A great Perspective on Modern Life

[CaptCanada]

and the funny thing is that the majority of people would denounce that as 'useless knowledge' and 'just playing around' when you should be learning something 'applicable'

i'm not hopeful at all for the present/future

Well the area of California I'm from is still heavy in the agriculture, so they know most guys are going to grow up and be blue collar workers thus still providing us education that fits our future jobs.

Even if most of us get office jobs in Sacramento.

[haledj]

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-drive/car-life/cheney/the-death-of-do-it-yourself/article1707599/?cmpid=rss1

article's author is peter cheney

[imsotyerred]

Well the area of California I'm from is still heavy in the agriculture, so they know most guys are going to grow up and be blue collar workers thus still providing us education that fits our future jobs.

Even if most of us get office jobs in Sacramento.

I wish i had some classes like that back in high school. I was lucky enough to have a dad around who built shit, helped me build shit, etc. and he let me do computer assembly classes and carpentry. By highschool i had started wrenching on cars with my dad and older brother. Hell, I still have and use a pair of speakers that i built back in 4th grade...made the box of MDF, cut the holes for the tweeter and midrange speakers, mounted and wired in the crossover...covered the things with mahogany sheets...they look and perform great still 14 years later
but i digress

So many of my friends look at shit and say "fuck, what can we do to fix that?" I look at shit all day and think about how it could be fixed/improved

i just don't understand it

[s0urce]

I blew a wheel speed sensor on my CLK430. Because of this I lost my Traction Control, Stability Control, and ABS. No way in hell I'm getting it fixed. Now it feels like a real car.

[ISB E30]

The front of the car included an unusual design feature called the "Serviceklappe" in German — this translates to "service hatch" or "service panel". On early cars, this was a glossy black panel at the lower edge of the bonnet (hood), where the radiator grille would normally be sited. Behind it are the filling points for oil and screen wash fluid, and the dipstick. Thanks to these features, in the daily use of the car the bonnet does not need to be raised.
The bonnet was widely rumoured to be sealed — Car and Driver wrote: "...feature of the A2 that may foretell the future: the sealed hood". Actually, the bonnet is easily removed, being held in place by two twist-lock catches. The around 8 kg heavy bonnet then comes away from the car altogether, unlike the usual hinged flip-up arrangement on most other cars. Due to the service hatch, the need remove the bonnet to gain access to the internal combustion engine is minimal.