Nominated July 3, 2007
Posted by keepbreathing in links, my life, news.trackback
I’ve been nominated by Mielikki over at First, do no harm for a thinking blogger award! I’m grateful for the nomination. I haven’t really ever won anything, except for the sputum bowl in college and that one “death pool” in the ICU. I’m not proud, but it was coffee money.
How this thing works is like this: somebody nominates you for the award, and then you take the award and put it on your website, and then you nominate a bunch of other people too. Here are my five picks for new (as far as I know, I’m not duplicating any nominations) nominees in no particular order:
MedicMarch over at “Meat in the Seat,” which is really about the wooliness of southern-fried EMS, honest. If you’re looking for a good post to start with, this post about the wonders of rural chemistry amused me mightily.
Another amusing medical blog that I enjoy is UroStream, by Keagirl. While I don’t commonly interact with urologists, and although I have never even considered becoming one, I do find her blogging to be amusing and thoughtful. Go and read through her stuff; I like it, although I have been told that I have odd taste.
I do like some non-medical blogs, too. The legal system has always fascinated me because of its complexly reasoned madness and the fact that something about working in the system makes people become ever-so-slightly insane, but in a creepy logical way. What I’m getting at is that I like lawyers when they’re not suing me. With that in mind, I’m going to nominate two legal blogs: first, there’s Legal Antics (a division of Sui Generis) written by NBlack. It’s always good for a laugh or a grin, and let’s face it: the legal system is pretty funny. Law students are pretty funny too, because they’re in the process of being trained to work in an admittedly insane system, and that drives them to the very brink of madness. One of my favorite law-student blogs is the collaboration between Phaedrus the socratic dude and parliamentary bomber Guy Fawkes over at All Against All.
I’m going to shift gears again for my final nomination, and go into the deep and musty realm of the green bloggers. One of my favorites is Green as a Thistle, written by the increasingly ecological blogger Vanessa. Regardless of whether you’d rather bike to work or ride your hummer through a wildlife preserve to get there, I think you could find the efforts of one regular lass to become more eco-friendly very interesting indeed. I’m not sure if she’s been nominated yet, so I’m going to hedge my bets do it here.
So there you have it, my five nominations for thinking bloggers. Of course, I’m limited to five bloggers only by the Bylaws of the Thinking Blogger Award, but I do enjoy all of the blogs in the blogroll.
Here are the rules for the new nominees:
1. Write a post and tag five other bloggers who make you think. Link back here if you’d like to.
2. Display the Award on your blog if you want to.
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As a tantalizing preview of the next post, here’s a riddle.
Q: What do you call a bloody tracheostomy tube laying unattended on a patientless bed?
A: Not a good sign.
That will be up tomorrow at some point. Ta for now.
congratulations. My best friend won the Sputum Bowl for the state and went all the way to San Antonio to compete last year.
Awesome! I only won in the college itself, never at a state competition.
I think that “sputum bowl” is the best term ever for a contest.
“Q: What do you call a bloody tracheostomy tube laying unattended on a patientless bed?”
i don’t know. but i do know that if i ever walk into a room and see that, physical therapy is in deep shit.