54,690 posts ago, I started this blog on Nov 6, 2006, and here's what I said to kick off this endeavor:

In the beginning, men became fed up with walking.

Then they realized that horses left horseshoes, nails, and piles of manure in the roads

Soon, the marvelous elixir of gasoline was concocted, Firestone discovered the method of vulcanizing rubber.... and the birth of the internal combustion engine happened, roughly about the same time, and Voila! Some smart guy put it all together, and the human race began rolling around with engines powering wagons and the horse became obsolete

The automobile was on it's way to changing human culture, art, and transportation.

(every couple of years or so, it's a good thing to remember where you started, so you might see in context how far you've come, or grown, or just to be a bit nostalgic)