Humboldt State University Residence Hall Association

ROBOT MINUTES FOR 2/13/08: OH COME ON, THE NAME’S RIGHT ON THE TIP OF MY
TONGUE. YOU SERIOUSLY DON’T KNOW? UHHH, SHE WAS IN MONKEYBONE, WITH
BRENDAN FRASER, YOU REMEMBER THAT MOVIE? AH, WHO DOES. YOU KNOW WHAT, I’LL
JUST LOOK IT UP. ON WIKIPEDIA, WHERE ELSE? WELL I GUESS IMDB WOULD BE
FASTER BUT I ALREADY LOADED THE PAGE– OH, HERE IT IS. OHHHH, IT WAS ROSE
MCGOWAN. HOW DID WE GET ON THIS SUBJECT AGAIN?
Mad River Room 8 PM

Side Poll! An epic three way battle that ended in the only way you can
have imagined it would: Rock vs Paper vs Scissors. Still, ROBOT needed to
delve deeper into what each of these “throws” represent as archetypes of
real-world phenonoma. Rock fans let us in on a secret: rocks can be
thrown, literally (not just in the sense of the game) where the other two
can be only with much difficult. But yet, paper has inherint power that be
drawn from in the semi-famous anime series, “Read or Die” (I thought it
humerous to point out I was playing Final Fantasy Tactics at this moment.
Anyone who can tell me why this is ironic will get kudos from me!)
Scissors are the only one of the three to boast celebrity endorsements
from Johnny Depp and Tim Burton (but NOT Winona Ryder.) A detraction from
rocks is, and I will quote, “magical ring power!” Yeah. The very existence
of paper means trees are dying somewhere. One cannot (or at least, should
not) run with scissors, the tragedy of every child. The vote was:
Rock: 10
Paper: 10
Scissors: 10
Wookiee: 24
Because when you play Rock-Paper-Scissors with a Wookiee, you always lose.
Fun Side Poll Fact: Sometime far enough in the future where the effects of
this vote wont matter anymore, officials will look into claims that the
three choices ended in a tie only after one ROBOT member (to protect their
anonymity, we’ll refer to them by a nickname: The Tallest) rigged their
votes away from scissors. Which will beg the question: was this legal?
Ethical? Fortunately, by that point, nobody will care.

Meeting called to order at 8:20 pm.

ROBOT ROLL Call: Oh no!

Approval of Agenda: There is no agenda, man.

Approval of Minutes: Minutes delayed on account of getting a PSP for
Valentine’s Day, for which I claim no responsibility. Sure, you could say
that I didn’t really need to buy the Final Fantasy Tactics remake for it,
but only if you didn’t know me better.

Sound System Requests: Nope, no sound system requests this time. Seriously.

BUSINESS:
1) ROBOT Split
On account of Ravin’s sleepiness and Leticia’s absence, Ravin proposes a
split meeting, where half of ROBOT follow Sarah to the Sunset Classroom to
make March of the Machines posters, while the other half stay in Mad River
to work out March of the Machines kinks. Also, Sarah needs real scissors
because the Reslife Office thinks it’s too good for scissors. At this
point Brit Brit threw her sandal at Tonks, and though I missed why I am
assured he deserved it. Reports and announcements were given now (they are
listed after the March Business item) before the poster making group left.

2) March of the Machines
March is getting filled! Here’s the updated list!
February 29th-March 2: FFVII Competition
March 3: HTML Workshop from 8-9p
March 5: Botluck (ROBOT Potluck), 8p (our first meeting of March)
March 7-8: Red vs. Blue Marathon, from 7p-12a
March 9: Super Smash Bros. Brawl Competition, starting at noon
March14-15: LAN Party
March 23: Madden NFL ‘08 Tournament
March 28: CCAT
March 29-30th: HumCon
Every Tuesday in March: Anime Club
Every Wednesday in March: ROBOT Meeting
Every Thursday in March: DDR Workout League

Individual Program Budgets:
Red vs. Blue Marathon: $75 food
Final Fantasy VII Comp: $200 ($125 food, $75 prizes)
DDR Workout Comp: $120 food
SSB Brawl Comp: $200 food
Maddenl NFL ‘08 Comp: $100 prizes

HumCon will get its own line item in the budget soon.

REPORTS:

Grand Poobah: Sometime in March we need to vote for next year’s ROBOT
Chair. Ravin proposes that potential candidates run March’s sidepolls.

General Dogsbody: Um? No.

Scribe: Claims that minutes double feature will be worth the wait.

Pimp O’ Cash: Go to Canyon Council! Unless, you know, you don’t actually
live in the Canyon.

