argh-i-forgot

I took my laptop out of my bag when I got to a relative’s house, went to another room, opened the bag, and thought my laptop had been lost or stolen at the airport for five minutes until Katt found it.

What it's called when a word is shortened with an apostrophe. e.g. stinking => stinkin'

I searched Duck Duck Go for "apostrophe abbreviation" for about 30 seconds until it came to me.

I was having an incredibly hard time finding any information on a murder I remembered from around 2009. I thought maybe it somehow got memory holed, even though it was reported by conventional news outlets at the time.

I remember it because I tried jiu-jitsu classes at this place, and it seemed unnecessarily rough. Like, I was a new guy doing a trial class, and a guy put a calf slicer on me. Generally, in grappling circles, pain compliance techniques are considered out-of-bounds in friendly training and casual competition.

The next week or so, I heard that three kickboxing instructors from that school murdered two guys at Revere Beach. The owner then put an angry disavowal of those instructors on his web site, and then got a famous MMA fighter Wanderlei "The Axe Murderer" Silva to do a clinic at the gym to offset the bad publicity.

I was thinking of that because someone brought a black gi to judo, and the sensei didn't allow it, but wacky gis are common in jiu-jitsu. I tried looking it up and couldn't find anything on the web. It bothered me because I had told someone about this a little while ago and did not want to seem like a liar.

Then, I grabbed what I think is a compreshensive spreadsheet of US murders. But there were no murders in Revere in 2009. Or nearby Chelsea.

Did I get the date wrong?

I tried searching for "beating" instead of "murder" and finally found an article about the incident.

What I had misremembered was the actual crime. It was an assault, not a murder. The two victims were severely injured, possibly permanently, but not killed.

So, I accidentally partly lied, but at least my brain didn't produce it from whole cloth.

Took a minute to remember “triage”. “Arbitrage” kept coming up. I had to write out to flush out the right word.

The author of The Power Broker and the LBJ biographies. Robert Caro. I remembered after I asked Katt out loud.

The name of one of the streets that really rich guys live on in Cambridge.

I was trying to remember it because there’s one with the same name in Arlington that I needed to turn on. I could recall it in about 30 seconds, when the turn-by-turn directions from my phone announced it. It was Brattle St.

The right-wing nut that said the Sandy Hook massacre was made-up and encouraged people to harass the parents of the victims. Infowars guy! Kept pulling up Glenn Beck. It was a full three minutes before I recalled remembered Alex Jones, who I was trying to remember while reading about Art Bell.

A little disturbing since I had spent time actually listening to Alex Jones's appearance on Joe Rogan's show to note the content policy violations.

The web framework for making desktop apps. That I actually used a bunch of times around 2016. Some company thought I was into it enough to ask me to interview to works on stuff with it maybe two years after that. It's super popular — Slack is made with it.

After a minute, I gave up and searched. It's Electron.

Took about a minute to remember the director of Twin Peaks, David Lynch. Kept pulling up David Mamet.

The name of one of the main characters of Avatar, which we’ve been watching for months. Took about a minute to remember Zuko’s name in a scene featuring him.

The name of Teele Square. I probably drive through it average of twice a month.

The name of the brand of lotion the guy uses. I remembered the ones he used to use before we landed on the current one: Hydrolatum, Aquaphor. I ended up asking where the Aquaphor was at the Target, then saw the current recommended one next to it: Vanicream.

The last name of the founder of Mormonism. I remembered Joseph, his first name.

The last name was Smith.

Martin Gardner, author of the Mathematical Games columns. I had actually been talking about him an hour before, using his name.

The popular German thrash band that is not Kreator or Sodom. I gave up after about 30 seconds and searched.

It's Destruction! I'm surprised I didn't remember the word association with Kreator. Apparently, they all played together in 2004.

The name of our school liaison, who I’ve talked to many times over the last three years. I might have remembered it, given more time? Katt told it to me.

Defeated Sanity's drummer, Lille Gruber. I've listened to his albums a lot and have listened to two podcasts with him. Took about a minute to remember his name. (I really should time these recall attempts.)

Took one minute to remember "the Mr. Show guy", David Cross. I remembered Tobias Funke right away, though.

That movie that made Matt Damon and Ben Affleck famous. Took about a minute to remember. During that time, I kept guessing variations on Finding Mr. Someone.

I guess this was only a 10-second lapse, but I couldn't remember what the fast kind of COVID test was called, even though we have them at home. I thought it was a "VPS test"? Then, remembered that they're antigen tests.

The name of the indie pop band I recorded a podcast episode about with a bunch of people and then edited a few months ago.

Turns out to be Tennis.

The global that `argv` is attached to in Node.

It's `process`.

The name of the assistant teacher in my kid's classroom. Took about 30 seconds to recall; this is about the third time I've forgotten.

Until just now, I thought I had worked at Harvard for only six months because it was clear fairly early that a bait and switch had happened there. I looked at some documents, and I was there from June 22 of 2015 to probably about the middle of April of 2016! That's about 10 months. What an incredible waste of time.

Argh, I forgot the thing I forgot which made me want to create this blog.