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Minutes for January 28, 2009

Published on January 28, 2009 in Minutes. 0 Comments

Attendance: 19
Time Started: 10:00:15sec and 5 sec before her computer started

News

Committees
Office: Office is still there. Bought Maul of America; it might be in the office.
Recruitment and Relations: Dan is here. Elly’s here. One of Jon’s friends from high school is working with Dave.
Movie: Brain Damage. Away team to see Lies of the Rycans went well. Showed Abby Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog.
Trivia: Jon quotes Admiral Ackbar to get trivia.
Discussion Group: Sort of happened. Abby wants to discuss possible villians for Dr. Horrible’s blog.
Fundraising: Buy the weirdest things on Amazon and win a traveling trophy a month.
No Report: Joe has it. O’Bryan’s 9 Irish Brothers tshirt for being in a wedding; it says that he’s Done 5 Irish Sisters. Andrew asked if he wanted the 5 Irish Brothers shirt.

Officers’ Reports
Chief: Doesn’t have a flying thing this week. Been sick. And emo. New logo. Post comments or ideas.
Com Officer: Is being harassed by creepy people at night.
Constable: Torrents hit 1.1megabits. Macs are being hit with a trojan horse–makes him happy. Very good lunch specials at Great Wall, but no buffet. “Contentment is around the corner. Look forward!”
Nagus: Donate! Watched The Hunchback of Notre Dame and can’t get the hellfire song out of his head. Makes him feel warm and fuzzy on the inside. Emphasizes with Frollo. Tired and enjoying class, he guesses?
First Officer: Textbook talking about viruses and it’s depressing. Is never going to be able to touch a computer at a company. Will forget everything in a few days. Going to be happy until 3:30am until favorite tennis player gets wiped off the court.
Captain: Computer is borderline psychotic–unnatural attachment. Everytime he leaves, the computer will shut down. Every few times, he apparently doesn’t have a CPU. Manually fixing everything that’s occurring. Found blog of someone rereading Wheel of Time and making comments. Compiling Pox Nora data.

Old Business: Jon is an officer. Robot…Zombie fest is on the way.
New Business: None.

Other Organizations
Anime: Meeting on Friday, watching Soul Eater and Pumpkin Scissors. May be organizing field trip to movie, Sword of the Stranger.
Theater: Presenting drag show. Next Saturday, Feb. 8 at 7pm, 10pm?
Order of Xeen: Happening tomorrow? At some point?
MCS: Meeting on Friday at 5pm. Shirts for MCS, anyone interested? No date, smart phrase. Send ideas to Jack.
Spectrum: Friday 7-9pm art show and for sale in Heuser Art Gallery.
BPA: Going to STC and learning things and drinking. T-shirt designs. Throw them at him. (So many people make throwing gestures at Alex.)

End Time: 10:45 and 45 minutes after Ashley’s computer turns on

Quotes
Adam: Welcome back to meeting room 6. It feels good.

Dan: Why isn’t Stan Lee Media run by Stan Lee?
Adam: It’s gotta be the worst thing ever. I created this company and let it run and now they’re suing me!

Forrest: I love obituaries.

Adam: [About Thriller musical] This is going to involve small children.

Adam: That’s right. At the Haas school of business, you can learn to play Starcraft and get credit!
Joe: Maybe I should blame him.

Mike: The secret thing we cannot talk about has… uh, made no progress.
Jon: It might’ve gotten worse.
Erik: Progress can go in many directions!

Erik: Stephen got horribly lost and I was afraid of death.

Erik: Whoever can quote Admiral Ackbar gets trivia! Jon: It’s a trap! And it was… because now I have trivia.

Forrest: I’ll get a Russian wife [from Amazon].

Sarah: We’ll do it. Don’t worry. We have no order.
Jon: Don’t make me start instilling order.

Adam: He was trying to tell you something, but you didn’t get the hint before the wedding.
Erik: And now it’s too late.

A-Mike: I missed a lot of fun things this week… so, I’m…
Ashley: Emo?
A-Mike: …Yeah.

