SFLIS Minutes

Mar 5, 1998 16:40 from Native Alien
SFLIS MINUTES - MARCH 4, 1998

Where is everyone?  Only 7 people here.  No, make that 8. Sorry, 9.  NO, 10...
- Campus mail was read and passed around.  And some of the announcements were
  for things that are still in the future!  Wow!
- Catherine had a dissertation party at the Sanctuary, right after the meeting.
  Everyone was invited to attend.
- Article in Newsweek about computer voice dictation, including science
  fiction aspects of it.  There's an SF group using it to teach Klingon.
- It's past the deadline for Minicon.  All three of the hotels are completely
  filled this year.
- Gamicon:  There will be another one next year.
- ICON:  Still no report.
- AnimeIowa:  It will happen in September.
- Anime show this weekend.  Sunday the 8th, 1-8 p.m., C107 PBAB
  Theme is "Samurai anime"
- Plattecon is this weekend in Platteville, WI.  Steve Crow will be running
  a Babylon 5 tournament.
- Movies:  Sphere - reported to have good acting, but a bad script, with
  "holes in the plot large enough that you could skid a semi through
  sideways."
  Dark City, The Avengers (in July?), Lost in Space, Godzilla, X-Files,
  Armageddon, and more.
- A dissertation on comic books has been approved and may show up at the
  university library sometime.
- More movies:  Martian Chronicles, Mercury Rising, Lord of the Rings, X-Men,
  Star Wars episoce 1 (with a release date of May 21, 1999, maybe)
- Silence.  We decide to end the meeting.