\n| \n Feeling very retro tonight. Just
\n noticed that all of the graphics on today’s edition of the News are in
\n black and white. Listening to the pivotal 5th game of the American
\n League Championship between the Red Sox and the Yankees on the radio.<\/p>\n That’s right. Local sports superstation WEEI is rebroadcasting
\n the ALCS and World Series on Thursday nights, one game a week.<\/p>\n For someone whose memory has been compared to a wheel
\n of swiss cheese, it is almost as good as the first time. Using tricks
\n of mind control learned during years of esoteric pursuits it is even
\n possible to forget who wins, at least until we are interrupted by Norma
\n Yvonne telling us to turn down the volume.<\/p>\n As our dear mother can surely testify, we have always
\n been memory-challenged. Our youth was festooned with notes pinned to
\n sweaters, yarn tied to fingers, mittens wired together by long cords
\n reaching up our sleeves and across our back, reminders penned on palms
\n and incessant admonitions for forgetfulness.<\/p>\n It may have been absent-mindedness, or lack of focus,
\n or attention deficit disorder, but as we matured we developed work-arounds,
\n mnemonics, habits and routines to compensate. Now that we are getting
\n older, no longer juggling the details of four lives, more focused on
\n the big picture, we are getting more forgetful again. We’ve lost our
\n keys twice in the last four months, after not having done so since college.<\/p>\n It occurs to us as the Red Sox and Yankees move into
\n the 12th inning that eventually this memory thing could save us some
\n money. We could watch the Director’s Cut of Blade Runner and listen to
\n the Yankees lose over and over, and they would never get old.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Feeling very retro tonight. Just noticed that all of the graphics on today’s edition of the News are in black and white. Listening to the pivotal 5th game of the American League Championship between the Red Sox and the Yankees … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[580],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-friends-and-family"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2747\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}} |