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Udhay On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 7:19 AM, Udhay Shankar N <ud...@pobox.com> wrote: > So here's a little life hack I use. I keep a list of easily forgotten > phrases in Evernote [1] - you know the ones I am talking about, the ones > that are perpetually on the "tip of your tongue" and drive you to > distraction trying to remember them, usually because you remember a > similar phrase and your internal search terminates at the false > positive. :-\ > > I thought it might be interesting to put out my list and ask the list: > what are *your* easily forgotten phrases? > > Empirical > Tabasco > Hasselblad > Dunning Kruger effect > Dunbar number > Ambergris > Sapir-Whorf > Fermi Problem > > > > [1] https://evernote.com/evernote/ > > -- > ((Udhay Shankar N)) ((udhay @ pobox.com)) ((www.digeratus.com)) > > -- ((Udhay Shankar N)) ((udhay @ pobox.com)) ((www.digeratus.com))