Minutes, 00-03-05 Recorded by Dennis Clark Sent to hrsfa-announce, 6 Mar 00:41 ____________________________________________________________________ Most of the agenda was tabled on the grounds that noncons would take forever. there are a few sig reports that weren't: B5 sig is showing great eps in the next few weeks; 4 per tuesday due to buffy reruns for the next two. Show up. This upcoming tuesday, we have a wonderful two-parter. However, we also have a momentous few eps scheduled for earlier in the evening. Fortunately, the two-parter does not spoil them. Here's the deal: Show up at 8. We start soon after. If you don't show up by the time we start, don't come in until after 10. We will not let you in, and you'd be glad of it. lucy will be viewing the first two eps after the two-parter probably, and will then have custody of the tapes; email her (lmontalv@fas) if you want them. Munchies Sig is looking for members, in the hopes of improving the quality of meeting munchies, if possible by quite a bit on a regular basis. email dclark@fas if interested. Nonconstitutional Elections "The actual voting is a wicked clash of parliamentary procedure and whimsy." -- kgold, after elections. At 7:20, having finished writing things up on the board, kgold seized control and power, which he would hold onto for the entire meeting ("random comment made during elections" "duly noted. next candidate" -- various people and kgold, throughout the evening). The elections, the candidates, in order, with pithy commentary. *=winner SoPM=The Surface of the Planet Mars Cardboard Cutout: Maul Vader *Matt Duhan Ender Wiggen Mr. Duhan, saying "If elected, I will serve," promised to transform himself into a cardboard cutout. Now we'll see if he'll make good on it... "As an older member of HRSFA, there's a certain house..." -- Starr Stone Cold Tse-Wei *Starr SoPM Super Mario Stone Cold Tse-Wei Lim tm Starr wins in a walk. In spite of claims that Stone Cold Tse-Wei Lim tm being elected would cause amusing recursion, it was decided that it would really only be concatanation, and thus uninteresting. Dennis the Eternal Prefrosh Dennis Lotze Starr *bneuensc Since bneuensc was not in attendance, the other candidates collectively decided that she'd be a more fun Dennis the Eternal Prefrosh than Dennis would, so she won. The Man MPAA RIAA Ed Jones (The Man from the Fall Party) *The Breakfast Sandwich Many revotes here; the breakfast sandwich took on all comers one by one, and the election was interrupted in the middle for the Breakfast Sandwich election The Breakfast Sandwich assorted dust breaded and baked breading *All previous cool movies psig leaders mushrooms with quinoa biscuits from scratch The Man After it was established that current cool movies psig leaders are not previous ones, it was clear, in spite of the potential circularity of the Man being the Breakfast sandwich and vice versa... Recursion recursion *termination buffer overflow termination had to win *something*... And His Prophet (yes, before god) Mohammed *Wilf Lazarus Long God Allah *Seth Murphy Dog Ra Ra-el Prince Mononoke *jmorrow SoPM Person without a nomination who needs one (though both ended up with other nominations...) *lmontalv isaac asimov Thing that is Better than Sex Gaming Cosmic Encounter *Sex (causes a pardox) Gender "Nothing is better than good sex. But bad sex? A peanut-butter and jelly sandwich is better than bad sex." -- Mr. Ender remembering something. The universe has thus far failed to explode as expected... RPG with most In-Jokes Bob Mage GAT Mage LoC (oddly, only 1 nom this year) *Werewolf from GAT Non-RPG with most in-jokes Escape from Elba *Cosmic Encounter Devilbunny Despite support from Napoleon himself, Cosmic Encounter beats escape in a second ballot. Most Horny Person at GAT *cmastr's friend Jennifer withers "my, that's the longest road I've ever seen." -- someone "She suggested playing Strip Settlers of Catan" -- cmastr, arguing for Jen "I have no answer for that." -- lotze, arguing for withers. Most Horrified at GAT *kgold elarkspur's cousin Person who doesn't get the