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Ballot results, tabulated for your pleasure:
Total Voters
Total Voters Minus Abstentions
YES
NO
ABSTAIN
% All Voters
% Voting Voters
Motion 1
135
131
120
11
4
89%
91%
Motion 2
135
120
82
38
15
61%
68%
Motion 3
135
113
76
37
22
56%
67%
Motion 4
135
124
112
12
11
83%
90%
What were the questions again?
This is the best thing every made: The Wayback Machine. It's a search function of the UC Berkeley Internet Archive Project, which regularly sweeps the 'net to archive sites and pages. Just enter the URL and go.
It's extraordinarily cool and helpful.
A new month, a new show....
Any Buffista within range of the Twin Cities is invited to my next project:
Fifty Foot Penguin Theater
(City Pages' Best Independent Theater
in the Twin Cities - 2002)
presents
PARALLEL LIVES
The Kathy and Mo Show
by Mo Gaffney and Kathy Najimy
directed by Juliana Egley
starring Stacia Rice and Karen Wiese Thompson
Intelligent, hilarious, witty and provocative, this play explores the plight of women and the pandemonium that takes place when the two sexes try to get together for more than just a drink. Starring two of the sharpest comedic actors in the Twin Cities - Stacia Rice and Karen Wiese-Thompson.
Playing at the Bryant Lake Bowl Theater
810 W. Lake St. Minneapolis
March 14-15, 21-22, 28-29
All performances are at 9:30 p.m.
Six performances only!
Tickets are $12 general
For reservations call Bryant Lake Bowl at 612.825.8949
Further information available here.
Also, if you want to make a night of it, the 7 o'clock show is Alex Cole, Danny Cole's brother. Funny, funny man who worked the comedy circuit back in the day.
Since tonight is a Buffy re-run (Selfless) in NAFDA country, I thought I'd point out that the Boston Public Television station is running J.R.R. Tolkien: Master of the Rings.
For most Somervillain shaped Buffistas, you'll catch it on channel 2 from 8-10pm. The site lists the following schedule:
Tuesday, March 4, 8pm, WGBH 2
Saturday, March 8, 4:30pm, WGBH 44
Sunday, March 9, 3:30pm, WGBH 44
Thursday, March 13, 1pm, WGBH 44
You can find more info at www.wgbh.org
In re: Compact Disc Minimum Advertised Price Antitrust Litigation Settlement -- On Line Claim Deadline Extended Until March 5, 2003, 11:59 pm PST
(*whew*)
Simple majority defeated higher majority on our last ballot. The only problem is, the Buffista who wrote up the ballot used an archaic definition of majority. (She also sometime uses shan't and whilst in her posts.) So, now we need to define "majority" in cases where more than two options are available to voters. We are doing this whilst blindfolded, with our hands tied behind our backs, as we screw in a lightbulb with our teeth.
Your vote on the last ballot does not commit you to vote in any certain way on this ballot.
What do you think a "simple majority" means and how would you like it applied to determine future votes?
Choice 1: An option which receives more than 50% of the vote wins.
Choice 2: Whichever option has the most votes wins.
Choice 1 means that in the rare cases where a ballot question has more than two choices, there may need to be runoff ballots, or you will have to vote preferentially, or we will decide that the vote fails if no choice initially gets 50%. We will decide this either vote by vote, or else there will be another vote where this gets decided for all future ballots.
Choice 2 means that a choice could win even though it received only a fraction of the total votes cast. For example, if there are five choices that receive 22%, 21%, 20%, 19%, 18%, the choice that received 22% would win with no further balloting.
Voting starts Tuesday night (March 4, 2003) at midnight and closes Friday night (Mar. 7, 2003) at midnight (that would be "Board Time", i.e. EST)
(did I say *whew*?)
If this isn't pertinent, a stompy is welcome to smash:
If you receive an e-mail that looks like it's from PayPal asking you for your bank account information, with all the graphics and doodads in the right places, you might want to double check that it isn't something like this e-mail fraud scheme.
There's a shiny new Gothic Miss Manners column up at www.gothic.net, plus new fiction by Caitlin R. Kiernan and an essay by Poppy Z. Brite.
ATTN NYCistas!
This Tuesday (March 11th), Naomi Sommers (childhood friend of mine, now a jazzy/bluesy/folksy singer-songwriter) will be performing at The Cutting Room.
The address & note from her mailing list is here:
Tuesday, March 11
The Cutting Room
19 W. 24th St. (b/tw B'way and 6th Ave)
7pm show
(I only have one set, so come early!)
$5
Since Buffy's a repeat that night, it would be great if some of you could come out.
[eta: Somervillians should know that she's one of you, so keep an eye out for her gigs in the Boston area if you like that sort of music.]