1. Welcome to the 100 th Meeting! San Diego Lyncean Group

2. The 100 th Meeting of the Lyncean Group of San Diego 12/16/15

3. A quantitative analysis of the group’s achievements to date…

4. Estimated Number of… Meetings:100 Times we had computer problems:100 Good questions: 1,500 Bad questions: 0 (there are no bad questions!) Viewgraphs viewed: 4,000 (3,000 if Pete Lobner’s talks are excluded) Websites created: 2 (tip o’ the hat to Giancarlo Borgonovi) Visitors to new website: 479 (as of 1:30 PM on 12/15/15) SWYC parking tickets: 6 (@#!$ %^& and the horse you rode in on!)

5. Estimated Number of… Talks by prestigious Deans: 5 (USD, SDSU, Caltech, UCSD, and Dean Kaul) Talks by John Asmus: 8 (!) Members’ projectors borrowed:1 (thank you, David Groce!) Sandwiches consumed: 3,000 Pickles consumed: 955 (#sandwiches/   Cookies consumed: 9,425 (#sandwiches X  2  Worthless Research Monthly, “Pickle to Sandwich Ratio for Retired Males in Southern California”, Joseph P. Cucumber and Chocolate F. Chip, 21, pp. 13-29, December 2010. 2 Worthless Research Monthly, “Cookie to Sandwich Ratio for Retired Males in Southern California”, Chocolate F. Chip and Joseph P. Cucumber, 21, pp. 30-45, December 2010.

6. Graphical Summary of Lyncean Progress Suitable for Congressional Consumption Good Bad Good

7. The future of Lynceans

8. Predicted Number of Lyncean Members at the Beginning of the 22 nd Century Based on 6 members in 2002 and 115 members in 2015, the annual growth rate is (approximately) 23.48%: Note: current population of the world is ~7,200,000,000 World domination is within our grasp! “The most powerful force in nature is compound interest” Albert Einstein, Benign Overlord 5,683,555,297

9. However, all is not rosy… We could face a serious future shortage that could limit our growth into the 22 nd century The following will be required every 6 weeks for our meetings in 2100: – Sandwiches: 5,683,555,297 1,136,711,059 lbs of cold cuts – Pickles: 1,809,127,609 – Cookies: 17,855,457,323 Clearly, we will have a problem Therefore the Program Committee recommends the creation of a US Strategic Sandwich Pickle Cookie Reserve – Write your Congressman immediately!

11. Pete’s nuclear powered submarine Southwestern Yacht Club, San Diego