Jan 3, 2001 22:37 from Native Alien
SFLIS Minutes - January 3, 2001

- It's 5:30 in the SFLIS time zone, so we start the meeting.
  Speaking of zones, did anyone see the Twilight Zone marathon on the SciFi
  channel?  Nobody here.  Did anyone who has access to the SciFi channel
  see it?
- Some announcements from Icon (the weekly one, not the one in October)
  Tonight:  Male strippers at Club Champs in Cedar Rapids.  We're all going
  there to perform after the meeting.  Interpretive dance and that sort of
  thing.
  Just kidding.
  Anime from 6-8 tonight at Serendipity.  Continuum and Digitary Converge.
  None of us had heard of either one of them, so don't know whether they're
  any good or not.
  Thaw Fest 2001 multimedia exhibition coming up before too long.
  A photography contest with a deadline of Jan. 31.
- Anime:  First show of the spring semester is tenatively scheduled for
  Jan. 21. Don't have a room yet.  Marty will submit the form tomorrow and
  hope for the best.
- Princess Mononoke on DVD will be available to check out from the U of Iowa
  library later this week.
- Weekend in Ravensbluff, an RPGA event, will be at the IMU April 6-8.
- Game Day at Legends Jan. 13-15.  3 events planned so far.  Two 3rd edition
  D&D games and one Call of Cthulu game.
- Movies:
  Dracula 2000 - has anyone seen it?  Sounds really bad.  And they're late,
  It's 2001 already.
  Can it be worse than that Godzilla movie from a couple years ago?  How about
  Godzilla Vs. Dracula?
  What Women Want, with Mel Gibson  (What DO women want with Mel Gibson?)
  Has telepathy, which makes it sort of science fiction-ish.  Supposed to be
  a good date movie.
  Little Vampires sounds like a quality piece of work.  (very low quality)
- TV:  7 or 8 new episodes of La Femme Nikita.
  New Buffy next week.
- B Dalton at Old Capitol Mall has closed.  The Buckle is also rumored to be
  closing.  Is there something about stores that begin with a B that causes
  them to close?
- Next book discussion at Barnes&Noble is Jan. 17.  Robert Jordan's newest
  will be discussed.
- Did anyone do anything special to welcome the new millineum?  Last year
  was the big one because we got to see the odometer turn over.
  Arthur C. Clarke probably had a big bash.  How's he doing now, anyway?
- Talk about Nostradamus predicting our presidential election, the formation
  of a new Not-a-Democrat party, and hunting liberals.  Also some southern
  Iowa Redneck humor.
- 89 years ago, a young black man was arrested for shooting his father's gun
  into the air.  He was sent to reform school where he wanted to join the
  band as a drummer.  That position was already taken, so he chose the bugle
  instead, and became pretty decent at it.  Very famous, in fact.
  Yes, if it wasn't for gun control laws, we might never have heard of
  Louis Armstrong.
- And while we're on the subject of politics, George W Bush is putting together
  a pretty interesting cabinet.  Good for a kegger.
  On C-Span, they showed a press luncheon where Bill Clinton was telling jokes.
  Absolutely hilarious.  Jay Leno's jokes fell flat because Clinton's were so
  good.
- New members - what do we want to do to get some?
  ISCA also wants members.  Should we collaborate?
  Membership cards for SFLIS?  Think of the comments we could put on the back
  of them.  Would Johnson County Healthcare give discounts for card-carrying
  SFLIS members?  (10% off, and here's your penicillin.)
  Did you know that the SWAMP cards have a watermark on them?
  How about making all SWAMP members automatically members of SFLIS?
  (Congratulations!  You may already be a SFLIS officer.)
  SFLIS is authorized to send mass emails to U of I students.  Reactions to
  this were mixed.  Might be useful, or it might just be annoying.  If we
  do it, we'd only send one paragraph with a link to our website.  Not the
  four pages that the Republicans got in trouble for sending.
- Is anyone updating the SFLIS website?  A couple people have access to it,
  but nothing's been done for a while.
- And now people are starting to leave, so it looks like the meeting's over.