Are you hardcore?
Have you got fingers of steel and too much free time in November?
Your time has come. Welcome to
THE IRON NODER CHALLENGE!
Our objective is simple: to write 30 nodes in 30 days. We will do this to prove that it is possible. We will do this because other, equally crazy people, will be doing it too. We will do this because we love E2, and E2 is not just a website written in Perl, it is not just a community - E2 IS CONTENT. But most of all, we will do it for the BIG FAT REWARDS!
Our divine patrons are alex, Avalyn, wertperch and grundoon. I am not sure exactly who will be doing what (and perhaps the doings of the gods are best not known to ordinary mortals), but I think that Avalyn and grundoon will be dispensing blessings of GP, while alex will provide "Goodies". wertperch, in addition to promising to read and vote on EVERYTHING, has promised to "grant gifts of votes-to-spend to Level 1+2 noders, and C!-to-spend for Level 3+4. for outstanding stuff". As regards the GP, I will be petitioning for the following:
- 200GP for every 5 writeups submitted as part of the challenge.
- 2000GP, plus some of alex's mysterious "goodies", for successful completion of the challenge!
For those wondering what about all the XP I was promised!, here's the thing: you may have noticed that the whole XP and Levelling System has changed recently. XP was becoming somewhat debased as a measure of the value of nodes and noders, so we now have a new currency to be used for quests, gifts and suchlike: GP. GP can be spent on all kinds of fun stuff. NOTE: The GP rewards I've given above are just guesses. alex has noted that don't actually know yet what GP is worth. 2000 GP might turn out to be utterly huge. So don't get upset if the actual award turns out lower than I've said. Whatever it is, it will reflect the huge effort that successful Iron Noders will have put in.
In addition, all submitted writeups will be listed here and will attract lots and lots of votes and C!s if worthy. Myself, the lovely jessicaj, the master scambaiter Augustine, the benevolent wertperch and the samurai noder mauler (so far) have promised to vote on ALL submitted writeups. Augustine has also promised to award one C! per day to a noder who has written something he especially likes. So, those crazy enough to participate in this challenge will find their efforts richly rewarded. New noders will gain levels like nobody's business. Old hoary noders like myself will drag ourselves closer to that elusive next milestone. And everyone involved will (hopefully) have a lot of fun, and (probably) find themselves severely challenged at least once or twice, and probably more.
The Rules
- The Iron Noder Challenge begins at 00:00 (server time) on November 1, 2008, and ends at 00:00 (server time) on December 1, 2008. Writeups submitted outside that timeframe will not be considered part of the quest.
- You must submit 30 new writeups in 30 days. The Iron Noder Ideal is 1 per day, but we must be flexible about that to allow for normal life circumstances, days away, illness, etc. Flooding New Writeups with 30 writeups in 1 day, while legal, would be frowned upon, and the E2 userbase would probably not react well.
- Any topic, any form, anything goes.
- There is no minimum or maximum length for writeups. They must simply survive. Nuked nodes will not count towards your total. For this reason, final rewards will not be dispensed until a couple of days after the 30 November deadline, to allow last-minute writeups to be voted on and pass muster with the editors.
- Even if you fail the overall challenge, you will still keep any GP rewards for each multiple of 5 writeups you submitted. However, this doesn't mean that everyone can "join" the quest, submit 5 writeups in November that they would have submitted anyway, and get 200GP. You must make a serious attempt.
- You may write a maximum of 5 daylogs.
- You may prepare material in advance. However if this stops you noding for, say, the entire month of October, this would also go against the Iron Noder Ideal.
- Yes, you can also do NaNoWriMo. Yes, this makes you completely insane. No, you can't have any more goodies for completing both.
If we are to fail, let it be a glorious failure!
If you want to participate, let me know by /msg and I'll add you to the list. I have nothing against people joining late, but at some point you have to let me know, because otherwise you won't get your goodies!
