The title means: I have so much useless junk in my brain, I am deleting stuff to make room. I had to throw out long division last week. They say the average person has a capacity about equal to a Phd. I want to know what that means and how they figured it out. Do Phds often have a problem with their memory of new things? Do they no longer learn? I doubt it.
I seem to remember more than most people. I can usually explain stuff to college grads that they should have learned. (I don't bother with trivia. I don't even want to know what movies Kevin Bacon has been in, and I especialy don't want to see any of them.)
When I was a kid, I would read the World Book Encyclopedia. It is written at an easy level. I also read Isaac Asimov's books of science. I try to write like he did, when he explained complex science in simple language.
Why do we have the word "utilize"? It means "use". English is a great language with subtle shades of meaning between words of similar basic meaning, but sometimes people could be more precise, and consise. "At this point in time" means "now".
So now I like to explain the world, and show the world to people, and teach people how things work. I should be a teacher, but I don't have the papers. I do it anyway, and people actually do say, "Ask Kent. He'll know!" I also know what I know, and if I don't know, I say so. I don't know literature, music, Windows, accounting, law, and loads of other stuff, but if there is a question, I can find it on the internet.
If I make a mistake of fact, I want to know. I want to learn. I hope to learn something new every day until the day I die. Here I go.
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