Minutes20120123
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Officer Reports
eforney
looks like scunning
Had a weekend!
went to Rochester and it was interesting
drove in the snow
showed up at friend's house at 3am
went to a garbage restaurant and 2 record stores
was a designated driver; friend puked a lot
Bubbles
Had a weekend!
Event was trivia night, which went well--thanks Quizbowl people for the buzzers
this morning: snowmelt story about Roselawn roofs
new people (name, major, where from, something completely uninteresting)
Jordan, CS prefrosh, Northern VA*, is male
*went to TJ! jboning is excited
tvaughan
Had a week and winter break
was doing a microsoft interview last week--got an offer! is working there this summer
semester is pretty light
EVENT! Tool Training, 7pm on Friday in the Kage
that's how the cookie crumbles
good night and good luck
mmeyerho
Had a weekend!
Trivia night was awesome
thanks for making jeopardy boards, Bubbles/tbroman
there was a lot of sugar and a little bit of real food at the potluck part
Saturday: auditioned for Dancers Symposium--5 times
kage kleanup
ITR
got into DS!
will write a pravda?
SUBMIT TO PRAVDA?!
tbroman
Had a weekend!
Got up SOOOO EARLY this morning for ski tickets--before 6:30
woke up to "every time we touch"
Finally has all his textbooks
bought Cities In Motion, an urban transportation-planning sim, but won't get to play it for a while
Best friend from middle school, now at Cal, posted on Facebook that he has a Google interview. KGB/cluster makes that seem like nbd (though he is 2 years younger in my year)
kharring
Had a weekend!
along with Bubbles, made cake from scratch for the Potluck
making cake was an adventure - no shortening, used butter instead. left out a cup of flour. it turned out ok
encountered a police officer in the hall - smell of marijuana from another apartment? baking/baked pun
woke up early for ski tickets, but then slept more
cshaffer
Had a weekend, did stuff
went skiing
woke up really early to ski, with some people
early, but managed to be awake for it
stopped falling down on skis
then, they left
played D&D for 7 hours. He was a cat, Xander was a monk. Clyde was a talking cat but Xander didn't know that, Clyde had a raspy British accent. Also, Dan was basically Clyde's bitch.
Committee Reports
The ad-hoc Nerf Assassins Committee reminds everyone that KGB meetings are neutral territory
The Time Mafia Committee, in conjunction with the Floor is Lava Committee, reports offering a new form of insurance
Booth Committee: art planning meeting: Wednesday 7pm, PH A19
Tool Training on Friday
The Committee to Explain Xander's References reports: it's not the inconceivable horror room, it's the in-con-sy-evv-able horror room. But that's not even a word! That's how horrible it is!
The ad-hoc Bigger Like Smaller Committee, in conjunction with the Storytelling Corollary Committee: epic and thrilling tale of snowfall is like sitting and watching paint dry or grass grow or something
The misappropriated Puzzling Committee was in Boston to go in MIT Mystery Hunt. jboning's team WON!!!! Got a medal. it's shiny. was tons of fun. You should all run puzzle hunts!
The Taxidermy Committee, in conjunction with the Conspicuous Crossover Committee, reports: alligator beef jerky
The misappropriated 251 Torture Committee reports: we have puzzle hunts too
The ad-hoc Double Google Committee reports: double google
The ad-hoc I Think You Might Be Confused Committee reports: no, thank you for the flyer, but I'm a girl, so I can't rush Sig Tau
The Kalimaaaa Committee reports: volcanic eruptions are as awesome as you think, and apparetnly all volcanoes are female
The Suspicious Packages Committee reports: second week of classes, package line is not long
The ad-hoc Line to Antagonize DDs Committee reports: can legally drink, can't legally drive!
The Bagger Committee asks: what the heck is going on?
KGB records a laugh
The Puzzling Committee reports: PuzzleHunt is 2/18 pending room reservations; team page will be up shortly
The ad-hoc mbritton's Birthday Committee reports: it's mbritton's birthday!
The Committee for Awkward and Inappropriate Musical Accompaniment, in conjunction with the Committee of the Whole, wishes mbritton a happy birthday in song
The Fortune-Telling Fish Committee, in conjunction with the Evil Seafood League, is intrigued by the entry of the bagger; wonders if this could be the first step to the prophecy; stay away from squid Hitler please
The ad-hoc KGB Is Not a Choir Committee reports success
The Don't Worry, It's for Science Committee tells the bagger don't worry, you'll find out later
The Repeat That in Song Committee reports success
The Time Travel Committee tells the bagger to attend exec meetings; you will be the greatest president KGB has ever had!
The misappropriated KGB Sing-Along Blog Committee asks: why did that never happen? ...oh, right...
The misappropriated Spoken Song Lyrics Committee reports: happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you
question asked about minutes
The Department of Gambling Redundancy, in conjunction with the KGB Debtors Committee, reports: it still has 2 outstanding debts.. in both senses of the word "outstanding"
The Dan Kirby is So Full of Himself Committee reports: it doesn't count as reading the minutes to ctrl+f for one's own name... but dkirby still does that
Old Business
Marlena gives the Thing to pcd. Not his fault: the abysmal weather
New Business
create the Volcanic Mammal Committee to spawn firefoxes to light exec's pants on fire
is the Recsec wearing pants? (yes)
I have a ninetails!
