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

The Hebrew Bible

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

Heresies!

Adoptionism · Arius · Gospel of Judas · Patripassionism · Sabellianism

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

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

Language

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

Literature, cultural studies, and the academic world

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

Music

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

Television

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

Fibre arts

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

Computer Games

fade to black · Freaky Factory · Guild Wars · metapose · Plants vs. Zombies · Ravenblack City · The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion · Viva Piñata

Travel

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

The Internets

bump · capslock · Dear Sister · tl;dr · YKI,YEI

Quest Entries

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

Things that from a long way off look like flies

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

• avocado houmous
• awesome cheesy biscuit snacks
• Baked tofu sandwich
• bread dignity soup: eh.
• corn pone
• Golden Mushroom Gravy: very tasty vegetarian gravy.
• Jump Up and Slap Yo' Mama Gazpacho
• Leek and goats' cheese quiche
• Lemon Delicious Pudding
• Lemon icebox pie
• No bake lime pie
• Pa amb tomàquet: nice and simple, but I think I prefer bruschetta.
• Penne zita rigatte with Chipotle Tofu
• Roasted Tomato and Black Bean Soup
• Soup, of the green variety (both TheLady's and karma debt's recipes)
• Spicy fried potato with garlicky mushroom spinach
• Springtime strawberry bread: mine turned out gummy and strange.
• Stuffed tofu triangles
• Vegetarian Summer Stuffed Peppers
• White chocolate-iced blueberry loaf

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

• 30 Rock
• Alien Sex Fiend
• angel (by which I mean 'real' angels, not television or anime characters)
• Book of Common Prayer
• canon (the religious/textual sense)
• chrome (the band... or the substance, I'm not picky)
• church
• Conservative Judaism
• crucifixion
• dissertation
• gauge (the knitting term) -- beautifully swatched by bewilderbeast
• gnosis
• holy water
• heffalump
• hyperbole
• Iggy Pop
• Isaac
• Isis (the goddess, or even the band for that matter)
• King David
• litany
• lolcats
• loom
• mana -- summoned by mcd
• means of production
• metempsychosis
• Mimir (the band)
• mocha
• mosaic (two writeups on an obsolete browser and none on actual mosaics?)
• Orthodox Judaism
• patristic/patristics
• penis envy
• Pentecostal
• pericope
• professor
• repression
• sacrament
• scansion
• Sikhism
• Soft Cell Say Hello to an excellent node by XWiz
• Song of Songs
• superego
• sublimation
• synagogue (history)
• thesis
• The Ten Commandments (movie)
• Torah
• unconscious
• Virgin Prunes

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