Bethel Anime Club

Yeah, but as expensive as the tracking would be for the airlines, purchasing a piece of luggage made of sapient pearwood would probably be even more expensive…
See, I think that they should get some actual use out of the drug-sniffing dogs: train different dogs to sniff different drugs and then associate each major airport with a different substance. (Each continent could fall under a different category: Asia could be aphrodisiacs, Europe could be hallucinogens, and North America could be painkillers, for example. Within those London could be, say, Phencyclidine and Amsterdam could be LSD.) When each bag left its origin airport they could stuff some of the drug associated with its destination in an outside pocket, and then no matter where the bag ends up they’ll know where to send it just by checking which dog barks. Brilliant, right? And the best part is that they could make remembering things easy by simply naming each dog after its associated city: “Cairo’s sniffing crack, time to send that bag to Egypt!”
PS: Of course the stalwart and untemptable nature of airport baggage handlers would ensure that this system would never be abused in illegal and unBethical ways…

Rhincewind’s luggage is a bit scary.
I would settle for the airlines emulating FedEx and UPS and doing realtime tracking. The airlines claim it is too expensive. Instead, they have no idea where anything is and do manual searches for lost luggage.
Liz M. wrote: > What is needed, of course, is luggage that can track you across time and > space. Like The Luggage from Terry Pratchett’s Discworld. Of course, > that Luggage also had a tendency to eat things/people that annoyed it… > > > > God Bless! > -Elisabeth, the Queen of the Great Western Arc, Monarch of the Verge of > Tears, and the beautiful Lorelei; sometime known as Elizabeth Leslie > Abrill of the House of Artook; Most High Magistrate and also loyal > servant and sometime advisor to Her Excellency, Gretel von Schlegel of > Pi; purveyor of the Craft Room, Queen of Mumbles, and College Student! > > > > > >> From: Matthew Fisher >> Reply-To: animeclub@ncmdc.ath.cx >> To: animeclub@ncmdc.ath.cx >> Subject: Re: Tomorrow: The End. (Mostly) >> Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2006 22:08:07 -0500 >> >> As the official representative of the Bethel Anime Club, and with the >> implicit backing of all of its members (if they’re on the e-mail list, >> they simply MUST agree with everything I say), I extend our heartfelt >> condolences for the loss of your luggage. Any sign of the peregrine >> suitcase’s possible location, or is it a lost cause? >> >> [On a completely different note, I just came home from "Classes Tous >> Risques." Boy, that was an absolutely fantastic movie. I'd like to >> recommend it to everyone on this list, but unfortunately it leaves >> town tomorrow... and honestly, I'd really rather that you came to >> Anime Club. Anyway, look for it soon on Criterion DVD!] >> >> PS: I should point out that a couple of years ago my roommate traveled >> from Minneapolis to Beirut by way of Boston. His luggage, on the other >> hand, traveled by way of Washington, DC, and then Portland, Oregon, >> and then New York City, before finally meeting him in Cairo, Egypt >> (two weeks later, and after a brief stopover in Beirut). So don’t >> despair… if his bag found him, perhaps yours will, too… > > >

What is needed, of course, is luggage that can track you across time and space. Like The Luggage from Terry Pratchett’s Discworld. Of course, that Luggage also had a tendency to eat things/people that annoyed it…

God Bless! -Elisabeth, the Queen of the Great Western Arc, Monarch of the Verge of Tears, and the beautiful Lorelei; sometime known as Elizabeth Leslie Abrill of the House of Artook; Most High Magistrate and also loyal servant and sometime advisor to Her Excellency, Gretel von Schlegel of Pi; purveyor of the Craft Room, Queen of Mumbles, and College Student!

>From: Matthew Fisher >Reply-To: animeclub@ncmdc.ath.cx >To: animeclub@ncmdc.ath.cx >Subject: Re: Tomorrow: The End. (Mostly) >Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2006 22:08:07 -0500 > >As the official representative of the Bethel Anime Club, and with the >implicit backing of all of its members (if they’re on the e-mail list, they >simply MUST agree with everything I say), I extend our heartfelt >condolences for the loss of your luggage. Any sign of the peregrine >suitcase’s possible location, or is it a lost cause? > >[On a completely different note, I just came home from "Classes Tous >Risques." Boy, that was an absolutely fantastic movie. I'd like to >recommend it to everyone on this list, but unfortunately it leaves town >tomorrow... and honestly, I'd really rather that you came to Anime Club. >Anyway, look for it soon on Criterion DVD!] > >PS: I should point out that a couple of years ago my roommate traveled from >Minneapolis to Beirut by way of Boston. His luggage, on the other hand, >traveled by way of Washington, DC, and then Portland, Oregon, and then New >York City, before finally meeting him in Cairo, Egypt (two weeks later, and >after a brief stopover in Beirut). So don’t despair… if his bag found >him, perhaps yours will, too…

As the official representative of the Bethel Anime Club, and with the implicit backing of all of its members (if they’re on the e-mail list, they simply MUST agree with everything I say), I extend our heartfelt condolences for the loss of your luggage. Any sign of the peregrine suitcase’s possible location, or is it a lost cause?
[On a completely different note, I just came home from "Classes Tous Risques." Boy, that was an absolutely fantastic movie. I'd like to recommend it to everyone on this list, but unfortunately it leaves town tomorrow... and honestly, I'd really rather that you came to Anime Club. Anyway, look for it soon on Criterion DVD!]
PS: I should point out that a couple of years ago my roommate traveled from Minneapolis to Beirut by way of Boston. His luggage, on the other hand, traveled by way of Washington, DC, and then Portland, Oregon, and then New York City, before finally meeting him in Cairo, Egypt (two weeks later, and after a brief stopover in Beirut). So don’t despair… if his bag found him, perhaps yours will, too…

