February 19, 2004
Ancient Sumerian Horn of Plenty
Sumerian Dictionary to Decipher Ancient Texts
If you're like me, and the surveillance team tells me you are, you get all tingly at the thought of deciphering ancient tablets coverd in golf-tee imprints and drinking cold cofee into the wee hours in a museum storeroom lit only by a magnifying desklamp. These links are for you, oh spiritual sibling. We start off with two great links for the Epic of Gilgamesh. From there, we unearth some great fiction and fact from James W. Bell. Further exploration reveals a racy creation story, a collection of goodies, some technology straight out of Snowcrash, and with our archeological metaphor exhausted, we enjoy the world's most interesting unicode project. Wicked cool stuff.
As you have probably guessed, I'm about 13,000 words into the rough draft of a new book which I expect will be full of Sumerian gods, necromancers, zombies, government conspiracies, secret fraternal orders, the Akashic Record and supermarket customer service clerks with exceptional compiler design skills.