The is a FAQ being worked out here, but it isn't a bio for members of the squad.

here sapient talks about why he became so involved.

I just turned 30 this week.

Yellow am I allowed to ask what it was like in the old days?

:P 

Yellow, I'm 36, so you're not quite so old yet and neither am I. 

Fuck, you're ancient  

I passed the half century mark some time back.

I'm so old that I remember getting a Coke out of the machine for a nickel. I remember penny Double Bubble. I remember when a first class stamp was four cents.

I remember black and white TV!

I watched "Leave It To Beaver" when it was shown in prime time.

I had a record player (not a stereo) that played LPs.

I remember the operator saying "Number please" when you lifted the handset of a telephone.

Now that's ancient!

Did you walk ten miles to school all up hill, through the snow, both ways?

I remember being annoyed at having to pay 1 penny tax for my 12 cent candy bar, and being able to buy a candy bar and a coke for 35 cents.

I remember having to choose between either that, or two 15 cent comic books, and being very annoyed when they went up to 25 cents.

I remember the excitement of Batman coming on TV, or the electricity that went through the air when the NBC peacock came on to announce that the next show was in Living Color (tm) 

I remember how happy my father was when a new Beatles Album came out.

I remember how he would show off the ninety bucks from his paycheck, and take us out to McDonalds for 3 bucks, and get change back from the other 3 dollars he used  to fill up the gas tank of our volkswagon beetle.

As much as people might say "the prices are the same, it's just inflation", it still somehow seemed cheaper even back then... 

I feel so young. I turned 20 in December. Most of my friends were in their 20s before me though. I do however remember black and white tv. My parents were fairly poor mid-late twenties when I was born and for the first five or so years of my life we had a black and white tv which my mum had taken to uni with her. I remember with joy getting a VCR and colour telly! We didn't even have a family computer till I was 12! And they still have that now tired geriatric senile computer.

I'm 17, too.

I think I'm the youngest mod on here. Who knows? o.o;

I used to believe all the shit about heavy metal music until I started listening to it. That may have been part of what turned me agnostic and eventually atheist. I found out I disagreed with Chirstians about virtually everything and then realized just how ridiculous the whole myth is.

Rook, if you find that someone is kicking too much sand in your face, just let me know and I'll hit 'em with my cane.

As the saying goes:  "Old Age and Treachery will overcome youth and skill."