From chaos at cs.swarthmore.edu Sat Jul 17 20:05:31 1999 Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 00:35:08 -0500 (EST) From: Chaos Golubitsky To: _swat.org.swil at cs.swarthmore.edu Subject: SWILnews #8, or SWILnews #8 This SWILnews was deemed long enough that introductory natter was unnecessary. Instead this space will be filled with ASCII impressionism: .alke.23;dW":}{!P at ASD 3M,34&()>?HJ jjlk2 jlk;(*)JK@#CGFm.k-023 m., 123 LK(@#> jlkq ------------ SWILBUSINESS (note: there is a zero overlap between presidents attending the swil meeting and presidents writing this swilnews. just letting you know while there's still time to flee --h) We had devised an ingenious plan in which movie voting for next semester would be accomplished in zero meetings, but it left for Bora Bora. So instead we'll settle for Kira's plan for doing it in one meeting. Nominations can be sent in by email to presidents at swil.org, and at the meeting on Nov 21 we will write all nominations received before the meeting on the chalkboard and hand out ballots. Everyone will write their top fifteen choices. We will tabulate the ballots after the meeting. Before that, at next week's meeting, we will discuss whether or not SWILCon will happen this year. If you want to be involved in the discussion, please come to this meeting. Flash ... AH-AH ... he saved the universe -- again. On Monday, that is. Next week's movie will be [NEXT WEEK's MOVIE]. (also known as "wizards", for which we have an original movie poster in george --h) Do you seek fame, honour, and a deep personal satisfaction stemming from knowing you're providing a valued service to the community? If so, skip to the next paragraph. Otherwise if you seek power, money, and the right to sit at the head of the table, perhaps the job of SWIL presidency is for you! Nominations will be taken at meeting on Dec 5. Platforms will be delivered and voting will occur at meeting on Dec 12. (Go art glass and sundial! --S) [and now, a special message from the past] SWILoween will take place on Sat 31 Oct in Sharples III. There will be lots of food provided by Lindsay, and if you're not planning on baking, you should pay her for being a good hunter-gatherer. Depending on the amount of your generous gift, you could become a: Honorary co-president 50$ Pterodactyl next year 40$ Seven of Clubs 30$ Legendary SWIL alum* 20$ *title deferred until graduation Real co-president** 10$ **contact Skogul for details Friendly SWILlie*** 3$ ***we suggest this level Plus, as an added bonus, if you pay Lindsay, she'll give you your bowls back! You know, the bowls you're about to loan her before SWILoween, but which she'll keep after SWILoween for weeks, until you give her money! [we now return you to the present] Josh has sympathy for tables. No, not that Josh. The other one. No, the other other one. (The one who is not ... Dave, who did his gang of four thing. No, not that Dave. The other one. No, the other other one. (The one who is not ... segmentation fault. last vestiges of normality dumped. A picture was about to have been taken shortly after the meeting, and between then and when it was discussed, it will have been about to be being taken for some amount of time greater than n, where n equals some number x measured in plutonium decay cycles. We leave the approximation of x up to the reader, but offer the hint that the picture taking is long over by now. [the following is the complete listing for item 7 on the official minutes] 7. events [yup, that was it. one possible interpretation, based on a careful reconstruction of the available evidence, follows:] Steven [well, it wasn't much evidence, now, was it?] Jim Moskowitz was officially commended by all present for heading the OOB and making this reunion happen. Thanks, Jim! Catherine and Kyla requested to see a tray in the wall. Charles Danforth obliged, scaled the wall, and found a fork, long forgotten. A tray, emblazoned with the words "SWIL 20" (or something to that effect) is currently on display in the small dining room of Sharples, about fifteen feet up. There will be an attempt to re-order previous SWIL shirts. Announcements of progress will be made on the plan20 and/or chat mailing lists. Contact chaos at sccs if you have particularly pressing questions, but expect her to contact the lists in the coming months with general ordering information. (if you contact chaos right now, a short and unpleasant discussion will happen. it will involve hilbert polynomials, and everyone involved will be