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Minutes for February 25, 2009

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Attendance: 13 and a Dark Tiki God
Start Time: 10:06 and 3 minutes after googly eyes

News

Committees
Recruitment and Relations: Elly is not here. No one is here. Abby sends her love. Seriously.
Office: The table has been painted and gridded. Learning experience for lots of people. Please do not leave things written on the board when you leave.
Movie: Blood Hook.
Fundraising: We have a trophy. Jon ordered uranium ore. A-Mike ordered a wi-fi detecting shirt.
Trivia: Who has trivia? Sarah! Forrest has trivia.
Discussion Group: Fluffy is answering? Suggestions… what would you drive in a sci-fi movie?
No Report: Alex had a lot more friends to work out with. He rambles and Forrest bashes him in the back with the bapper. Weird anger issues?

Officers’ Reports
Com Officer: Has googly eyes and is going to decorate her bras with them. Is glad you geeks are not so hardcore. Had epic fried ice cream.
Chief: Made a cool tiki thing with Ashley. Spawned a dark god in her living room. Highlight of his entire month. He also detects wi-fi. Has to be depressed for it to work.
Nagus: Sleep schedule is fucked. Doesn’t know how to fix it. Going to bed at 2-3pm and waking up at midnight.
First Officer: Doesn’t know how to follow the singing. Bought first blue book today. Hasn’t taken a history class since she was a junior in HS, therefore would much rather take an accounting test.
Constable: Painted the table. Beat Metal Gear Solid 4. Playing Noby Noby Boy–the players have made Girl reach the Moon. Yes, the space squirrel agrees. Two episodes left of Mighty Max.
Captain: Has a test tomorrow about 300 years of Japanese history. There were 6 readings. He did 3. There will be 2 questions about the 6. Defends Cthulhu in Pox Nora.

Old Business: None
New Business: Zombie-fest (reboot) is on the way.

Other Organizations
Relay: May 1st. RelayForLifeBradleyU.com. Group goal donations.
Anime: Voting on a new series.
Theater: Cloud 9 opening tomorrow. Glowing vagina on the wall.
MCS: Friday.

Ending Time: 10:45

Quotes
Adam: I guarantee that this is someone being useless.

Adam: In Antartica… the only place I could accept finding mountains nowadays. OMG! There’s mountains! IN MY BACKYARD!

Adam: T-t-t-t– That’s try, Johnny.
A-Mike: I’ll kill you.
Adam: Only if you can read it.

Jon: Wall-E was about date rape. Let it go already.

A-Mike: Shield. S-H-I-E-L-D.
Ashley: He can spell!
Adam: Especially when it’s given to him.

Fluffy: I’m going to whore myself out tomorrow…

A-Mike: And Jon gives us his public service announcement: Please wipe.

Fofo: Synthesizers are more interesting than a woman in lingerie.
Stephen: Sometimes.
Jon: [strange look]

Alex: Your power level is very low… and you are very constipated.

Fluffy: I win.
A-Mike: You don’t win anything.

Fluffy: I want to buy Fantasy Star Online (?).
Forrest: You can download it online.
A-Mike: And now Forrest on high…
Forrest: You’re a dumbass!
Jon: That’s high.

Fluffy: You had it last time.
Alex: I have it every time. You’re dumb!

Adam: Did you just wake up?
Jack: Yes, but I’ll get to that in a bit. First I’ve got to sing.
Forrest: Oh good, I’m not the only one who’s crazy.

Jack: I’m a professional sleep-schedule fucker.
A-Mike: Do they pay you?
Jack: If you mean the people in my head, then yes.

Jon: Go for $5. We surpassed our goal. Yaaaaay.