Erik: Even by 4am the creepy people have gone to bed.
Jon: Speak for yourself.
Jack: I’m awake all the time!

Erik: OH! NO! We stopped being an unknown brand!

Jack: Contentment comes around the corner like raptors from Jurassic Park, Jon.

Sarah: Always. Back up your stuff.
A-Mike: Except the virus. Never back up the virus.

Jack: So, Kelty. You might be interested in this. I don’t know what the copy account is, so I’m going to stop keeping track of it.

A-Mike: Bleach-Ball-Z.
Jack: That’s what’s happens when you get drunk and take bets.

Joe: You’re cheating on me, aren’t you!
A-Mike: When was the last time you gave me flowers!

Alex: HSSSSSSSSS. I’m apparently powered by… uh…
Random: Steam?
Random: Meth?
Alex: Yeah, steam.
Erik: I liked meth better.

Jon: Have you tried rebooting?
Adam: It does it itself! I don’t need to!

News for January 28, 2009

Published on January 28, 2009 in News. 0 Comments
  • LucasFilm and Del Rey Books will be publishing a Star Wars horror novel in October 2009 titled DeathTroopers. No Windows No Doors and Chasing the Dead author Joe Schreiber will be penning this, the first horror novel in the Star Wars expanded universe. No details yet but the cover art features a battered and bloody storm trooper helmet hanging from a hook through the eye.
  • A Netherlands man named Theo Zijderveld, is currently doing postgraduate work on the intersection of faith and “World of Warcraft” at University of Colorado’s Center for Media, Religion and Culture. After taking a course on gaming, Zijderveld wrote his master’s thesis in theology on “World of Warcraft” while studying at Utrecht University in his home country.
  • Dr Who actor Freema Agyeman says Martha Jones, will return for one of the 2009 specials. Noel Clarke who plays the much maligned Mickey also wants to return. With a Rising Star BAFTA nomination he may just get his chance.
  • Stan Lee Media is suing… Stan Lee…for 750 million. The lawsuit claims profits from Lee’s comic creations belong to the company, which emerged from bankruptcy in 2006. The suit claims Lee, Marvel and others have violated Stan Lee Media’s copyright interests and that the firm is due profits from all properties, including blockbuster films that were made after 1998 and based on Lee’s creations.
  • Kim Manners, veteran producer-director who directed dozens of episodes of The X-Files and Supernatural, died Sunday in Los Angeles from lung cancer. He was 59.
  • Murdered Mexican wrestlers are lurching out of their graves for a feature movie. Dark Horse comic El Zombo Fantasma is getting a big-screen release. Kevin Munroe is writing and directing. The deadly wrestler comes back from hell to be the guardian angel for a little teenager, who is more than she seems.
  • The BBC reported that the cult sci-fi comedy Red Dwarf will return to TV, 21 years after its initial launch, and will appear on the digital channel Dave in the United Kingdom for a two-part Easter-weekend special. It’s unclear when or where the special might air in America.
  • Warner Brothers and producer Dan Lin are in early development on a reboot of Lara Croft. Rumors spread that Megan Fox from Transformers might don the tank top and shorts, but her camp denies it.
  • A big budget zombie musical thriller is in the works… Thriller. The Nederlander Organization (large Chicagoan theater producers) have bought the musical rights to MJ’s Thriller. Jacko will be personally involved in the creation of the show.
  • Kevin Munroe (TMNT) is directing War Monkeys, about two janitors who get stuck in an underground research facility and run into a bunch of military-trained war monkeys who have been released in the building. Sammo Hung is signed on to be one of the human actors.
  • Best-selling author Neil Gaiman’s novel The Graveyard Book is the winner of this year’s Newberry Medal, the most prestigious award for children’s literature in the United States.
  • ABC has given a pilot order to V, a re-imagining of the 1980s miniseries about an alien invasion. Written on spec by The The 4400: The Complete Series co-creator/executive producer Scott Peters, the new V will center on a female Homeland Security agent.
  • He may have already died and come back once, but this summer the Man of Steel will crave BRAAAIIIIIINS. DC comics is undeadifying several heroes in “The Blackest Night” storyline.
  • Cyanide Studio is adapting Game Workshop’s fantasy (and by fantasy we mean orcs and goblins and lizardmen) sports game Blood Bowl for several platforms and is set for release on Q2 2009.
  • A new course being offered at UC Berkeley aims to teach students how to enjoy the “art of competitive Starcraft“. While the course isn’t listed on the UC Berkeley website, the university’s Haas School of Business verified that the course is real. The course is being taught by a student at the school as part of the Democratic Education in Cal initiative and students can receive college credit for taking it.
  • Square Enix revealed a new trailer for Final Fantasy XIII this week which you can find online at the official square enix site.
  • New expansion for Eve Online on March 10.

