SFLIS Minutes - January 15, 2003

- The prereg deadline for the best convention in the world is today.
- At what temperature does ink freeze?
- The world ends on January 26.
  Is that before or after Rhianna's birthday party?
  There's a football thing on that day too, isn't there?
  There's also an...
- Anime showing, first one of the semester.  Jan. 26, 1-8pm, C125 Poppajohn.
  We will be voting on the next new series to go through.
- Classes start Tuesday.
- For our February movie night, we'll probably be showing that weird movie
  mentioned last week.  The Japanese-Polish one, Avalon is the title.
  It's sitting in the post office right now.
- Gamicon!  You can register for events online.
  If you're a sponsor and you want to sign up for a game, and that game is
  already full, you can kick someone off.  Right now there are enough sponsors
  that they can kick each other off.
  Or, if you want to, you can spend the entire weekend watching the Gamers
  movie.
- The Supreme Court says Congress can indefinitely renew copyrights.  So don't
  expect Mickey Mouse to go into the public domain anytime soon.
- Somebody thought they misplaced 35 vials of bubonic plague, but they're all
  accounted for now.
- The University of Iowa will only cancel classes when there's a chance that
  someone will get hurt and they could be liable.
  Now people are sharing memories of that Gamicon weekend with 'The Snowstorm
  from Hell.'  And they didn't cancel classes then either.
- The next Harty Potter book will be out this summer.
  How long will they continue to use the same actors for the movies?
  'Harold Potter and the Enchanted Retirement Plan' coming in 2040.
- Lords of the Rhyme is a website with Lord of the Rings raps.
- If we show Avalon at our movie night and advertise it, would it be considered
  an event?
  If we show Spirited Away would we have to pay royalties to Disney?  Should
  we send them 100% of our profits?  Since we're actually losing $10 because
  of the equipment rental, should we send them a bill?
- What questions should be put on the SWAMP questionaire to pick the new
  series?
- Now we're talking about TAs with thick foreign accents and 'intuitively
  obvious' mathematical proofs.
  And studying foreign languages.
  In Latin they conjugate nouns.
  How to swear in Chinese (just teach us the important words).
  The end.