One of the latest videos to go viral on the liberal youtuby bloggyspherie thingie is of Sarah Palin reading cues written on the palm of her left hand to answer questions when she was being
I disagree. I don't begrudge Mrs. Palin her Cliff Notes. In fact she has given me a terrific idea to improve my Laser sailing. I wrote last week in Brain Freeze how I keep forgetting important tactical principles when I am racing in the frostbite fleet. So now I just need to write cheat notes on my hand and I won't forget them again.
No wait. That won't work. I wear black latex gloves when frostbiting and I won't be able to read anything written on them.
Hmmm. WWSD. What would Sarah do?
Let's see. The three points she had difficulty in remembering were...
- Tax cuts
- Energy
- Allow America's spirit to rise again
Wait a minute. Couldn't she have used an acronym to help remember those three points? T.E.A. That would have been easy. After all she was at the
So what acronym could I use?
The four things I need to remember when Brain Freeze sets in are
- Avoid the crowd on the start line
- Look before tacking to preserve clear air
- Port tack layline - don't go there
- Opposition - cover them on final beat
ALPO!
I can remember that.
How about you? Do you have any special tricks to help you remember important stuff when racing?
7 comments:
Black latex?
Do they still sell Wite-Out correction fluid?
Oh, now look what you made me do.
Looks like a Tele-palmter. We would get detention for behaviour like that.
Dead right Baydog. I wonder where young Sarah Palin first used this trick, and whether she got caught before?
I had thought about correction fluid, too. But then it occurred to me that it would be more special to use one of those marker pens with metallic silver ink -- a little more flash that way.
What's interesting is how few people seem to notice when one uses unobtrusive notes. I have a list of logical fallacies on a page of my calendar-planner, but since that planner is open on my desk at all times, my students don't realize I'm consulting it as I deliver the lecture. The downside is that since I don't seem to be USING notes, they generally don't bother to TAKE notes, other than the main points I list on the chalkboard.
Somewhat of a tangent, but would Tillerman please describe his frostbiting glove system?
I'm new to frostbiting and am still trying to find what works for me. I've tried dishwashing gloves (too tight with glove liners) and neoprene gloves (the grippy stuff started tearing after the second use).
There would be the idea of installing a "Smartboard" on your Laser. Unfortunately, although Carol Anne enjoys using them at work, the maintenance contact for them seems to have fallen by the wayside and they have some "issues".
But, maybe there's a special formulation of water-resistant Scotch Post-It Notes for the Laser.
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