SFLIS Minutes - April 21, 2004

- There are no minutes for the last two weeks because the secretary was not
  at the meetings.  The minutes for this week's meeting don't make a whole
  lot of sense, but here they are anyway.
- We talk about people falling in the river, both now and during the flood of
  '93.  And a person who rescues people from the river and who has been to
  Iceland and has biked from here to Alaska and may have taken part in the
  Iditarod dogsled race.
  And people swimming the English channel.  Or crossing it in a hovercraft.
  A helicopter would be even easier.  Or using a catapult to give yourself a
  headstart when swimming across.  Or you could take the Chunnel.  Didn't they
  have a fire in there once?  Can you walk through it?  Can you use it to
  hike from England to China, via France?  Backpack under the English Channel?
  That will be our next group activity - a SFLIS trip to the Chunnel.
  Or should we start a new student group - a Chunnel club?
  There's a new pagan group that just started.  There's also 24-7, a Christian
  group that holds meetings in one of the vacant spaces at the mall from
  time to time.  They were giving out fruit.  The pagans didn't give people
  fruit.  Or did they?  Will you sell your soul to the highest bidder, to the
  one who gives the most food?  Speaking of selling, there was a guy who
  wanted to sell his kidney online.
  There's a shortage of cadavers.
  The new nickel is out.  New design on the back - a pair of golf clubs
  commerating the Louisiana purchase.  Ok, they just look like golf clubs.
  Lately, a lot of US money has a limited run - commerative state quarters,
  new designs for bills every few years.  Soon, every coin and bill issued in
  the US will be a collectors item.
  There was a guy in California who declared himself emperor of the US.
- Star Wars Episode 3 previews are coming.  How will it compare with episodes
  1 and 2?  Eye candy with no substance?  Or will it be better?
  In episode 4, Harrison Ford yells "Hey, Carrie" by mistake.  It made it into
  the theaters for the first run, but has probably been edited out by now.
  Will they insert Jar Jar into episodes 4, 5, and 6?
- Trekkies 2 movie is coming out.  It's a sequel to the first Trekkies movie.
  A tongue-in-cheek documentary about.... trekkies.
- Is Family Guy better than Futurama?
- Important issues were discussed at last week's meeting.  The fate of the
  world was discussed and we decided to leave it alone for now.  Let chaos
  have its way, then we'll take control of it and have controlled chaos.
- The SWAMP anniversary show was last weekend.  We embarrassed Marty with an
  appreciation gift for doing the shows all these years.
  There's no food allowed in the room any more, per the request of the staff
  people.
- University keys - only the janitors have access to everything.  With the
  exception of top secret government research labs.
- And the rambling, disorganized discussions continued for the rest of the
  meeting.