Minutes for January 21, 2009

Published on January 21, 2009 in Minutes. 0 Comments

Attendance: 16 and an Iron Man
Time Started: 10 and somewhere in between the zeroes and the five

News

Committees
Recruitment and Relations: Abby brought Elly.
Office Resource: Office is still there?
Bad Movie: Nailgun Massacre. The Away Mission will be to Underworld: Rise of the Lycans.
Trivia: Erik becomes the trivia person. When does the patch for Left 4 Dead come out? Erik has trivia next week.
Discussion Group: Mutation of the French race.
No Report: Stephen has it: Fallout 3 addiction leads to him thinking cigarettes are valuable.

Officer’s Reports
Chief: ?
Com Officer: Pissed off and made nervous by drunks. Failed to turn hair purple.
Nagus: Is asleep?
First Officer: Read a lot over break.
Captain: Got DVDs (Frosty the Snowman, Milo & Otis, NeverEnding Story) and a terabyte harddrive. Blizzard hates his friend and therefore makes him fails at the game trial. Avoided hitting a raccoon and drove into a ditch.
Constable: New 40in high def TV. Lots of video games. Saints Row 2: Devalues property by using a sewer truck. Drive around while listening to the Final Countdown. Fun to drive around and blowing up other gangs while listening to easy listening, 50s music. Been torrenting.

Old Business: None.
New Business: Jon is an officer. Again.

Other Organizations
MCS: Happening Friday.
LAN: Will occur on Saturday.

Quotes
Forrest: There is no punctuation. (starts adding punctuation appropriately)

Jon: *baps himself*
Erik: And it begins!

Forrest: Lots of death. Cool!

Adam: How tough was that apostrophe?

Adam: Forrest’s thinking and extrapolating abilities die during the news.

Jon: …there’s a new poll on our website, about what you’d like to see in the news.
Erik: No punctuation.
Jon: I tried…
Anti-Mike: You should spell out all of the punctuation.

Jon: There’s not a gap in the wall, so I assume it’s still there.

(Rise of the Lycans is misread as Lies of the Rycans.)
Erik: Is that when Hitler told everyone he was sorry?
OR
Erik: The last scene in Casino Royale.

Erik: You made it sound like a lot of people were coming and I got all excited and it’s just you.

Abby: I need to clarify. Is the French Canadians included?
Jon: They’ll pretend to be mutated.

Forrest: Nailgun mascara. It’s a typo.
Sarah: That would be painful.
Anti-Mike: But it’s so easy to apply. And it never drips.
Ashley: Something is dripping.
Erik: That’s what she said.

Jon: Let it be known that Mike has failed to launch.

Alex: There is a tree in my garage.
Anti-Mike: Is that what we’re calling it these days?

Erik: Apparently Jon doesn’t deal with ditches so much as giant chasms. Aaaaaah!

Anti-Mike: What we should do is copy that movie onto the harddrive until it’s full and present it to someone else as a gift.
Erik: Here is three hundred copies of Milo and Otis.

Adam: I watched Terminator over break.
Anti-Mike: Which one?
Adam: The first one.
Erik: The one called Terminator.

Adam: I saw Doubt. It was good.
Sarah: Did he do it?
Adam: *shrug*
Erik: I think he did it, but it’s got some huge factor. They raped him.
Jon: It was Marley.

Anti-Mike: I’d say it was Sin City on Nickelodeon.
Erik: OH GOD.

