From chaos at cs.swarthmore.edu Sat Jul 17 20:04:20 1999 Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1998 16:55:27 -0400 (EDT) From: Chaos Golubitsky To: _swat.org.swil at cc Subject: how to finish an incomplete in under 17 years, or SWILNews #2 SWILBusiness members and nonmembers of swil, early-mid-september is almost upon us, and the time has come for another of our wonderful traditions to be replayed. i refer, of course, to the annual tradition in which your loyal copresidents completely fail to show up at meeting, and you, the nonmembers, must play your part, as you have done for years past, and stage a coup. or two. or three. the reason for this tragic/joyous occasion is, of course, that we are going to ren faire. and you, my friends - if you are one of amy, scott, john, heather, lindsay, dave p, anna, jennifer, kyla, becki, hilary, arcadia, hannah, kira, or chaos - are coming too. if your name is not on the above list, and you think you have a seat on the van, you're wrong. e-mail kira within the next 24 hours if you want to come. ben, kira and heather will be running the pterodactyl hunt on the condition that kira gets to be the werecat next year. watch this space (" ") for further developments. yay jimmy! jimmy, our new fractional miniprop, propped "akira" splendidly, and remembered to bring the movie to kirby at 10 last night, saving the sorry asses of your loyal disorganized valkyries. we also passed the sock at meeting, and collected $1.45 and a napkin to pay amy back for copying prop at the beginning of the year. next week's movie will be "the last unicorn". dave mimno is not the official swil minimum standard of sentience. we would like that to be clear. in 2001, the millenium philcon (i.e. worldcon) will be held in philadelphia. we're not doing anything about that yet - we haven't even passed around a signup sheet. paper doesn't grow on trees, you know. but, while we're waiting, we can go to the 1998 philcon, also in philadelphia, from 13-15 november. kira is taking care of registration. currently, kira, chaos, jim, amy, heather, tim, ben, john, and jess have registered to go. the next registration deadline is 24 october, so give $35 to kira sometime before then if you want to register. if you would be interested in staying in the hotel, or a nearby one, contact chaos. no one has currently contacted chaos, so, if no one does, there will be no further swil lore about joel sleeping in the bathtub. this would be a shame. jim will talk about the reunion next week. if whoever stages the coup takes some notes, we may even be able to tell you about it. alecia is a schmuck. otavia objected, so we voted, and the term was accepted, then replaced with womprat. then we voted ben the new master of the obvious. we were planning to vote on a mistress of the obvious (alastair was nominated), but forgot. maybe next week. or the week after. "come with" is a dangling preposition. (who takes these notes? -h) (i do, dammit. -g) (she does, dammit. -s) submit to BEM! Non SWILBusiness: the ball happened. it was good. fruit is also generally good. had you been at the meeting and heard this announcement firsthand, you should have brought some fruit to the ball. those who did not will have been dealt with summarily sometime. jimmosk is heading up the committee to look into the sushi/baklava party. if you wish to be on the committee, contact jim. megan is an aunt! botticelli will be happening sundays at 8pm, hosted by jess and tom. "circling the square" is also back, hosted by greg and someone who is not josh kramer. the soda tasting party happened sunday. it went well. if you mix crush and surge, bad things happen. we were going to get mello jello, but we forgot. joe will trade his firstborn child for a copy of outpost. jim, chaos, and fred will also trade joe's firstborn child for a copy of outpost. if you see one somewhere, buy it. you will be reimbursed. The You're-all-coming-to-the-Ball-right? List - 12/9: Dave "Socially Inept" Mimnaugh John "I am large, I contain multitudes" Finkbiner (i think we'd better *not* comment -h) Lindsay "the darn Ranch dressing tastes funny again" Herron Amy "What's that on my head?" Marinello Robert "Just smile and nod, and maybe they'll leave you alone" McFarland Beth "Your ad here" Tsai Becki "Rowrbazzle" Cikoski Snibor "Setutitsbus on tpecca." Eoj (sorry, joe, we've replaced you with folger's instant crystals - no one noticed. -h) Jimmy "Watch Akiwa or die! You pudgy fudders!" Kong Adam "Shocking and bizarre forks are after me!" Gupta Ben "insert quotation here" Newman Anna "Of course i'm coming to the ball!" Hess Jim "Prove or disprove: n^2 + n + 41 is prime for all n" Moskowitz. (take n = 41. then give it back; who gave you permission to run off with our variables -h) Tim "What a strange place this is" Handley Otavia "go look it up in a book" Propper Alecia "back for another 1st meeting" Magnifico Kyla "why do people voluntarily taste things like celery tonic?" Tornheim Sarah "Real World? What's that?" Piatt Joel "In absentia: retrieving forgotten items from West Chester" McNary Heather "loose lips sink ships" Weidner Jessica "I don't do math. I do millions of peasants dying slowly" Harbour Amy "really late" Swift -Hlokk, Goll, and Skogul