588-2300 Em-Pire!
Me and everyone else who ever lived in Chicago and owned a TV.

Greg A.

All of these are available from memory, plus more I'm not think of.

Phone numbers:
Home, plus three or four old phone numbers
My personal cell
My work cell
My cubicle phone
My wife's cell
My mom's cell
Our chiropractor
Our doctor
My sister
My brother-in-law at work
Jenny
Hotel Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania 6-5000 = 212-736-5000)
A half-dozen or so co-worker's extensions, plus the company main number

Passwords:
Bank account PIN
IRS PIN
Wife's IRS PIN
Wife's Bank account PIN
Voice-mail PIN for four voicemail systems
Obsolete telephone PINs for placing outgoing calls on college PBXs where I attended

Identification:
My SSN
Wife's SSN
My bank account numbers (two accounts)
My bank's ABA routing number
Last four digits of 2 credit cards, debit card and ATM card

Home network IP Addresses:
Roto (Router)
Ren (HTPC)
Neptune (Wife's workstation)
Titus (My workstation)
Lasher8 (Work laptop)
Stimpy (Server)

kc2idf

I know my phone number and mobile number, my parents' landline numbers, my doctor's office number, my National Insurance number and my debit card number.

I don't have a car so no license place or insurance numbers to remember. I also thankfully live in the UK, we don't need health insurance here.

I really ought to learn my best friend's home and mobile numbers, and the number for my son's nursery. But I figure that's what Directory Enquiries is for.

Ghostlove

911 is a good one to have memorized

Dan

Pi: 200 decimals
e: 15 decimals
e needs to catch up!

cybrown

I don't know ANYTHING anymore. All my phone numbers are in Outlook and my phone. My bank details are filed away in a locked filing cabinet. The Password Hasher takes care of my online passwords. The only two numbers I am asked for regularly are my phone number and my credit card number, so I should make an effort to remember at least those. Technology, eh?

Al Iguana

Okay, so I only have 4 of 8 on that list memorized, but I do have Jenny's number memorized (867-5309)...

SuperChuck

Which I learned by Braille, of course! ;)

cv

Girlfriend's brassiere size?

cv

I still remember Jenny's number after all these years, thanks to Tommy Tutone: 867-5309.

Gameboy70

- Phone numbers: Home, wife cell, my cell, work (main + back door), work fax, grandmother, parents, wife's parents, my two brothers' home & cell numbers, favorite Chinese restaurant, favorite pizza place

- Social security numbers: me, wife, son, daughter

- Financial: Scottrade account number, checking account number, primary credit card number (with CVV)

- Frequent flyer number at my primary airline

- License place number

Need to memorize: Health insurance, auto insurance, driver's license

onesix18

After being a victim of an illegal search and false arrest by unscrupulous policemen, I make it a point of memorizing numbers of people who can bail you out of jail.

Capone

Like any good network engineer, I've memorized the powers of two, the IPv4 address space class boundaries and private ranges, and so on. But I hardly know any of my numbers from that blog post.

zorikin

I have memorized my drivers license number, bank account number (same as my debit card) credit card number, social insurance number, and my best friends phone number from grade 8...

jojowasher

I have pi memorized out to 9 decimal places.. 3.141592654 Kind of pointless.

vondur

Numbers that I do know:
Debit card
License plate
Student ID
SS#
Checking account
My husband's SS#
Home phone
Cell phone
Husband's phone
Work phone(S)
Doctor phone
MIL's Home & Cell phones
A different password for every website and program I log into at home and at work. That is at least 50. (I have trouble logging in a lot- I usually have to try two - three time so for most.)

Numbers I don't know but should:
At least one Saving account
Dentist phone
Kids dentist phone
Childcare phone
School phone
Preschool phone
Sons cell phone
Insurance phone
Husband's licence plate
Kids SS#

thisismemaria

Waist and inseam (34/32), and collar (16).

rod / upcomingdiscs.com

Strangely I have my license plate number and my wife's, my (and my wife's) social security number all memorized... but I couldn't tell you my home phone number. I know, ridiculous. I programmed it into my phone right after we had the new phone line installed and I've never manually punched it in. The shame.

JFitzpatrick

Charge card, checking account, SSN, key phone numbers and passwords, and pi to 100 decimal places (don't ask).

Logical Extremes

I remember the phone number to Mr. Gatti's Pizza in Austin from when I lived there 20 years ago. I blame their jingle on that, though. It's, or was then, 459-2222, if anyone is interested.

