My favorite photo of the eruptions that were going on a decade ago. (credit: USGS)
My very first story for Ars Technica was my first-ever bit of writing for the public. The anniversary of the story is a pretty significant event for me since it marks the start of an entirely new career—so the 10th anniversary should be a really big deal. But naturally, I got busy and distracted and neglected it when it happened earlier this month.
Still, recognizing it a bit late is surprisingly appropriate. That first story was about Mount Saint Helens, and it was all ready to go for the one-year anniversary of the start of new eruptions there. But spam filters ended up catching it before it could get to Jonathan Gitlin, who had arranged for me to start contributing. By the time it ran, I had to rewrite the initial paragraph, noting that the anniversary had passed with little notice. (The more things change...)
At the time I wrote it, I had very little idea of what I was doing when it came to writing. But I was inspired to write in part by actions a federal judge would later label "breathtaking inanity." Those actions were taken by a school board in Dover, Pennsylvania, that had instituted a policy of promoting "intelligent design" as an alternative to evolution.
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