Royal Vizier: Not present

Merger of Awe: Still meeting Mondays at 7:30 pm. There’s still a lot to be
done for March and we also need to get some BOTS soon.

Epic Alliance: From now on, this portion of the minutes will be replaced
by the sounds of crickets chirping.

D2R2: Anime club wants to do some CosPlays workshops, which was incredibly
popular in last year’s March of the Machines (though Alex makes the
request that this year’s workshop(s) be a bit more socially just.) DDR
wants the first or last DDR Workout session to be a DDR Competition. Mouse
of Sound is apparently ROBOT’s secret weap-

REST OF MINUTES COMPLETED AND MAILED BY SECRETARYBOT3000 FOR YOUR MEATBAG
PLEASURE.

TEE-SHIRTS: WAITING FOR SENTIENT LETICIA TO PLACE ORDER FOR UPPER FLESH
COVERING PRODUCTS.

WEB-TECH: MY COMPUTATIONS PREDICT A SEVENTYSIX PERECENT PROBABILTY THAT
THIS PARTICULAR NOTE READS “New Leader!” THOUGH PERHAPS IT IS MEANT TO BE
READ “New Header!” HOW IS THIS FLESHBAG ABLE TO READ HIS OWN SCRIBBLINGS,
ANYWAY?

RHA REP: EVERY COUNCIL WANTS TO OWN THE PERFECT BLENDING OF STEEL AND
WIRING THAT IS A BOT. ALSO, SENTIENT RULER LIFEFORM IDENTIFIED AS CAPACCIO
WANTS TO CONSERVE ENERGY IN THE CAFETERIA BY RESTRICTING ACCESS TO THE
FRONT REVOLVING DOOR. DO YOU AGREE OR DISAGREE WITH THIS METHOD? LET THE
MEATBAGS OF RHA KNOW YOUR MEANINGLESS OPINION.

NO OTHER REPORTS WERE GIVEN OR RECORDED.

BONUS SENTIENT QUOTE: “My boyfriend got a gun so he gave me a promise
ring, and Garrison Keillor is on.”

ADJOURNED AT PRECISELY 21:08:28

ROBOT PRESENTS A GRINDHOUSE MINUTES DOUBLE FEATURE EVENT:
MINUTES 2/6/08: DEATHPROOF
MINUTES 2/13/08: THAT OTHER ONE. YOU KNOW, THE ONE WITH THE ZOMBIES, I
THINK, AND THERE’S THAT WOMAN WITH THE MACHINE GUN FOR A LEG. YOU KNOW WHO
I’M TALKING ABOUT. SHE USED TO BE ON, WHAT WAS IT, CHARMED? I THINK SHE
REPLACED SHANNON DOHERTY. YOU KNOW WHO I’M TALKING ABOUT, RIGHT? YEAH.

ROBOT MINUTES FOR 2/6/08: DEATHPROOF
Mad River Room 8 PM

Leticia wanted to let it be written in the minutes and known throughout
ROBOT that she was actually on time for the start of this meeting. This is
a day that will be long remembered throughout ROBOT lore, though not quite
as funny as the one where Leticia was “thinking about ROBOT”.

Side Poll! Two mythical creatures who are actually totally real (no
seriously, my cousin, he knows this guy who like, totally SAW Nessie in
the river, man) square off: El Chupacabra vs. The Loch Ness Monster.
Supporters of El Chupacabra wanted to let everyone know that it quite
literally sucks (sorry to spoil the ending, but this may be why it lost).
Another (the first?) plus was that El Chupacabra successfully invaded
Canada, making it more successful than the entire U.S. in that regard.*
Nessie supporters gave their strongest praise for the fabled Loch Ness
Monster: it was apparently eaten by a whale (spoiler warning: Nessie lost
too. Surprised?) The Loch Ness Monster is, however, very non-photogenic,
and El Chupacabra is apparently easily confused with dead dogs. Both
creatures frighten Leticia. The final tally:
El Chupacabra: 13
Loch Ness: 16
Wookiee: 26
The Wookiee carried the day again, presumably because Wookiees don’t suck
and I don’t think one’s ever been eaten by a whale before.
Fun Wookiee Fact: This is the first ROBOT meeting ever where the word
“Wookiee” was correctly spelled (two e’s at the end) in the side poll.
Past generations of ROBOT hang their heads in shame at this greivous
error.
Fun Minutes Fact: I managed to slip a second Star Wars reference into the
previous paragraph, and that makes me happy.
*Fun History Fact: U.S. Unsuccessfully Invades Canada:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_1812#Invasions_of_Upper_and_Lower_Canada.2C_1812

I didn’t catch what time we called the meeting to order, but really, do
the meetings ever really manage to get to order?

