Because some time in 1994, the userid "scarecrow" wasn't available on
AOL. I took the next bird that came to mind. Besides, "duck" has the
same number of letters as "crow", and it's funnier. Just ask the Marx Brothers. Really... I only
did it because my wife had an account of her own, and I figured, what
the heck...
Why the plain-Jane HTML?
Because in the main, Flash is abused by nitwits with nothing to say.
Because HTML and plain text, appropriately used, can convey meaning
without fancy and slow-downloading graphics tools that require the
user to (again) download and maintain browser plugins, sometimes at their
financial cost.
Eventually. First I have to suck it off the tape I swiped from
Syseca, er, Harmoneca, er, Harmon ICS. Whatever.
How come there's no e-mail addresses?
What are you, a spammer or something? If you're reading this, you
already know my address... and if not, you can probably figure out
something that should work.
Where did the odd movements come from?
Oh, wait, I'm typing from the Stop Making Sense liner notes.
