SFLIS Minutes - June 20, 2001

- Go see Tomb Raider if you like 15-minute shower scenes.
  Also has creative use of power tools and a good bungee scene.
  Rumor has it that she's already signed for two sequels.  If she gains
  weight before doing the sequel, they'll be able to show off what they can
  do with CGI graphics.
- We have a quiz:  A review/commentary on why so many SF books are so bad.
  We try to guess who wrote it and when.
  It was pretty good, with lots of slams and insults.
- A brief discussion of cordless mice, cordless keyboards, and what kind of
  range they have.
- New computer for putting weather warnings on TV screens.  Shrink the picture,
  put lots of maps and crawls all over it.  And you ain't seen nothing yet.
  They'll also be able to do it for other things - chemical spills, alien
  invasions, missing pets, lost car keys, etc.
- In 20-30 years, they'll be digitizing local people and pasting them into
  popular tv shows in place of the actors, for "real" local programming.
  So you'll be able to go to the mall, drop some money in a booth, and be
  on tonight's Friends rerun.
- And people start heading out the door, so the meeting must be over.