Minutes, 99-10-17 Recorded by Tse Wei Lim Sent to hrsfa-announce, 18 Oct 22:26 ____________________________________________________________________ Sorry these minutes came out late - it's all Chris Hall's fault, of course. Agenda - Fall Party Report Wyld Hunt Briefing Coming of the Hour Briefing SIGs Election of Scapegoat Harvard-Radcliffe Socialists From Austria Meeting opened by Drill Sergeant Ender Coming of the Hour - Exfernal Lotze, having given an oral introduction to the Hour at the previous general meeting, this time did an interpretative dance highlighting the salient points. A list report on the exact procedures will be coming. Once more, the Coming of the Hour will be held on the 30th. The fact that it is freshman parents' weekend means we not only get to scare drunken freshmen, but freshman parents as well. However, the MIT Temporal Security Special Operations contingent seems to have run into difficulties and may apparently be absent. The Wyld Hunt - "You will be running in fear, blind fear" - cmastr to dclark. Which about sums it up, really. The Hunt will convene at Old Quincy D-51 at 8pm on the 23rd of October. At 8pm, we paint ourselves blue. At 9pm, we chase a freshman. Questions? Fall Party Report - The party was held. It was a good party. The scavenger hunt was also held - though this was the leftover hunt from 98. The 99 scavenger hunt, Marshall wished to emphasise, is _not_ his problem. The Man was apparently found by one of the scavenging teams. What took place after that is not recorded. SIGs - Bizarreness SIG - The telepathy table... well, you know... "What's Bizarreness SIG planning next?" - Random HRSFAn. "Planning?" - Lotze. You know about the proposal to bring the telepathy table to a new dining hall each week, don't you? Milk and Cookies SIG - Happened in the past, and will happen in the future. It is not however happening in the present, due to the new tradition of having a HRSFA event every weekend. Aggressive proselytising has resulted in new arms of the SIG appearing in DC and California. This is good. Cardboard Cutouts SIG - Is looking for a final member, hopefully Buffy, to achieve full SIG status. Current members include Darth Maul, Darth Vader, Xena, the cardboard fish which someone created for the scavenger hunt ("A life size cardboard cutout not from the HRSFA library"), the ID4 cutout - which takes at least 2 people and 2 hours to assemble. At this point, Kyle began to twitch, cutting short the list. Anime SIG - Is showing Serial Experiments Lain. Which is really weird. But don't take my word for it, go and get your brain fried. Then join the new Twisted Mindfuck campaign. Random Fact of The Day SIG - Announced that for a long time the only way to read Douglas Adams in Widener was to read him in Hebrew. Piracy SIG - Still does not have Masq CDs. Writers SIG - Should, by my watch, just have met, in spite of Matt Withers' absence. Fusion - WANTS. YOU. TO. SUBMIT. TO. IT. SO. SUBMIT. NOW. A submission box is in the Woodberry Poetry room, 5th floor of Lamont. Anything less than 15 pages long will be considered. Stories should be at least 5 pages long, though. A postering run this morning was cancelled due to The Man causing rain. EIC will announce the new date. Cool Movies PSIG - Regrets the appearance of both The Man and THE breakfast sandwich. It needs a day. If you have one, please give it to Tom at lotze@fas. Suggestions welcome. To date, possible movies for inaugural showing include Blade, 6 String Samurai, Dark City and Blade Runner. Dancing on Graves SIG - Pointed out that wherever you dance, you are in fact dancing on Asimov's grave. Mentos SIG - Had Cinnamon Fresh Mentos. Which don't taste anything like you'd expect them to. B5 SIG - Met. Which was in itself an achievement. In the Canaday B proctor suite. Episodes 2 through 7 of B5 should be shown over the next two weeks, hopefully in the Quincy JCR, Tuesdays at 9 - even if they do piss off every sports fan in Quincy. The SIG feels their 250000 tonne space station should be just about enough to overcome the opposition. Buffy SIG - Will be viewing the Buffy/Angel crossover in Quincy JCR at 8. Buffy and B5 SIGS decided on a strategic alliance against the Quincy sports fans, on the grounds that Buffy can't quite overcome them on her own. MST3K SIG - Is looking for more targets, particularly Knight Riders (not the one with KITT). If you live in Cabot, you can get Knight Riders and should write to fringe@shore.net. Gaming SIG - May hold a mini-GAT after the next Milk and Cookies. The following campaigns seek players - AD&D, set in Forgotten Realms - write to hershb@fas Twisted Mindfuck - sounds like a cross between eXistenZ and the Matrix - you try and figure out what is real - write to ender@ptc.com Teenagers From Outer Space - write to fringe@shore.net Minds - a cross between Neon Genesis Evangelion, Revolutionary Space Girl Utena, metaphysics and neuroscience - is seeking players who wish to play a mute female from the future. Or something like that - kgold@fas. Mage and Shadowrun both met. Spacefarers of Catan is being released soon - check it out at www.coolgames.com Scapegoat Election - Was opened by Rory Gormley, who innocently asked "What is the scapegoat?" and missed election by a major miracle. Motion to settle the elections at this meeting was passed. Nominees were - Rory Gormley (cowered well), Steven Padnick (who had previous experience), Ben Miller (whose fault it was anyway), Chris Hall, Dennis "the Prefrosh" Clark, The Man (who keeps us - and Dennis - down), Claudia Mastroianni and Igor Teper. A close run race resulted in there being, for the first time ever, 2 scapegoats - or rather, a scapegoat and a scapesheep. HRSFen at large should blame Steven Padnick for everything that goes wrong. Officers will curse Chris Hall's name instead.