March 31, 2004

Disconnected

Yes, that's right, I am disconnected. From being wire-bound when it comes to networking that is. The replacement router arrived this afternoon and is running along fine, allowing me to post random and essentially pointless items like this from anywhere in the house:

In the grand bazaars of twelfth-century Arabia, it was occasionally possible, if you knew where to look and you had a lot of cash and a tote bag you didn't care about, to procure an item known as mellified man. The verb "to mellify" comes from the Latin for honey, mel. Mellified man was dead human remains steeped in honey. Its other name was "human mummy confection," though this is misleading, for, unlike other honey-steeped Middle Eastern confections, this one did not get served for dessert. One administered it topically and, I am sorry to say, orally as medicine.

*burp*