Hopefully that was where people realized that I was speaking in purposefully unrealistic terms. Maybe I shoulda used some sort of shrug emoji there... As to the rest of your points, yep. The coding analogy was way off, but I was stretching an analogy just for the sake of it.
I actually do kinda like working on bikes, and nerding out about bikes, and wondering about how to make them better. Fuck, there's a column or two in my head about how much damn time I spend thinking about how my bars are rotated, while riding. But every once in a while I also just want to shut my brain off. Hence the seed of this column, planted by Uncle Dave but also fertilized by those years spent wrenching on other people's bikes for way too little money while being constantly amazed at the level of neglect that so many bikes somehow miraculously struggle along under before finally losing the battle against entropy and finding themselves in the work stand of an incredulous mechanic.
Holy run-on sentence...
March 10, 2022, 9:39 a.m. - Mike Ferrentino
Hopefully that was where people realized that I was speaking in purposefully unrealistic terms. Maybe I shoulda used some sort of shrug emoji there... As to the rest of your points, yep. The coding analogy was way off, but I was stretching an analogy just for the sake of it. I actually do kinda like working on bikes, and nerding out about bikes, and wondering about how to make them better. Fuck, there's a column or two in my head about how much damn time I spend thinking about how my bars are rotated, while riding. But every once in a while I also just want to shut my brain off. Hence the seed of this column, planted by Uncle Dave but also fertilized by those years spent wrenching on other people's bikes for way too little money while being constantly amazed at the level of neglect that so many bikes somehow miraculously struggle along under before finally losing the battle against entropy and finding themselves in the work stand of an incredulous mechanic. Holy run-on sentence...