Here Goes...

So this group of college buddies started with some of the earliest mass-market PCs, when we all got one when we entered college. By the time we left college, the incoming freshmen were lucky enough to get machines with hard drives. We were still stuck with 5.25 inch floppies.

But for us, it was the beginnings of using these computers to talk to each other, and in the intervening 15-20 years, as we've moved from dorm rooms to apartments to houses; from hollering down the hall to postal mail to calls on the phone to e-mail to the internet; from North Jersey to all over the country (and world), we've always thought our group conversations were highly entertaining, saying that others would get a kick out of them. Here comes the opportunity to test that hypothesis.

What do we like to talk about? Anything and everything. I surmise that there will be posts about politics, music, television, art, sports, relationships--whatever crosses our minds on that particular day. But odds are, there will be some talk about Derek Jeter. Or, in our lingo, Jetter. Don't be surprised to see him pop up in lots of posts.

Like anything new, this will evolve. But if we keep this up, and you keep up reading it, you'll start to figure out our lingo, our idiosyncracies, and our individual and collective senses of humor.

How many of us will actively take part in this blog? I can't say. We all have responsibilites, so posting may go in fits and spurts. We've got a group of 15 of us who've been given the green light to post whatever they want. We'll see where it goes from there.

Why so many? So we can be lazy and still have this blog be somewhat current. And because the net of interested parties from 15 of us is bound to be larger than from any one individual, hopefully giving us some more readership--and the feedback that goes with it.

So here we go, jumping into this blog thing. Hopefully, it'll be a fun pasttime.