All participants will become members of the ironnoders usergroup. I'll keep everyone up to date with the latest developments and send what will probably quickly become tedious messages of exhortation. You can also wander into The Iron Noder Gym if you want to screen out the chatterbox and stay focused on your task!
IRON NODERS AND THEIR NODES
Don't panic if you don't see your latest nodes on the list. It just means I've fallen behind in keeping track of them. If I miss one out completely, however, do /msg me about it.
No. of Participants: 51 No. of IRON NODES: 686 Average Number Of Writeups: 13.5 No. of IRON NODERS: 12
- Aerobe (27/30)
- sack
- butterfly bandage
- The Season of Rebirth
- cattle cake
- when I am King, we will have no such things, but, my lads, if the old king my father were dead, we would be all kings.
- Rock candy, orange flavoured.
- November 2, 2008
- Of Love and Other Demons
- Nix
- Hydra
- death rattle
- Stichomythia
- It's too early to talk about God, or women
- November 17, 2008
- going naked for a sign
- The Distinction of High-rise Living
- November 20, 2008
- November 22, 2008
- I saw women acte, a thing that I never saw before
- secret green and glowing things
- Jake: One Squat Dog
- November 25, 2008
- Mary Rose Sauce
- make hawk
- Charles' Wain
- tawhid
- Rashidun
- alex (9/30)
- moustache cup
- Nader Trader
- Mister Obama can I have a pony
- chess clock
- Editor Log: November 2008
- Gullah Gullah Island
- Bear in the Big Blue House
- Till Eulenspiegel paints for the Count of Hesse
- Landgrave
- Andrew Aguecheek (2/30)
- Jubilee Line
- Underground Jazz
- Danneeness (6/30)
- The place between
- vegan cinnamon buns
- Pentecost
- Visiting Hours
- The Stinky Cheese Man and other Fairly Stupid Tales
- Megan Rose Gedris
- DejaMorgana (13/30)
- ADR
- The Ax
- Flea collar
- Designer Dogs
- Serendipity
- The most important thing I learned in Basic
- Fargo
- The Iron Giant
- Veterinary Technician
- Starbuck
- Netbook
- Filet Crochet
- Doily
- DICHOTOMYBOI (42/30)
- Veins of the Lower Extremities
- dorsal venous arch
- Alberto Giacometti
- Familial Mediterranean Fever
- anterior tibial vein
- fibular vein
- Patton Oswalt
- Platyhelminthes
- Jackson-Weiss syndrome
- Inattention
- An Open Letter to the Supporters of Proposition 8: Rational Discourse in Modern America
- Greig cephalopolysyndactyly syndrome
- Crouzon syndrome
- Mister Obama can I have a pony
- Kostmann syndrome
- Things That Rhyme With Dimview
- November 8, 2008
- Anton's Syndrome
- Asherman's Syndrome
- November 9, 2008
- Banti's syndrome
- Crazy as a Peach Orchard Sow
- Glass Jaw
- Mission Accomplished
- Polychaeta
- The Death of Gordon Hess
- fugly
- Sad Songs For Dirty Lovers
- Awkward Turtle
- Sketches Toward a Theory of Criticism
- Manifest Destiny
- Rotifera
- In The Bedroom
- I'm Gay For E2: An Unnodermeet
- 27 Dresses
- He made a felon of himself and ended up a box in our spare room.
