why im blowing up my site

This one's for all you bloodshot-eyed maniacal fans of the "ee dee tee dot eks why zed" blog, those who frantically refresh the home page every five to ten seconds to see what they've missed.

You may have noticed the index page to this site looks a little different. I.e. I took away basically everything. Why? Well, basically, I'm embarrassed. Yes, embarrassed that if you come to this site you can still see the shit I made in high school. Don't be looking at that! Why are you looking at that?! Please don't look at that. It's dumb.

Now, dear longterm readers, I hear your clamour. "WHAT?! I WASN'T FINISHED READING THAT! PUT IT BACK!! GRAAHHH!" Well, my caricatured-as-stupid-and-yelling friend, worry not! You can still read the embarrassing and terrible old stuff I wrote! How, you ask?^[1] Simply click on the link at the very bottom of the page labelled "juvenilia", and it will take you right back. (Yes, half the reason I'm doing this is to have a reason to use the word "juvenilia".)

miscellaneous other questions

Q: Most of the time when people do something like this they change the "look and feel" of the site too. Will you be doing that?

A: Ha ha. No.

Q: Why not? This is ugly.

A: Who let this guy in? Get the fuck out of here

Q: Why are you embarrassed? Have you BETRAYED your views?

A: I don't necessarily not stand by many of the things I might or might not have posted.^[2] I'm mostly just embarrassed out of general principle.

Q: Where did the categories go?!?

A: I did them manually, so it was a real pain for not much benefit. Plus advanced analytics^[3] show that practically no one used the category pages anyways.

Q: Isn't that just because no one uses this website?

A: This interview is over