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Officer Reports

Glisson

Got his hair cut. It's really short. Has a test tomorrow. Played Psychonauts instead of studying.

Alan

Oh man. Has a report. Wants to do more improv. Some work; not too much work. Is lazy.

New People

Emily, anthropology/geology, WV, both arms attached

Richard (Matt Rocket)

Oh man. Is Richard. Had weekend. Went horseback riding. Ass hurts. We have an event! You should come.

Emily

Improv was really fun. Kiltie Band. Got sunburned. ITR. Skipped rolls on Sunday. Injured in the course of duty.

Josiah

Oh man. Had a weekend. Co-op cleaning. OS. Family visited. Hit checkpoint 1!

Laura

Had a weekend. Did a lot of compilers. Has an Evan in her apartment.

Derek

Went to Cirque du Soleil! Missed Glisson's zombie thing; fails at reading email. Found a freezer full of rabbits. Made meatloaf. Hosting a Windows 7 party.

Committee Reports

Scott Pilgrim Committee

Reports success in converting some of the freshmen.

Gratuitous Obscenity Committee

When you go to visit Lake Erie this time of year, be sure to take 5 or 6 layers, because it is cold and windy.

Cohort Committee

Dramatic reading: epic thread.

Ad-Hoc Matt Britton Collects Dr. Seuss Books Committee

Success

Sunglasses Committee

OS Checkpoint today.

Ad-Hoc Committee for Everyone Except jwatzman Knowing What jwatzman Is Going to Do

Sent email to mjs requesting switch to Computer Science as primary major

Ad-Hoc Fortune Telling Canary Committee

Fortune Telling Fish Committee can't report -- incapacitated for spawning season

Ad-Hoc Wait, I Recognize That Person Committee

Paul is in the first picture of CMU that Derek took

Ad-Hoc Yelling Bird Committee

Jeph Jacques can't report -- incapacitated for spawning season

Ad-Hoc Telling Freshmen Stories Committee

Evan is here; if you don't know who he is, we need to tell you more stories

Ad-Hoc CMU Can't Keep It Up Committee

Instead of a little blue pill, we use a big blue crane

Shawn & Quuxum Variety Hour Committee & Gratuitous Obscenity Committee

From Shawn: "exploding tape libraries"

Gratuitous Obscenity Committee Select Subcommittee for the Research and Development of Rule 34

Pole with 2 cranes touching it

Call the question!

Sold to Ben Wolf for $5.

Inappropriate and Awkward Musical Accompaniment Committee

Will be presenting a song next week.

Ska Pirate Committee

Looking for anyone who plays sax and/or trumpet

Old Business

some guy has thing. Global warming is not his fault.

New Business

Commiteee to Braid the Cluster's Hair

Purpose: To braid the hair of anyone in the cluster whose hair has sufficient length to braid

Purpose: to braid the hair of anyone in the cluster

Has a plan for dealing with clusters of hair: tuttle has a brush

Will be opt-in? Well, walking into the cluster is opt-in...

Favor: braid unbraided hair, unbraid braided hair; Opposed: never touch anyones hair again; Abstain: braid squid tentacles

$5 to Evan; anyone who wants to braid hair

Committee to Ask if David Klionsky Is Various Characters From Sci-Fi Series

Purpose: David, are you a Cylon? Yes.

Is David the next Doctor? Yes

David, are you Sully from the X-Files? Yes.

David, are you Teal'c? No.

Favor: ask David what sci-fi character he is; Opposed: insist David is actually from Grey's Anatomy; Abstain: reenact the Darth Vader-Obi Wan Kenobi star wars lightsaber battle

$5 to David; Teal'c

Dammit, Jim, I'm a Doctor, Not a Caster Committee

Purpose: AAAAAAAA D&D AAAAAAAAAAA

This committee might lose its wheels

Favor: make a D&D reference; Opposed: make an Exalted reference; Abstain: thank the president for making things interesting by messing up the order all the time

$1 to Ben Wolf; people who get fours

Allocation of $50 for Event

Good Idea.

Confused with Crisamaphone Committee

Purpose: to contain the everyone Quuxum confuses with Chrisamaphone

David, are you Chrisamaphone?

bblum chrisamagroaned.

Favor: find someone who does not look like Chrisamaphone but insists they are Chrisamaphone; Opposed: insist that there is only one Chrisamaphone (there is no Chrisamaphone but Chrisamaphone and Chrisamaphone is her prophet); Abstain: ???

$5 to Quuxum; Naomi

??? Committee

Purpose: to finance the creation of a live-action Zero Wing movie

For great justice!

Ha ha ha ha ha

Motion to table (failed)

Ziro wing in our frut slad

Favor: raise your hand; Opposed: raise your hand; Abstain: call the question $7 to Tim; Cohort 2.0, him, and Matt

Monocle Committee

Purpose: To get more monocles, because I simply must stop being surprised all the time

Could also be used to help defeat the awkward zone; frosty drinks all around!

Favor: be surprised monopole; Opposed: make Glisson smile; Abstain: monocle squid

$7 to zsparks; anyone who likes to do silly things that seem British but aren't at all

High-Entropy Finance Committee

Purpose: ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

The Zimbabwean dollar approves

CMU Stock Market Club; failed because the stock grows down

Favor: act out entropy; Opposed: do finance normally; Abstain: [wave arms like hawks]

$3 to jkoppel; anyone who has tried to solve the halting problem while standing in line at a convenience store

Ditto Committee

Purpose: turn KGB members into pokemon

krieger krigon krigoria committee approves

Favor: be ditto, but then turn into the person next to you; Opposed: ???; Abstain: be a pile of mashed potatoes -- Digimon was way better

$16 to Dennis; him, Kate, and Cohort 2.0

Allocation of $10 to buy ctfws.org

Actual vote. Passed unanimously.

Announcements

Dues

Pay them.

Event

Movie Night in DH A310. Bring movies.

Pravda?

Submit!

Schmucks

Steve

Wants to borrow a wankerous camera for this weekend.

Rocketmatt

Rocket club having launch this Saturday on Flagstaff; may be postponed. Watch Facebook (CMU Rocket Command)

Mander

Running a challenge course the Saturday after CtFwS

Quuxum

Grandfather had 100th birthday. He knew Doherty. The guy. Yeah, that guy. (Worked at Westinghouse from the 1920s to the 1970s.) This is pretty awesome.