- Alfred, At Least I'm Trying
- Anna Wintour
- Grace Mirabella
- Dry
- November 30, 2008
- Best of Friends
- DiscoStan (3/30)
- Doggie Diner
- The songs that break you down and the stories that they tell
- Chocolate Heath Bar Cookies
- DREAMVIRUS (30/30)
- Endless Forms Most Beautiful
- ragged umbrellas
- chocolate rain
- Viswanathan Anand
- Jesus, Mary and Joseph
- November 7, 2008
- Hatebeak
- isolated pawn
- November 13, 2008
- santo subito
- The Dead Cities of Syria
- The Empty Chair
- Usain Bolt
- The Cryptic Words Of Patrick Stewart
- The Dream Team
- November 17, 2008
- Haunting Sorcha
- Someone's Reflection
- The High King of Ireland
- secret green and glowing things
- Severed Heads and Sparks of Light
- The Death of Setanta
- November 24, 2008
- U.G. Krishnamurti
- Colder on the inside
- Counterparts
- Tabiya
- Warp Spasm
- Grange Road
- November 30, 2008
- eien_meru (5/30)
- additive smoothing
- The most important thing I learned in Basic
- Teaching writing
- Politics in terms of spirit
- Problems with Hegelian spirit
- FILORAENE (30/30)
- Tram bunching
- Heidelberg Tun
- spot market
- SD Snatcher
- dividend
- Traders, Guns & Money
- stock split
- The Airplane-Treadmill Problem
- cuisenaire rods
- sterling silver
- time deposit
- Virus
- counterparty risk
- basis risk
- liquidity risk
- The adventures of Johnny Bunko
- market risk
- tick size
- iPod touch
- How not to make money
- call
- Zero-Coupon Bond
- atomic clock
- perpetual bond
- Option
- Bond price
- long
- Short
- short squeeze
- weight of water
- GLOWING FISH (34/30)
- Paid In Full
- Marquam Bridge
- LibraryThing
- Spectacular Spider-Man #138
- Scott Catalogue
- Oregon Vote-by-Mail
- Liquidator
- Dagor Bragollach
- Ariel
- November 4, 2008
- November 5, 2008
- reflection paper
- Battle of Thirvely
- Cladistics
- down ballot
- Rationalist
- Cookie Recipes
- swing state
- The Ashley Todd Incident
- 2008 Oregon Senatorial Election
- Vegetarian Ham and Egg Muffins
- Felix Felicis
- Donald Trump
- Marriage is a positive freedom
- I can only save the world on Tuesdays
- Wonder Woman's Book of Myths
- Beyond the Mango Tree
- Eugene, Oregon
- Mountain States
- Cuckoo
- Mics of the Roundtable
- And they never think these tools will fail.
- dancer
- Wolverine #21
- gnarl (0/30)
- grundoon (5/30)
- And then I dropped the ipod in the loo.
- November 6, 2008
- November 10, 2008
- November 13, 2008
- November 15, 2008
- Hyphenated (2/30)
- Clomid challenge
- Open Letter to a Mom
- iamkaym (7/30)
- moustache cup
- November 2, 2008
- iron miner's daughter
- November 5, 2008
- Loophole
- free port
- egg for chicken
- JESSICAJ (32/30)
- The New Shipping Manager
- anaphylactic shock
- love on the beach
- Girls Who Looked Under Rocks
- The crying statue
- I wish I could eat the salt off of your lost faded lips
- Barbados
- Tell me a story about being really alive
- Last seen
- Letters I've written, never meaning to send
- my love in your garden grows, but let's pretend it's just a rose
- November 8, 2008
- I never remembered my dreams until they started being about you
- tan, thin and beautiful
- fishing with mauler
- See Jane. See Jane run.
- apples and roses
- are apples, or a woman, so far from your reality?
- I say yes, because I believe in sailboats
- November 17, 2008
- stripes
- Red Innocence
- November 21, 2008
- November 13, 2008
- secret green and glowing things
- Miss Murchison, a woman of little mystery
- Postcards from the Edge
- entropy and apathy
- Mrs. Renfro and R.W. Garcia
- The broken necklace
- Colder on the inside
- Why does it take so long to get to sleep?
