Tuesday, January 31, 2006
Memory Like a Sieve
I meant to post something about this earlier, but I forgot… and forgot again… and again. I’ve mentioned before that my brain churns out thoughts at 300 miles an hour. That might make me seem like a genius. Unfortunately I can handle only two to three of them at a time. Usually two. That means I have several brilliant thoughts a day, but I only act on a fraction of them (if any at all… of the brilliant ones anyway. The non-brilliant ones tend to crowd them out.) It’s sad.
At home when I try to act upon more than one at a time, here’s what will usually happen. (Note, the following example contains no brilliant thoughts because, well, I can’t remember what they were.) I’ll be watching TV and decide I need a glass of water. I’ll get up, go to the kitchen and notice that the garbage if full. So I’ll take it outside. While out there I’ll notice how bright it is and wonder what time it is. I’ll look at my watch and find out that I didn’t put it on that morning. Better put that watch on. On my way to my room I’ll think of a couple other things, like “Is my blog putting people to sleep?” and “I really need to wash my car.” When I get to my room I’ll have a Beavis and Butthead moment. “Uhh… huh huh huh… what did I come in here for?” I have about a 50/50 chance of remembering my watch, higher if the watch is visible on the nightstand. Afterwards I’ll go back to the kitchen and see the big bag of M&Ms we bought last week. I’ll cut it open and, upon throwing the piece of plastic away, notice I forgot to replace the garbage bag. I’ll replace the bag and bring my M&Ms back to the TV room, finally sitting down again. It’s then that I realize I never got that glass of water I originally got up for.
It’s worse when I start doing other things after I fill up a glass of water. Because later on I have to backtrack to figure out where the hell I left it! I need more RAM to better process all these thoughts flying around. Where can I get an upgrade?
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