AKA On Thursday We Serve Leftovers
Yep, today’s post regresses to the Heck of a Guy pastiche ploy, consisting of a batch of odds and ends that never made it as standalone posts but nonetheless clung tenaciously to the desk drawer, whether real or virtual, where they were stashed, escaping multiple attempts to purge the system of worthless detritus disguised as data.
Sounds yummy, no? Dig in.
Sex
What are you looking at?
In an eyetracking study, participants viewed a Web page that included an image of George Brett batting, along with biographical information about him. Special cameras tracked the participants’ eye movements (without requiring any special headgear). The results showed that
The report goes on to note that “men tend to fixate more on areas of private anatomy on animals as well, as evidenced when users were directed to browse the American Kennel Club site.”
And now what are you looking at?
In a different eye-tracking study, the participants (45 heterosexuals aged 23 to 28 tested 15 men, 15 “normal cycling” women, and 15 women on birth-control pills) were exposed to sexually explicit photos.1 This study found that
- “Men spent more time, and had a higher probability of, looking at female faces.”
- Normal cycling women “had more first looks towards, spent more time, and had a higher probability of, looking at genitals.”
- Women on pills “spent more time, and had a higher probability of, looking at contextual regions of pictures, those featuring clothing or background.”
The researchers explained these results by hypothesizing that the gender difference is biologically driven, since “women can tell by looking at naked men whether the guys are in the mood,” but men have to look for cues in a woman’s face.
And what are you buying?
According to research by Trojan reported in the New York Times, the average time shopping for a home-pregnancy test is 2.5 minutes; the average condom buyer, on the other hand, takes just 7 seconds because of the social embarrassment that persists about purchasing prophylactics.
Patient Compliance In Fact and Fiction
At AlignMap,2 I am gathering incidents of patient compliance or noncompliance featured in fiction, limiting myself to serendipitous discoveries. Since beginning two months ago, I’ve noticed and posted brief descriptions of these examples, one of which is indeed the titular Scrubs episode (the two Scrubs posts cover the same episode). This was begun as an indulgence for my own amusement but has proven surprisingly popular.
- The Scrubs Patient Compliance Subplot – Part I From Scrubs
- The Scrubs Patient Compliance Subplot – Part II From Scrubs
- The pills were a leash From A Darkness More Than Night by Michael Connelly
- Compliance As Metaphor: The Story of Naaman From 2 Kings 5: 1-19
- Medication Noncompliance As Plot Device From Seinfeld
Rock and Roll
The dinner music for this smörgåsbord of leftovers is also contributed by the AlignMap Blog.
Put your hands together (metaphorically) and give a big Heck of a Guy welcome to Ted Nugent (AKA Great Gonzos, The Motor City Madman), the hard rock guitarist-singer with a list of hits that includes “Wang Dang Sweet Poontang,” “Fred Bear,” “Cat Scratch Fever,” “Motor City Madhouse,” “Paralyzed,” “Great White Buffalo,” and “Wango Tango.”
It turns out that two days ago in the pre-dawn hours, my TV, tuned to CNN Headline News, displayed the unmistakable visage of Ted “The Atrocious Theodocious” Nugent appearing on the Glenn Beck Show. It’s difficult to ignore Ted Nugent at 4 AM , especially when he makes a pronouncement about healthcare compliance. (OK, I’m willing to stipulate that not everyone will get all hotted up over a discussion of adherence to treatment, but still, …)
Moreover, one can read that (pretty darn interesting, if I do say so myself) post at its original AlignMap location, Ted Nugent, Patient Compliance, and Jerry Lewis OR one can mosey over to the Ted Nugent site to read it at Ted Nugent on Healthcare, where his daughter, Sasha, posted it.
The way I figure it, now that I’m listed on Anjani’s official web site and Ted Nugent’s official web site, I have the entire spectrum of worthwhile pop music covered.
Cover Me, Legally
Kinda, sorta related to Rock and Roll are cover songs.3 In the last month, no fewer than three of my acquaintances have asked me about the legalities involved in producing a cover song. My answer to each of them has been succinct, clear, and accurate; nonetheless, they each seemed less than completely satisfied with “I dunno.”
I have since discovered a thorough discussion of the legal issues involved in issuing a cover song. I refer those interested to The Cover Song Quagmire, Three Ways to Obtain Mechanical Licenses for Legally Recording/Distributing Cover Versions on CD, by Dale Turner.
Rock on.
- I cannot determine if any of these sexually explicit photos included George Brett and/or pooches from the American Kennel Club [↩]
- AlignMap is my professional blog dealing with patient adherence to treatment [↩]
- According to Wikipedia, ‘The term “cover version’ originally implied a rival version of a tune recorded by an artist subsequent to an “original version.” Popular musicians (and especially modern listeners) have now begun to use the word “cover” to refer to any remake of a song.” [↩]
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