So: while looking through the daily page, I just noticed the icon by this post's title indicating that it was a personal blog entry, and its tone suddenly made a lot more sense. Apologies; I was linked here by the list of recent posts and thought it was intended as a public LW article (by which standards it would, of course, be unreasonably obscurantist!)

(PS. I'll bring this issue up in the LW 2.0 meta chat, because it seems like a rather unfortunate design)

I don't mean to make an ass of myself here, and I will go on record as saying that I enjoyed reading this post, but I can't really understand its purpose. Is there some sort of context that I'm missing? Is it part of a series? Is it a joke? Prima facie, the text seems to lack semantic content apart from what can be projected onto it by a willing reader.