Video Memory Maker Gifts

'It's a good report card, Dad. Better catch it on video.'

"...but after they hired Vanna White instead of me things really got interesting."

'Here you go, kid! A worm.'

"I can't protect you from everything, but I can read you stories that make you believe I can protect you from everything."

"These are the very weapons your mother and I used in our famous duel."

"There was no other choice, Mom. It was a double dog dare."

My First Camera

Super Strength, Impervious to Bullets And Explosions

Clever visual metaphor used to personify the abstract concept of thought and memory.

Lady to man taking picture of fish: 'Wiggle him a little and get him to smile.'

'I recognize the face ... I just can't pin down the name.'

"My service animal for Alzheimer's, sonny!"

"And this little piggy went – whoa! Where is your fifth little piggy?!"

"I always thought of my childhood home as being larger."

Remember my mum? I took that photo a week before she died. There's one of me...that was a good haircut.

'Yeah, I don't have trouble remembering my times tables, but I stink at algebra...'

'Here comes the Papa-razzi again...'

"To think—this meeting, which turned into the perfect day, filled with spontaneous adventures that will become priceless memories, could have been an e-mail."

"It's just a jogger!" "It's just a car!" "There's nothing out there now!" "I was thinking of the squirrel I saw last week"

"Better to have had ice cream and lost it than never to have had ice cream at all."

"See those birch trees on the other side of the pond? That’s the exact spot where your mother first called me an idiot."

"Most people forget they've had amnesia."

Dad's old fashioned barbeque

"I get it! I get it! Elephants never forget. Now quit bragging about it!"

Mafia Short-Term Memory Clinic. 'Fuhgettaboutit.'

Mission Impossible: The Family Photo

"I figure we can blue-screen the kids in later."

"Hello, and welcome to Victor and Igor's latest unboxing video."

"There's a wonderful book on memory tricks here, but I can't remember what I did with it!"

"Gracie, I'm so proud that you made the academic decathlon team! Here...have some of my special green tea! Ithelps you concentrate and improves your memory!"

The Robotics Department. It says here that these guys completely replace all the cells in their bodies every seven years! Wow! What a slow upgrade cycle! If we don't replace all our parts every six months we become obsolete! It makes you wonder why they're in charge! Yeah, like they expect us to remember thousands of gigabytes of data while they forget their passwords! (Published originally on April 19, 2006)

Origins of a family tradition.

'What do you mean you 'forgot' the camera?!'

'I have the MRI scan of your brain. The right hemisphere is clogged with computer passwords.'

'Don't worry about this meeting. I got everything we need right up here.'