From: Simon Schuster <significants@...>
Date: 2007-08-07T10:00:00+09:00
Subject: learning ruby from you?

I've got an impressively spotty understanding of ruby, linux,
programming in general, and math/logic, but have a project or two in
mind that are just taking too long for me to make headway with on my
own. I would like to buy some lessons via AIM/email paid with paypal to
use ruby to actualize some of these things and help me learn ruby in
the process. healthcare doesn't pay like flipping burgers,
surprisingly, so I can't offer any kind of IT going rate. this
situation would be ideal for someone(s) gearing up for
teaching, or learning hobbyists like myself (teaching is maybe the best
way to learn!), or for someone wanting to learn the basics of modern
hebrew, which is another of my autodidactic hack-of-all-trades
interests, and probably my most powerful area (about 3 years of
on-and-off learning).. this last would be the most ideal trade, for me
(see above re: $). also I'm just fun to talk to.

projects abstractly: making (in general) and utilizing fonts within ruby, web
automation, making a file-sharing AIM bot, nanobrews, specifics after
talking some, aim/yahoo=awhilewhileaway thank you!