Today's Damn Doodle (5/3/01)

Michael · Post by **Michael** » Thu May 03, 2001 2:19 am

I'm ... going to have to think about that one.------------------
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Toddandpenguin · Post by **Toddandpenguin** » Thu May 03, 2001 2:55 am

I liked it too. More interesting, however, was a look at the old website, on geocities. I liked the webcam and FAQ.

I just realized that the comics weren't up today, as I just had a chance to get online. I was going to put mine on my message board, as I usually do, but I can't even get into my freakin' FTP now! Your post on my board was right, this does make us look bad to the average reader who doesn't know of the server problems. If only there was a way to direct them to a mirror site when ours is not updating correctly. ~dave------------------
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Toddandpenguin · Post by **Toddandpenguin** » Thu May 03, 2001 3:02 am

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by adsinfinitum:
I liked it. Sometimes I get ideas for stuff from dreams, but if I relayed the faithful they'd just be confusing. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE> Sometimes I'll get an idea for a short story or book from a dream, and rush to write it down in the middle of the night, thinking, "this is the best thing ever thought of by a human!" and then the next morning I will get up, and look at it, and it will either be confusing as hell, or the lamest thing ever written by a human...except maybe "Cop Rock." So, my theory is that either I am not a good critic of whats good in my dream state, or someone is breaking into my house, stealing my real ideas (probably that sneaky Clive Barker!), and leaving behind really lame dreams.~dave------------------
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BoxJam · Post by **BoxJam** » Thu May 03, 2001 11:35 am

I've uploaded it here:
<A HREF="http://www.geocities.com/boxjam/bj0503.html" TARGET=_blank>http://www.geocities.com/boxjam/bj0503.html</A> KeenSpace will be displaying it sometime
Sunday, at the current rate.Thanks for your patience.------------------
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Somebody Strange · Post by **Somebody Strange** » Fri May 04, 2001 1:06 am

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Michael:
My God. Dave, you did that Seuss/Star Trek thing? Can I get a signed copy?My God. That was one of the most inspired things I ever read.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>Yeah, I did that back in '95. I was a freshman in college, and I received a bunch of Seuss e-mails (if a packet hits a pocket etc), and I told a friend (HannibalV of the Vicious Lies boards) I ought to do one. Being a big Trekker, I said I should do ST:TNG, "but what would I rhyme with Worf?"He thought for about half a second and said, "Morph?"Ten minutes later, I sent that out over e-mail to a dozen friends. Since then, it's appeared on more than 10,000 individual websites, many with no credit given, some with incorrect credit given, and many with the wrong e-mail address (although I can be reached at DeMorseaux at aol dot com as well.) I've gotten fan e-mail from several different countries, as well as requests to do the other Trek shows. I have NOT done the other Trek shows, so if you find ST:Voyager or ST :DS9 done by Seuss, they're NOT MINE. And I wouldn't WANT to claim them.Was this the first time you read it?Hmm... methinks I should add it to my own site and then advertise again. Heh.There was once a cartoon version, done by a lady named Marissa something-or-other, but she took it down, and I can't find it or her anywhere. I may draw my own cartoon for it now, who knows... but yeah, I'll be happy to send you a signed copy. I'll need to know where to send it, of course... I've got a mailto link at Vicious Lies (coughcoughwantthetrafficcoughcough) if you need it.--Strange/DaveEdit: Forgot to remove smilies. ST:DS9 looked awful weird.------------------
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Michael · Post by **Michael** » Fri May 04, 2001 3:12 am

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Somebody Strange:

Was this the first time you read it?
<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>No, I ran across it years ago. Actually, come to think of it, when I still worked (contract) at Lilly. What goes around comes around.
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Somebody Strange · Post by **Somebody Strange** » Fri May 04, 2001 5:25 am

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by toddandpenguin:
 Sometimes I'll get an idea for a short story or book from a dream, and rush to write it down in the middle of the night, thinking, "this is the best thing ever thought of by a human!" and then the next morning I will get up, and look at it, and it will either be confusing as hell, or the lamest thing ever written by a human...except maybe "Cop Rock." So, my theory is that either I am not a good critic of whats good in my dream state, or someone is breaking into my house, stealing my real ideas (probably that sneaky Clive Barker!), and leaving behind really lame dreams.~dave<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
Oddly, I've had situations where I've gotten up in the night to write down really good ideas, but within a month the exact plot I had envisioned for a novel is suddenly in a novel I'm reading. For example, back in my <A HREF="http://www.seuss.org/seuss/seuss.sttng.html" TARGET=_blank>Star Trek: the Next Generation fandom days</A>, I came up with an idea for a Trek book involving a large gemstone with residual psychic imprinting that affected anyone who held it. A short while later, I was reading a Trek book that had -- surprise! A large gemstone that psychically affected anyone who held it.To my surprise, the idea was not good. The book was awful, a sort of grotesque retelling of The Lord Of The Rings in space, turning each crewmember into Gollum in his/her turn.A friend of mine insists I'm having some kind of psychic pick-up. I don't really believe in that (much), but it's remarkable how consistently bad my dream-ideas turn out to be -- at least, when done by other people. Heh. --Strange/Dave------------------
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Michael · Post by **Michael** » Fri May 04, 2001 9:24 am

My God. Dave, you did that Seuss/Star Trek thing? Can I get a signed copy?My God. That was one of the most inspired things I ever read.------------------
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Toddandpenguin · Post by **Toddandpenguin** » Sat May 05, 2001 12:43 am

Good job on the Suess/Trek thing, other dave!Really funny.~dave------------------
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