"I am a patient boy; I wait, I wait, I wait..."

Ran across this breathtaking gem today while searching for something else:*

"What makes bibtex superior over Endnote and Citavi is, that Bibtex was invented by the UNIX Community. It is working on the command line. Before somebody can use Bibtex, he has to become a UNIX expert, which means he needs to be familar with the C programming language, the Linux kernel and textformatting tools like sed, grep and awk." **

So...in order to use what is well described as a very useful and well designed footnoting tool, a hapless paper writer has to become a Unix expert?

I am not going to comment on the ramifications of the idea that a bibliographic reference should demand familiarity with grep.

*Which I can't talk about because it would derail my indignation.

"We looked fear right in the face...and avoided direct eye contact." -- SpongeBob SquarePants

That the alternative to being drunk and raving was to drink and read web page sources had never occurred to me before.*
So I was pleasantly surprised to discover this remark in the source code of Peter Welch's http://stilldrinking.org/ :

/*

Yeah, there's some shitty code here. 
There are some things that shouldn't 
be done. I did them. Sometimes, I had
my reasons. Sometimes, I was just being 
lazy. But guess what? You're sitting
there reading the source on some guy's
blog. So fuck you.

*/

So awesome.
What makes his alcohol-fueled composition even better is his damned footnotes. So neat and tidy. I want footnotes like that, and guess what? Blogger does not have them.
Careful study  demonstrates I have  options for the massively overused  Jump Break,

1. Numbered Lists,

• Bullet Lists,

And Quotation.**

I can strike-through and Change the Background Color

But I can't footnote. Dammit, Blogger! I am tired of using asterisks to guide parenthetical remarks; besides, without the dagger, double-dagger, section and pilcrow, it just looks confusing.
Now granted, HTML has never adopted the footnote, and granted also that there is a local-reference-hyperlink workaround, and furthermore there is always Unicode ( U+00B6,
U+00A7, U+2020 and U+2021), but why can't I just hit a footnote button while in the Compose pane and have the machine do all the work for me?
That is the point of computers!***  Anything boring or repetitious, like say playing any MMORG to level-up or
composing cover letters to unknown strangers should be automated. Its nice to be able to open the hood to hand-correct when things go wonky, but I still like to have it distilled to 'Highlight/Press Button'.

Pierre Boulle wrote a story about a story-engine...I shouldn't bring Boulle up as the idea of a automatic story machine has occurred to a lot of writers, and I believe some self-writing blog posting machines exist (All of  Mencius Moldbug for instance). But I'm too drunk to bother researching what the hell I am talking about, and Boulle's version sticks in my mind because of the apes. No wait, that was the story that was 'turned into' Planet of the Apes which I read long before I watched. I also read the Jerry Pournelle adaption of the movie, which gives us a story turned into a movie turned into a novellette. 
Having read this far, I've totally wasted your time: I am thinking about Roald Dahl, and confused it with Boulle's man who hated automatic doors and improbable anti-aircraft guns. Dahl could never have written 'The Bridge over the River Kwai'[pretty heady stuff to read when you're 10], but he could write at a better level than 'The BFG' would suggest.[Such as Edward the Conquerer, or Skin of Nunc Dimittis]



*Usually the presented alternatives are simian.
**Invisible block-quoting. Go look at the source, if you disbelieve me.
***And porn.