The Third Rule

New Year's Eve is not a good day to make promises to yourself.  Nor New Year's Day. 

1 Don't.  2 Please Don't.  3 If you going to, be nice.  4 It is not a place for decisions or opinions or comfortable pondering.  5 Don't 

All storage will fail.  Digital or otherwise.

An object isn't totally broken until it cannot be fixed with gaffer tape

Any political pointed meme posted on any social media that is intended to solicit encourage or change a political belief or system will fail to do so in any way. In all likelihood it will have the opposite effect.  

List as of may 1st 2017 1 Don't ask a barber if you need a hair cut. 2 The Second Law of Thermodynamics. ( see here.  www.livescience.com/50941-second-law-thermodynamics.html)  This is still my favourite. Though the 1st is also quite good. 3 Everything is more complicated than you think it is. (see Rule 2 ) 4 The more money, time or effort someone puts into selling you something the less likely you are to really need it. 5 Human Beings are fundamentally good. (despite all the evidence to the contrary. See rule 3 ) 6 Never Post Angry. NPA. ( for "post" read Email, Text, Converse, Argue ). 7. You are not as clever as you think you are. ( for "you" read "we".  And make the appropriate mental changes to the Grammar) 8. Probably best to do your laundry when it is raining. 9. When endeavouring to do something creative, let it happen. Don't force it. 10. Never trust a headline with numbers in it. Any headline with a number in it is a bad headl