- just1wheat (7/30)
- Magellan Never Navigated A Chinese Wedding
- One Dawn In Shanghai
- November 2, 2008
- She's Come Undone
- Chinese National Day
- Zhu Ji
- A Bowler's Dozen
- kalen (7/30)
- Hong Kong
- 2008 Summer Olympics
- Books to read before you give up on fantasy
- November 18, 2008
- Please don't send your resume
- Netbook
- Nunc est bibendum
- Kit (3/30)
- November 4, 2008
- Oven-Fried Chicken
- people-first language
- Kizor (1/30)
- CPR
- kthejoker (0/30)
- liveforever (7/30)
- Taganka
- Chestnuts
- Warashibe Choja
- akanbe
- posterity
- Lion of Cithaeron
- Shiggaion
- LOCKE BARON (33/30)
- Onza
- Computer collecting
- javastation
- Sun graphics cards
- focus-stealing
- XVR-600
- Meadows of Heaven
- VHDCI
- Starflight II: Trade Routes of the Cloud Nebula
- Zamphuor
- LuBu OpenMagic
- MacGyverism
- Sun Netra X1
- Sun Fire 280R
- Advice for buying a used Silicon Graphics system
- November 6, 2008
- Ultra320 SCSI
- XDBus
- MIPS R8000
- AGM-78 Standard ARM
- Anvilicious
- jiggery-pokery
- pseudoscorpion
- The morning ritual of the damned
- Sun Blade 1000
- Zuvembie
- Cursed Earth
- Nulka
- Alfa Romeo 164
- Gray Fox
- November 24, 2008
- Pandora
- V8
- MAULER (34/30)
- koan
- badger-baiting
- Enryakuji
- Shina
- Jazz Funeral
- environmental determinism
- Arhat
- kofun
- November 6, 2008
- Obama Castle
- Egami Namio
- Francis Lightfoot Lee
- Eutyches
- mentaiko
- Glass Joe
- Trevor Hoffman
- The Thoughts of Evan Brown
- November 14, 2008
- pyknosis
- pyknic
- Drain cock
- root log: November 2008
- Everything2 Chatterbox Commands
- Arashiyama
- meibutsu
- yatsuhashi
- jungle cock
- Ginkakuji
- Kiyomizudera
- Aeantes
- jungle fowl
- Business Plot
- turtle ship
- long squeeze
- Mortuorum Dialogi (1/30)
- November 1, 2008
- Noung (14/30)
- George Bush
- Cannibalism of pygmies in Congo
- 2008 US Presidential Election
- Darfur
- French complicity in the Rwandan genocide
- Korean War
- Teleology
- Leo Strauss
- Alliance for Progress
- Somalian Pirates
- Deflation
- Strategic Hamlet
- A Farewell to Arms
- The Trial
- Oolong (7/30)
- November 10, 2008
- Social bookmarking
- root log: November 2008
- Processing
- Maybe He's A Christian
- Thesis Wisdoms
- November 30, 2008
- originalzin (16/30)
- November 1, 2008
- Don't look a gift horse in the mouth
- The Empty Chair
- Unfulfilled?
- Mark's Story
- Mint julep
- you can't recreate what's over
- November 10, 2008
- Have you been a dad today?
- Lombardy Park
- Safe Haven?
- Big Book Chapter One: Bill's Story
- lame duck
- Superman is really Clark Kent, Bruce Wayne is really Batman
- Big Book Chapter Two: There Is A Solution
- Big Book Chapter Three: More About Alcoholism
- Palpz (10/30)
- alcohol intolerance
- Zack and Miri Make a Porno
- Aloha Chicken
- John Foote
- Radar Range Equation
- One Canada Square
- crossing the line
- Naval Combat Systems Engineering Officer
- Fire Control Solution
- Monopulse Antenna
- pdraleigh (3/30)
- Jack Roush
- A Night On Duty
- Flea collar
- raincomplex (11/30)
- Readjust
- popular goals
- Xin Xin Ming
- Xin Xin Ming conclusion
- another mind
- How to Remove Your Bookmarks (all of them, and with Python)
- deep in the sound
- do you see it yet?
