My worst habit is my incessant need to highlight and de-highlight text as I read at the computer. It started when I tried to catch up on seasons of missed ER episodes by reading the lengthy Television Without Pity descriptions, all on white background, and my eyes started to burn. The highlighted text had a blue background that went easier on my exhausted retinas. Ever since then, whenever I’m reading something on the Internet, I highlight sections at a time, sometimes drawing shapes, sometimes to a rhythm. I can’t control it.
I tried to put a stop to it before I came back to school junior year because I knew all the mouse-clicking would drive my roommate crazy. She would say, “you’re highlighting again!” as I stared at pages of The Electronic Canterbury Tales, my face bathed in LCD-glow for hours at a time. Eventually I managed to wear myself down to only doing it on the silent touchpad mouse, but she would still laugh at me. It is a really ridiculous habit.
But if I wasn’t constantly dancing the cursor around, I would miss stuff like this: click on the left question mark above techinical difficulties turkey’s head at the end of the Thanksgiving 2005 Homestar Runner cartoon.
- STRONG MAD: CAN I KEEP IT? (Bubs’ concession stand, which he is wearing)
- STRONG BAD: No, you can’t keep it, now go put that thing back.
- STRONG MAD: IT FOLLOWED ME HOME! (He ‘absconded’ it and wore is through the Thanksgiving Parade.)
- STRONG BAD: Uh, yeah, that’s not true.
That’s called an Easter Egg, celebrated all year ’round. Nothing says Happy Holidays like a Homestar Runner cartoon of mockery.
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