HFC

I have the normal ones (my SSN, my phone, my cell, my work number, my wife's cell, and so on), and then there's pi to 8 digits (3.1415926) from my days in college. My airline miles number on USAirways, which isn't all numbers. The model number of my laptop (I don't know why). The number of eggs in a dozen.

RickS

I don't even make an attempt to remember phone numbers these days; I've kept them on my iPod the past few years. Same with birthdays.

Other than that, my driver's license and social security numbers since those two have never changed.

cv

other than my social and usually my cell - i don't know any numbers - pretty sad but we lean on technology for a reason

btumpak

My son's social security number is the one I feel I should have memorized, but I can't seem to hold it in my brain. I chalk that up to a thankfully few number of doctor's office visits.

ersatzkat

There's no real need to memorize your auto insurance policy number if you're with a good company (I use State Farm). If I need it, I pick up the phone, dial my agent's phone number (memorized) and they recognize me by voice in the office. If I get the after hours service, they just ask for my name and up pops all my policy info and they can help me out. Anything sensitive, and they ask me my security questions.

englishman

Is it just me, or is it hard to take a blogger seriously who uses smiley icons? I blame Monday.

I used to think that having all these pieces of information written down so I didn't have to remember them was a good idea. As I get older, I am coming to the realization that memory exercises are probably a good way to keep senility at bay for awhile longer.

jaxun

69, I'm sorry... it was just so easy.

codywalker

I know my bank account number and password by heart. I used to know my credit card number -before I stopped using it. I think I know my debit card number (goes and checks...) yep! I know my debit card number.

Then there are lots of birthdays.

I used to be good with phone numbers, but now as even home phones store numbers for you I've slipped up. I couldn't call my husband unless I had the number handy.

Never bothered with any other important numbers, I trust myself not to loose the file I've got them all backed up to...

TheFionut

like others here, I too have memorized pi to an unnecessarily large number of digits.
other than that, I have a good number of phone numbers and birth dates memorized. as well as my SSN, bank card, student ID, and probably some other stuff

zikman

This is a good list, except that some of us do not drive. Or have health insurance for that matter. So four of those are useless to me.

Also, when was the last time someone asked you for your drivers license number? Applying for a Blockbuster membership? What am I, sixty?

TheMelange

Critical things to know:
SSN / Drivers License / CCN / Debit + CCV / Both my Vehicle License Plates

Other:
for some reason, my friends license plate from his car in highschool...

skilled1

5/1: the ratio between R1 and R2 to snap a BJT transistor into saturation

3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937510582097494459230781640628620899862803482534211706798214808651328230664709384460955058223172535940812848111745028410270193852110555964462294895493038196

01010011
01000101
01011000
01011001

Above is the binary on my favorite t-shirt, bought at [www.cafepress.com]
Yes it is ascii encoded

Dom

SSN, drivers license, debit card, pin numbers, a few phone numbers, and that's about it. Outlook and eWallet remember everything else for me.

Rick Lobrecht

10-0011-10101

From a song of the same title by a band called "Clutch"

jeffeb3

Phone numbers I know include any home number I've ever had (especially the one in college that played Camptown Races when dialing it), my wife's cell phone, my parent's business number, my sister's home number, and my in-laws' number (from when I used to call my then future wife all the time). I don't know my cell phone number probably because I never dial it.

I know my ssn, my debit card, and several credit cards I no longer own. I can recite all of the md5 of my favorite system password, but that's more letters than numbers. I know a ton of odd looking numbers that seem to pop up a lot while working in electrical engineering, but never learned the resistor codes.

Thanks to my childhood in Chicagoland I know who to call for carpet... 5-8-8-2-300 EMPIRE! My wife thought I had gone insane the first time I saw their new national commercials and I just started singing along without realizing it.

gjrey

Let's see. I've memorized:
Phone number
Bank PIN
SSN
Brokerage account number
Mother's cell
Best friend's phone
License plate
Order of numbers to create a magic square on a 15 puzzle
Pi to 400 digits after the decimal

greymatters

My account number with the book club (they used to ask for it as a login name on their website).

The old University requisition number for postage.

My grandparents' post office box number (closed since my grandfather died six years ago).

Can I remember my best friend's phone number? My boyfriend's? No, I cannot.

MameDennis

- Main checking account
- SS#
- Deceased gf's SS#
- College ID#
- Approx. 40-50 phone #s (including 867-5309)
- Approx 15 addresses (house or bldg #s)
- Debit pin #
- United Mileage plus #

...and of course there are a number of passwords that have numbers in them too.

