Dalai Lama’s 18 rules for living

At the start of the new millennium the Dalai Lama apparently issued eighteen rules for living.

1. Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk.
2. When you lose, don’t lose the lesson.
3. Follow the three Rs:
1. Respect for self
2. Respect for others
3. Responsibility for all your actions.
4. Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
5. Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.
6. Don’t let a little dispute injure a great friendship.
7. When you realize you’ve made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it.
8. Spend some time alone every day.
9. Open your arms to change, but don’t let go of your values.
10. Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.
11. Live a good, honourable life. Then when you get older and think back, you’ll be able to enjoy it a second time.
12. A loving atmosphere in your home is the foundation for your life.
13. In disagreements with loved ones, deal only with the current situation. Don’t bring up the past.
14. Share your knowledge. It’s a way to achieve immortality.
15. Be gentle with the earth.
16. Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before.
17. Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.
18. Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.

Giz Explains: What Do Those Mysterious Lumps on Your Cables Do?(via @Gizmodo)

Giz Explains: What Do Those Mysterious Lumps on Your Cables Do?(via @Gizmodo)

You have some sense of what the wires going to and from your computer do. Some bring power; others transmit information from one device to another. But some of these cables look a bit…off. Maybe you’ve noticed the cylindrical growth that pops up for maybe an inch on one side of a cable?

Last night I got the Dodge back.  Yay!  I think it missed me.  What would make me think that you wonder?  Well the radio got stolen, none of the instruments work any more and my friend said it ran like crap but it over took everything on the interstate for the drive home.  

When I got into the Dodge I was happy and missed it.  I gripped the wheel and pushed the start button and it roared to life.  With Lego still all over the floor boards and wires everywhere it seemed normal. I plugged in my phone to get some Beastie Boys going for the ride home.  Reached for the radio to turn it on but nope, twisted metal and wires dangling where my radio once was.  Very next thought before the following heart beat?  Yay Dodge! It’s just a radio that was wired in poorly and it was sitting in Springfield for 2 months.

Now the instruments.  Most didn’t work anyways but the tach and oil pressure worked and the temp sensor and gas kinda worked.  Within the first mile I started to think I had low oil pressure then I looked at the other gauges and realized I’m sitting at 0rpms, no gas, no oil and an ice cold engine.  But the lights were on!  Then I get about 5 miles out and my tach is slowly trying to climb up, I have oil pressure again and half a tank of gas.  In a fit of joy I dropped a gear and punched it but the tach just slowly crawled up like it didn’t have a care in the world.  So I poked it a few times and it just wiggled.  Then when I got close to home I once again had no instruments.  Normally they aren’t even in there except for oil pressure so no big deal except I gave away my TomTom.

On another note lately the Dodge has had a thing of it you punch it from first to second it will dump a ton of black smoke.  Any ideas?