#BikeNite A2: I spent exactly one day working (for pay) in a bike shop, #RecycleCycles in #Kitchener, a project run by #TheWorkingCentre where I'd just started work in the IT department. Bike Shop Day was part of the new job orientation. Lots of fun for a bike weenie: All the tools! All the parts! And professional expertise to help out when things go wrong. I have none of those in my basement.

I've volunteered there a few times since, just a few hours at a time.

@ascentale
@pete @bikenite

#BikeNite A5: The LBS I go to now is Black Arrow Cycles https://www.blackarrowcycles.ca/

The owner, Jesse Robertson, used to run #RecycleCycles, a project of #TheWorkingCentre. I worked at TWC as a computer support tech, and part of the orientation was working in the bike shop for a day. Quite the treat for a computer guy who likes bikes!

I bought my bike (and my son's) at another LBS (before Black Arrow existed), largely because there was a display of new bikes outside.

@ascentale
@sam @bikenite

@Shanmonster

Any idea what part of your laptop is dead?

A few years ago at a @kwlug swap meet someone brought in a "dead" laptop. The only thing wrong was a dead battery that was trying to charge, but pulling so much power the laptop wouldn't boot. I removed the battery and it ran just fine, and it was my daily computer for years.

It's possible #ComputerRecycling at #TheWorkingCentre has parts to fix it; if not, they have cheap (used) computers and laptops.

cc: Charles McColm @chaslinux

#BikeNite A5: I was a member of the first bike share in #WaterlooRegion in 2011 run by #TheWorkingCentre. Mostly I used public transit to go to work and straight back home so I used it only twice. It stopped after two years. There have been other bikeshares, some with big announcements that never got off the ground. Now we have these untethered scooters and bikes littering the streets. They need a phone app to activate, which I will never use.

@ascentale
@xtaran
@bikenite