Monday, October 3, 2011

Memory

Editor’s note: This is a guest post from two-time USA Memory Champion, Ron White.

What if you could play a game of cards with your buddies and recall every card that had been played? You can.

What if you could meet a client today and six months later see him at a football game and recall his name along with his wife’s and kids’ names? You can.

What if you could look at a 50 digit number for 90 seconds and then repeat the number forwards and backwards from memory? You can.

So how do you master your memory to this level? By utilizing a simple system of mental maps, you will be amazed at the amount of knowledge you will be able to store.

Here’s how to begin:

  1. Select 5 rooms in your home or office.
  2. In each room, number 5 large items. Number these items 1-25. The first item in the first room is #1, the first item in the second room is #6, the first item in the third room is #11, and so on. For example: Bedroom–1. desk, 2. bed, 3. tv, 4. dresser, 5. computer…Bathroom-6. toilet 7. window, 8. shower, 9. sink, 10. towel rack…etc. Remember, this is just an example.You want to select the pieces of furniture in the way they flow around your particular room.
  3. Practice saying these pieces of furniture and their corresponding numbers over and over until it becomes second nature to say them forwards or backwards. We will refer to these pieces of furniture as “files.”
  4. Now whenever you wish you to recall something, turn it into a picture and imagine it interacting with this piece of furniture.

Let’s say that you want to memorize all the Super Bowl winners. Once you have your files (the pieces of furniture) memorized, the next item of business is to turn whatever you wish to recall into a picture.

So you would be looking at a list that looks like this:

  1. Green Bay Packers
  2. Green Bay Packers
  3. New York Jets
  4. Kansas City Chiefs
  5. Baltimore Colts
  6. Dallas Cowboys
  7. Miami Dolphins
  8. Miami Dolphins
  9. Pittsburgh Steelers
  10. Pittsburgh Steelers

In order to remember anything, it must be an image that you can imagine. For example, if you wanted to recall the number 593787, it might be tough to recall. But a photo album with a coffee cup in it would be easy to remember. That is my picture for 593787. For now, lets address turning the football teams into pictures, a much simpler task that turning 593787 into an image.

What could you picture for the Green Bay Packers? Perhaps packaging. Coming up with an image for the Jets is easy–just picture an airplane jet. For the Chiefs, you would picture an Indian chief. The Colts would be a horse and the Cowboys a cowboy. This is pretty simple actually when you’re dealing with teams.

Now this is where it gets fun. Take each of these images and place them mentally around your 25 files in chronological order. For example, since the Packers won the first Super Bowl, imagine someone packaging a box on your number one file. To use the example above, you would picture someone packaging a box on top of your desk. The more action/emotion you can put into this image, the better chances you will recall it later. On your number two file, or your bed, you would also see packaging. On your number three file, you would imagine a jet landing or crashing into your tv. For your fourth file, you could imagine an Indian chief sitting on your dresser.

To memorize all the Super Bowl winners, you will need at least 45 files, but that is easy enough to mentally construct by simply selecting more rooms in your home (or other buildings and selecting 5 items in each). Because you are placing 5 files in each room, you should be able to memorize the numbers of your files rapidly.

The rationalization of 5 in a room, is that if you want to know what the 15th Superbowl winner was, it might take a minute to figure it out if you had 4 files in one room, 6 in another, and 9 in another. However, if there are 5 in a room, it is very easy. All you need to do is mentally jump to the 15th file in your home, or the last item in your third room, and you will see it getting raided by bandits, and this tells you the Oakland Raiders won Super Bowl 15.

Now whenever you wish to remember the whole list of teams, you simply mentally walk through your house, and imagine yourself looking at each piece of furniture–and its corresponding team–as you go from room to room.

This system can be used to memorize anything from 50 digit numbers, business presentations, chapters of books, college homework, product knowledge, or even sports team champions.

Happy memorizing!
from artofmanliness

Saturday, April 16, 2011

job hunting findings lol

government website enticing us to liv in canberra:
(bolded things for your convenience)

Living in Canberra

With a population of about 350,000 people, Canberra is one of the most convenient and pleasant cities in which to live. Canberra offers a fantastic lifestyle for you and your family, with an outstanding school system, excellent health services, shorter commuting times, plenty of fresh air and community living. Much of what is best about Australia can be found in the nation's capital – it is a clean, safe and relaxed place to live.

Canberra is under an hour’s flight time to Sydney and Melbourne and is close to both beaches and snowfields. There are spacious parks and lakes that provide great opportunities for outdoor sport and recreation. There is an excellent public transport system, while the roads are first-rate with almost non-existent traffic delays.

