It's February already? Then I needs must put up my January Editor Log! It's where I keep a record of all the concrete stuff I do for the year. Yes, this means if you look at Jan. 2005, there's one there as well.
In the mean time, I might as well list a few credentials since so many of the eds have done so. I have an MA in English Education and one in English Language and Lit both from NYU. I'm leaving my Ph.D. program as I realized it's not the right thing for me anymore. Too bad I didn't realize that 3 years ago! Still, I can do academic speak when required. My other areas of knowledge are all amateur, but I'm trying to make the knitting pay for itself these days. There's always something new to learn, though, and I don't pretend to know everything. And there's always someone out there whose skill and knowledge dwarfs one in some area or another. Which keeps me relatively humble.
My favorite writeups can't be summed up in a short list. Here are some of them, though. They think I'm a god; No less a man; Green onion and ginger sauce; I glimpse the elephant; Dearest, I feel certain; So this one-legged man walks into a bar; and How do you know the fishes are enjoying themselves?. This list is only barely representative. It's like asking me to pick a favorite book.
My own which I feel are the best? A Mighty Wind as an example of how to do a track list. A Chinese Christmas in New Jersey which fits here. I can think of no other place this would belong so well, including the class for which it was the final paper (with some differences). Möbius scarf which was my first foray into trying to write something about knitting here. The later pieces may be more polished, but I still like this one the best. It also kicked my ass. Have you ever tried to describe something which is conveyed very easily in pictures by words alone? It can be unbelievably difficult. Especially for something which doesn't have conventional sides!
I point new users to all the usual suspects, but mostly recommend they read and ask questions. Your first writeup will be nuked: Don't give up is my default "I've nuked something of yours but only for your own good" follow-up for newbies. When teaching by example, I tend to direct users to good noders to read rather than specific writeups.
Now, on to the record keeping.
nukes:
Jan: Understanding the female orgasm by Agthorr (blank wu); Stroker and Hoop by edgemonkey (newbie); wild boy of Aveyron and Broca's aphasia by dmd (copyright); Life's Citadel by skovlic (previous content replaced with rant); salad by GoBanana (newbie); China Beach by Zero7one (newbie); Are you a fish? by idlethumbs; Videovaganza by XWiz (per request); Xenosaga by Anotsu_Kagehisa (superseded, and wrong location); Uberman's Sleep Schedule by trustus (newbie); the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune by polyseeme (newbie); World Trade Center terrorism by eefje (newbie); Oh my god, what is wrong with that dictionary? by Humbuzz (newbie); Arte de la pintura by SCK (newbie); Why must girls squat to pee? by animegoth (newbie); Bare with me... satan is god & god is satan.. think about it. by Dark Vader (newbie); willy-nilly by Thea (no text); Iwo Jima by gunnyg (newbie); Great Battles of the Roman Republic by cherry gurl (newbie); If you think it only takes a big diamond to win her heart, think again. by meisjp (newbie); Boyd Rice by cantsin (superseded). Feb: Left Wing Fascists by turbolwf (newbie); Crochet by c. destruction (newbie); Sleeping with your flatmate by SeaWolf (newbie).
March: high-amplitude sucking, good grammar, Specific Language Impairment, SLI: temporal processing disorder, SLI: linguistic accounts, SLI: nonlinguistic cognition, SLI: genetic factors, SLI: language environment, SLI: asynchrony, SLI: delay or deviance, SLI: developmental delay, allophone, closed-class words, CHILDES, genie by dmd (copyright), METHYLENEDIOXYAMPHETAMINE by LiamJoseph (newbie).
April: it is not love, let's not tell by MCH7 (newbie).
red pen: (serious only, and authors always get a msg when I correct a typo.)
Jan: Agaani had an editing error, moved text to Town: a brief bit of writing and nuked other.