I am frequently at a loss for how best to express my ideas. There is sometimes so much to say in that a post cries out for footnotes, just so the supporting detail is accessible. Where I am referencing another site, that is easy, because I can just include the link inline. In the cases where I would like to incorporate my own thoughts without interrupting the flow of conversation in a forum thread, I will try to write a “footnote” and post it here.

Footnotes:

[1] Of course, the “notes” categories of my online journal don’t follow the traditional concept of a blog as a time-sequenced collection of essays. This is the ‘net. “Traditional” itself may be an archaic concept.

[2] “Salad days” is an idiomatic expression, referring to a youthful time, accompanied by the inexperience, enthusiasm, idealism, innocence, or indiscretion that one associates with a young person. More modern use, especially in the United States, refers to a person’s heyday when somebody was at the peak of his/her abilities—not necessarily in that person’s youth.

The phrase was coined in Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra in 1606. In the speech at the end of Act One in which Cleopatra is regretting her youthful dalliances with Julius Caesar she says:

“…My salad days, / When I was green in judgment, cold in blood…”

The phrase only became popular from the middle of the nineteenth century on, coming to mean “a period of youthful inexperience or indiscretion.” (from wikipedia)

[3]Tongue-in-cheek is a term used to refer to humor in which a statement, or an entire fictional work, is not meant to be taken seriously, but its lack of seriousness is subtle. The Oxford English Dictionary defines it as “Ironic, slyly humorous; not meant to be taken seriously”.  (from wikipedia)

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