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OFFICER REPORTS
Daniel: did laundry, have no recollection of Saturday night, I don’t remember anything significant happening
Benner: did laundry, tried to use the vending machine in basement of fairfax and got 11$ worth of coins, supposed to hit a button to make it give you change, tried again, 5$ worth of change, put in 1$, it spits out quarters and dimes, started rereading 17,776
Teddy: didn’t do laundry, KGBuggy, this Friday, kage, room below Stever basement, make wooden cars and race them against eachother
Nathan: had a rehearsal and didn’t do very much else, saw wind ensemble on Sunday, submit to Pravda
Julia: made cookies, played magic
Ryan: bought a bicycle, hacked into 3 things for a grade
Isaac: danced until 7 am, then collapsed, capital grains saved me
Benner: new people:
Kat, she/her, senior, HCI, I am legally considered a little person, my favorite color is blue
Travis, he/him, works in ECE, saw the poster, I use the same backpack from Kindergarten to 10th grade
COMMITTEE REPORTS
Teddy: ad hoc: ARG, Teddy hands out prizes (little hampters)
Nathan: paper airplane: I just made this paper airplane I think I made it wrong
Jonathan: block market: 8.5$
Nathan: quora: what kind of spaghetti could a girl eat
Isaac: point of information: the correct answer is all of them, because women can do anything men can do, I’m 6’2” by the way
Teddy: ah arg: does anyone want a hamster?
Nathan: corn subsidies board
Benner: Wikipedia: there is a spanish idiom called thinking about the immortality of the crab
Noah: point of information: what does it mean, it’s a way to say you weren’t just sitting there doing nothing but you were engaged constructively in contemplation, you can say to someone else daydreaming, “are you thinking about the immortality of the crab”
Gavin: point of information: I’m pretty sure it’s cause crabs live for a long time, but lobsters live longer
Jonathan: lobsters are functionally immortal
Julia: plastic animal rights: the kgb is throwing hamsters
Jonathan: booth: do booth
Benner: wikipedia: weasel war dance
Nathan: quora: is boxing allowed in heaven
Benner: wikipedia: sentennial light, just got to that part in 17776
OLD BUSINESS
Noah has thing, Nathan wants, not fault: results on 2 midterms, all of classmates scores is fault
NEW BUSINESS
Benner: motion to allocate -4$ to Kevin’s discretionary nuke fund because Kevins are not here today
Passed, 2-4-2, -4$ allocated
Benner: who wrote on my paper airplane
Noah: motion to #define “pound define” as “kilogram define”
Nathan: motion to amend to “1 over 2.2 kilogram define”
Nathan: motion to amend to a motion to #define “ 0.45 kilogram define” to
“pound define” (friendly, been changed)
Jonathan: freedom unit opposes
Passed, 2 abstaining-5 in favor, 2 opposed
Teddy: motion to create the plainfin midshipman committee with purpose [low humming]
sold to teddy for 1$, chaired by feesh
Nathan: motion to create the crow committee with purpose “wuah”
Benner: animal facts has turned into animal noises
Teddy: wuah
Passed with 4 abstaining, 6 in favor, sold for 3$, chaired by wuah
Benner: motion to create the “KGB invades wikipedia committee”, with purposes of creating and maintaining a KGB-not-that one wikipedia article
Teddy: point of information: it’d be funny to see a “see KGB disambiguation”
Benner: README is referenced on wikipedia, if they can get in we can get in too
Julia: can we form a cabal?
Passed, with 1 abstaining and 9 in favor, sold for 5$ to Benner, chaired by the KGB Cabal
Isaac: remind KGB about lingering curse committee to “remind people that they have the lingering curse and should pass it on”
Benner: the lingering curse is real, it has tangible effects, started with Isaac, Isaac got sick, Nathan got sick and couldn’t make it to exec meeting, Teddy couldn’t make it to exec meeting
Benner: motion to table until next week
Jonathan: motion to amend tabling to the week after (unseconded)
Tabled for 1 week, none abstaining 4 in favor, two against
Teddy: motion to allocate 1 gazillion dollars for this week’s event
Benner: KGB definitely has this amount of money
Ryan: 1 gazillion is 1,000 zillion
Nathan: motion to amend to i dollars (unfriendly)
Ryan: if we add i to our budget and then multiply by negative
Benner: motion to ban math
Noah: amend to -e
Nathan: motion to amend to be the former price of one summit cola (friendly, been changed)
Benner: motion to amend to a monetary value equal to Daniel’s SSN
Nathan: point of information: daniel’s social security number is at least 3
Jonathan: if you know daniel’s time of birth and birth place we could find out
Benner: do you know faculty who may or may not have chosen your social security number (the people who decide what your social security number is)
Benner: motion to amend to 40$ (friendly, been changed)
Nathan: motion to amend to 40$ and 1 cent
Benner: motion to amend to 40$ and 2 cents
Jonathan: motion to amend to 40$ and 2 cents plus 5i
Ryan: motion to amend to 39.99$ because it looks like less
Nathan: motion to salute the president
40$ and 2 cents allocated
Noah: motion to #define “opposed” to “also in favor”
Nathan: the chair can say things like all those against
Failed, 1-3-4
Gavin: motion to pick a presidential candidate that the KGB endorses
Benner: I motion to officially endorse Vermin Supreme
Ryan: motion to amend to Vermin Supreme’s dad
Benner: motion to make the KGB official presidential endorsement committee with purposes of every year posting a post on the KGB official instagram endorsing a candidate
Gavin: poor taste?
Teddy: wouldn’t this committee last for 1 year
Jonathan: what is going on
Teddy: motion to nominate barack obama
Passed 1 abstaining, 6 in favor, 1 against
Sold for 6$ to Nathan, chaired by Vermin supreme
Teddy: motion to create a standing rule such that if you are a booth chair you are very cool
Julia: motion to amend such that “very cool means you start with 110 HP at the beginning of every meeting” (friendly, been changed)
Benner: motion to amend such that booth chairs lose 20HP at the beginning of every meeting (friendly, been changed)
RRAs
Daniel: please pay your dues and send receipts of your dues to Ryan on discord, need writers for murder mystery, there’s a link in the discord
Jonathan: there’s an ad in ReadMe
Daniel: ReadMe is coming out this wednesday
Noah: this is the one with feet pics
Daniel: yes. Booth chair sign ups, please sign up if you’re interested in being a booth chair this year, please let us know if you’re interested
Jonathan: if you have design friends, please beg them, or send me their contact info so I can beg them to do booth
Daniel: cmuKGB discord, instagram
Teddy: KGBuggy, come make little wooden cars with us, it’s in Kage, look at cmukgb.org/kage to find location
SCHMUCKS
Benner: if someone can get the vending machine in the basement of fairfax to work I will pay you 2$
Isaac: look at this little guy go: moves hampter across the desk
Benner: on saturday there’s a kiltie band game and also readme pitch meeting
Nathan: motion to this video
Benner: seafoam green
Jonathan: gitfo
