SFLIS Minutes - May 15, 2002

- New disease: Jedi Flu.  How many people will be absent from work
  tomorrow?
- A discussion of companies getting cheap on their employees, finding
  loopholes in the laws regarding full time employees, 40 hr/week, vacation,
  etc.
- A picture of a cute Studio Ghibli DVD player is passed around.
- The next anime show is May 26.  Hope the building's open.
  Room S181 Poppajohn Business Bldg, 1-8pm.  There will be voting to decide
  on the next new series to go through.
  Room is nice and cozy, only 4 rows of 8 chairs each.  BYOIF (Bring
  your own inflatable furniture).
- We decide to start the meeting.
- Display case ideas - how about some Mill tshirts.
- On Saturday the 25th the city of Iowa City is having an equipment sale.
  Cheap computers, cheap file cabinets, cheap copiers.  Might be some stuff
  that SFLIS or Mindbridge would be interested in.  We could use a file
  cabinet in the storage unit.
  Should we make Mindbridge into a university-approved vendor?
- AnimeIowa.  If growth continues at previous years' rates it might become
  too big for the hotel, maybe too big for any hotel in Iowa.  They're
  considering ways to prevent that from happening so they won't end up
  having to change the name of the con.  If you notice, they haven't done
  much advertising lately.  We'll have to wait and see how this year goes.
  How many years did ICON continue growing before its attendance levelled
  off?
- Now we talk about lutefisk.  How it tastes, how it's made, whether it's
  lubricated enough to slide down easily when you eat it.  Is eating it
  really like eating wet cardboard?
- And we get back to the display case.
  Crappy D&D stuff.
  Nice D&D stuff.
  Books, art.
  Con program books.
  Dice.  Big fuzzy dashboard dice.
  A genuine reproduction Astro Boy cell.
  Miniatures.
  Role playing books.
- There's a magazine with an ad for a Hello Kitty vibrator.  Yes, it really
  exists and yes, it's THAT kind of vibrator.
- The pharmacy dept. keeps cocaine and alcohol in separate vaults.
  The most powerful people at the university are the janitors since they
  have keys to just about everything.
- Back to the display case again.
  How about some old SFLIS flyers.
- Gamicon Lite is June 1 at Excalibur Games in Cedar Rapids.
  Boatloads of games in a small space.
- Now we have a very serious discussion about what our SFLIS slogan should
  be.  Or maybe what it shouldn't be.
  And also some SFLIS novelty items that could have the slogan printed
  on them.
  Stuff you can make with an inkjet printer:  mouse pads, jigsaw puzzles,
  clock faces.
  SFLIS snow globes.
  ICON mugs.
  Iron-ons.
  SFLIS underwear.
  Official SFLIS boxers with the slogan, "SFLIS - catch it!"
  Or underwear/boxers with "Catch SFLIS" on the front, and on the back,
  "and you'll be a 'member' for life."
  Waterproof boxers that crinkle when you walk.
  SFLIS diapers, training pants for babies.
  And of course, somewhere on there, we'll put what the letters SFLIS stand
  for.  In very small print.  Maybe on the care tag.
- At next week's meeting, we'll try to have a Star Wars report.
  And one on baseball in Des Moines.
  And a report on Marty's trip to Texas, maybe some souveniers from the
  Johnson Space Flight Center.
  SFLIS in space.
- GenCon is sending out badges to people who are pre registered this year.
  Should save them some time when they get there.
- That's it.