- from where you are
- Cyclic Redundancy Check
- Dreamscape
- RAPSCALLION (30/30)
- November 5, 2008
- Boris
- The Runners Four
- Bullhead
- Strawberry Jam
- Genghis Tron
- Holy Fuck
- Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer?
- 9 Beet Stretch
- Dopesmoker
- Satori
- In The Court of the Crimson King
- Milk Man
- Man Man
- "Them"
- Lysol
- Don't Break the Oath
- Abigail
- health
- Candlemass
- drone doom
- Earth 2
- From Mars To Sirius
- Tripper
- The Gay Parade
- Master of Reality
- Boris at Last: -Feedbacker-
- Six Demon Bag
- There were people on the Titanic who waved away the dessert trolley
- November 28, 2008
- RedOmega (14/30)
- No-Shave November
- White Knight Syndrome
- Light Pillar
- November 7, 2008
- reason
- Girard's Cycle
- Pigeon Bomb
- November 12, 2008
- sibling rivalry
- November 14, 2008
- Today I clean her little fingerprints from my window
- Quantum Of Solace
- November 26, 2008
- Pandora
- richiki (4/30)
- Synecdoche, New York
- The $14 million dollar orgasm
- An Imperial Message
- unethical advertising
- rivenwanderer (4/30)
- Rice Boy
- Snapazoo
- Pipmak
- Little Dee
- RoguePoet (0/30)
- RPGeek (4/30)
- Dell XPS M1330
- libdvdcss
- Braid
- virtual console
- SHARQ (32/30)
- tineye.com
- koumpounophobia
- Damage control
- planning poker
- Onion
- scrum
- Movember
- November 7, 2008
- Kawasaki Versys
- User story
- The motorcycle isn't heavy…
- stupid filter
- Search engine optimization
- Optimizing Everything2 for search engines
- create, read, update, delete
- dynamic range
- High dynamic range photography
- de Volkskrant
- European Capital of Culture 2008
- Dutch newspapers
- Friends and lovers, but sometimes just lovers
- Free newspapers
- Sub-editor
- Pillion
- Crossing Christ out of Christmas
- bicycle
- punctuation
- Icarus
- Sony BDP-S300
- My hacked iPhone was better
- History of the E2 Voting/Experience System
- Same-Sex Marriage and the Law
- Spifficus Rex (19/30)
- The Thermodynamics of Love
- The Stripper & Miss Friendly
- Yellow Bikes & the Free Market: An Inquiry
- Michael Moved Out to Live with His Bitch & Her Dog
- Killing Sardines & Snails
- Queen Elizabeth, The Virgin Queen
- With the Right Access, Anyone Can Be a Doctor
- November 10, 2008
- Drunk Ass Bukowski
- A Skeptical Voice on the Origin of Flowers
- I Wanna Be The Guy
- sexually antagonistic coevolution
- Lonesome George
- Bathroom Voyeur Seeks Exhibitionist Prune Feet
- November 23, 2008
- Pete: One Wet Cat
- November 26, 2008
- No Snakes, but We’ve Got a Lot of Folks Looking
- Sometimes Cheese Is Not Your Cheese
- SubSane (5/30)
- In waves of incense, godless gold
- Turn the Page
- Memory
- Kill Her Softly
- Mud Brown Eyes
- Sutibu (6/30)
- Le Chef Terrible, Part I
- I Fear My Hamster
- Racer X
- Guitarists Beware: Shred Lightly
- The Big Bang Theory
- asparagus
- TENTATIVE (30/30)
- Cooling a computer
- Gyroscope
- The Notebook Challenge
- I am aching for pieces of you
- When the girl is the mission
- Eat coffee
- The classroom seating rhythm
- Smoke, alcohol and smoke: Bergisch-Gladbach
- November 8, 2008
- I'm the Bad Guy
- Delete Matrix?
