A third event has already joined the first two. I've been sorting
through camera gear the last couple of days and discarding some (thus
the freebie ads). This morning I started looking for the bag that
contains flash units, light stand brackets, radio slaves, cables, etc.
It's about 2/3 the size of a typical briefcase only thicker. It's
distinctive... a black canvas bag with tan piping and many zippered
pockets. It's normally be practically under my nose. I couldn't find
it anywhere. I knew I'd taken it to my son's house to do his family's
portrait to put on their Christmas cards. I'd searched everywhere and
began to wonder whether I'd left it at his house. Before calling and
asking about it I decided to do one more search. After fruitlessly
searching the car and the rest of the house again I came back into my
office and found myself staring at the pile of empty boxes that I'd just
cleaned out the last couple of days. I suddenly noticed that the bottom
box was a blue office file box... something we often use when moving
stuff to Florida because they pack easily in the van. Sure enough,
there was the flash gear bag along with another couple of items I wanted
to take to Florida. As soon as I opened the box I remembered placing
the bag there and quite purposely. Too bad it wasn't so crystal clear
earlier. :-)
Chuck Norcutt
On 12/12/2013 3:34 PM, Moose wrote:
> On 12/10/2013 2:33 PM, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
>> >We've had two similar mysteries in the past month. However, this
>> >household has no little ones to blame... only worsening memory senior
>> >citizens.
> I recently read about a memory experiment. Conducted by a University Prof.,
> so using young people as subjects. The
> subjects were given standard short term memory tests, such as looking at a
> number of objects in a box for a short time,
> then a little later, listing what they had seen.
>
> The only difference this time is that one group listed the items seen while
> in the same room where they had seen them.
> The other group went into another room to make their lists. Short term memory
> was significantly poorer in this second group.
>
> The investigator's theory was that it might be evolutionary, that there was a
> long time in our development when
> forgetting what had been going on where one had been, in favor of giving full
> attention to where one was, was as
> survival factor. In any case, the results were clear, even quite young people
> forgot things when they went in the next room.
>
> His advice? "Take the light bulb with you when you go to get a new one, and
> don't worry about it.":-)
>
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