Saturday, January 11, 2014

World's Worst Mnemonic

"it's the opposite of the way you'd expect it to be."

Today, I was getting the cable to connect my camera to my laptop to download a couple of photos.  There are two cables:
 -- the big, fat one (that connects the little, skinny digital point-and-shoot), and
 -- the little, skinny one (that connects my big, honkin' SLR).
So I had a mnemonic -- the big cable connects the little camera, and vice versa.

How long do you think it took before the mnemonic reversed itself?  Until today, when I went into my office, and retrieved the small, skinny cable to use with my small camera.
I got halfway down the hall, when my brain said, "Hey,  Wait a minute.  You're taking the small, skinny cable to use with the small, skinny camera."
So I checked the little sticky-note label I had attached, and, sure enough, I had the wrong one.
Much better.....sticky notes.