I want to say welcome and thanks for stopping by to all of you whom I’ve encountered in the last 8 or 9 days.  Be it in real life or virtual, social-media life.  I’m happy to have you over, and I aim to keep you as mostly entertained as possible, even if it means I have to sell sea shells by the sea shore to do so in front of a video camera with a half broken lens.  I’m here to please, and pleased that you’re here.

To keep this as simple as possible, and brief — the drum we’re to be with marching is not what you’d expect from your usual run of the mill beta tester.  Which is to say, “don’t expect what you’d typically expect.”  The name tags are real.  The lies are real.  The laughter is legit.  The smile was purchased from a friend I used to know back in middle school.  Still, I trust that you trust me to share with you, and I appreciate that.  I am clearly obvious and obviously clear without being blatant about wanting to meet, greet, and chat with all you fine people.  We’ll have to exchange cryptically coded memos as the year wears on.

All that aside, I’m looking forward to further exploration with all of you.  And those things I told you, they’re almost all true.  We’re gearing up to make seven documentaries about the long lost soul of a great underground statistician known as the unknown.  Equivalent to forty-two hours of gut wrenchingly good and somber times.  You’ll have a hard time and be well pressed to find anything like it anywhere else on the InterWeb.  I mean it.  I really do.  My producers are getting upset that I’m even saying anything about it right now, but that’s of no concern to us.  So stay tuned and stick around.

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A Relatively Quick Hello was first posted to justinll.com on September 15, 2008.