From the notes of GUTHRIE CARROLL, acting dictator of the Science Fiction Club.

Please excuse the incompleteness of these notes. My original intent was to videotape the meeting for future records, but this met with so many objections from club members that I judged it unneccessary. If I am to be honest, considering how effectively later debate was quelled, I must admit it was probably my own pride which caused me to believe I could be as effective a note-taker as a machine. Pride is one of the great enemies of the mathematical mind, and far greater mathematicians than I have fallen to it. For the sake of principle, I must ask forgiveness not only from you, but also from myself.

...Guthrie Carroll: Excuse me. Settle down, please. Order.
Guthrie Carroll: Now.

8:10 PM
Guthrie Carroll: I have an assignment for each of you. We have to set up an exponential informational campaign...

[At this point, I noticed blank stares of incomprehension in 75% of those present, and attempted a restatement.]

Guthrie Carroll: I mean, we need to call people, and have them call people. And so on.
Guy Malkowicz: Who died and made you God-emperor?
Guthrie Carroll: Rikk Oberf himself left these instructions. And please read the constitution, line 687. If president, vice-president, and secretary are all absent, the senior member of the club becomes temporary dictator.
Guy Malkowicz: What? ...No way!

[Mr. Malkowicz proceeded to busy himself with a copy of the Constitution, which I provided. Mr. Townsend resumed discussion.]

Sergei Townsend: Look, Guthrie, technically that's true, but... you can't just turn people on to work for you like an on-off switch!
Guy Malkowicz [still reading]: No way!
Guthrie Carroll: To compensate your services, I purchased "Utina" and "Edge of Destruction II: Over The Edge: Director's Cut" tapes for the club library.

[Here the record becomes difficult. I believe that six members were speaking simultaneously, and from their commentary, I was only able to isolate the following phrases: "Yeah," "Woo-Hoo," and "You the man." I do hope my success in performing my primary and secondary duties will permit my superiors and successors to forgive this lapse in tertiary duties.]