Memory Discussion How's Yours?

[sms]

18436572 Firing order of a small block chevy
153624 Firing order of a chevy straight 6 (that's easy, too young, too old, just right)
8 x 3.48 x 3.14 x 2 x 2 calcs for a chevy 350 v8
9600 x 24 x .535 x .0009486 x .9 speed calc for an outboard drag boat spinning a 24" pitch prop at 9600 rpm thru a merc gear ratio
All my past phone number
All my past addresses
The neighbors phone # from when I was less than 10 years old
I don't need speed dial or a phone book usually when calling a business I've called before.
If I had liked math in school I would probably have done real well, but barely squeaked by, probably because it did not interest me.
Etc.....

I did not look up any of the above while typing this post.

I can recall number sequences in a kind of spooky way. Sometimes names, but only if I play word association. Like if someone says her name is Laura, I say to myself Dr. Laura.

I can play a guitar song that I have not played in 10 years if I start at the beginning and don't think about it. (Reflex memory?)

I know way too many song lyrics.

Thank God for spell check.

I have trouble remembering which drawer my socks are in.

Sometimes I open multiple cabinets to find the cereal.

If I move a light switch, I always reach for the old spot.

I can go out to feed the dogs and forget why I'm out there.



My short term memory seems to be fading pretty fast.
Brain function and memory facinates me, but I've never really taken any time to study it. I do think it's time I start practicing memory excercises. I was wondering if any of you have wierd clutter in your head you can't purge to make room for important stuff, and what kind of things do you do to improve your memory skills?

[j_martin]

I have a spelling checker It came with my PC. It plane lee marks four my revue Miss steaks aye can knot see.

Eye ran this poem threw it. Your sure real glad two no. Its very polished in its weigh, My checker tolled me sew.

A checker is a blessing. It freeze yew lodes of thyme. It helps me right awl stiles two reed, And aides me when aye rime.

Each frays comes posed up on my screen Eye trussed too bee a joule. The checker pours o'er every word To cheque sum spelling rule.

Bee fore a veiling checkers Hour spelling mite decline, And if we're laks oar have a laps, We wood bee maid too wine.

Butt now bee cause my spelling Is checked with such grate flare, There are know faults with in my cite, Of nun eye am a wear.

Now spelling does not phase me, It does knot bring a tier. My pay purrs awl due glad den With wrapped words fare as hear.

To rite with care is quite a feet Of witch won should be proud, And wee mussed dew the best wee can, Sew flaws are knot aloud.

Sow ewe can sea why aye dew prays Such soft wear four pea seas, And why eye brake in two averse Buy righting want too please.

[baja200merk]

thats great hahaha!

[RichS]

How about some good info;)
F=MA
PV=NRT

60mph=88ft/sec
120mph=176ft/sec
In 1/4mile OB drag 200lbs~1sec
@ 120mph 20lbs=17.6ft

:eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: ;) :D

[pyro]

I remember my childhood savings account number, hanven't had that account for 15 years.

I still remember .0821, the constant from the PV=nRT gas law formula. Chem II from senior year of high school, gosh, that was 12 years ago.

I remember taking a bath in the sink as a baby, pissing under my bed, and taking a sh** in the front yard when my diaper was off. :D

I used to record my farts onto a tape recorder, but then my mom took away my fart tape.

[flabum1017]

688-9447

The phone number at my house where i lived until I was 11.

868 2337

phone from age 11 - 16

435 0635

phone from age 16- 35

*** 9234

phone from age 35 to present

I am very good at remembering numbers, bad at names.

[E-tec1]

are we all related somehow, i cant remember why i go out to start my truck sometimes,remember way too much stuff thats irrelevant, maybe its the boat thing

[stokernick]

3331 3477 telephone numbers at my father's store and home phone number before dial up when the operator would come on line and say ''number,please!''

[transomstand]

What was the question????:confused:

[SFRacing]

I have a hard time remembering what bar I left the night before and how the nasty skank snuck and replaced the hot chick I picked up :p

[Cobra1racer]

What was the quetion? But 351 auto and 351 marine, now thats a tricky one if you don't know.

[Racemore]

WHAT???:confused: :confused: :confused:

[sho305]

I find that I need to sleep enough and eat enough salt to have as good of the poor memory that I was born with, IMO anyway. If I sweat it out in the summer I have to eat salt to stay with it but I never have ate much of it. I remember things important to me but other stuff goes out the window....it will come back easily if I prod it like if I do it again after a long time. Making formulas in excel is good exercise for that. I think certain things in diet also affect it, like maybe oils and sugar, etc. I will not eat anything out of bare aluminum except maybe a pie/etc that is mostly dry against the metal. Ok once in a while I grill stuff in foil like vegetables, but never put tomatoes/acidic things in it. I never have memorized things well, much better at a process I learn. Math was really easy except for theorems and econ formulas. Good thing for the memory in the calculator to give me tips. In reality I never saw the point in stuff like that, either you will work with something complex daily and know it...or you will get out a reference to it if you don't. What is the point of having to know it that well, you should know how to use it not memorize it. Often if I go back over old stuff it comes back, but before that I can't tell you much off the top of my head. I worked for a guy from the airforce....he was older and like a walking library. He drank milk every day. You could ask him anything on the news today or past history and he just knew it all. It was a challenge to stump him, and if you did he knew all about it in an hour or less. Guy was amazing, I've met few people like that. He was very smart also, as an engineer he could figure things out and was always thinking of stuff ahead of time.

[CDave]

I follow the Smokey Yunick way. The brain is for thinking, books are for remembering. :D