This was posted over 18 years ago; my opinions, thoughts, attitude, and writing style may have evolved since then, and this post might have been different if it were to be posted today.
major writeup will be coming soon of the past few days, but i’ve been so busy that it’ll probably have to wait another day or two to materialize. *sigh* but it’ll have so much info in it that i just have to write about that it’ll be worth it!