in where I look smarter than I am

[ding_0_]

So occasionally I manage to stuff something into my memory that gets recalled and makes me look like I'm smart. I'll read something on the statue of liberty and it will mention it's height relative to other buildings in NYC and I'll be there the next week and like the best setup someone will wonder out loud how tall a building is and I will know.

Comments

[skullznrosaries]

You're so awesome.

[mankoeponymous]

Velcro brain syndrome. Like you say, it doesn't exactly have anything to do with intelligence, or smartness either, but it certainly provides tools for those to work with. I do suspect that this mechanism functions better when a person does more stuff in the real world, as opposed to filling one's head with similar data about, say, WoW or television fiction; the person who's accumulated a vast wealth of details of Spongebob episodes doesn't have as much opportunity to make connections to great fires and buildings and symphonies.

Oh, and: I submit you may be the geek of the class, but would only be the nerd of the class if your wealth of trivia on one subject excluded all others. On the other hand, any reference to the Alan Parsons Project or Ladyhawke does pretty well establish you as a dork.

[thewrongtim]

Some sort of hovercraft...

wbjc (91.5 classical) is fast becoming my go-to "I need to listen to something, but I don't know what" station. But I still don't know 9/10 of what I hear on it.