My car’s rotors are shot – in addition to screeching when I press the brakes, I now have vibrations. The vibrations are due to warping of the rotors, which can happen in several ways, but is part of normal wear and tear.
I will try to share my personal story later, but I wanted to share some things I’ve learned along the way. Partly because of the 6 people I asked, only one really knew what he was talking about (I’m sure it helps that he’s fanatic enough about cars to fly to Germany to get one..). The other part is because I’m sure I will need to refer back to this in the future.
In looking up information on the upcoming election, I found this little list:
1. Think first of the other fellow.
2. Build up the other person’s sense of importance.
3. Respect the other man’s personality rights.
4. Give sincere appreciation.
5. Eliminate the negative.
6. Avoid openly trying to reform people.
7. Try to understand the other person.
8. Check first impressions.
9. Take care with the little details.
10. Develop genuine interest in people.
11. Keep it up.
Posted by an ex-employee as “Dave Packard’s 11 simple rules (1958)”, in contrast to Fiorina’s “”Rules of the Garage” (1999)”.
Thoughts
I won’t dwell on the clear political implications here. Regardless of the politics involved, these are great rules to follow in life and in daily interactions, and I plan to keep them in mind in the future.
I just received this in my email… Does this mean no more tuition hikes?
Dear Cal Advocate:
Thank you for contacting your legislators in Sacramento and standing up for UC Berkeley! A state budget has been passed that increases funding for the University of California by more than $370 million. While the amount approved still falls short of fully funding the University, the increase marks a significant shift from the cuts the University has faced over the last two years.
You played a major role in getting us to this point. Advocates like you from across the UC system sent more than 34,000 emails to Sacramento over the course of this year, emphasizing the importance of continued investment in public higher education. The legislature and the governor deserve our appreciation for making public higher education a priority.
Thoughts
I used to think this movement’s just one of those political boycott deals that don’t serve any practical purpose (the write-in other asian has been around a while), but there’s a good point to this in the whole government allocation stuff.
Commenting on Taiwan, Wang Dan, a leader of the Chinese democracy movement and a prominent figure during the Tiananmen Square Massacre in 1989, said that freedom is never won easily, but always lost unknowingly.
Just realized that I may have missed some genuine random comments because they were automatically filtered into spam and I haven’t done much admin stuff on here lately.
Sorry about that if you commented more than 30 days ago!
Procrastination is the fuel for blog posting. I decided to stay up to reset my sleep schedule and to get some work done but I’m too tired to concentrate at this point.. Writing gibberish in a blog is infinitely less destructive than doing so in my paper!
So parkour.. I was dragged along to a class by a friend, and surprisingly, it was ok and kind of fun. You never know how high you can jump until you actually try it, I guess.
The problem is, it takes so much energy to do anything in that class that I’ve only gone to two classes so far… Mostly because I usually don’t feel up to expending that much energy. I think yoga’s still more my speed.
If you don’t know what parkour is, youtube will explain it far better than I can.
missed comments
Posted by deneb7 on March 4, 2010
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