I cleared out a few duplicate posts that were sitting on the account as 'drafts' using Blogger's new and improved dashboard thing, and now it tells me that this post, the one you're reading right now, is the 2000th post on Zoomy's Thing!
Blow the noisemakers and launch the party poppers! I was thinking that I should write something really special and significant to celebrate the occasion, but I can't really be bothered.
To celebrate your 2000th post I would like to bring to your attention Bennett Onika book
ReplyDelete"Unleash your hidden poker memory."
He mentions you on page 4.
"Moreover, most memory champions were average students at best before they learned their systems!
In fact, Ben Pridmore, World Memory Champ from England (and also the person who memorized a shuffled deck in under 25 seconds), to this day frequently misplaces his keys and forgets names if he isn't concentrating on them. Yet he memorized pi to 50,000 digits!"
I do wish people would stop crediting me with memorising pi. I suppose it's my own fault for telling the anecdote of how I never recited it, but I don't know how it's become common knowledge like it has. Perhaps I should dedicate the next 2000 posts to making it clear that I have never officially recited pi to so much as 50 digits!
ReplyDelete/do pulls the cord to release the balloons and streamers
ReplyDeletehttp://www.cbc.ca/video/#/Shows/Doc_Zone/1242299559/ID=1627232864
ReplyDeleteIf this is Ben's Blog A)Honour to e meet you, and B) the link above confirms my source that you have memorized (but not recited ) Pi to 50,000 digits. In fact Ben recited it to 50 digits on this telecast...
Bennett Onika
Yes, this is me - and thanks very much for the mention!
ReplyDeleteAwesome, very nice to e meet you! Easy to mention one of the memory greats!
ReplyDeleteThe honour is mine, and it's truly a pleasure.
Bennett Onika