Thread.new do
  until EM.reactor_running?
    sleep 1
  end
  AMQP.start :host => the_ip, :user => 'myuser', :pass => 'sompass!',
             :vhost => '/nanite'
  Nanite.identity = Nanite.gensym
  Nanite.mapper = Nanite::Mapper.new(15)
end