For more information on Canberra, see:



lol seriously. try harder


BUT.

these are the remunerations

Work conditions

DIGO provide you with a competitive salary and excellent working conditions. You will commence as an APS Level 4 with a salary package of $66,850 (including superannuation and a Graduate APS 4 salary of $57,929). Further promotion in Defence and the APS is based on merit.

Terms and conditions for ongoing employees in Defence are covered by the Defence Enterprise Collective Agreement 2009. The agreement allows for a range of flexible work conditions and leave provisions including:

  • 4 weeks annual leave
  • minimum of three weeks personal leave each year for illness and caring purposes
  • access to up to 52 weeks maternity leave, including up to 12 weeks paid leave
  • flextime and access to other flexible working arrangements
  • assistance for further formal study
  • Christmas stand-down
  • paid long service leave.


All positions are located within Canberra. Defence offers a generous relocation package which includes:

  • uplift and removal costs
  • flights/vehicle costs to Canberra
  • 3 weeks accommodation
  • meals and disturbance allowance



i'd still do it lol

Thursday, March 24, 2011

applying coz centrelink

so job interview was luls. fucking fob malaysian guy. got there. said hi then he got a call when he went to get my resume. the place was pretty hole lol. and then he said its an overseas support call and makes me wait half a fuckign hour. coz obviously noone else in the fuckgin building can answer the call. what a dumbshit. automatic fail. so not working for him.
so he was selling some system and we proceeded with the interview. he was just looking for a person who had heaps of marketing and sales ideas and woudl promote his software B2B type sales. I have pretyt much no experience in this area, and he problably wants someone with experience coz he wants me to write a proposal about how im going to sell his product to businesses after giving me a quick rundown. hes full of shit. i dislike him. not gonna work for him. he doenst' even understand my questions, and won't listen properly. what a shitty boss.

but yeh anyway
got a funny application question from MARS graduate program:
My happiest memories of my time at uni involved: a? partying and rebelling against rules; b) working really hard and feeling proud of my achievements; c) workign hard sometimes but generally taking it easy.

lol honestly its a... since it was so fuckgin carefree. but yeh ok i wonder what they grade this by. like its too easy to just pick the "right" answer. they problably have some trick lol



lol so i was watching a PWC video for a particular business area private clients, where they have assurance advisory and others, and in advisory they described what advisory was. but for private clients, the people are just talking about their fuckgin work life balance. here i am tryign to fill in the questionaire which asks me why i want to be in that particular area. but dude they just talk about the generic graduate program... "i made so many friends" " the program was good" "before the program i was travelling""i have a relaxed week". SHIT IS USELESS.


Tuesday, March 22, 2011

sigh

when you apply for so many jobs, its unlikely everyone'll say no. lol

even with a shitty cover letter


Dear Human Resources,  I am applying for the casual position of Sales and Marketing Executive as advertise in the Melbourne University careers online website.  I graduated last year with a Commerce degree (Finance/Management) with a credit average, but I have a strong drive to learn new things, and am extremely flexible when handling new and different environments.  Attached is my Resume; I look forward to your reply.  Yours faithfully,  Jinn Kan

lololololol


and i gso even wiht a spelling mistake i get an interview for tomrowo lol FAR OUT lol talk about desperate lol

Sunday, February 27, 2011

bum life

Dear @#$@#%,

Thank you for inviting me to your training session on Tuesday. However, there has been an update in my work status, and I have consolidated another opportunity. I regret to inform you that I won't be able to commit to (company name) any further.
Nevertheless, I wish you well in your recruitment.


Sincerely,

Jinn Kan


lol bls dude.

Monday, February 14, 2011

another problem solved

YES.
so like finally got my dc problem solved.
well found the cause and readjusted the situation lol.
so it was just the ethernet cable that was fuckgin with me. like i had this thought to try my sisters room - her cable, and when i did this morning. it all worked, no disconnections, and i was quite happy.
lol
so now my room is left desolate and dirty, my desk is quite messy right now, with many centrelink forms piled atop each other plus many other random things like my earplugs from new years etc.
i should clean it soon.
also mum wants to paint the house soon lol so i guess now that my i can grind freely in the game, yes i do not mind painting the house as long as my chracter is leveling. lol

Sunday, February 13, 2011

so finally got msn working again, since gaming isfailing still decided to focus on installing sp2 for vista, and then update all that shit.. all while tpg was trying to screw me with some really poor connection that made my net unuserfriendly.
and logged on.
and my friend showed me this
and i was like :D cooool

although im not sure what position i was in exactly, but generaly when lifting the head like that the mouth should be closed. looks more aggressive that way. nevertheless the mouth of that lion at the time was broken so it wasn't really possible to close the mouth entirely, but in some of the photos the mouth is closed. oh well noone else woudl know anywyas i guess lol.

i have reaffirmed my fancy for lion dancing. as much as simon loves his kdrama. maybe a tad less maybe lol dunno.