ROBOT ROLL Call: Awww yeah.

Approval of Agenda: Really?

Approval of Minutes: ROBOT approved of the previous week’s meeting. Future
generations will look back at this moment as a huge mistake.

Sound System Requests: NO! THERE WE NO SOUND SYSTEM REQUESTS THIS MEETING!
WINK.

BUSINESS:
1) T-Shirts
If you want extra T-Shirts (or know off-campus alumni and non-attending
friends who want shirts) you need to get your money to Leticia soon. If
you need to pay by check, make them out to Leticia Wyatt.

2) Merger of Awwwweee
They are now meeting at 7:30 on Mondays in the Sunset Classroom. Bring
your ideas there!

3) March of the Machines
Updating the list!
February 29th-March 2: FFVII Competition
March 3: HTML Workshop from 8-9p
March 7-8: Red vs. Blue Marathon, from 7p-12a
March 9: Super Smash Bros. Brawl Competition, starting at noon
March 23: Madden NFL ‘08 Tournament
March 29-30th: HumCon
Every Thursday in March: DDR Workout League

And even more important than that… FOOOOOD:
FFVII Competition: Pizzas (daily at a 8/5/3 ratio) with soda & ice water
DDR Workout: Ice Water all month; fruits and veggies & crackers and cheese
at first or last
Red v. Blue Marathon: Sammich Bar! Also popcorn
Brawl Competition: Mostly Fried Finger Foods, chips and salsa

Prizes and such will be discussed later by Merger of Awe and/or ROBOT

REPORTS:

Grand Poobah: Made an awesome DDR flier! Also is a cutie!

General Dogsbody: Found the VGC Ice Climber Guy quotes

Scribe: Get added! I dunno, that’s what I wrote.

Pimp O’ Cash: Nothin’

Royal Vizier: Thanks us for being so fantastic! Also, she is proud of our
epic March planning

Merger of Awe: Please come!

Epic Alliance: Who?

D2R2: DDR Tomorrow! Don’t get down. But get down!

Tee-Shirts: Earlier!

Web-Tech: Her name’s Micaela and she loves Brawl

Voyeurs: Researching a good camera to buy. Also wants us to know that
Galactus watches over us all.

RHA Rep: People want BOTS! Also, go to the YES House if you are interested
in going to Alternative Spring Break.

ROCC: Excited about BOTS! Discussed an article about human trafficking.
Showing The Color Purple Sunday, February 24th, with discussion afterward.
Food will be there, but it won’t be purple colored food (unfortunately.)

RPB: They’re well on their way to doing… stuff!

Creekview: Ian isn’t so lonely anymore. We didn’t have a report, though.

Canyon: Just kidding about not having sound system requests! Canyon had
two in their very own report! Tonks asks for it on February 14th, from
7-closing, for a Valentine’s Day dance. Also, Brit Brit wants it on
February 29th from 7-12 for a Drag Lounge. Both requests passed! Yay!

Cypress: Kurse you SEED! SEed sEed SeeD SEeD sEED SeEd

Hill: Haha! Hill had a sound system request too. They’re having a toga
dance in Sunset on February 22nd from 7-12. This also passes.

Manor: Still one of life’s little mysteries.

Bonus Quote: “You weren’t here to clean up our leftovers with your face!”

Adjourned at some point.

ROBOT MINUTES FOR 1/30/08
Mad River Room 8 PM

We started with a side poll! ROBOT’s namesake, the eponymous robot,
squares off against aliens, in a very generic sense. Robots score points
for being able to run on booze, and were championed by GIR. Aliens, on the
other hand, are very squishy (a pro!) and led by, for some reason, Zim.
Alien fans decried robots for their electro-VD, while aliens were bested
by germs or Tom Cruise (either way it’s not pretty.) In a heads up battle
Robots bested Aliens 23 to 12, though the real winner was the Wookiee,
with 33 votes, because Wookiees can rip the arms off of robots, and also,
are aliens.

At this point we called our meeting to order at 8:13 pm.

RObot ROLL Call: Some people were here, some were not. In later
installments I’ll keep track of who! Cassie also formally named the Mouse
of Sound.

And this point in the program we also selected, finally, an RHA
Representative! Like any legitimate political race there were two
contestants, Charles and Carol. Charles made the claim of being very
roboty (ROBOTy?) and carried with him enough computer memory to contain
our souls. Also Machiavellian. Carol established herself as egomaniacal,
and willing to conquer (in the name of?) ROBOT. In the end, it was decided
that Charles should be our RHA Rep.

