How does one get into being a mechanic?

raaaaaaaaaaaaaaaage

I miss California.

I went in,
"you gais need a mechanic?"
"not so much"
"I went to beik skool and am a head mechanic at the hipster coop"
"YOURE HIRED"

i c.

bows. mufking bows. and bikes. fkyesdoingitright#? ohokay#

I'm signed up for the Stanford CS101 course, but I'm pretty annoyed with them. It was supposed to start months ago and they've kept pushing it back... Now it's starting April 23 -- which is the day I leave for a 12-day trip to Europe. Sigh.

I know, you get what you pay for (which is $0 in this case) but I'm still a little bummed.

This past weekend I made arrangements to look at and most likely buy a Peugeot Corbier on CL. Price wasn't bad, and I was looking for a townie/baby mover project.
Texted the seller to let her know I was on my way (Queens to BK), got a reply "Oh i actually just sold the bike. Sorry!". FFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUU

That is a bummer. I just jumped into it last Thursday. Went click, click, click. Got a notice about "this class already started but you can go for it if ya want. " I just looked again at the "Course Content" and I guess It's in week 6 of 7, so I might have 2 weeks to do 7 weeks worth of class. I couldn't find info on when weeks start and end, however. The syllabus doesn't have actual dates on it.

I have to assume this class started about a month and a half ago, unless they're real sketchy about the schedule, like if they're shooting video as they go and this class has been going on for months.

Anyways the format is great for short attention span types. All the youtube clips are 5 minutes or less it seems and most have a multiple choice question or two afterwards. Some have a Python interpreter embedded in the webpage where you write a code snippet and it gets evaluated as to whether it will give the proper results.

Well, I can only be so bummed about the fact that I'm going to Brussels and Brugge and Amsterdam for 12 days.

big list of online repls here: click

Try python may be a good place to start

I mean the Udacity course has an interpreter built in to the course webpages. You type in your code for the problem, run it, debug it then hit Submit. Then it says "right, or wrong" Pretty sweet setup.

My favorite reference so far is this. Since I learned BASIC and C back in the day, all I need is syntax tips basically:

https://rgruet.free.fr/PQR27/PQR2.7.html

Pants make this photo just pop right off the scream and scare the living **** out of you.

You gotta be seriously comfortable with yourself to put this out on the Internet. Or drunk.

Indeed. I'm especially jealous of the Belgian part of your trip. I watched the Tour of Flanders on TV this weekend, though. That'll have to do for now...

Today I: put new bars (Ergonovas) and new tape on the Leader.

First day working in seattle, beautiful weather so did a 10 mile loop at lunch, would have loved to just keep going, finding a place to sit outside with a nice brew, but duty calls.

it's so damn nice today!

yeah, lunchtime ride was nice, but now i am being tortured sitting here in the office!

i ran around greenlake and biked around doing day off errands. bout to go back out.

need beer stat

Purteh tape jandro. I was gonna do pink tape and saddle but you beat me to it!

Trued wheels while blasting Red Fang. In the dining room.

Why wife hit me?

Back home and back to the daily routine.

get money **** b!tches?

just spent 4 and a half hours doing THE MOST boring titration of my life..........