J-Con: Japanese Connection

( Culture note, 10/10/08 )

Link for the full article can be found here.

Also, Obi please remind everyone that if they want a tshirt, they need to let me know very soon. The design for that can be found here. They're $10 each, which covers the cost of the shirt, the dye, the rubber bands, and the gloves for tie-dyeing. It's the same price to keep your shirt undyed as it is to dye it.

~mQ

Sorry I can't be here, I'm trying to get recruited by Microsoft >^_^< (yay and nay).
Library News:
So, didn't get the Discs into the database, I had to basically babysit the game room, and was easily distracted. SO, this friday I will take over one of the other rooms and play music or something, and work on putting stuff into the library, and I would love to have people help me with it because it is a VERY slow process. If you can help please post here and please be there if you will help.

As far as the library goes, I will not be able to work on it again until Friday, I've found a way to be insanely busy this week, go figure, but the search for titles does work, and write reviews and such. A link will be placed, thanks to our webmistress, on the LJ and Website.

AND RIGHT HERE
www.pfo-studios.com/JCON/login.php

User name: [First letter first name][Last name] example: Jonathan Maple (me) --> JMAPLE
pass: 1234 (it will ask you to change it after the first time you log in, and I can not tell you your password once you change it, its encrypted)

I have started making preparations for Ohahocon. Here is the information so far:

Ohaycon
Date: Jan 30-Feb 1
Location: Hyatt Regency
Cost: $30 per person for entry (weekend pass)
           $105 per room per night (+tax) at current rates*
           Transport: gas paid for by JCon (for vehicles containing JCon members)
For the next meeting: Please try to determine whether you will be interested. In order to keep this hotel rate, rooms must be reserved ASAP.

*I am only allowed to reserve 3 rooms under my name, someone else will need to reserve additional rooms. I will discuss this with officers at the meeting. This should be done this week so that we can keep this low rate.

Saturday Showing
I would like to talk with people interested in running a game/helping make a game. Please plan to stay after the meeting tomorrow so we can discuss who is doing what.

JCon's Annual Halloween Extravaganza!
Saturday, October 25th -- 3:00 p.m. to 1:00 a.m.
Rooms & Activities

• Morton 115:
~~~Halloween-related programming & Ghost Stories

• Morton 127:
~~~Full-length Japanese Feature Films

• Morton 235:
Game shows & Relay races including:
~~~Anime Jeopardy (Suzie)
~~~Anime Pictionary (Janet)
~~~Anime Press Your Luck
~~~Anime Name That Tune
~~~Anime Password
~~~Anime Family Feud
~~~Anime Dating Game
~~~Anime Match Game
~~~3 Ramen-eating Contests (Molly)
~~~Skittles Relay Race (Molly)
~~~Anime Iron Cosplay (Erin)
~~~Cosplay Contest

