It occured to me that you don't have a thread where new members can introduce themselves. Rather than jam up the general forum with OMG HI Im nEw!!11 topics, maybe there should be a thread dedicated to intros?
There is a welcome thread here that's sort of being used for that. Might be it'd be handy to have one that was more obviously meant introductions. And might be it wouldn't matter any. Dunno.