SFLIS Minutes - October 31, 2001

- Halloween music in the background for today's meeting.
- A report of flesh-eating zombie cows.
  Then there's the Zombie Survival Horror Roleplaying Game.  All flesh
  must be eaten.
- "They're coming to take me away, ha ha!"  as everyone's heads nod in
  time to the music.
  Somebody asks if the music is always like this.  No, it's different every
  week.  Sometimes country, sometimes 50s rock&roll, sometimes bagpipes,
  or a combination, etc.
- New Star Wars trailer is supposed to be attached to Monsters Inc.
- SFLIS movie night is 2 weeks from now (since the movie night is the
  2nd Wednesday of the month and Oct. 31 isn't a Wednesday in November).
  What will be shown?  Attack of the Cosmic Cheerleaders?  City of Lost
  Children?  Barbarella?  Or....Ghostbusters! (since the theme song is
  playing now - Who you gonna call?)
  The movie night will start DURING the meeting in the hope that more
  people will show up.
- We decide to start the meeting now.
  Just about everyone in the room has a watch except for the two presidents,
  which is why the meeting didn't start earlier.
  We do have a clock at the SFLIS desk, but it requires batteries.
  Let's get an atomic clock.  Our chemists will see what they can do
  about it.
- Who turned the lights off?
- ICON has a site and a date for next year.  In other words, the contract
  has been signed.  Oct. 16-18 (we think).
  Gamicon Moo will be on Valentines Day weekend, 2003.  So good it's
  taking an extra year to prepare for it!  Since the concom will have
  finished the breeding process, they'll be able to run the con.
  (Call it Gamicon Moo or Gamicon Mu, whichever you prefer.)
- New person here today - from Texas!  We do introductions.
- ICON wasn't against university regulations until the 90s.
- Some discussion of Night of the Lepus, Day of the Triffids, etc.
- We have a desk in the Student Activities Center.  Feel free to borrow
  books from it permanently.
- If we sent emails that said they're infected with the anthrax virus,
  how many people would believe it?  Would they have to wear gloves and
  biohazard suits when using their computers?
  Prime suspects for the anthrax scare are single individuals with a
  biochemistry background.  Looks like some people in here need to get
  married.  Does everyone here know how to spell penicillin?
- Color fliers for Sunday's anime show are passed around.
  Sunday Nov. 4, 1-8pm, S207 Poppajon Business Admin. Bldg.
  (Pappajohn?  Poppajohn? Pappajon?)
- Long ago, according to _______, you could make good money in the dorms
  by selling licenses. And that is evidently still true today.
  And we go on to talk about foreign roomates, then scary Japanese foods
  and eating jellyfish, and what's a good dish from Oman?
- Spiders are not plants or protists.  Therefore they're animals.
- There's a full moon tonight, 1st one on Halloween in 46 years.  A blue
  moon, too.
- Camden Amusements in Cedar Rapids is getting rid of a bunch of old arcade
  games for $20 each.  If you buy 2 or 3, you might be able to assemble
  them into one complete working one.
- "People are strange...."
- Game day at Legends on Saturday the 3rd, starting at 10am.
- One of our presidents stabs the other with a straw, but he's ok.
- The random discussions continue, but this is it for the minutes.