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| Mnemonic Devices and You. |
| If you're like me, and sadly enough some of you are, when you hear the word Mnemonic, you think of the Keanu Reeves movie "Johnny Mnemonic." Hopefully, you don't, because that movie was horrible. I think the main reason that I remember the movie is because for some reason there were three hats in the trunk of my car that said "Do not fill beyond capacity" or some crap... whatever the tag line for the movie was. I think Travis or JJ have seen them when I was showing off my trunk at one point. Anyway,I didn't want the hats. However, my mom insisted that I have them in there "just in case." Cause you know, somtime I might want to pass out hats so that two of my friends and I can wear matching hats as we get our asses beat for wearing matching hats... And it isn't like I leave home without a hat anyway. I stopped wearing a hat for about a year, and for the two straight years before that when I wore the same damn hat every day I remember my mom telling me to take it off before I go bald. To sum up, my mom didn't want me to wear my hat all the time so she gave me three (3) really dorky hats to keep in the trunk of my car. With that out of the way, let's continue to today's lesson on Mnemonic Devices. A Mnemonic Device (pronounced : memnonncmonic deevyse) is somthing that you can use to help you remember things. In middle school there was one that they taught us that went like this: Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally -or- P.E.M.D.A.S. this was used to remember "Panda's" the large asian mammals that eat bamboo. See, the word "PEMDAS" triggers your memory and now when I hear it, I remember what I'm supposed to remember. Now, here's a more useful Mnemonic device that I found on the pill container that my mom uses for our dog Bob. It goes like this: Silly Men Tut Whales Tut Fun Snakes -or- S.M.T.W.T.F.S. so now, when you are stuck if you simply remember that device you will remember the days of the week!! Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Panda. |
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