SFLIS Minutes - May 21, 2003

- Where is everyone?
- We hear a story about getting lost in downtown Boston at 1am, and then
  a very thorough search at the airport.
- We don't have a new location for our meetings yet, but then we haven't
  really started looking.
- Next SWAMP anime showing is sometime in the future.  No schedule or flyers
  yet but there might be before the next show.  Or maybe we'll just choose
  stuff at random.
- Now we're all watching as a new issue of Newtype magazine is opened.
- Mindbridge picnic is Saturday the 24th at Morrison Park in Coralville, 11am.
- Should we trash Marty's house sometime this summer?
  Sure.  Pinball, video games, anime.  Using two cordless mice to play
  combat Solitaire on the big screen.
- We try to think of some more possible meeting places but don't come up with
  anything that we didn't think of last week.  Pizza on Dubuque would probably
  be good, at least until we find a permanent place.
- For our June movie night, we're showing......  we don't know if we're
  showing anything yet.  There's still plenty of time to think about it.
- What should be on the plaque that we're giving to the Mill?
  A spaceship?  "Thank you for 28 years of helping to spread SFLIS?"
- Newtype magazine is passed around.
- Season finale of Buffy.  We speculate on who lives, who dies, who comes
  back later.  And we also talk about Angel and Smallville.
- The Matrix - only one person here has seen it so far.  The sequel, that is.
  Most of the rest of us will probably go to see it sometime in the next few
  weeks.
- Is east coast pizza better than pizza made here or in California?
- New anime series.  The good guys are called 'plusers,' the bad guys are
  called 'minusers.'  What effect is this going to have on kids' attitudes
  toward math?
- The state of Oregon human services department isn't really looking for
  Klingon speakers.  Someone just put it on their list because they could and
  it didn't cost anything, and nobody noticed until the newspapers picked it
  up.
- Now, for some reason, we're talking about dividing fractions.
  And now, standardized tests.
  And now a miscellaneous rambling discussion of vaious tv shows, including
  Twilight Zone, Enterprise, etc.  And how some of them have too much time
  travel.
- That's it for this week.