So that blasted Rhapsody commercial got me me wondering about Sara Bareilles. I mean, it’s a great song (”Love Song”), but it was more that she was just crazy jamming on that piano with a crazy smile the whole time. So I got the CD for Natthanit, but I must admit I’m listening to it right now.

Anyway, it turns out that she has the same birthday as me, and she went to UCLA. Small world.

And then while I’m trying to score the sheet music, I end up at some site that has the top requested sheet music in this list on the side. Lo and behold, Boston by Augustana is right up here with this song.

So two of my favorite things turned out to be related!

Natalie Portman, my favorite actress, published a paper in NeuroImage when she was in school about Near IR imaging.

Well, it just happens to be that the Director of my lab founded that journal and was “co” Editor in Chief for many years. Our lab has a few dozen covers in NeuroImage (they pick an article each issue from which to get the cover image), and because of that we have framed copies of the journal all over the lab’s walls.

Apparently we have archives of all the issues in our conference room; I fully plan on tracking that issue down!

I’m aware that there are thousands of fan sites (and fans) that are aware of this and sing accolades and what not, but I thought it was worth sharing because I guess my lab has played a large role in the existence of that journal.

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