News for February 25, 2009

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  • Philip José Farmer, author of the Riverworld and The World of Tiers series, also known for writing as Kurt Vonnegut’s fictional author Kilgore Trout, passed away this morning in his sleep. He was 91.
  • NASA is allowing the public to vote on the name for “Node 3″ of the International Space Station. As of right now, “Serenity” is dominating an open vote for Node 3′s new name. This ship from Joss Whedon’s short-lived show Firefly has 82% of the total vote, with second place going to Earthrise (with 7%).
  • The Navy is giving away the first stealth ship ever built and comes with a submersible dry dock barge. The Sea Shadow was the inspiration for the stealth ship in James Bond: Tomorrow Never Dies and the Hughes Mining Barge was actually intended to salvage nuclear Russian subs from the ocean floor.
  • Jagged mountains the size of the Alps have been found entombed in Antarctica’s ice, giving new clues about the vast ice sheet that will raise world sea levels if even a fraction of it melts. No word on sleeping Old Ones or Predator training grounds.
  • Psi Phi Honorary members of the Wota workshop have created a functional mermaid tail for a double amputee so that she may swim about and appear as a mermaid. The suit was made mostly of wetsuit fabric and plastic moulds, and was covered in a digitally printed sock. Mermaid-like scales were painted by hand.
  • The cast of “Star Trek: The Next Generation” is reuniting for an episode of “Family Guy,” that will air next month. In the episode titled “Not All Dogs Go to Heaven,” the “Next Gen” crew (Patrick Stewart, Levar Burton, Gates McFadden, Michael Dorn, Wil Wheaton, Denise Crosby, Marina Sirtis, Brent Spiner and Jonathan Frakes) will provide guest voices as the Griffin family heads to the annual Quahog “Trek” convention.
  • CBS was in repeats. The CW was in repeats. ABC aired the “Women Tell All” special episode of “The Bachelor.” And yet despite mostly weak competition, NBC’s “Chuck” and “Heroes” generated their lowest ratings ever. However since NBC has little else to offer, the shows are not in too great danger.
  • Rising from the brink of death after Stephen Chow backed out, the Green Hornet movie starring Seth Rogen has a new director Michel Gondry who directed “Please Be Kind Rewind” and “Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind.”
  • Julie Taymor’s stage musical “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark” is slated to open on Broadway next February. Opening night is scheduled for Feb. 18, 2010, at the Hilton Theatre. The show is to be co-written by Taymor and Glen Berger and directed by Taymor, who is best known for heading up the stage musical “Disney’s The Lion King.” The music and lyrics for “Spider-Man” are by Bono and The Edge from U2.
  • A screenshot has hit the internet that shows a company email announcing that original Scream scribe Kevin Williamson has signed on to script a new trilogy of Scream films for The Weinstein Co. This is still a rumor but industry commentators expect a reboot is more likely than a continuation.
  • The Buck Rogers revival officially kicks off in May with the release of the first issue of Dynamite’s new Buck comic. The first issue of the series – Buck Rogers #0 – is actually a 25-cent preview of the series proper, allowing curious readers a cheap way of sampling what the future holds for the revived hero.
  • Sci-Fi Oscar winners this weekend were The Dark Knight with Best Sound Editing, and Heath Ledger getting Best Supporting Actor. Wall-E won best Animated Feature and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button won best Art Direction, Best Make-Up, and Best Visual Effects.
  • Paris Hilton won 3 Razzies this year. Worst actress for “The Hottie and the Nottie,” supporting actress for “Repo! The Genetic Opera” and screen couple alongside either of her “Hottie” co-stars, Christine Lakin or Joel David Moore. With three Razzies, Hilton tied the record set last year by Eddie Murphy, who won worst actor, supporting actor and supporting actress for his multiple roles in “Norbit.”
  • Samuel L. Jackson has buried the hatchet with Marvel Entertainment, making a deal to play the role of Nick Fury in Iron Man 2, and potentially many other films. Jackson’s deal is a long-term commitment to play the leader of the espionage unit S.H.I.E.L.D. His deal contains an option to play the character in nine future Marvel superhero films.

