From chaos @ cs.swarthmore.edu Sat Jul 17 20:56:05 1999 Date: Thu, 8 Apr 1999 15:55:35 -0400 (EDT) From: Chaos Golubitsky To: _swat.org.swil @ cc Subject: 9# Swenliws fo Sedapacse Gnizama Eht Disclaimer: the names have not been changed to protect the innocent. They're innocent anyway. Deal. Once upon a time there was a small country whose inhabitants lived in mortal fear of a dread pirate. According to legends of the area, this pirate looted up and down the coast, capturing those foolish enough to walk the cities by night. (Of course, none of them survived to tell the tale.) And mothers made their children behave with admonition that, if they didn't, Enrobso would sneak into their rooms at night and kidnap them, and they'd never be heard from again. Enrobso Enirehtac laughed heartily as he surveyed his crew. (Look everyone! We too can write cheesy fantasy! -c) The skipper, Renibknif Nhoj, was adjusting course; the twins Rendiew and Reliew were arm wrestling, and Elauq Lliw (the token Welshman) was swabbing the deck. Namwen Neb the inventor burst through a hatch excitedly. "My captain," he said, addressing Enrobso, "look what i have just created. It is a great new weapon which will wreak havoc upon your enemies. I call it... the Ykstibulog." Enrobso surveyed the Ykstibulog skeptically. Enrobso, being a proper inhabitant of , had never seen an Ykstibulog before. "What, pray tell, does it do?" Namwen looked nervously at his shoes; Enrobso had a notoriously touchy temper. "Well?" asked Enrobso. Fortunately, at this point, the exchange was interrupted by the pirate's daughters, Riatsala and Lehte. (Lehte had recently met this nice boy named Oemor, but that's another story...) "Hey, what's that?" Riatsala asked, noticing Namwen's creation. Editor's note: the next section of this story has been lost to this dimension. So, either we need to send Abigail looking for it, or y'all need to help us out. If you have a suggestion about the function of the great weapon Ykstibulog, please let us know. SWILBusiness: We got $108.94 for books. Yay! Now we're going to start buying them. Jim says that male to female sex change is mandatory for SWILfolk upon graduation. T-shirt voting will happen at the next meeting. If you have a t-shirt design, it's not too late to bring it to meeting, since meeting has not happened yet. Fred seconded Gardner Dozois's recommendation of "Robot Monster", calling it "legendary in badness". We need to order movies very soon, and we haven't done anything about this yet, which is bad. So... we have a couple of suggestions so far, but please bring suggestions to Saturday's meeting if you have them, and we'll try to decide on two regular movies and one in 3-D. Walpurgisnacht will be happening 30 April. Sign up for live challenge chess on parents' weekend, which will be at 2:30 (after the folk dance demo) on Parrish Beach. Contact Will (will @ sccs) to sign up to be a piece, or jimmosk (jimmosk @ fi.edu) to suggest challenges. This weekend is Spec Weekend, so we're going to have a table in Parrish Sunday night at 10 to meet specs. We're taking volunteers at meeting to sit at the table, play cards, and talk to specs. Next week's movie is "Silent Running". Non-SWILBusiness: The ville is planning to build a hotel when they redevelop, either on the softball field near PPR or across 320 from the college. Night of Scenes is happening Friday and Saturday nights at 8pm in Dead Dog. the attendance list of lukewarm beans - 3/4: Abigail "My beans are plenty cool and mice are (6e^3i) / 0.695371 times better than rats in any + every way so there Prime!" Friedman Jennifer "Gwerz an Marc hadairig Bihan" Tyson Robert "The coolness of any rodent is inversely proportional to the extent to which said rodent bickers with other rodents in and/or on the attendance list" McFarland Ben "Nothing in quotes" Newman Jim "ready for a little hide and seek?" Moskowitz Fred "one show one timeslot 11:30 Sunday problems? None! Soap? Much!" Bush Peter "I'm boring. Anyone to be my "follower"?" Ma Jay "How can I write a quote? I never do that." Scott Heather "why does my history professor want me to read 2000 pages by Monday?" Weidner Anna "moss + wallpaper today" Hess Amy' "Mice are so delusional" Marinello Sonia "dovetailed wainscoting" John "Marsh" Finkbiner Arcadia "If one student begins writing a 2000-word history paper at 7:00 p.m. at the rate of 200 words per hour and another student begins writing a 7-10 page literature paper at 2:00 a.m. at the rate of 1 1/2 pages per hour, when will the students go insane? Immediately, if they are the same person. Aaack." Falcone Sam "Networks. The network should be a utility. It should not go away. I don't want my network to go away." Weiler Josh "I contain coenzyme Q-10 and key B vitamins" Burdick Hannah "unifying the spheres" Schneider Will, who now knows how to drive from ML to Sharples using all right turns! -Cloak and Dagger