Quotidian, Quoted I
OK, so, the quotes in the upper-right (of the real site). I have some fun with them. Some are trolls, some are funny; some are very obscure, a few are impenetrably in-jokey; some other inclusion criteria to make a total of three clauses. So, a few things:
1. I have previously beseeched thee, dear readers, for advice on how to make it clear that one can hover a mouse cursor over the quote and find the source, as I loathe my current solution — graphically, technologically, and philosophically. I haven’t offered the standard mcgees.org prize of a banana through the U.S. mail yet, though, so, consider it offered.
2. I have thought about italicizing a line, putting it in small type, and adding it just to the posts in the RSS feed, so that the feed-enabled (and -inclined) will be blessed with the great wisdom and wit that is the quote.
3. I have ceremonially deleted “One nation, under surveillance” from the quote rotator in honor of Obama’s election. Like de-targeting ICBMs from Russian cities, this is symbolic, and would take mere seconds to undo, so consider that a warning, administration!
4. That was a joke.
5. Also, I’ve seen “One nation, under surveillance” numerous places, including bumper stickers, so, even though I came up with it independently, it’s just not cool any more.
6. I thought about replacing it with a quote from Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles — namely, “I’m not supposed to kill you, but you can’t stay here” — but thought that was probably a bad idea for a number of reasons.
7. There is only one page on the site that is hand-coded to hide the quote — namely, the big hamster one — because of the sheer number of nine to 11-year-old girls who find the page. No one has approached me yet about advertising on the page, which is surprising, as it gets more traffic than [joke deleted].
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