Friday, December 1, 2006

PROPER Christmas carols

Christmas carols are just too... Christmassy. Here and here are two lists of cool songs. They may have some of the same ones, John hasn't checked. (Since there is more than one poster here, we shall use third person.) Anyway, here's the one John knows and likes the best (so far):

Violent Night



(to the tune of "Silent Night")

Silent Mac, broken Mac
System bombed, screen went black
Books suggested things; I tried 'em all
Shift key, desktop file, clean reinstall
Now my deadline is tight
This Mac's been silent all night.

Violent night, horrible night
Lost my cool, filled with spite
Threw my Mac through the balcony door
Watched it fall from the 20th floor
Now I'm sleeping in peace
Thank God I had it on lease.

If John feels like it, he may have you guys sing this to the general public. Or, at least, practice in Limberg's room, and possibly perform it at the beginning of... say, math club (most of us go there; the ones who don't are evil traitors. Just kidding). Or, if you have an idea, you can post it in the comments section. But be serious.

Thursday, November 16, 2006

So, the Rules.

So, here are the official rules so far:
1. No jackassery or analogue thereof.
2. No threats. Except, of course, in the form of rules.
3. You must raise your hand to speak.

This is the extent of today (Wednesday)'s productivity, after an
estimated twenty-five minutes or so. Not to mention the previous few
days. We don't have punishments for breaking the rules yet. We
haven't, in fact, decided on the leader's official authority or limit
thereof. And none of it has even been put on paper in any case...
Pardon the rant, but to get the rules written down during this
semester, I think we have to do at least one of a few things:

a) Get a (probably large) sheet of paper on which to write the official rules.
b) Get everyone's email and tell them to check it for all rulings. Or
make an official website. Probably impractical to look up rules on
the internet when there aren't any computers in Limberg's room.
c) Be really excessively harsh and despotic about non-hand-raised
yapping. I don't like this option, and I'm not good at being evil,
but if that's what it requires, I'll make some attempt at it.
d) Anything you can think of?

In the meantime, here are my rules suggestions...
1. If you really have to make some numbskulled off-topic comment, you
can whisper.
2. The leader can be voted down with and only with a 2/3 majority.
Only do it, though, when it's an obviously jackassed abuse of power.
3. Possible punishments for jackassery (or stuff in general): Loss of
leader privileges, or... ooh ooh! Skillz!

Punishment: Being forced to calculate the number of seconds until
something the leader thinks up. (Like, until Christmas. Or the
weekend.) To the nearest hundred seconds or so.

As an aside: I supposed it would be prudent to put your emails in the
bcc thing, in case you don't want [insert a name] to stalk your email
address or something. Alert me if you guys want to start officially
existing. (Yes, Michelle, the word "guys" disregards gender.)

Any comments, ideas, questions, or whatever?