One of our suitcases never left the black hole of Heathrow.
Matthew Williams wrote: > No Mushishi! Oh well, I guess I could go for either recommendation, > Matt F has never let us down before. . . .I guess we should take a vote > tomorrow and see who wins. Anyways yes welcome back, looks like you > returned from the black hole of Heathrow airport. > > -Matthew W

No Mushishi! Oh well, I guess I could go for either recommendation, Matt F has never let us down before. . . .I guess we should take a vote tomorrow and see who wins. Anyways yes welcome back, looks like you returned from the black hole of Heathrow airport.
-Matthew W

Welcome back!
That’s a really good idea… although I may opt for something a bit more self-contained– my copy of “Spring and Chaos” FINALLY came in (that’s 2 and 1/2 months in the mail, people) and I’ve been itching to show it to everyone. Still, that would mean going ten or fifteen minutes longer than usual… I’ll see what we end up with tomorrow night, and what the general atmosphere is…

How about Densha Otoko, episode 1?
Matthew Fisher wrote: > Hail all! > Well, tomorrow is our last Summer Anime Club meeting in our > comfortable cave, and the end of all of our series. Sort of. You see, an > embarrassed president is forced to admit that, barring a miracle, there > will (alas) be no Mushishi at tomorrow’s meeting. This is because the > fansubbing group (C1 Anime–spam them, people!) has not yet released the > last two episodes. Although I recognized that it was something of a risk > watching a series which had not yet been entirely fansubbed, I defend > myself based on the following logical principles: > > 1. C1 Anime had never taken more than a week and a half to fansub any > episode of Mushishi, > 2. 21 episodes of Mushishi were already available, > 3. The last episode of Mushishi aired on June 18, > 4. The word “gibbous” was not in fact coined by H.P. Lovecraft but has > been in common circulation for literally hundreds of years, > and > 6. Although they were a cool idea (Crypotzoologically speaking), “rods” > are only observational artifacts and have been thoroughly debunked. > > Thus, I calculated that the last episode of Mushishi should be out by > the end of June and our present lack of not just one but TWO episodes > utterly shames me. Please, Anime Club, forgive me! > So anyway, unless C1 magically gets off their butts and does a double > release tomorrow, I shall bring something fun in to fill Mushishi’s > spot. Look forward to it! > On the other hand, all of our other series WILL be ending. > Dogtato-kun shall say goodbye to Veggietown; the fate of the Enohana > bath-house shall be revealed; Yugo’s negotiation will be wrapped up and > Nadenka will, with any luck, remain the only major character NOT to be > put through some kind of horrible pain; and Tide-Line Line Blue shall > reveal the fate of the world: although the Ulysses has successfully > escaped for parts unknown, what will happen when Tean and Keel release > the map? And what of their abandoned father? Although it’s very doubtful > that Fushigi Yuugi will come to any kind of conclusion at all, this is > also (after discussion) the last episode that will be seen in Anime > Club. (This is because it was only intended as a teaser in the first > place, we simply don’t have time for it next semester, it would be > unfair to new students to drop them in the middle of more than two shows > at a time, and recent evidence shows that Irukandji syndrome canNOT be > significantly alleviated by magnesium sulfate.) > I’ll see you all there–and don’t forget that next week, we party! > –Matthew

Hail all! Well, tomorrow is our last Summer Anime Club meeting in our comfortable cave, and the end of all of our series. Sort of. You see, an embarrassed president is forced to admit that, barring a miracle, there will (alas) be no Mushishi at tomorrow’s meeting. This is because the fansubbing group (C1 Anime–spam them, people!) has not yet released the last two episodes. Although I recognized that it was something of a risk watching a series which had not yet been entirely fansubbed, I defend myself based on the following logical principles:
1. C1 Anime had never taken more than a week and a half to fansub any episode of Mushishi, 2. 21 episodes of Mushishi were already available, 3. The last episode of Mushishi aired on June 18, 4. The word “gibbous” was not in fact coined by H.P. Lovecraft but has been in common circulation for literally hundreds of years, and 6. Although they were a cool idea (Crypotzoologically speaking), “rods” are only observational artifacts and have been thoroughly debunked.
Thus, I calculated that the last episode of Mushishi should be out by the end of June and our present lack of not just one but TWO episodes utterly shames me. Please, Anime Club, forgive me! So anyway, unless C1 magically gets off their butts and does a double release tomorrow, I shall bring something fun in to fill Mushishi’s spot. Look forward to it! On the other hand, all of our other series WILL be ending. Dogtato-kun shall say goodbye to Veggietown; the fate of the Enohana bath-house shall be revealed; Yugo’s negotiation will be wrapped up and Nadenka will, with any luck, remain the only major character NOT to be put through some kind of horrible pain; and Tide-Line Line Blue shall reveal the fate of the world: although the Ulysses has successfully escaped for parts unknown, what will happen when Tean and Keel release the map? And what of their abandoned father? Although it’s very doubtful that Fushigi Yuugi will come to any kind of conclusion at all, this is also (after discussion) the last episode that will be seen in Anime Club. (This is because it was only intended as a teaser in the first place, we simply don’t have time for it next semester, it would be unfair to new students to drop them in the middle of more than two shows at a time, and recent evidence shows that Irukandji syndrome canNOT be significantly alleviated by magnesium sulfate.) I’ll see you all there–and don’t forget that next week, we party! –Matthew

Hey all– Yes, I followed our Vice-President’s noble tradition and uploaded FLAG 2 without watching it first. Judging by the first one, it’ll be good. See you next week, at the Penultimation of All Things! –Matthew