I have no idea where it came from originally, but I ran across this list while I was cleaning my digital house the other day. It is pretty funny, but also frighteningly accurate…<\/p>\n
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Signs You Have Been Scanning Too Much<\/p>\n
10. You wake up to the repeated beeping of your alarm clock, assume it’s just the scanner and go back to sleep.<\/p>\n
9. While pouring syrup on your Eggo waffles, you note that you missed a few voxels.<\/p>\n
8. Your knowledge of brain anatomy exceeds your knowledge of geography. As in, “The transverse occipital sulcus intersects the intraparietal sulcus near the level of the parieto-occipital fissure” and “The Sahara is in Afghanistan, I think.”<\/p>\n
7. You have developed a rapid ritual for checking your body for metal that resembles the macarena.<\/p>\n
6. When you seen drawings of brains in the popular media, you instantly decide whether or not they are anatomically correct.<\/p>\n
5. Friends wonder how you can run a four million dollar scanner and still fail to program a VCR.<\/p>\n
4. You suffer frequent left\/right confusion and find yourself saying things like, “Make a left turn at the lights… No, I meant a *radiological* left!”<\/p>\n
3. At parties, you scope out people’s subject-worthiness: “It was great talking to you. Say, what are you doing Friday night? … Do you have any metal in your body?…”<\/p>\n
2. Not only can you recognize the brains of your frequently-scanned co-workers, but also their teeth from the bite bar impressions.<\/p>\n
1. When reminded of a special occasion, you remember it fondly because the scanner was free all day long and you collected lots of good data.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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