- Sandro Botticelli
- Lord Abergavenny
- November 12, 2008
- colorful
- Australian Football League
- I killed him today, he who does not exist
- On painting dog's nails
- Iago
- antinode
- Farmer's Union Iced Coffee
- Schoolies Week
- This song is meant to be played so loudly it liquefies your thoughts as you drive at night through abandoned neon dinosaur bones
- November 21, 2008
- Dexter
- Shut up, you with your more intelligent arguments
- Exam Superstitions
- I need your pain or I will not live
- In this moment I feel alive
- My adulterous thoughts, they fly around the world.
- THE CUSTODIAN (41/30)
- air support
- Plexiglas
- thermoplastic
- Economy Seven
- Duralumin
- forward slip
- side-slip
- Zippo Raid
- C-Ration
- AGM-45 Shrike
- RO/RO
- AGM-88 HARM
- EMCON
- Darrieus Turbine
- test pilot
- On second thought, maybe I'd rather be dangerous
- thermobaric weapon
- I want my trail to grow over and disappear, but now someone is reading it.
- air-to-air refueling
- propeller
- boat hook
- Picatinny Arsenal
- Escape and Evasion through the subways of time gone by
- SPECWEAPS
- M72 LAW
- M-270 Multiple Launch Rocket System
- DEEP BLACK
- ballast tank
- pressure hull
- KC-10 Extender
- PRIOR TENANT
- BENTHIC OUTREACH
- VLCC
- Six Demon Bag
- PORTAL/ALEPH
- bhangmeter
- WC-135 Constant Phoenix
- Picatinny Rail
- Boeing 367-80 "Dash 80"
- Defense Support Program
- Davis-Monthan AFB
- The Lush (0/30)
- Tricia McMillan (10/30)
- my father is crazy
- November 2, 2008
- Pedagogy versus Praxis
- love poem to a poet
- father, from afar
- not all people pay taxes
- token female
- what the words want
- how I knew I loved you
- November 30, 2008
- wertperch (6/30)
- Homesick
- Meatball Machine
- November 12, 2008
- Patrick Moore
- faecal transplant
- November 17, 2008
- Whiskeydaemon (10/30)
- The best writing advice I ever gave.
- November 4, 2008
- November 5, 2008
- November 10, 2008
- November 13, 2008
- November 14, 2008
- absinthe cocktail
- November 23, 2008
- Indian Rhythms for Drumset
- FOOB
- Windrider (25/30)
- Notes
- everNote
- whiteboard
- LiveScribe Pulse
- Mechanical Turk
- Nintendo encourages binge eating
- stick pen
- The $0 price point
- Netbook
- store brand
- Use of "ass" as an intensifier
- How to always win at 3D Tic-Tac-Toe
- Google Chrome
- Task Manager
- Not Responding
- electrical tape
- strain relief
- endorphins
- A hazy kiss in a dark van
- Just-In-Time Debugger
- emusic
- Breakage
- Tarot Spreads
- WinDbg
- November 30, 2008
- Wuukiee (10/30)
- colcannon
- Watercourse Way
- slanket
- tattoo
- Silicon Valley Aquarium Society
- 14 sentences on Goodwill wedding dresses
- November 24, 2008
- mashed potatoes
- KitchenAid
- fondue
- XWIZ (34/30)
- The Tall Man
- Tragedy
- Steps
- Ira Levin
- Interior Music
- Hello Sailor!
- A Spaceman Came Travelling
- Seona Dancing
- Téo And Téa
- Debbie & Andrew's Leek And Cheddar Pork Sausages
- sausage poison
- The Magic Bind – Part Four
- triple-cooked chips
- Bernard Rose
- The Forbidden
- The Villain
- Scouting for Boys
- The Boxer
- Johnny Remember Me
- Halcyon Days
- Jackanory
- secret green and glowing things
- Trancefer
- Daddy DJ
- Blister
- Philip Glass
- Closer To Heaven
- nebulous
- Charlie Dimmock
- Chronologie
- La Cage
- Gat Decor
- Erosmachine
- Jean-Michel Jarre
- Yahoo (1/30)
- November 5, 2008