concept of scapegoat bmiller *padnick Least Competent Roman Emperor Bob Starr *caligula@fas jcaesar@fas A horse for a senator and an amazing actor in I, Claudius pull this one out, in spite of Starr's famous misdeeds. Official Language C ("There is a song for C. I won't torture you by singing it" -- Mr. Ender "C code. C code run. Run code run. Please?" -- tyg, quoting the C nursery rhyme) Seraphina Urdu *Pheremones Klingon Quenya Sindarin Minbari Esperanto Oldest HRSFAn *kniedzw cmastr John Abbe (a founder, and actually the oldest HRSFAn) Undergrads 5? Most Brain-Crushing Thing Ever Creation of new non-con positions getting your brain crushed *Anti-Truth Moon ("I would now not like to speak on behalf of the Anti-Truth Moon" -- lotze) Human Instrumentality A 2000-ton block the factory at the end of Terminator the "I'm crushing your head" guy SoPM Foil *teper Saran Wrap rapier dclark Martyr *withers twlim Yes, you can be martyred after being the patron saint... Sabre light *kgold saber At last free of the epee... Scapegoat ("Time to get it over with") "That bastard Josh Von Korff" gormley bmiller Seth Bechis Jar-Jar *Matt Ender Natalie Portman Non-con nominations "That bastard Kyle" "It would be stupid to elect your most heavily-armed member scapegoat" --Matt Ender, referring to himself "That may be, but friends don't let friends choose wisely." --dclark, in response Person whose brain is most thoroughly crushed *kniedzw isaac asimov though asimov's brain is under your feet every time you take a step, it was burned, not crushed. Most Anticipated SF Movie Ender's Game LoTR *SW1 X-Men Good Omens But people only anticipate *good* things of Good Omens... Buffy Dictator *Tom Spike Worst SF Movie Ever Close Encounters Fantastic Four *Breakfast of Aliens (no, the scapegoat didn't write the music. Another Matt Ender did, though) Niagravation SF movie that sucked the least Galaxy Quest Dark City 2001 Six String Samurai Buckaroo Banzai SW4 *SW5 SW6 ST1 ST2 ST6 Finally the Empire triumphs, after many ballots. "It had ewoks." -- tyg, disparagingly "It had ewoks!" -- lmontalv, bouncily, in response Best Supporting Actress in a Musical/Comedy bneuensc *elarkspur Person I (dclark) did not think was that short *Delenn Natalie Portman NASA Scapegoat The metric system *SoPM SoPM had to win something... Spoilsport *mperrin bneuensc rain SoPM Most Annoyingly simple game *Sennet tic tac toe Lord of the Fries Most Thoroughly solved game tic tac toe *"Pick a number between 1 and 1 ..." Sorry bastard who will most likely kill me for nominating him *twlim (not as sorry as me, my friend...) lmontalv SoPM Supervillian George Lucas Starr Darth Maul The Grinch Jar-Jar *Tom's Evil Twin Khan Casanova Frankenstein Judged on apparent evilness, not internal intent, as it turns out. Best Moon Polite Moon Anti-Truth Moon *Tune Moon Tongues Moon Phobos Politburo Ad Board *All Ex-officers the politburo Puppet Dictator *Rudenstein the politburo Muppet Dictator *Ex-Dean Epps Chase Tingley Rudenstein Yoda Darth Maul Buffet Dictator *Domna Col. Sanders Gen. Wong Gen. Tso Meat Loaf Domna wins in a walk, despite the extensive millitary presence. Guy who told him that igor *SoPM SoPM takes two... That Guy *Henri SoPM Mascot Landry's 2 dead hamsters Transmetal Dragon forest spirit from Mononoke Hime *Bunyip (Claudia's Wombat) Bun-Bun Despite Bun-Bun's campaign literature, he was not a serious contender by compariton with the dragon and bunyip. In what was certainly the hardest-fought election of the evening, many ballots were required, only eventualy deciding on Bunyip... "We can't really go wrong with this slate." "We could go for two dead hamsters..." "How does [Bunyip the Wombat] pronounce Quincy?" -- Starr "Mmmmmmmmm." -- kgold, translating "That was tough... almost went for the two dead hamsters." However, in a shocking turn of events, Bunyip and the Transmetal Dragon were appointed co-mascots by a white ballot. "They represent the Yin and Yang of HRSFA." -- Matt Ender, aptly. All other business will happen at the next meeting! Signing off (5 notebook pages later), Dennis