Great Britain is a culinary nightmare

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I erroneously received an online order from Dominos Pizza in the UK. Just out of curiosity I checked to see what the person ordered.  I  was horrified to learn that the British have a pizza stuffed with hot dogs and mustard.

Baked beans and stewed tomatoes for breakfast wasn't sickening enough?  

Little darlings

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Last week I visited the old stomping ground at the University of Florida.  I took a little hike along the La Chua Trail, and the water level was very high. These lovers were sunning themselves on either side of the walking trail, forming a gauntlet. This trail wasn't in a zoo. These little darlings were right in front of me. 

Lesson learned

In an attempt to lose one of my Christmas chins, I took to a treadmill at Temple today.  I learned an important lesson about treadmills and athletic attire.

The lesson is this.... NEVER run on a treadmill wearing Chuck Taylors.

Shawshank & thoughts on moving

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The moving PODS are essentially packed, and my job at the University of Florida is rapidly winding down.  We're off to Philadelphia next week where I will be heading up a lab at Temple University.  It's a bittersweet experience.  Some things I will miss very much. I love Gainesville and my PhD students.   Some things I won't miss at all (e.g., the corrupt warden and sadistic prison guard).  Not to embrace hyerbole, but I really have crawled through a 500 yard sewer pipe over the last year.  Now I'm off to Mexico to await the arrival of Morgan Freeman, portrayed awkwardly by Dr. Jonathan Peelle. 

Carp of death

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Now that I have abandoned Facebook, I have freed up time for more important endeavors.  Today I was messing with MRIcronGL in an attempt to create some nice 3d renderings for our lesion mapping study.  I discovered an MR scan of a carp and was able to apply the GE_Color scheme, rotate the image, and cut out a slice of  the body. This looks pretty awesome.  

So many ideas....

Combining tDCSwith eyetracking -- looking at bilateral cathodal stimulation of the angular gyri during a semantic categorization task (e.f., Pyramids & Palms). It's coming.... 

Ketchup and mustard in the same bottle... that's coming, too.