Minor Arcana

For storing silliness.
De gustibus non disputandum.

About the falling letters: I made the first version in Flash, ca. 1998, and it ran without incident for 17 years, which is not bad, as far as Web stuff goes. My favorite feature was a little green off-switch with a Falstaffian protest against being “scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.” I didn’t stack the deck by including extra vowels or weighting other frequencies, which meant that coherent words rarely tumbled down the screen; hence, the longer the word, the luckier you were.

In the old system, I once saw “dystopic” and “Berlin.” Brendan reported: “Sexy Button! It’s a Fib.”  And a hungry Chad claimed to have been tempted with “Garlic Naan.”

Eventually, Wayne Graham started getting on my case about the Flash, and in 2015 I ultimately gave in, and started using the replacement letters he made me as a lovely, pestering gift a couple of years before. Thanks, Wayne! PS: still here.

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