Minutes for February 18, 2009

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Attendance: 15
Start Time: 10:01:40 sec after finishing the rubiks cube and Ashley ruined it again

News

Committees
Recruitment and Relations: Elly’s not here.
Movie: Abraksas: Guardian of the Universe? Friday the 13th was good. Jason now uses ranged attacks and traps.
Office: Still there. Jon was looking into things we could do with the table. We can get whiteboard paint! Could paint and put a laminate sheet on top? No longer a sectional table. Could just buy a mat? $22.
Trivia: Xeen still has it? Not here. Skipping it? Poor Sarah has trivia.
Discussion: Sort of happened. What animals would you like to weaponize?
Fundraising: Only two things for February? A not weird book is winning. BUY SOMETHING.
No Report: Erik: A year ago, he saw a bloody squirrel tail and a squirrel with a very little tail. Saw the squirrel today. It’s as big as his dog. VERY fat squirrel. A species of squirrels that eats birds? He didn’t actually kill that bird, he just sent it to another dimensions.

Officers’ Reports
Constable: Birthday this weekend! Parents brought cheese crowns and other things. Went to Kaiserhoff–good food; don’t go during dinner. Downloaded 6gigs of Mighty Max.
Com Officer: Ate a chocolate-covered cricket because of answering affirmative to a hypothetical question.
Chief: Watching your best friend being birthed by your girlfriend you just finished having sex with. Thought process: Does it hurt to drag her about like that? If it’s just a hand, would you want to stop? If it was gripping that hard, yes. Oh, there’s a head. He’s gooey. Pop! like a cork!
Nagus: Donate! Been kinda sick and not feeling well.
First Officer: Studied for three tests over the weekend. They’re not over. Been watching the newer Star Wars movies… asking questions like, Why am I watching it? Do all Jedis have to have bad hair? Erik says it’s a matter of discipline. Make her appreciate the older ones.
Captain: Read 100+ pages of treaties between US and Japan. Like 5 year olds arguing. US: Give the stuff you took back. Japan: …But it is ours now. See, look, it’s ours! US: But you need to give it back. And then we’ll give you the oil. Japan: But it’s ours. US: You need to give it back. Japan: No! But you should give us the oil anyway. Prof. Clore mistook him for a psych major.

Old Business: Robot…zombie-fest is on the way. Reboot it?
New Business: Rebooting to Zombie-fest. No more ellipses. Jon will be buying the paint tomorrow. Painting will happen on Monday…ish?

Other Organizations
Anime: Watching Soul Eater and Pumpkin Scissors.
Relay for Life: Volunteers? YES, you can walk. Needs more information.
MCS: B-Con scheduling coming up soon. Weekend before Spring Break. March 7th?

Ending Time: 10:41:about as many seconds

Quotes
A-Mike: We don’t trust him unless he uses the funny math.

Erik: M. Night Shaymalan? And then the zebra was a horse!

Erik: …So, it’s two PSPs with a hinge?

Abby: That’s my line! My line, Sarah!
Jon: No. Your line is “I brought Elly,” so you failed.

A-Mike: It’s American cartoons before they started sucking!

Erik: I had the castle that was like this big and it was a mountain and it opened up and there was a dragon and a lava moat!

Jon: It offers us an option with the table… other than it sitting there and mocking me.

Fluffy: I’ll pitch in if other people are…
Collier: All money is good.
Erik: I’ll give you a dollar… but only if someone else gives you a dollar.

Sarah: Come back in 35 years…
A-Mike: Don’t think we won’t.
Jon: Those of us that are alive.
Sarah: Wait, no, don’t. I’ll be old… and in for a second facelift.

Adam: Incendiary pigs!

A-Mike: I know! That’s the marketing scheme! These movies aren’t as good as the old ones, I’m going to go buy the latest version of the older ones.

Stephen: My dignity changes colors.
Taia: You haven’t brought your dignity in a while.
Jon: I was gonna say that no one has seen Stephen’s dignity in some time.

Erik: We’ll all work on it! We’ll hang from the ceilings and duct tape the vents!
Adam: We don’t want the paint to escape!
A-Mike: Or the fumes~

Jon: As long as we don’t die, it’s still in-keeping of the spirit.