• Morton 237:
~~~~Video and Tabletop Games

Please let us know if you volunteered to do one of these activities so that I can put your name on the list! You'll get more volunteers to help you out if you're listed as the organizer! ♥

Hey JCon.

I printed out 75 fliers, thinking it'd be 50 for the dorms and 25 to put in classroom buildings. Turns out, though, that the dorms only take 40 now (grrr) so I gave those to the folks at Baker to be distributed. The rest of the fliers I've put in:

Ellis (2)
Gordy (2)
Morton (4)
Jefferson (1)
McCracken (1)
Nelson (1)
Aquatic Center (2)
Walter (2)
Grover (1)
Porter (2)
Baker (2)
Lindley (1)
Bentley (1)
Boyd (1)
and Stocker (2)

... and probably one or two that I've forgotten because I only have 8 fliers left and the math isn't working out. WHATEVER, I'M EXHAUSTED. The point is! I didn't hit the library because my father-in-law works there and he scares me, I couldn't find a place to put up a flier in Chubb, and I didn't get the CSC or Haning or Copeland or Convo because ... I'm an idiot? No, I was just tired.

So! If anyone's going to be in those buildings, or if you can think of one I missed, let me know at the meeting and I'll give you a flier and a tack to stick it up with.

Cheers!

~mQ

Well, we made it to the last hour of the showing tonight, running it off the school computer rather than our beloved box. Even the projectors have been cooperating. Just have to wait and see if they'll shut off at 11:30 again.

Perhaps at the next meeting we can decide how to better use the box for the club? Thoughts?

Attendance maxed out at about 20, near the halfway point of the showing. C'mon, people! That's lower than over so far this quarter. Not the worst, but we can do better! ;)


In other news, the JCON hard drive is appoaching capacity. Stuff needs to be cleared from it before the beginning of winter quarter. There's a good amount of series with full seasons, and there's other folders that have no more than maybe 5 episodes in them (deletable). I can go ahead and clean it up myself, but I figured I'd see if anyone had any issues with that.

Obi, over and out.

Notification of Issue Change

Issue: Change Crestron programming in Morton 235

Description: The program has been changed to shut the equipment off at 12:15 am instead of 11:30. Classroom is open from 2:00–6:00 today, Bryan will go to Morton 235 & 237 while Ron uploads the new program to both rooms. Bryan can then test both rooms.

-------------------------
WOOHOO! :D

~m

Ohshit I forgot to post about this, but we're meeting at Morton 235 tonight ~8:30 to see if we can trick the projectors into working. I'll be amazed if we're successful, it seems nothing at OU works like EVER. F***ers.

Anyway. If anyone wants to come by, we're going to watch the NHK episodes David and I missed this past weekend and maybe some Detroit Metal City (which is AMAZING) so if anyone wants to join us, please do!

Nevermind, I'm exhausted and we just got booted out of BOTH fucking rooms. I'll come by after I swim tomorrow night when I'm NOT a zombie. If you want to join me, come on by.

~m

All current members are in system. I'll get everyone thats wants their password tonight. Aside from that the handy dandy check out system is still not up yet, since it will take a long time to do it. This is what I'm going to need help with:
( See my tasks )
Thanks for reading and I look forward to working with who ever is gonna help out.

So I went through the boxes and I made a quick inventory of what we had, for the record.

( inventory )

Hey all,

Well, Morton media system is officially the sucks. We got through the showing ok (and even on time, too), but the darn projector keeps doing it's warm-up and cool-down modes, blocking me out from using them. Sorry to anyone who might've been annoyed, bothered, perturbed, or otherwise offended by one of the screens displaying something different from what was being shown at sporatic 5 minute intervals throughout the showing. I swear it wasn't me (points to control panel).

Thanks to Molly for the insightful culture note. It certainly made watching episode 2 of Zetsubou sensei all the more enjoyable.
And thanks to Maple, Chizmar and Baker for the support regarding the sucky system.

Our attendance at one point topped out at about 30, and after the first episode of Ippo, the head count was at least 20 the entire time. That is until 11:30 rolled around. This happened in the game room as well, and I think all the projectors in the building just shut off at that time every night. VERY inconvenient. Some people proposed starting a half hour earlier, but here's what I'm thinking:

For one, I think that's too early for the majority of our viewers to make it on a Friday afternoon. I might skip AMVs all together in order to finish up by that time, and then just do a random AMV, etc. showing for the remainder of the time (sometimes people just want to go home, and it reduces the risk of going overtime. Let me know what you think.

Another thing, when we began showing Minami-ke, none of the players on the box would support it well, so we switched over to the school computer, and that's where we ran the rest of the showing. I think I'm gonna try to run a whole showing without the box to see if it's as necessary anymore. I'll transfer what I can from the box to the hard drive of course. We'll see how it goes. Again, any thoughts?

That's all from me. Hope y'alls weekend's going well, and I'll see you at the next meeting!
VP Obi

OH MAN I'm later than a pregnant woman's period with the schedule for this quarter, and I don't even have any excuse for it. It was easy to plan out, we've got 14-15 eps each night. Take a look and let me know if I screwed up anywhere; I love you guys.

( Here's how things break down. )

Please take a look, make sure I haven't done something stupid. I triple-checked myself, but that really amounts to a hill o' beans, I'm worn out. ._.

~mQ

Hey all the library is heading along pretty well. You will get a quick demo tonight, its not completely done yet. I'm going to need help with data entry and collecting some stuff from the internets, if some people could help with that it would be fantastic, it will not involve any programming. It will be essentially I need a list of stuff gathered for me (ie. images, info on series I know nothing about(and anidb knows nothing about), etc). The faster this gets done the more sooner cool things can get done.

Thanks

Hey everyone,
Great turnout we had last night. I lost count at 50, but I want to put us at a ballpark attendance of 55 people!
We encountered a number of glitches with the system, as well as running overtime due to scheduling. We even had to move rooms at 11:30pm because the projectors turned themselves off!
All in all though, we got through it, and I want to thank everyone for their patience and understanding. I know it wasn't the smoothest 1st showing ever.


Anyway, some of you paid your dues last night, sooooooo:
Here are JCON's paid members so far:

Greg Dikis ------------------------($20 - full year)
Obadiah---------------------------($20 - full year)
Tammy Howard-----------------($20 - full year)
David Loomis--------------------($20 - full year)
Natalie Burrows (NAB)--------($20 - full year)
Jay Chaffin------------------------($20 - full year)

In order to vote this next Tuesday for what we'll be showing for the rest of the quarter, you need to pay your membership dues.
Bring $20 for the year, or $10 for one quarter.
That is all!

--EDIT--

See/pay your dues to Suzie in order to be a member.

Here's the schedule for the Grab-Bag this Friday. I'll be making the background either tonight or tomorrow, so if anyone sees any errors with it, please let me know.

EDIT: Some changes have been made to the order in response to some concerns regarding content and rating.

Chii's sweet Home (1-8)
Hajime no ippo
Haruka's Secret
Code Geass R2
Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei R2
Zero no Tsukaima
.hack sign
Full Metal Panic
RahXephon
Code Blue
*School Days
*Trinity Blood
*Elfen Lied
*X 1999 TV

* indicates M, we're supposed to show it after 10:00pm

Hey
I will probably be late but only by a little I'll find a way out of robocup early.
Although If I'm not there in time
Library Status: Not Open
Library Web thing: ... I'll discuss

Nominations: Kanoko and Zero no Tsukaima if someone doesn't have any ideas >~_^<

Aside from that yay for JCON being the loudest club ever >^_^

Hey, JCon.

I've made two ... things? to put up during the first meeting. The first is an alphabetized (sort-of) list of all the series we've seen in the past two years, which are off-limits for voting on this year. The second is the handy-dandy guide to setting up the quarter schedule.

Really, I'm just posting this here so Bueno'll have easy access to it at the first meeting, tomorrow.

( Here they are. )

... WOO HOO MORE JCON STARTING TOMORROW!!! :D

~m3Q

Hey, I can't seem to locate an up-to-date version of the constitution, so maybe somebody knows the answer to this question:

What is the policy on the minimum passage of time before we can show a specific show again? I want to compile a list of "Off Limits" anime for the first meetings, so that we don't have to reject anyone's nominations (and waste time while they try to decide another one).

I remember it being something like the most recent school year. Like anything we played last school year is no good? I know there were different rules for special shows like Halloween, but isn't this the rule for the weekly anime?

edit: comments contain the anime that are off limits for nomination.