I'm going to be somewhat lazy about this. The whole introduction thing isn't really my deal, and if I tried to do one in a more conventional way, I'd end up sounding like I'm running through a speech for introducing myself at an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting. So rather than go that route, I'm going to repost something that I've written before now for a different site. To keep it so I'm only being somewhat lazy, I'll add a little to the original as I go along. Hopef...