Minutes of the SIPB Meeting of 02/2/2004


The meeting was called to order at 19:30 by golem.

In attendance were 
	Voting members: golem jmorzins jtu kenta merolish
	Associate members: hartmans jhawk ocschwar | xela
	Prospectives: jbarnold
	Guests: 

Treasurer's Report:

Chairman's Report:
	golem: There will be officer elections next week.  I will send
		an email before tomorrow.  Everyone will have to show
		up, or I will be chairman forever.

Office Report:
	jtu: I bought two books.  One of them is here.  The other is
		kretch's book.
	kenta: mkc now has a yellow screen.  That screen is supposed to
		change according to the number of workstations available
		in the various Athena clusters.  It's the Athena
		stress-o-meter.  It's been up for about 20 minutes.
	jhawk: Maybe you could overlay the color with additional
		information, such as a Sesame Street character or the
		number of workstations in use.

Office Cleaning Report:

MIT Computing Report:
	golem: I've been hearing that I/S is breaking in even more vague
		ways.
	merolish: Sounds ominous.
	hartmans: I'd say changing, not breaking.

Computer Services:
	golem: cporter is still working on this mysterious vmware
		project.

Publications Report:
	golem: Omri, did you ever finish your editing of iAthena?
	ocschwar: They were side-edits.
	ocschwar: I should print out iGraphics, but I'm hosed right now.

Orientation Report:
	golem: It's sooner than you think.

IAP Report:
	jtu: I am no longer responsible for being sucker and failing.
	golem: For the record, jtu did an excellent job as IAP sucker.
		Congrautulations to all those who taught classes.

	jmorzins: It's sooner than you think.
	merolish: Shut up.

	kenta: We had a lot of spam to sipb-iap-*.
	merolish: That's a known issue.
	golem: You should turn them off as mailing lists.

	xela: I'd just like to say, that Jen got dragged kicking and
		screaming into being IAP sucker, and did a fine job
		without all the support she should have had from the
		former Sucker if he'd had time, and deserves to be
		thanked.

CokeComm Report:
	kenta: We're out of goldfish.
	kenta: I'd like to move to allocate $10 for a thermometer for
		the refrigerator, so we know if it's too warm.
	<white-ballot>
	[kenta allocation: $10 for thermometer]

Other:
	jtu: APO is running a book exchange today.  You can buy and sell
		textbooks.

	hartmans: Japan was very Japanese.

Other Other:
	kenta: I'm TAing 18.337, which is a very cool class on parallel
		computing.

	ocschwar: In neuroscience, they can use machines now to know
		when you have gotten a joke, to detect when you're being
		honest about how strongly you feel about something, and
		when you feel romantic or maternal love.
	kenta: Will this result in an allocation?
	[discussion of possible new SIPB services]
	ocschwar: Jack Nicholson: "You can't handle the truth."

	jtu: I'm going to try to take a Coure VI class that I don't
		think they're done with.

	golem: I had my fourth dental surgery since October.  It was
		dealing with complications of my wisdom tooth surgery.
		[disgusting discussion ensues]

	golem: I'm a TA for 6.033, but I'm secretly running it.

	jtu: I had an exciting chat with Gerry Sussman today about his
		theories about RSI.

The meeting was adjourned at 19:45.


	Minutes taken and submitted by merolish.