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Good lord do I like a good stein of maple syrup.
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Looking at the placard for a painting of a man in a wrinkly suit, Rodrigo read, “this is Greg Zoillig, whose wife invented the electric iron. Hrm. I can see why. Although I question the veracity of these descriptions, since the electric ron was invented by Henry Seely White.” Rodrigo approached the placard of the next painting of a man holding a metal stein. Rodrigo read, “this fellow was known as “sweet tooth Baldwin” because he carried a jar of new world maple syrup to every social event, not excluding funerals. Considered a bit of a village idiot, but there was always a certain fondness for him nonetheless.” Rodrigo then approached a painting of a man in a suit and read, “and this is the founder of this library, Erik Barrist. See, I told you there nere some historic figures in here. Made his money in beaver-skin erotic toys. Very popular on the frontier.” Picknar said, “I’m guessing your beavers have never been tested for sentience.” Smiling, Rodrigo said, “I appreciate that that’s the point you got hung up on.”
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If they were tested for sentience, then they might be found to be sentient, and everyone’s fun would be spoiled.
Afaik beavers are already known to be sentient. Just like jellyfish and sunflowers.
It’s sapience that’s usually seen as the divider between the haves and the have-nots.
(Sentience being the ability to perceive things of the world around you, and sapience being the ability to reflect upon it.)
Of course, since we make the same mistake regularly in common parlance, it stands to reason that future space aliens can mix it up in the same way.
Make sure you’re not testing a human-operated robot beaver.
Was the electric iron really invented by Henry Seely White? The patent is attributed to a H. W. Seely, not to a H. S. White. It’s weird because web articles on the clothes iron tend to say it was invented by White, but biographies of White never mention clothes irons or patenting inventions. And I haven’t been able to find more information on Seely.
To me, this all seems like a seely confusion between two different persons who kinda had similar names, but that’s like thinking Martin Luther and Martin Luther King are the same person.
I looked, because of this comment, and found that the Wikipedia article on Clothes Iron mentions both Henry W. Seeley and Henry Seely White. That settles … nothing.
I am assuming these are all real people cameos?
And real pets too, I should hope.
Kickstarter backers, apparently…
Wonderful
Zollig’s portrait seems to have a photopsia-affected background like van Gogh’s “Starry Night.” But since van Gogh painted from memory, we can’t be sure where the influence on what he saw and what he painted came in. Now I wonder if Zollig’s artist duplicated the effect or, perhaps, was otherwise affected by his or her own distortions in eyesight or perception. Yes, it’s been a slow day here.
I think that sentient is being misused. Dogs are sentient.
Sapience is what I think is meant.
Not sure more than a very few species are in fact sapient in galactic society, I think that the chip forces it on them.
Also suspect that Eebs invented the chip.
And I keep waiting for “Johnathan Blake, Who stepped on the gas, instead of the brake.”