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"How should I begin this // I am so offended." "I lost 30 mil // so I made another 30 // 'cause unlike Hammer / 30 million can't hurt me." Kanye West, "So Appalled" Why write this? I currently can't get high, so why not? It's one reason.  More germane, why have I written any of the dozen or so I've had since my first, created in 1994 at Virginia Tech as part of the first ever HTML course taught there? I got an A, certainly not due to style; all HTML looked was eyestrain feces then and remained until MySpace took it next-level.  But it contained stories. My professor read them, and gave them to his grad students. They gave them to their friends.  I don't know what my student peers were writing about in their web pages. The "why" concept of a web page was highly nebulous outside academia and perhaps news outlets then. Sort of like Twitter remains.  Maybe more important to understand why I've abandoned or deleted them: no