Approval of Agenda: What are we, Associated Students?

Approval of minutes: Ha!

Sound System Requests: We had one! Canyon Council (or possibly Canyon
LGAs) sought the Sound System for events next Monday and Friday at 8:00
pm. Brit would work the system during these events. ROBOT unanimously
agrees to give the system.

BUSINESS:
1) Merger of Awe Meetings!
It was decided that the Merger of Awe will meet on Mondays at 7:00 PM in
the Sunset Classroom.
LIVE UPDATE, 1/5/2008, 12:09 am: The YES House has meetings in the Sunset
Classroom until 7:30, so Merger of Awe Meetings will either need to be
relocated or pushed back a half hour. More on this at the meeting,

2) T-Shirt Designs!
It was discovered that current, active members of ROBOT during either this
or last semester shall receive a free ROBOT T-Shirt. All others
(off-campus alum, friends of ROBOT, actual robots, etc.) and those wanting
extras shall pay an extra fee of $14 per shirts. Then it came time to vote
for the T-Shirt color scheme, in the T-Shirt Bonus Side Poll (Wookiee not
present.) The two color schemes, known as “Blue” and “Red” went to a
head-to-head vote. This first vote came:
Red 8, Blue 9
However, with concern over disinfranchised and uninformed ROBOT members,
as well as confusion over voter intent, a recount was called, resulting
in:
Red 11, Blue 8
Thus, our t-shirts shall use the “Red” color scheme.

3) BOTS
Our RHA Week event. People are excited. Things are happenings. BOTS-like
things.
Tell your councils if they want a BOT they need to ask us for it ASAP.
First, though, we need to BUY the BOTS. Hopefully with different
frequencies this time.
Please?

4) DDR League Feb. 14
Canyon LGAs (or Council?) want to have a Valentine’s Day dance at the
bottom floor of the J, meaning we have to give up DDR League that day.
Vote is met with overwhelming wave of ambivalence, but still passes.

5) March of the Machines
ROBOT’s most epic Month-long event. A few dates are set:
February 29th-March 2: FFVII Competition
March 29-30th: HumCon
Every Thursday in March: DDR Workout League
Beyond this, we mostly pitched ideas for other March of the Machines
events, with the following suggestions offered:
A LAN Party- WOW? Uh, whatever other online games people play? So… WOW?
Madden Video Game Tournament- Several LGAs would be interested in helping
HEMI Movie Show
Thermain- The only instrument you can play without touching it!
Red vs. Blue Marathon- Could we show all five seasons in one night?
Dr. David Kornreich- He’s presented at previous March of the Machines events
Other Professors- Most professors love giving presentations. Also, can be
bribed with free food.
HTML/Photoshop Workshops
DNA Day
CAPS- A presentation on internet addiction
March 31st- Cesar Chavez day. A time for ROBOT (and other council members)
to give back to our community and a great way to close out March of the
Machines.
Penny Wars- To donate to a worthy, technology based cause (such as Penny
Arcade’s Child’s Play: http://www.childsplaycharity.org/)
Other ideas to be presented at the next few ROBOT and Merger of Awe meetings.

REPORTS:

Grand Poobah: No report.

General Dogsbody: Wearing an epic jacket!

Scribe: I need to work on being succinct. Also, figure out the new
website/adding people to the listserv. Again!

Pimp O’ Cash: No report.

Royal Vizier: What? Oh! Nothing.

Merger of Awe: Come to our meetings!

Epic Alliance: Need cases for the X-Box 360 and Playstation 2. Generic
cases are located at Gamestop. Will look into these.

D2R2: No report.

Tee-Shirts: See above.

Web-Tech: Chose food over RHA.

Voyeurs: Excited for March!

RHA Rep: No report.

ROCC: They have broad plans for awesome Spring programming. Look forward
to these soon.

RPB: The Super Bowl Party will be (was?) Sunday, Feb 3rd. It was (will
be?) incredibly awesome and well attended.

Creekview: Ian is very lonely

Canyon: So many Canyon residents, yet none go to the council? In other
news, Canyon is visible.

Cypress: Cypress is unrepresented. Also, still standing.

Hill: They’re planning a dance.

Manor: Ryan is unsuccessful at arson? I dunno, that’s what it says in my
notes.

Off Campus: James lets us know that the Gamer’s Guild is interested in
presenting at HumCon, so long as it does not become another “Hentai Fest”
which confuses pretty much everyone. So, leave your tentacle porn at home,
kiddies.

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Vote!

Adjourned at some point.