My dreaming included a sentient ("sapient") parrot named Mike Schilling. It seems people with woowoo powers can boost the IQ of certain pets, causing them to develop human-level intelligence. The guy with the parrot (who wasn't me-he had a name but I don't recall it) had a woowoo power for finding things, which he used to hunt out sports memorabilia. Mike the Parrot had a vast knowledge of sports, especially baseball, and the guy used him as a knowledge base kind of like Bob the Skull. This, it seems, was the usual way to make use of a "familiar".
In article <Xns9B2F6510D788Fgenewardsmithsbcg...@207.115.33.102>,
Gene <g...@chewbacca.org> wrote: >My dreaming included a sentient ("sapient") parrot named Mike Schilling. It >seems people with woowoo powers can boost the IQ of certain pets, causing >them to develop human-level intelligence. The guy with the parrot (who wasn't >me-he had a name but I don't recall it) had a woowoo power for finding >things, which he used to hunt out sports memorabilia. Mike the Parrot had a >vast knowledge of sports, especially baseball, and the guy used him as a >knowledge base kind of like Bob the Skull. This, it seems, was the usual way >to make use of a "familiar".
Well, I dreamed the other night that I was involved in some kind of situation --- possibly an FRP MMO??? -- that involved going through repeated portals into different worlds which were all built on different works of SF. Some of which I only vaguely recognized because I hadn't read them, only read about them on this group. F'rinstance, I *think* whoozit's Draka were in there somewhere, and I never read any of that. Some worlds I did recognize were Farmer's Riverworld and de Camp/Pratt's collection of worlds in _The Incomplete Enchanter._ I don't *think* I ran into Holger Carlsen.
Anyway, I dreamed it for what seemed like hours, and woke, and went back to sleep and dreamed it some more. I can remember thinking at some semi-coherent moment, "Wow, you could make a television series out of this, if you could get all the rights."
Dorothy J. Heydt Vallejo, California djhe...@kithrup.com
Gene wrote: > My dreaming included a sentient ("sapient") parrot named Mike > Schilling. It seems people with woowoo powers can boost the IQ of > certain pets, causing them to develop human-level intelligence. The > guy with the parrot (who wasn't me-he had a name but I don't recall > it) had a woowoo power for finding things, which he used to hunt out > sports memorabilia. Mike the Parrot had a vast knowledge of sports, > especially baseball, and the guy used him as a knowledge base kind > of > like Bob the Skull. This, it seems, was the usual way to make use of > a "familiar".
FWIW, I've never had a dream about Gene (or any other the rest of you,.)
On Mon, 6 Oct 2008 11:13:16 -0700, "Mike Schilling"
<mscottschill...@hotmail.com> wrote: >Gene wrote: >> My dreaming included a sentient ("sapient") parrot named Mike >> Schilling. It seems people with woowoo powers can boost the IQ of >> certain pets, causing them to develop human-level intelligence. The >> guy with the parrot (who wasn't me-he had a name but I don't recall >> it) had a woowoo power for finding things, which he used to hunt out >> sports memorabilia. Mike the Parrot had a vast knowledge of sports, >> especially baseball, and the guy used him as a knowledge base kind >> of >> like Bob the Skull. This, it seems, was the usual way to make use of >> a "familiar".
>FWIW, I've never had a dream about Gene (or any other the rest of >you,.)
I have, but I was too busy barfing on him to take note of much else about it.
-- Bill Snyder [This space unintentionally left blank]
In article <1zsGk.4019$be.2...@nlpi061.nbdc.sbc.com>, mscottschill...@hotmail.com says...
> Gene wrote: > > My dreaming included a sentient ("sapient") parrot named Mike > > Schilling. It seems people with woowoo powers can boost the IQ of > > certain pets, causing them to develop human-level intelligence. The > > guy with the parrot (who wasn't me-he had a name but I don't recall > > it) had a woowoo power for finding things, which he used to hunt out > > sports memorabilia. Mike the Parrot had a vast knowledge of sports, > > especially baseball, and the guy used him as a knowledge base kind > > of > > like Bob the Skull. This, it seems, was the usual way to make use of > > a "familiar".
> FWIW, I've never had a dream about Gene (or any other the rest of > you,.)
I had a dream that it was Gene who authored the series of recent anonymous trolling attempts that obviously garnered less attention than he hoped for. Oh wait. That wasn't a dream.
> I had a dream that it was Gene who authored the series of recent > anonymous trolling attempts that obviously garnered less attention than > he hoped for. Oh wait. That wasn't a dream.
A lie. I've authored no anonymous posts of any kind.
> > I had a dream that it was Gene who authored the series of recent > > anonymous trolling attempts that obviously garnered less attention than > > he hoped for. Oh wait. That wasn't a dream.
> A lie. I've authored no anonymous posts of any kind.
Well, it (the off-topic political poster & co) certainly walked like you, it talked like you, and had your user-agent version in the headers. I was pretty sure it was you then, and somehow you managed to jog my memory of those posts again, so blame yourself for all the suspicion you get.
>> A lie. I've authored no anonymous posts of any kind.
> Well, it (the off-topic political poster & co) certainly walked like > you, it talked like you, and had your user-agent version in the headers. > I was pretty sure it was you then, and somehow you managed to jog my > memory of those posts again, so blame yourself for all the suspicion you > get.
Mike Schilling wrote: > Gene wrote: >> My dreaming included a sentient ("sapient") parrot named Mike >> Schilling. It seems people with woowoo powers can boost the IQ of >> certain pets, causing them to develop human-level intelligence. The >> guy with the parrot (who wasn't me-he had a name but I don't recall >> it) had a woowoo power for finding things, which he used to hunt out >> sports memorabilia. Mike the Parrot had a vast knowledge of sports, >> especially baseball, and the guy used him as a knowledge base kind >> of >> like Bob the Skull. This, it seems, was the usual way to make use of >> a "familiar".
> FWIW, I've never had a dream about Gene (or any other the rest of > you,.)