News for February 18, 2009

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  • Tom Hanks, the actor and star of Forrest Gump, will turn on the Large Hadron Collider, designed to recreate the ‘Big Bang’, when it is finally repaired. Hanks was approached about the move while filming his latest film Angels & Demons in which he plays a Harvard University academic investigating a plot to annihilate the Vatican with 0.25 grams of antimatter stolen from Cern.
  • Jerry Bruckheimer has confirmed in an interview that he is planning a 4th Pirates of the Caribbean film and that Johnny Depp is interested in that project as well as another project called “The Lone Ranger.”
  • Ang Lee is in talks to bring Yann Martel’s Life of Pi to the big screen. The novel chronicles the travails of a shipwrecked teenage boy stuck on a life raft with only an orangutan, a zebra, a hyena and a tiger. M Night Shyamalan, and several others have all been attached to the project, but none have been able to extract it from development hell.
  • Author Terry Pratchett has been knighted by the Queen at Buckingham Palace for services to literature. Sir Terry, who was named in the New Year Honours list, is best known for the Discworld series.
  • It hasn’t even hit theaters yet but Zack Snyder has promised that the Directors Cut of Watchmen will contain almost an hour more of content including the Tales of the Black Freighter.
  • Paramount has announced Blu-ray release dates for season one of the “Star Trek” original series, as well as for several of the original films. The series will be released April 28 and the movies May 12.
  • Friday the 13th earned 19.1 million dollars opening night the biggest single-day gross so far in 2009. It went on to earn a total of $43 million, almost double the next highest, He’s Just Not That Into You.
    Warrington Gillette, who played Jason Vorhees in 1981′s Friday the 13th Part 2, was attending an event honoring the remake. The actor arrived in full costume, wearing the famous ice hockey mask, and took to the stage wielding a real axe. But his performance ended in disaster when a woman tried to wrestle it away from him, slashing his hand. Lingerie-clad models were running and screaming, as a blood-soaked Jason ran off the runway to get to a hospital.”
  • New Line and Platinum Dunes have tapped director Samuel Bayer to reimagine their prized “The Nightmare on Elm Street” property and could begin shooting as early as the spring. A first-time director, Bayer is a slightly unconventional choice to remake the classic. But the Bayer is renowned for his commercials and music videos, many of them iconic. Those videos include Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit” and Blind Melon’s “No Rain,”. He also has won best director at the MTV Video Music Awards and a host of CLIO awards.
  • In the upcoming Johnny Quest movie Race Bannon will be played by Dwayne “the Rock” Johnson and the role of Johnny possibly going to High School Musical’s Zac Efron. Efron is also signed on for the 2010 remake of Footloose.
  • Scarlett Johansson is reportedly set to join the cast of the upcoming superhero film Iron Man 2. Johansson is reportedly in talks to play Russian spy Natasha Romanoff, AKA The Black Widow, in the sequel to last summers blockbuster.
  • A first-edition “Conan The Barbarian, No. 1″ comic book and five superhero-themed figurines are the latest losses to be sustained by Graham Crackers Comics in Naperville. The comic book was valued at $690 and the figurines had a collective value of $560, for a total estimated loss of $1,250, Hoffman said. A store manager was also scammed on Dec. 10, 2007. That was when a customer wrote a counterfeit check for $980.99 and stole a 1963 first-edition copy of “The Amazing Spider-man, No. 2.”
  • Bruce Campbell’s mock-autobiographical film My Name Is Bruce is now available on DVD. He has also stated that he has no intention to return to the character of Ash saying “You are bound to disappoint. I would rather disappoint with a brand new original movie.”
  • The latest incarnation of the Nintendo DS, the Nintendo DSi, will be released in the U.S. on April 5 and priced at US$169.99. It is launching in black and new color blue. Gamestop will take preorders starting tomorrow.
  • Dustin Browder, lead developer for Blizzard’s Starcraft II, assured visitors to the official forums that the game was “in the final stretch.” But no firm dates on the 3 part release or the betas yet.

