My piece of the Pi meme

The Pi meme: If for no other reason than it's good to re-examine one's motives.Thanks to Janet for cooking up this particular indulgent recipe.

3 reasons you blog about science:

1. Nothing better to do with my free time

2. Can't resist a good argument

3. Need somewhere to spew; otherwise my opinions might find their way into something I actually get paid good money to write.

Point at which you would stop blogging:

1. When science is no longer a political football

1 thing you frequently blog besides science:

The evils of dogma.

4 words that describe your blogging style:

Opinionated, impatient, frustrated, tangential

1 aspect of blogging you find difficult:

Catching missing prepositions

5 ScienceBlogs blogs that are new to you:

Pure Pendantry
Chaotic Utopia
Dynamics of Cats
Effect Measure
Neurotopia

9 blogs you read outside the ScienceBlogs universe:

Bad Science
George Monbiot
North Carolina Conservation
Roger Pielke Sr. (Climate Science)
Roger Pielke Jr. (Prometheus)
Real Climate
Climate Science Watch
Chet Raymo
Panda's Thumb

2 important features of your blogging environment:

1. Musical soundtrack
2. View of the trees in my back yard

6 items you would bring to a meet-up with the other ScienceBloggers:

1. Beer money
2. Pencil and notepad (because my laptop's batteries are running out of capacity)
3. Flash drive (to copy stuff to/from others' laptops)
4. Business cards (because I designed them myself and I think they're pretty nifty)
5. More beer money
6. Copy of latest Seed magazine

5 conversations you would have before the end of that meet-up:

1. With PZ Myers to find out how he finds the time to post so often and keep his day job.
2. With Seed editors to pitch them story ideas
3. With Janet to compare notes on William Shatner's career
4. With Chris Mooney to congratulate him on his amazing success at such a young age.
5. With Orac, just because he's so mysterious.