Different strokes for different folks

Head shot

The chap in the badge on the right is my husband.  Don’t worry, he’s fine. He’s researching strokes and dementia; if you stand still long enough near a research MRI scanner you’ll be cajoled into lying still in it while the radiographers calibrate some particular sequence of scanning.

So of course I got hold of the scan and of course I got those nice folks at Zazzle to make it into a badge.

What’s been fascinating is the range of reactions I get when I tell people what it is.

• Colleague – female – late 20s – “Euch – no, sorry, that’s gross”
• Artist – male – mid 20s – “Do you have a larger copy of the image?”
• Career counsellor – female – early 50s – “… how… interesting … “
• Accountant – female – early 30s – “But why can’t you see his teeth?”
• Neuroscientist – male – late 20s – “Where did you get the badge made?”
• Cousin – female – early 70s – “Hmmm. Why did you do that?”

Me, I think it’s cool.  And at least I didn’t get it made up into a t-shirt.