You dreaded the day, but you knew it had to happen. It's happened with almost all the good sites, and now it's happened here. I am officially closing Motion Blur.
Why? Well, the last update was March of 2002. That oughta give you a clue.
Seriously, though, the reasons are varying, but compelling.
A: Tripod is one SHITTY ASS web site host. If you are thinking about signing up with Tripod, DON'T DO IT. Lycos is one big fat corporate machine out to prey on stupid kids who fall all over themselves to get with the next style trend. An instant blog tool? Gag me. Please. See, when I signed up, Tripod was still kind of cool. It actually had a readable font size, the pages weren't littered with advertisements and riddled with tables, and it offered 50 MB of space. But NOOOO. It decided to go all fucking cheap-ass on me and downgrade to 20 MB when I was already using 35 MB of space. So I couldn't do jack shit with the site unless I deleted everything important. And, hello, I consider 35 MB kind of large. Did I want to go through moving all that shit? NO. (Did I mention their retarded-ass bandwidth rules? You can only have a site on Tripod if NO ONE VISITS IT.)
B: I got a new computer, a pretty Compaq Presario 700 laptop with 21 gigabytes of hard drive space. I'm using that laptop for everything right now: assignments, music, and videos. I've got twenty-something anime music videos on Pooter-chan, in addition to six or seven epsidodes of Gravitation, in addition to over 100 albums recorded at 128 kps, in addition to megabytes of stories saved, in addition to megabytes of pictures saved. My old computer had the programs I used for my web site on them (Corel Print House 4.0 and Netscape Composer 4.0), and I didn't want to clog up Pooter-chan with those programs. Besides, it's annoying to use an image program or anything like that with a laptop. And it would be bothersome to have to use the old computer, which is slow as fuck from all the programs it has to slough through.
C: In October, I went through some serious personal problems. Problems spiked with a person who had stalked me through school for three years, and the stress shattered my mind; I was institutionalized for thoughts of suicide. I was held for observation for a week. Currently, I'm more or less stabilized on Trileptal 1200 mg and Wellbutrin 150 mg, as well as one folic acid pill and two fish oil pills a day. I also have a beautiful, talented, intelligent, and caring girlfriend who helps me immensely. ^_^
D: I frankly could not keep up with all of the emails. x_x I mean, d00d, I was so messed up I had to hand admin privileges to a member of the 6X2ML, the Czarina, who does marvelously. And I was so backlogged. Seriously, I had a long-ass multiparter I didn't even get the chance to put up! (In case you're curious, it's that 6X2 I'd been promising, and you can read it in its entirety at the 6X2ML's website.) It was possible to catch up, probably, but honestly, I'd lost the urge to want to.
My friends, I appreciate the support; my enemies, I appreciate your dumbassed attempts at sophistry. It's been a sweet ride.
Here, look, as my parting gift, here's my real email address: HarlequinJest@aol.com. You can IM me if you want.
By the way, I'm still floating around under a different moniker, though I'm pretty much gone from the GW fandom. Sorry, B.
For my last hurrah, I present these links.
The Best Damn Web Page in the Universe
For those who care not for silly things like 'sophisticated humor' or 'political correctness'
And don't expect any updates to this page. D00d, I am DONE.
Sincerely yours,
Meiran Chang