Friday, October 1, 2010

Tweet from: @Disabilitygov

From: @Disabilitygov
Sent: Oct 1, 2010 6:30a

#DGovQtMe: "Keep your face always toward the sunshine and shadows will fall behind you." Walt Whitman

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Thursday, September 30, 2010

Confucius

"I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand."

http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Confucius

Memory : Popular Acronyms & Acrostics

Acronyms and Acrostics are often used to help people remember specific facts.
A few of the most popular acronyms are listed below:

To remember the colors of the rainbow (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet), try this man's name:
ROY G. BIV

For naming the planets in order from the sun (Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto):
My Very Easy Memory Jingle Seems Useful Naming Planets

The biological taxonomy (Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species):
Kings Play Cards On Fat Green Stools

The arithmetic order of operations (Parentheses, Exponents, Multiplication, Division, Addition, Subtraction):
PEMDAS (Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally)

To remember the color codes on resistors, capacitors, and other electronic components:
Bright Boys Rave Over Young Girls But Veto Getting Wed

Medical students can remember the 12 cranial nerves with:
On Old Olympus' Towering Top, A Finely Vested German Viewed A Hawk

The basic trig functions (sine=opposite/hypotenuse) (cosine=adjacent/hypotenuse) (tangent=opposite/adjacent):
SOH CAH TOA

The great lakes of North America (Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, Superior):
HOMES


http://www.braingle.com/mind/220.html?r=1009

Saturday, September 25, 2010

Robert X. Cringely

"If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside."

http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Robert_X._Cringely

Friday, September 24, 2010

Jane Goodall

"Lasting change is a series of compromises. And compromise is all right, as long your values don't change."

http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Jane_Goodall