In consideration of the rapidly waning concentration spans and short-term memories of our loyal readership, this woefully edited post has been split into three parts. To facilitate reading this departure from the norm, the natural order of blog posts (most recent first) has been reversed. You can now start with this preface and follow on to parts 1, 2 & 3 as if you were reading something normal, like a book.

You do remember books, don't you?

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