Is it bad that I kind of want to start doing that once I get my own aircraft? I have completely forgotten about the old airborne forward observer practice of doing that.one carried china markers and made notes on the windshield. In case of capture, you could kick out the windshield and destroy all those classified freqs and coords.
One would expect that for a simple speech where you're not changing radios, etc you shouldn't have to resort to such measures. Speaking as someone who gets paid to speak publicly quite frequently (I still teach health care providers as well as forensic professionals to make extra cash to feed my addiction to flying), perception is reality and if you know you can't stay on point from your own memory, you either do it using a Powerpoint (guilty as charged here...) or you put an outline on a piece of paper. Writing something on the back of your hand in such a setting is a good way to make yourself look like you may not being honest or that you don't know what the hell you're talking about.That is a noble, practical practice, Dudley. However, I would avoid doing it in sight of TV crews. Sarah Pallin did and was severely beat up by the media.
I think that assessment cuts both ways in case of Mrs. Palin (and a lot of other politicians). She's not my first choice for a politician largely because she comes across as very ditzy and that perception by a large number of folks (including a good number of my fellow Republicans) probably cost McCain the election last time around. Probably a fun lady to hang around and she's honestly probably not as stupid as she comes across as being with but she gives the public an impression of not being the sharpest tool. As I said earlier, perception is reality in such affairs as politics.Ah, they are SUCH simple people.