sorry. --h) Philcon is this weekend. Some folks are going. They'll tell us how it was when they get back. The filkbooks are wayward. chaos is standing by with her thokstick to slap them silly when they wander back to George. We suspect they may have become confused and joined the southward migration flock of chocolate-covered parrots which passed by campus several weeks ago. Many folks in the room were current SWAPAns. Many other folks were SWAPAns past. Some might even become SWAPAns future. Hands were raised, and all those who have encountered the frightful Minac are reminded that this is only a temporary setback, which can be remedied by the simple submission of a 'zine to Jimmosk, Sherry, or jMr. Submit to BEM! Alumni submissions accepted. The threat about Peggy still stands, as far as I know ... Dismemberments: Jazz Karpf proved his sentience with the following joke: [warning: not for the musically humour impaired] Knock knock. Who's there? Knock knock. Who's there? Knock knock. Who's there? Philip Glass. Audrey Walton-Hadlock was proven sentient by her statement: "To be sentient is to suffer. I'm reading Hegel!" The meeting was declared large enough to count as three meetings, allowing the candidates to be dismembered amid shrieks of "Back off man, I'm a paperclip!" --------------- NONSWILBUSINESS Buffy: the Vampire Slayer is being shown on Tuesdays in Megan Hallam's room in Parrish. Contact mhallam1 at sccs for times and upcoming episodes. Jazz was Buffy for Halloween. Jazz rocks Megan's world. At least 64 people were at the meeting. Some of them twice. (See the attendance list for details.) Andrea has been losing things, most of them to Will's car. Babylon 5 is being shown on Mondays at Jim & Josh's apartment, Greylock 301. The next episode to be shown after the receipt of this SWILnews will be "Objects in Motion", the antepenultimate episode of Season 5 and the series as a whole. Romeo & Juliet thanks various people present for the loaning of costumes. jere7my tho?rpe was determined to have the current profession furthest afield from his college degree, being a physics major who writes porn. (Just as long as it doesn't involve Frank Moscatelli ... --S) Jazz is trying to kill people. We all have opposable thumbs (except chaos). ---------------------------------------- LIST of SWILlies past present and future - 11/7: P_W 93 (ish :> -- s) ALH 92 JBS 92 DJH 91 (currently visible) JDH 92 (SMOS) DSP 99 "Dave Phillips" LNH 00 (aka Lindsay "I bow to peer pressure" Herron) Amy "not just initials" Swift 00 GJN 95 AEM 02 "just initials" PM 02 (Peter Ma -- "Yakumo the vagrant") Otavia "I am not a sheep" Propper Rupert Baster 87 Chris Cobb "outside the boundaries" cdanfor1 adp 96 JDMS 91/92 Jennifer "Peata Beag" Tyson 01 Anna Hess 00 Melissa "'What did man descend from?' --Jimmosk 'It depends on the man' --Anna Hess" Binde Snibor "srettel esacrewol eht lla elots enoemos! seman eht ot denappah tahw?" Eoj Fred "as a high score list goes, this is pitiful. 92 points gets #1?" Bush Jed "After graduation, it gets harder to think of witty sayings" Hartman 90 David "My God, it's full of SWIL" Szent-Gyorgyi 83 Lisa "yes, it's me" Batt 90 Kendra "The things I could tell you about love" Eshleman 95 David "Baa" Randall jere7my "Thwip. Thwip. Thwip. Spider-Man Am I" tho?rpe Barbara Need: Original Member of the Council of 5 Jay "" Scott Jimmy "I know what I'm doing. I'm a professional procrastinator" Kong Robert "O I am slain" McFarland Phil "[from the Penguin edition of Hamlet] POLONIUS dies. POLONIUS: I am slain!" Stepleton Neil, Rachel, & Alan Ottenstein Joe, Sylvia, Justin, & Ariadne Rider Julie "Bhadrika" Love Elijah "Jazz" Karpf Alexandra "Wolf" Karpf Steve "Steve" Karpf Kirdragon Rachel Alan Ben "What?" Newman Andrea "The world's stopped spinning" Hall Charles Danforth Gloria Wong Annie "Stop reminding me about our new governor!" Mrrow" Fox Megan "This is _so_ worth missing Mahler!!" Hallam Sam "I am so a president" Weiler Jeremy "Yes, I have gone bananas!" Dilatush Jim "Approximately 50 cubic yards of SWIL!" Moskowitz Alice "I'm frightened. very frightened" [XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX] (that would be alice unger, for those keeping track. i don't want to know. --h) Sherry "Who needs sleep?" Levi 85 Geoff Noer 95 Kyla "Our show's over :(" Tornheim Catherine "certainly not me, Sherry" Osborne Melissa "... her hair of floating sky is shimmering ..." Running Sonia "I woke up in another world and I'm still there" Mariano --Hlokk, Goll, and Skogul