Cool down, this is actually two posts in one — and neither topic is as exciting as whatever the combined notion “hot memories” may evoke for you…
First of all, Canada is hot, hot, HOT! We are on the tail end of our warmest winter on record — an average of almost 4 degrees Celsius above normal (averaged country-wide). And somehow I don’t think we’re the only ones.
Secondly, I enjoyed reading this Slate article from a year ago by Joshua Foer. He was reporting on the U.S. Memory Championships. Well, since he’d already done so much research for a book he’s writing, he figured “why not get the insider’s view” and enter the contest himself this year? Well, what do you know, this past weekend he won the darn thing!
If you’re average you should still have brain-space to juggle 5 more topics…but I’ll go easy on you. Go memorize a pack of cards or something.
You can’t call this “hot memories” … that’s like taking a paragraph about childbirth, adding another paragraph about an upset stomach, and calling the result “labor unrest”!
Ha, yours is even better! Glad someone’s getting the hang of this whole “tenuous connections” thing.