portability
I just got myself new toys: a replacement handheld for my failing handspring prism and a full-sized keyboard to give me the portability OF THE GODS. This is how I waste my time now. I'm gonna try to use this to update the site for a little while, see how it feels. So here goes. This is a few days old, but...
This is pretty heady stuff, lying on my back, typing on a keyboard just about a centimeter thick. I'm thinking about immortality, watching a special on the pyramids, the great pyramid of Khufu, or kufhu, or khufhu, or whatever the fuck it is. The archaeologists are sending a tiny robot into less tiny chamber to drill and poke and prod into a small, "secret" chamber within the pyramid (Giza's?). While they're prolonging the "live" unveiling of the room's contents, they're cutting in with the finds of other digs. They found an arm bone, severed partway down as if to suggest an amputation. The worker's arm must have been injured and then surgically removed. The archaeologist added that the workman must have survived his surgery, and I'm watching her holding his arm in her hands. He'd worked his life away building a tomb for a pharoah, who wanted to be immortal himself. His workers painted his name in grafitti along the blocks of a hidden room (hidden only because it exists just to distribute the weight of the pyramid--I expect a similar disappointment from this new secret chamber, too). He himself oversaw the construction for decades in order to give himself a place to die. And now, they're all just dead. We know the pharoah's name, but his treasures are gone, his empire is sand and shattered stone.