The various and sundry misappropriated Pokemon committees report: magmar!
great balls of fire joke
The Fortune-Telling Fish Committee reports: magmar
vote: passes
sold $4 tvaughan, DISBANDED
create the Misappropriated Ad Hoc Committee to be misappropriated and ad hoc
The Misappropriations Committee and the Add Hawk Committee are all like whaaaaaa
note: this committee duplicates the Committee of the Whole
The Worcester Committee for Unwanted Committees approves
motion to create the Out of Order Committee (out of order)
counterpoint: hawks are awesome
The ad-hoc Misappropriated Ad Hoc Committee reports success
holy crap a helicopter--GO TARTANS GO!
The Recursion Committee is wary
The ad-hoc Misappropriated Ad Hoc Committee approves
vote: passes
sold $8 tbroman, chairs him
create the Everyone Hates Gingers Committee to get more people to go to Gingers for food
the ad-hoc Almost Racist Committee would like to report that that's almost racist
the ad-hoc Blatant Racisms Committee reports failure
tvaughan: bad news: if your joke is only funny because it's almost racist, it's still racist
it's not easy being orange
hair color does not constitute race
the ad-hoc Needlessly Inflammatory Committee says: dudes
the ad-hoc Needlessly Inflammatory Committee says: red hair is needlessly inflammatory...
the ad-hoc Tim Minchin Committee notes: only a ginger can call another ginger ginger
the ad-hoc Pyros Committee says: nothing is needlessly inflammatory
the ad-hoc Hypocritical Racist Against Whites Committee: there's an awful lot of honkys in here
the ad-hoc Odd Simpsons Quote Committee: flammable means inflammable? what a country!
motion to insert in name "going to" - passes
the winner of the race war is the one who gets to the finish lines first
vote: passes as the Everyone Hates Going to Gingers Committee
sold $7 egarbade, chairs him and memcginn
create the Needlessly Inflammatory Committee to save face because a face saved is a face earned
motion to change "earned" in the purpose to "burned" - unfriendly
if this committee is needless, why make it? (has that ever stopped us before?)
it's not needless--the inflammation is needless, but the committee is not
motion to change the name of the committee to the Heedless Inflammatory Committee: unfriendly
the ad-hoc Dr. Britton Committee proscribes 2 ibuprofen and a topical rub
motion to change the name of the committee to the Needless Inflammation Committee: fails
CS is the stupidest major
Xander's face is the stupidest major
request report from the Don't Worry, It's for Science Committee: CS is the dumbest major
the ad-hoc Needless Inflammability Committee says burn baby burn
David Tennant just sucks as a Doctor, sorry
vote: passes
sold $9 memcginn, chairs anyone who is racist off the Internet
create the Committee to Get a Song Stuck in Your Head to because sharing is caring
report requested from the Spoken Song Lyrics Committee
motion to change the name of the committee to the Day the Music Died Committee: unfriendly
we purple
motion to create the Out of Order Committee (out of order)
motion to seafoam green (dilatory)
the Bagger Committee reports: this is madness
is it a small world after all?
the Spoken Song Lyrics Committee reports: this is the final countdown
vote: passes
sold $6 dmeng, chairs Rick Astley and Rebecca Black
allocate $50 for event - it's a good idea
create the Worry, It's for Magic Committee to sorcery
burn the witch!
motion to change the name and purpose to the Worry, It's for Art Committee with purpose: modern art - passes
the Wizard Dueling Committee strongly objects
the first week and a half of engineering class: drawing
you know those couple million dollars we spent on a giant pointy thing on campus? you should probably worry about that
motion to change the purpose back to sorcery - friendly
the Oh Shit What have we Done Committee is worried we haven't
just bought a forge... don't worry, it's for art
we're going to stick a huge phallus in the middle of campus...
Xander mentioned welding for booth... kharring is worried
vote: passes
sold $7 mbritton, DISBANDED
create the Committee to Redefine Perfection to create new definitions for words that would otherwise never be used
what is perfection mean now?
scrabble actually does this... also Balderdash
tatterdemalion: now: pre-weather jeans
went spelunking, and someone said bulbous bouffant
not filling lexical gaps, drilling lexical holes
southerners don't say "salubrious"
ah engineering: perfectly ok, as long as within tolerance
obnoxitity
quarterstaff: now: an off day at exec
vote: passes
sold $25 memcginn, chairs him and tbroman
Announcements
EVENT! Tool training! Useless People Auction. Email exec!
Schmuck
the Onion is lecturing in McConomy at 6! Come along! next monday there will be cake at KGB eforney and ccolombo: sororities are informally recruiting nerf wars: mcginnis will kill people who hit him with nerf darts, or at least keep the darts we gtfo