CptMystic

@Jswilson64:

Many insurance companies use the SSN as the policy identification number. Since kids don't carry photo IDs or often even insurance cards, this is one fairly reasonable way to verify coverage, rather than just asking the name.

cv

In addition to SSN and cell number, I know my debit and credit card numbers as well as the verification numbers on the back. It's helpful when the numbers on the debit card have rubbed off in a pocket or what have you but a cashier needs to visually double-check the numbers.

I also know all my close family members' birthdays as well as two of their SSNs. My school-assigned student ID number is also stuck up there.

Marce

@ersatzkat: Why does your child's doctor need their Social Security Number?

jswilson64

My parents phone number (they've lived there for about 17 years).
Social security number (remember in college when it was the ID number? I do)
PIN number

Maulleigh

My own #, my parents, my brother and sister's, my neighbor and 2 of my friends. That's about it. Everything else is in my contacts.

Crazysamz

The code to get to Mike Tyson : 007-373-5963. I will forget my name before I forget that.

getjustin

OK, this is kind of fun. I have several hundred phone numbers memorized... including useless ones like my phone number from kindergarden and
the college information numbers (two colleges two numbers) -- that was more than 20 years ago!). BORING.

Here's some offbeat (geek) stuff that might be useful:
sqrt(2) = Columbus' Father's Birthday (1414 -- 1.414)
sqrt(3) = Washington's Birthday (1732 -- 1.732)
sqrt(5) = Flash Gordon's Birthday (2236 -- 2.236)
24601 -- Jean Valjean's Prison number. (Les Miserables -- maybe good at a cocktail party)
golden ratio = 1/2 + sqrt(5)/2 = 1.61803399
2^16-1=65535.

Erudite

I have an odd ability to memorize numbers. I don't memorize them super easily, but once they're in my brain they seem to stay indefinitely. I remeber every phone number I've ever had, every locker combination I had in school, several debit/credit cards I've had (though they seem to jumble together a bit), my drivers license number, many checking account number and my banks routing number, pi to 20 places, Avogadro's Number, Planck's constant, the list goes on.

Oddly enough, important applications for my mutant ability seem to be suppressed. I'm not good with dates, and I can never remember the letters in my license plate number.

Bishma

The list forgot something, pi!!!!!!!!!!!

Ok, so I don't beat Greymatters, but it's all I need to look like I'm amazing. People ask me to recite pi for them and they're eyes widen in speculation as I recite 3.1415926535897932384626433832795028841979693993. That's 48 digits.

nintendude

NaN

exoxe

True story, the local equivalent of your SAT's are mandatory and have a number so you can go and get your results yourself. It's a 17 digit number. My cousin forgot her paper with said number, and when she was asked the number (which she saw like once or twice without minding it) she recited the whole number. The clerk did not believed when the number was right. But that's her cool super ability, learning numbers just by watching them once.

The other true story is about two girls i know who memorized the whole response patterns for a MS certification exam (one of those you practice with the books). They both scored 100% and finished it under 15 minutes (I know this has more to do with patterns rather than numbers, but pretty impressive none the less). The examiners realizing this, changed the exams (using a set with more than 600 questions, rather than the 100 q set).

whiskey

Many of these I've memorized for school at one point or another:
Planck's constant, the speed of light, Pi to 15 or so digits, countless formulas for math, physics, and chemistry, 2 locker combo's plus those of some friends, 2 Student ID numbers, 2 Library card numbers

Then there's everything else:
20 or so phone numbers, Debit card number
Bank account and access numbers, SSN, Medical insurance card number, 27-character master password, 192.168.0.0, Ip adresses for the computers at my house, Numerous dates, birthdays, statistics etc., A seemingly random order of 52 playing cards, And at one point I had memorized the binary alphabet.

MichaelMarino

Memorized: SSN, 2 different bank accounts, debit card PINs, my cell, my husband's cell & SSN, my mom's landline. The last 4 digits of our last phone number. A random assortment of logins/passwords. (The one I find most baffling: husband's PIN for Dept of Ed/Direct Loan. Why in $DEITY's name do I remember that?!) License plate # for one car of 2.

Numbers that fade in & out: our health insurance IDs, my library card, work phone, hex values of main colors on work website, other logins/passwords.

I should know, but don't: home phone (changed recently, I never call it), license plate of the other vehicle, which I've only had since March.

epersonae

Numbers, Numbers, and more Numbers. I have tons of numbers memorized. Phone numbers of friends, Facilities that I regulate. Account numbers, Passwords, Being Military I have to have a lot of numbers down in memory.

coastie