One headline I am never reading aloud:
“Astronomers Found Something Cold and Wet Near Uranus.”
— Postcards From Red Squirrel Trail
In spite of this excellent start, little of importance happened in Egypt until the Third Dynasty, when Imhotep the Wise, architect and chief minister to King Zoser, invented the pyramid, a new kind of huge royal tomb built of stone and guaranteed to protect the body of the Pharaoh and a large amount of his property against disturbance for all time. That is to say, Imhotep the Wise originated the idea of concealing the royal corpse and his treasure in a monument so conspicuous that it could not possibly be missed by body snatchers and other thieves. Of course, the pyramids were always robbed of their entire contents, but the Pharaohs went right on building them for several centuries before they noticed the catch in this way of hiding things.
— Will Cuppy, The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody
Well, here we are 18 years and 1700 or so posts later. How did this even happen? How is it happening still?