Minutes for February 11, 2009

Published on February 11, 2009 in Minutes. 0 Comments

Attendance: 14
Start Time: 10:02:25aliens

News

Committees
Recruitment and Relations: Elly’s here. Abby’s not here. The log book is here.
Movie: Went to go see Coraline. Good movie. Bad movie is Barn of the Blood Llama.
Office: Still there! Getting to the point where Jon’s willing to think about removing the ugly green paint. Painting a battle map on the table?
Trivia: Jack has proxy trivia? Kirk’s explanation for Spock’s behavior when they went back to save the whales? He was on LDS. Xeen still has trivia.
Discussion Group: Briefly happened? Needs a new topic… If you were part of a fantasy, made-up world, what would you be?
Fundraising: Most interesting so far: Medical Apartheid.
No Report: Alex did stuff?

Officers’ Reports
Constable: Turns 24 on Sunday. D&D campaign off to a good start.
Com Officer: Met Creeper #3 and is now getting a weapon.
Chief of Operations: Blue is a nemesis, not to be trifled with. Attack on Dan’s house with blue.
Grand Nagus: Donated lots of pennies. Jon is right about what he would be in a fantasy world. Run next campaign in a Gargoyles setting? His consumate liar went unconscious last week in Fofo’s campaign. On his first day of solo teaching, he’s going to play Another Brick in the Wall before he says anything. Good kids are mentally unstable. Enjoying his history class.
First Officer: Life revolves around the fact that she has three tests next week. Trying to survive as an undergrad.
Captain: Playing Valkyria Chronicles lots. And Pox Nora. Got his nails painted blue. Got to see Baby Seal.

Old Business: Jon is an officer. Robot…zombie-fest is on the way.
New Business: Valentines’ Day Horror Fest? Next weekend instead?

Other Organizations
Anime: Meeting on Friday; Soul Eater and Pumpkin Scissors still.
Theater: This weekend is premiere of Patrick Day Needs a Change at the Met.
MCS: Playing games!

End Time: 10:40:and55aliens later

Quotes
Adam: There’s an alien a second.

Forrest: Yay, I love obituaries!

A-Mike: Is that a harddrive in your pocket or…
Jack: Here, Alex. I’ll help you. Touchpad! (crotch grab!)
Forrest: No, Sir. That is still a joystick.

Jack: If it’s gonna go, it may as well go with giant robots.

Erik: And Anakin is making me miss Hayden Christensen… and that’s saying something.

Alex: I believe that the log book should come to the next meeting and then it should sign itself.

Jon: I’ve figured out the problem with contemporary characters… they’re too realistic. That means I don’t give a rat’s ass about them.

Jack: A black table with black lines!
Forrest: The emo table!
A-Mike: It’ll have red lines.
Ashley: It can only go in one direction. It can only go across.

Jon: I know what Jack would be! Jack doesn’t know what Jack would be, but I know. A cybernetic gargoyle.
Jack: I’d be Cold Stone. I have a jet pack and three souls!

Jack: I was trying to make you hit them. It wasn’t working.
Adam: You couldn’t hit the broad side of a barn.
A-Mike: But I could sense the shit out of it. If I rolled a history check on that wall, I could tell you all about the civilization that built it!

Jon: Apparently Kelty makes people go into a coma.

Adam: Now you ask me to talk.
Sarah: I’m timing things really well tonight.

A-Mike: Psi-Phi the battle thong.

Jon: It’ll be 24 years and 9 months since my parents fucked, yay~. Many a birthday has been ruined by my pointing that out.

Adam: It looks like you’re playing in a storybook… and blowing up tanks.

Sarah: I’m pretty sure that I won’t get the job I want staying around here… and I would shoot myself.

A-Mike: That’s what we need: Psi-Phi ascots.
Adam: Psi-Phi the do-rag.