CN hobbies: mnemonicUnderstanding mnemonicThis part is based on the document Mnemonic Techniques and Specific Memory http://brain.web-us.com/. When mnemonic

observation started? How the brain responses to mnemonic stimuli? These were the unanswered questions the time when I was analyst for the INS. The biggest part of the job (and of the database administrator as well) is data entry. Key in repeatedly and visual recognition of the sets of data using mnemonic peg system help us to recognize abnormal or bad data sets, identify them and analyze causal relationships (Herman Ebbinghaus concept of memory learning maximizing recall retention method).

Coder for the Patent and Trademark, I interfaced with senseless codes, sounds greek to me until now reading the material Messaging Standard. There was a time when as a temp for the World Wild Life Fund, I assisted the technician in translating semantic language into natural language for the mapping of queries. We babbled complex ideas of scientists abroad and simplified into concepts and symbols. It was quite an interesting line of work.

Mnemonic plays a main part of data interchange standard, for the convenient, practical use of alphabet as symbol of the whole idea. Here are some techniques

ACRONYMS. The academic explanation sounds scientific, yet in American daily life embedded “SNAFFU”, “ASAP”, “WWJD”

SENTENCES/ACROSTICS Do Not Throw Pizza Away Data link, Network, Transport, Presentation, ApplicationMETHOD OF LOCI walk the walk, talk the talk. This method is useful when step backward to remember a lost object CHUNKING NUMBERS long series of numbers broken down into triplets make easier to memorize a whole set of dataRHYMES & SONGS Twinkle twinkle little star applied to memorize the quadratic formula is an example. Found out Asia took

15% HL7 membership, namely Japan. Japan culture takes credits on conceptualization, I assume, stem from Basho Haiku, a condensed poetry. Here is one of Basho well known poem in Haiku form:

Old pond leap - splash a frog

In an old pond, quiet, mossy, where the poet is sitting and meditating, probably for hours. Suddenly a frog leaps, creating a sound, an echo, a mirror, circles of waves. Eventually, sounds, images and activities around go back to normal after times. Double meaning of trouble maker leave behind a chaos for a moment, then every thing goes back to normal. Behind the scene is probably a warrior in peace time cannot use his sword, ends up sitting duck “jobless” for a long time. Now and then there would be some “revolutionary” but nothing can change easily in a closed traditional hierarchical society. So many ideas sum up into 6 words!

Ah, summer grasses! All that remains Of the warriors dreams.