be found in a recent version of the minutes somewhere.

140 COME FROM 300

150 PW: Anyway, I'm going to assume ALGOL.

BING!

New Business

160 COME FROM 110

170 KKB: We have a new banana-colored thing, which appears to be a knit banana made by KKB. It's a practice one for the one the larva will get eventually, but that one may contain the king of Spain.

180 PW: E3 happened. There will be a Portal 2 eventually. The 3DS looks amusing also.

190 DWR: *general expression of ignorance of computer games*

200 PW: *attempt to explain computer games to DWR*

210 BJK: There is a rupture in the boundary of the library.

220 PW: I should fix that.

230 People were bored and there was much discussion of Athena usernames.

240 COME FROM 130

250 KKB: There is a book entitled Kid Versus Squid

260 PW: I wonder if that will be as interesting as the title sounds?

270 KKB: *dramatically reads the back cover* There is a princess of the Lost City of Atlantis. So where's the giant squid?

280 DWR: Wonders if the witch is a giant squid.

290 PW: There's some stuff on my gavel block.

300 KKB: I wondered when you'd notice. Definitely not a coup.

BING!

Future Business

310 COME FROM 100

320 BJK: In the future W20 mail will continue to suck.

330 COME FROM 150

340 DWR: In the future the finale of the current season of Doctor Who will start tomorrow.

350 KKB: In the future we will eventually convince the Skinner that it is future business.

360 NH: Something that definitely was not a motion.

370 Skinner: It chickens.

380 NH: But I didn't make a motion.

390 Skinner: *calls another vote* The absense of a motion passes 4-0-4 plus Spehn.

400 NH and Skinner: *look over onseck's shoulder to see what they just voted on*

410 Motion to have more motions chickens 0-3-1 plus Spehn.

420 KKB: Motion to have more motions fails by Skinnerial decree.

430 KKB: Motion to have more motions fails by Skinnerial decree.

440 BJK: Motion to enter the part of the meeting where everyone shelves three books passes 4-4-0 plus Spehn.

BING! 450 Meeting adjourned, 68.4 Ksec SST.

460 PLEASE GIVE UP


Respectfully submitted,
lemur (DWR), Onseck