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Wed Jan 12 2005 at 21:18:59 (4.9 years ago )
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sugar scrub

There are people on e2 who have a moral objection to downvoting. I am not one of those people. I cheerfully downvote writeups that are riddled with spelling mistakes; that are simply boring lists of titles, statistics, mathematical formulae, or lines of computer code; that hardlink long, meaningless phrases which are an inevitable disappointment when I mouse over them; that hardlink strings of simple words that nobody would ever click on for any reason; that are stupid in-jokes that nobody cares about; that are flat-out wrong about details that would be easy to look up for anyone who could actually be bothered; that try to behave like factuals even though they contain phrases like "I once read somewhere that"; that are racist or misogynist, including "ironically"; that read like tossed-off forum comments on earlier writeups; that are "funny" in that loud-bore-at-the-party sort of way; that read like cheap advertising copy; that use *Notepad* _style_ /emphasis/ instead of actual HTML; that beg the reader not to downvote them; that complain in a footnote about the downvotes they're getting; that contain the sorts of unfunny chestnuts that circulate in spam e-mails forwarded by well-meaning acquaintances; that breathlessly share "deep" "philosophical" "insights" on issues about which you have never read anything in your life; that proclaim how witty you are by describing some zinger that you used on a shop clerk or an ex before flouncing off; that read like awful high-school book reports; that are awful high-school book reports; that try to justify their lameness by declaring that they are nodeshell rescues; that bore or annoy me for any reason whatsoever.

I used to refrain from downvoting daylogs or anything written by level-one users. But some of them irritate me so much that I sometimes feel compelled to downvote them too.

My interests are rather varied, and any classification system is destined to be silly and arbitrary. Nevertheless, the following list might make it a bit easier to find my writeups on a topic that interests you, if indeed anything that interests me also interests you.

The New Testament and Historical Jesus stuff

616 ˇ Annunciation ˇ Bethlehem ˇ Gethsemane ˇ gospel ˇ how the gospel of Mark ends ˇ Jesus did not say this... ˇ Jesus driving out the Temple moneychangers ˇ Markan Priority ˇ Q ˇ Revelation ˇ The Beloved Disciple ˇ the messianic secret in Mark ˇ The Synoptic Problem ˇ Theophilus

The Hebrew Bible

henotheism in the Bible ˇ Israelites ˇ Judah ˇ Old Testament ˇ Septuagint ˇ Sukkot

Heresies!

Adoptionism ˇ Arius ˇ Gospel of Judas ˇ Patripassionism ˇ Sabellianism

Other stuff about Biblical studies, ancient history, and religion in general

666 does not equal 18 ˇ amanuensis ˇ aetiology ˇ apologetic ˇ apparatus criticus ˇ aretalogy ˇ atonement ˇ biblical inerrancy ˇ biblical minimalism ˇ Christians are actually atheists ˇ churching ˇ codex ˇ Codex Argenteus ˇ doublet ˇ eclectic text ˇ exomologesis ˇ form criticism ˇ harmony ˇ historicity ˇ homoeoteleuton ˇ incubation ˇ Isaeus ˇ KJVO ˇ Magnificat ˇ minatory ˇ Muratorian canon ˇ amanuensis ˇ NFFNSNC ˇ parablepsis ˇ sacramental ˇ scriptura continua ˇ siglum ˇ supersessionism ˇ terminus ante quem ˇ typology ˇ UPG

Language

alpha privative ˇ blemner ˇ contrastive focus reduplication ˇ hapax legomenon ˇ itacism ˇ Smith where Jones had had had had... ˇ text message typos

Literature, cultural studies, and the academic world

adjunct ˇ apud ˇ authorial intent ˇ CanCon ˇ Christian Bök ˇ critical edition ˇ desk copy ˇ Heroes of Destiny ˇ How to get a Ph.D. ˇ imposter syndrome ˇ James P. Carse ˇ Jonathan Z. Smith ˇ Les Provinciales ˇ Mary Douglas ˇ mirror stage ˇ overqualified ˇ privilege ˇ Richeut ˇ The Interpretation of Dreams ˇ Wondermark ˇ Yuletide

Music

Backworld ˇ John Balance ˇ Current 93 ˇ Death in June ˇ drone ˇ Durtro ˇ Good Music (according to Livejournal) ˇ Horse Rotorvator ˇ The Moon Lay Hidden Beneath A Cloud ˇ Nivek Ogre ˇ Scorn ˇ World Serpent

Television

Community ˇ Flight of the Conchords ˇ It's never lupus. ˇ Lost ˇ Number Six ˇ Pushing Daisies ˇ Weeds

Fibre arts

carding ˇ colourway ˇ combined knitting ˇ dye lot ˇ life line ˇ memory ˇ qiviut ˇ shrug ˇ singles ˇ thrum ˇ variegated yarn

Computer Games

fade to black ˇ Freaky Factory ˇ Guild Wars ˇ kill screen ˇ metapose ˇ Plants vs. Zombies ˇ Ravenblack City ˇ The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion ˇ Viva Piņata

Travel

Campo de' Fiori ˇ Let's Hang Out: A Prairietown Nodermeet ˇ the tiniest desert in the world

The Internets

bump ˇ capslock ˇ Dear Sister ˇ fmylife ˇ tl;dr ˇ YKI,YEI

Random Obscenities

asshat ˇ cock ˇ Fmylife

Quest Entries

93 ˇ airport security ˇ Gone in Sixty Seconds 2005 ˇ I don't care what religion you are ˇ Lineage of Jesus ˇ mark of the beast ˇ offices are dangerous places ˇ Prosenoder's Cup 2007 ˇ refrigerium

Things that from a long way off look like flies

accessibility ˇ buyout ˇ cryptic crossword clue types ˇ it's expensive to be poor ˇ John Fluevog ˇ Lander's Cove ˇ leg press ˇ love letters for avalyn ˇ lunisolar ˇ lisp ˇ morning after tattoo removal ˇ old habits die hard ˇ Ookpik ˇ sound ˇ tailing pond

Recipes that I have tried or want to try:

I can't believe that no writeups (or only the stubbiest of stubby writeups) exist for the following:

If you do one of these, let me know. If you do it well, I'll ching it with my awesome powers of ching!


2006-09-03 19:51:33 (Halspal) There's a rumour swirling around in the backchannels that I have some partiality to noders with "ha" nicks; eg. haze, hapax, Hatshepsut, that kind of thing. This is purely coincidence.

2008-04-13 06:37 (hapax) Donginger: Tell me about that word I'm trying to remember.
2008-04-13 06:37 (Donginger) hapax: I hope you're not copying that translation.

2009-11-02 05:17 (gnarl) ha ha, in other users: "hapax has recently noded cock"

2007.10.08 at 12:58 (r) Albert Herring says re 666 does not equal 18: ... except in base 658

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