Sarah: Why would you buy it? The first part of the word is SHAM. Why?
Jon: What do you wash your hair with?
Sarah: …Shampoo.

News for January 21, 2009

Published on January 21, 2009 in News. 1 Comment
  • The superhero movie of 2008 was The Dark Knight right? Not if you’re a member of the Visual Effects Society who this weekend gave five nominations to Iron Man in their annual VES Awards Other movies to receive nominations include Hellboy II, Benjamin Button, Cloverfield, and of course Wall-E, with Doctor Who, and Battlestar Galactica recognized in the television categories.
  • If you are looking to turn your Dungeons and Dragons to something a little darker the new manual Open Grave: Secrets of the Undead has been getting grave rave reviews. If you have been missing van Richten or Libris Mortis this book is probably for you.
  • Dr Who spin off series Torchwood will be more subtle in its third season because the show has been such a huge success here in the US but no major network can air it. No word if the changes will be made for BBC America’s sake or if one of the major American networks may pick it up
  • The Eddie Murphy as the Riddler rumors surrounding the next installment of Batman have been put to rest by Eddie Murphy. No no no and no. Yay. Christopher Nolan does not even have the story yet, so casting is out of the question.
  • Eartha Kitt widely considered one of the top two Catwomen in all of Batman’s film legacy passed away on Christmas Day. She was 81.
  • Lost in Space actor Bob May died of congestive heart failure on Sunday, January 18th. He was 69.
  • Patrick McGoohan, has passed away at age 80. He created and starred in The Prisoner which was a fresh look on the secret agent genre and has been an inspiration and reference to everything from Alias to the Simpsons.
  • Ricardo Montalban of Fantasy Island, and perhaps better known to geeks as Star Trek’s KHAAAAAN also passed away on January 14th. He was 88.
  • Majel Barrett Roddenberry, the most ubiquitous actor in Star Trek, died December 18th at age 76. The wife of Trek creator Gene Roddenberry she provided the computer voices on every version of Trek. And she also played three pivotal characters: Number One in the pilot, Nurse Chapel in the original series, and Lwaxana Troi in TNG and DS9. She was providing the computer voices for the new Trek movie and it’s not clear if she had finished recording them.
  • David Gerrold, famous for writing the “Trouble with Tribbles” Star Trek episode, also wrote an episode for TNG that included gay characters but it was shot down by Paramount. Now you can watch it online as he has teamed up with fan crew Stargate Phase 2 to rework and film the episode called Blood and Fire.
  • While some companies may disapprove of such things IBM has admitted that it prefers to higher gamers, especially World of Warcraft players as the company looks to integrate better with gaming products and states that such games teach leadership and bigger picture thinking.
  • Wikipedia has met its 6 million dollar donation goal for the 2008 fiscal year. The money will go toward improving the software Wikipedia runs on as well as upgrading the servers and Internet bandwidth that accommodate the site’s traffic. The foundation operates the site without advertising as a matter of principle, making donations critical. [citation needed]
  • iLOLed. During MacWorld 4Chan members hacked into MacRumors Livestream from the event to falsely announce that Steve Jobs had died, then flooded the stream with graphic images and comments.
  • The Sci Fi channel had its most successful year of all time in 2008. A 7% increase in viewership, largely due to reality show Ghost Hunters which was renewed for a 6th season.
  • Warner Bros. and Fox have resolved their dispute over Watchmen, with the studios scheduled to present a settlement to Judge Gary Feess this morning and request that the case be dismissed.Terms of the agreement were not disclosed, but the deal is said to involve a sizable cash payment to Fox and a percentage of the film’s box office grosses; Fox will not be a co-distributor on the film, nor will it co-own the Watchmen property.
  • 26 year-old Matt Smith will be the eleventh Doctor Who, starting in 2010′s fifth season along with new executive producers Steven Moffat and Piers Wenger. Smith has starred in television adaptations of Phillip Pullmans “The Ruby in the Smoke” and “The Shadow in the North” alongside Billie Piper.

Psi Phi, Books, and Cash

Published on January 12, 2009 in Updates. 0 Comments

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