So we'll give this a little crack...

Most of my thoughts are not really worth much: barely enough to communicate over a telephone call, certainly not enough to compell me to sign up for an account with Blogger.com, sift through 60 sample blog templates, and start posting those aforementioned thoughts. Besides, the world has too many blogs. Some of the world's brightest and wittiest minds have finally joined the blogosphere. There's really no room for a lowlife like me.

Just as there is safety in numbers, however, I hope to discover that numbers help bolster what might have been an otherwise insubstantial and pitiful blog. Yes, I thought to myself, you are but a meager mite, David. And yes, I thought, my brothers are both of meager mite status. But if all our powers were combined in one cyberstatic union, perhaps we could cooperatively produce a blog of merit and vigor like has not been witnessed since the days of yore.

Actually, that's a bit misleading. The true story is that I had been intrigued, perhaps for over a year or so now, by Ben or Steve's suggestion to have some sort of photo/poetry contest held online. Of course, the contest never materialized (I was I just never invited?) but I still often thought about the idea. What if we could have a central spot to post various interesting pictures, perhaps with a short narration? The pictures could be interesting, in and of themselves (I assumed this category for Steve) or they could be interesting simply in virtue that it becomes a conversation-starter for what has been happening in one's life lately (I assumed this category for Daniel and for all pictures depicting Dad with shaving cream on his bald head).

So there you have it. I thought it would be nice to have a community blog where we could all dump pictures and other things onto it. (Also, if I can generate enough traffic - and with a family this large that would be inevitable - then my AdSense payments will skyrocket). Anyone else can start posting to this blog. You have to get a Blogger.com account. Then I can add you to the member list. So far it's all been free. I'm not quite sure what I signed in that Terms of Use contract, though.