Re: Set up LiveJournal community?

In article <X0FVf.11182$6%2.10304@trnddc08>, "Logan Kearsley" <chrono.surfer@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

There seem to be far more people in the world who recognize me than there
are people I recognize.

I am particularly bad at putting names with faces. I also have trouble
recognizing people outside of the context in which I normally see them. This
can be really bad when you know somebody primarily from the net, though you
have met them several times, then when you meet them you can't remember who
they are, even though you emailed with them yesterday.

And other people don't seem to have similar problems in return, either that or
I am somehow more memorable in person than many other people. Dunno.

On the other hand, I don't use a PDA because if I call someone three times in
the same week, I will remember their phone number for a year. If I call them
regularly for a year or so, I will remember it for decades. Using a device to
look up phone numbers is a nuisance to me, because I remember them all without
any effort.

And I have another memory trick that served well in school. I can remember
pictures. I can remember a graph or diagram, and reproduce exactly it days
after having seen it. I can find a particular scene in a book, because I
remember how deep into the book it is and where in the open leafs it is (such
as on the right hand page about a third of the way down.) If my wife can't
find something, like her glasses, I can think of them and visualize where I
last saw them, fill in the surrounding scene ni my mental picture, and just go
and pick them up.

But this picture memory does not extend to faces, or, rather, does not extend
to associating faces with names. I'll remember the face, but have no clue who
it is, especially out of context.

Rich Weyand
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WIP: untitled sequel
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