Minutes, 7 February 1999 Recorded by Lori Ricard Sent to hrsfa-announce, 8 Feb 1999, 08:43 ________________________________________________________________________ Our meeting started with further evidence that The Man is trying to keep us down. All the doors of Sever were locked. Someone miraculously appeared to open a back door and HRSFA threw open the huge doors in the front. We always triumph. MASQ The skit is somewhat written. If anyone is interested in helping with the skit (writing, acting, etc.), contact Matt Withers (withers@fas). At this point, Kyle Niedzwiecki wandered in wearing sunglasses and everyone sighed ans wished that they were as cool as him. The Masq will be February 20, at Loker Commons at 9 pm. $4 for Hrsfans, $5 for anyone else. If anyone has any ideas, CDs, etc. for our music, then contact Matt Duhan (fringe@shore.net). If anyone wants to bring food, contact Matt Withers or Marshall Perrin (mperrin@hcs). SPRING PARTY If anyone has space, indoor space, that they would like to donate to Hrsfa for the Spring Party, be sure to let us know. FUSION To Kelly's recent surprise, the Woodbridge Poetry Room has been renovated and the drop boxes have been piled in a heap. So, if you would like to submit to Fusion, contact her (stage@fas). We would like, optimistically, hopefully, to publish 2 issues, but we're not promising anything. LIBRARY If you have any Ciaraldi cards, let me know. All the Ciaraldi and McCarthy books have been catalogued and are on the shelves. We have a comic book collection to organize, which Tse Wei Lim has graciously agreed to do. RAEL ("they took me to their planet") Random pamphlets were scattered around Sever, describing Rael, our messenger to the aliens. They contacted him in 1973. Since journalists are welcome to attend the meetings, we think that Fusion should do an interview. It would be beautiful. COMPUTER In the library, we have a functioning XT computer. We will debate later about what to do with it and if we need a computer at all in the library. Personally, I think that we should fling it from a high cliff and ban all computers from our library. We need the space. BUTTON MACHINE Yes, the rumored button machine. It actually exists! Duhan brought it to the meeting. It costs $0.75 per button for Hrsfans and $1 per button for non-hrsfans. It is now in my possession and will be moved back to its former occupancy in the library in the next few days. COOLIDGE CORNER THEATER The annual 24 hour science fiction marathon is happening next week from noon on Sunday to noon Monday. The theme this year is Mad Scientists (Austin Powers, Young Frankenstein, etc.). The web site (I think I got this right, if not ask Claudia cmastr@fas) is sf24.mv.com. WRITER'S SIG Meets tomorrow at 9. GAMING SIG Gameathon happened, at the Science Center and all around campus since we claim responsiblity for anything happening. Sort of like terrorists, huh? Ahem. Teenagers from Outer Space is starting again soon and would like some new players. Contact Matt Duhan (fringe@shore.net). Shadowrun is going strong (stole all my roommates, didn't you Chris? I'm not bitter or anything). Someone fucked with the tank. Lords of Chaos - no one understands anything and will get hosed. Claudia- "so nothing's changed since I died?" Chris may be running a Vampire game. Contact him if you're interested (crhall@fas). BIZARRENESS In the last four days, Tom Lotze's hamster site has had 100,000 hits and he's received 500 emails from all over the world. The music will definitely be played at the Masq. This should be interesting. ELVISH ORTHOGRAPHY SIG Aaron Landry pledges to start it again, just to watch it fail. Immediately hands fly into the air to join the Sig, so it lives again! Eli Lebow claims that the sig never died, but has just been *passive* for a while. MILK AND COOKIES Happened and was good. There were milk and cookies and just the right number of people. It will happen again. Alexei has heard of a new Gauntlet game with memory. He wants to know about it. NOMINATIONS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (well, maybe not that exciting, but frenzied, just the same) We started out in an orderly fashion. Then all the eligible officers were nominated for all the positions. Then all the eligible hrsfans were nominated for all the positions. Then the lights went out and everybody screamed. FUCK ORDERLY!!!!!!!! Anyway, nominations are open until next Sunday at 7pm. If you want to nominate anyone, including yourself, email Matt Withers. The nomination list is on the web (hcs.harvard.edu/~hrsfa/nominees.html). The gaps come from declined nominations. COCHAIR: M. Withers, I. Teper, M. Perrin, K. Stage, T.W. Lim, A. Landry, R. Stolper, J. VonKorff, B. Neuenschwander, T. Lotze, E. Leonard, D. Low, J. Morrow INTERNAL SECRETARY: Matt Withers, Marshall Perrin, Kelly Stage, Tse Wei Lim, Aaron Landry, Rob Stolper, Josh VonKorff, Bryn Neuenschwander, Erin Leonard, Devin Low, Jason Morrow EXTERNAL SECRETARY: MW, MP, KS, TWL, AL, RS, JVK, BN, TL, EL, DL, JM I just want to point out that I'm following the strictly emphasized pattern on the board. TREASURER: Withers, Perrin, Stage, Lim, Landry, Stolper, VonKorff, You, Devin, Doxtader, Morrow EDITOR IN CHIEF: Matt, Kelly, Aaron, Rob, Josh, Devin, Jenn, Jason Non-constitutional: SCAPEGOAT: TW Lim, Ben Miller, "I'm not telling you", Medusa, Alexei, "Don't tell them that", El nino, The Man, The breakfast sandwich, Y2K bug, Mentos guy, the showing of the Neverending Story MASCOT: Hamster, Rael, Lampoon ibis, Y2K bug, Dean Epps PUPPET DICTATOR: Chase Tingley, hamster, Epps MUPPET DICTATOR: Yoda, Pigs in Space, the martians, that thing with the pointy nose in the Star Wars trailer, Neil Rudenstine PRESIDENT: Chthulu, Thomas Jefferson, Edward Figus, Deep thought, Eugene V Debs GOD AND HIS PROPHET: Myself and Billy, Science! and Bill Nye, Elohim and Rael POLITBURO: Bryn's ring collection, Ad Board, current officers, dancing hamsters, 1932 Soviet politburo SUPERMAN Miss Piggy, Grover, Superman, Kal-el, Rael, Raw eel THE GUY WHO TOLD THEM THAT Igor, Egor, Lillian Jackson Braun DONATING MOST BOOKS TO HRSFA Ciaraldi, 2000 book guy, Y2K book guy THE FRESHMAKER Mentos, Tictac, Altaus, Beef Heart, Cthulu MORTAI OF THE YEAR: Balthasar, Ullen O'Dell, Kalka og Jookie THE DON'T TELL THEM THAT GUY Igor GAME OF THE YEAR Kill DC, Falling, Lords of Chaos GAME WITH MOST IN JOKES Lords of Chaos MOST UNPRONOUNCEABLE NAME Niedzwiecki Kniedzwiecki Tymoczko Kalka og Jookie Neuenschwander Devin Low Piush Dikshit Mastroianni MY PERSONAL NIGHTMARE The showing of the Neverending Story LEAST LIKELY TO CHANGE CHECK SIGNING PRIVILEGES Chris Hall We ended the meeting with a new sig: the Manhunt Sig We will hunt for Chris if he leaves the country with the cash box. If that doesn't happen, we'll nominate someone else to hunt. **** Lori [This is the HRSFA announcement list. To unsubscribe, please send the one-line message "unsubscribe hrsfa-announce" to majordomo@hcs.harvard.edu. Please send questions about this list to hrsfa@hcs.harvard.edu]