(I only have 22 years of experience with the site.)
I’m on the job starting now. I’m having to figure it out as I go, so I apologize in advance for any missteps and ask for your forbearance.
With the dimming of our Cecil Adams guiding star, and the huge Ed-shaped hole in The Straight Dope Universe, now we have to gather up our scattered sh–stuff, our scattered stuff and go forward.
We have not heard the last of either of them and I look forward to their next appearances.
As we go on and I get up in this thing I will be appealing to all of you, to “the better angels of our nature;” we need all of you to come along with us. Dopers bring deep energy and powerful juju; you’ve done some really cool things over the years and we absolutely encourage you to keep on doing so.
Wait, so does this mean you’re in charge now? You can do whatever you damn well please? I assume this means we’ll finally be getting the long-rumored forum, The Tuba Hole.
Thank you, TubaDiva, for taking this on. Don’t feel overwhelmed with responsibility for the future of this message board — that will evolve through the conversations and decisions of various folks, some outside the control of any of us. We really appreciate whatever attention you kindly provide to the everyday administrative tasks — the things we teeming thousands (the hip ones and the dipsticks alike) take for granted whenever we enjoy interacting here.
