Crucial Parenting Advice, and Cat Vacuuming
There are a lot of blogs out there writing a lot of good stuff, and my job keeps me busy enough that I don't read more than a tiny fraction of them. I don't even read everything that's over on the left sidebar on a regular basis-- some of them don't update frequently enough to be worth daily checking, while with others, I got out of the habit of checking during an earlier hiatus, and have just never gotten back into the habit.
There's another big class of blogs out there that I see links to on a regular basis, but don't link to myself. And whenever I follow a link to one of these sites, I like what I find, and say to myself "Why don't you link to this person?" The answer is always the same: "Because I'm too lazy to update the blog template, that's why."
John Scalzi is one of the prime examples of this. I get directed there reasonably often, and I always enjoy it, but he's never quite managed to spur me to add him to the sidebar. Until now, because I can't not link someone who wrote this sentence: "I think that one of a parent's more minor but nevertheless important responsibilities is to make sure his children grow up with a love of music that doesn't totally suck." Amen, hallelujah. It seems like a decent mix CD, too.
So "Whatever" joins the links to the left (insert your own Ben Folds joke). While I'm at it, I've added a few other links: Electron Blue which provides an interesting perspective on learning science to complement the teaching and research blogs already on the list; Chris C. Mooney, who works overtime exposing bad science; and Billmon's Whiskey Bar, which has nothing to do with science, but elevates quote collection to an art form.
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