Myrkabah's New Writeups

Suggestions for E2 (idea)

2009-07-08T03:39:45Z

Please add e2bugs and suggestions for E2 to the vitals section, or in another easily noticeable location on the front page. Right now the only indications that these are the correct places to post bugs and suggestions are buried in news messages and homenodes, which is annoying the coders due to users understandably assuming that messaging one of them is the thing to do when no access to the reporting mechanisms is available, unless you already know both that they exist and the node names with which to access them.

Michael Crichton, Ted Scambos, and the Battle Against Scientific Stupidity (essay)

2008-09-14T17:26:11Z

Having read, re-read and re-read again the writeup by Iceowl that opens this node, I must confess that this response is written with some degree of trepidation. With no offense intended towards a longtime E2 author, his writeup here, while prettily written as always, is of surprisingly low factual quality. I am surprised to see that it has found not only traction here, but acclaim, and felt that due to this, the misinformation in it needed to be addressed, lest some passing reader leave this node with a severely distorted view of the current state of climate science.

In this critical response, I seek to present three rebuttals to the original writeup in this node. The first rebuttal is that the arguments posited in the original node are based on invalid assumptions, misunderstandings and fallacy. The second rebuttal is that the content of Iceowl's submission, looked at in a charitable light, shows an unfortunate misunderstanding of science. Looked at in a more harshly…

E2 is like a hamburger joint (idea)

2007-03-16T17:28:16Z

It's cheap.
It's open late.
It claims to be fast, but usually isn't.
It hires all the time, but doesn't pay very well.
It's dead convinced that it can serve the meat from 1999 as 'fresh'.
You know it isn't good for you, but when you inevitably come back, you know you can count on it being there.

So this one time, God walked into an inn... (idea)

2006-04-12T00:14:44Z

No, seriously, he did. This is going to be the Cliff's Notes version of this story, as I am anything but a Bible scholar, but of the passages I've paid attention to, this tale is by far one of the weirdest. Get out your bibles, as we'll be reading along via pipelink.

Cast of Characters:

All characters played by themselves.

Yahweh: The Lord, Savior, Creator and Supreme Being of the Known Universe. Colloquially known as "God".

Moses: Hebrew Leader, liberator, prophet, and reluctant hero.

Zipporah: Moses' wife.

Gershom:The son of Moses, and easily the holder of the most unfortunate role in this story.

An Ass: As in, a donkey.

Our story begins with the enslavement of the Israelites, God's chosen people, by the Pharaoh of Egypt. Fearful of their growing numbers, he had put them all into forced labor to keep them…

March 28, 2006 (idea)

2006-03-29T07:09:56Z

A lot of people on E2 may not be aware of this.

At an afterparty in Seattle on the 26th, after a typical weekend rave, seven members of the dance community were killed when another attendee left, and then returned wielding a pump-action shotgun and a handgun along with several bandoleers of ammo. He stalked and killed everyone he could find in the house until he chased one of the people he had wounded outside, and was confronted by police. He then turned the shotgun on himself. Two others were wounded.

The dance community, especially in the US, is a very close-knit family, and the shockwave of this has been devastating. I wept for their families and friends, and I wept for the loss of these beautiful and passionate young people, even though I know their souls have moved on. None of my brothers and sisters should have to know this kind of pain, and for it to be so senseless. We have never collectively known such a tragedy.

As I've come to love about these people, though, they have found…

January 13, 2006 (idea)

2006-01-13T16:30:50Z

So I figured out vicariously through the January editor log that there's apparently an application process going on for being a content editor in E2. While I'm certainly no Space Pope bent on domination, I certainly wouldn't mind a bit of power of my own to abuse. So I'm officially throwing my hat into the ring, despite being a bit late.

Top Five E2 Writeups (Other Users)

Nutter Butter - This is possibly one of the best factuals I've ever read on E2, and this is a highlight example of what a writeup can be with effort, attention to detail, and creative use of the freedom of tone that E2 offers its authors. Exemplary.
How to assassinate a third world despot with only a butt plug and a litre of raspberry coulis - This was one of the first writeups I ever read at E2, and I'll never forget how surprised I was to find that the

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