John is eating an Apple

What's that you say?  I watched a show on the human brain last night, while we were waiting for the Good Wife to begin.  These things are usually interesting to me but a little uncomfortable.  To me they confirm how feeble my mind is.  I would guess most of us feel that our minds are not what we'd like them to be and we're embarrassed when something comes up to prove it.  Well forget about it.
This show demonstrates just how poorly the human brain functions.  Just some random facts from the show.  1. Your brain uses about 12 watts of electricity.(dim bulb)  2. Confirmed, Multitasking is really just jumping your attention from one task to another.  We can only concentrate on one thing at a time.  3. The parts of the brain can confuse one another.  Example: If you are shown the word PINK, but you are directed to identify the color of the ink the word is printed in, let's say green, it takes a second for your brain to disregard the word.  Under hypnosis, the hypnotees did much better when told the words were written in a foreign language.  4. Our minds fill in a lot of information and tend to make us think we're seeing more than what is there.  


I found the show well done and interesting.  It is a series on National Geographic.  So the next show in the series is about memory.  John is eating an Apple was my way of memorizing J and A the letters on the serial number of a dollar bill I was trying to memorize.  Here is what else I used to memorize the numbers.  In the side bedroom on my desk there is a bicycle with a cootie sitting on it.  On top of the TV there is a hand("Thing?") with a cootie on top of it.  On the treadmill there is a hand with a ring on it. On the love seat there is a Four-square court with a bicycle on it.  Thus I have memorized the serial number and will be able to amaze someone who doesn't know the method behind it.