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Hey Nathan,<BR>
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Welcome to the Bay Area. And welcome to Noisebridge! I'm glad you found us.<BR>
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Please feel free to come by NB anytime, and ask anyone for a tour. People are almost always ready to show off the place. I'd give you one myself, but I'm out of town at the moment. I'll be home in a couple weeks, and I look forward to meeting you.<BR>
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If you would like to do either or both of the 2 projects you mentioned, I think they'd be way nice! We have been discussing ways of ventillation for awhile, with nothing conclusive (especially regarding ventillation (and safety) for a laser cutter). And cataloging things would be way helpful for lots of reasons.<BR>
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Please come by Noisebridge and make yourself at home there. There's lots of friendly geeks to get to know and share ideas with. I hope you will like what you experience.<BR>
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Best,<BR>
Mitch.<BR>
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Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2010 09:27:47 -0700<BR>From: vasiln@yahoo.com<BR>To: noisebridge-discuss@lists.noisebridge.net<BR>Subject: [Noisebridge-discuss] self introduction<BR><BR>
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<TD vAlign=top>Howdy all!<BR><BR>Writing a self-introduction in hopes of finding friendly-ish teachers.<BR><BR>My name's Nathan. I moved to Oakland recently from Portland OR. I'm an unemployed RN, enjoy playing with stuff, and if I'm an expert in anything, it's probably in dealing with crazy folks :) It's possible you might have run in to me on metafilter, landoverbaptist.net, or the dwarf fortress forums. Just guessing that's where there might be some intersection with any of y'all.<BR><BR>Read about NB via the paper and dropped by on Saturday. Just scouted around. It looks really cool to me. I want to learn more.<BR><BR>I'm hoping that somebody would be willing to give me a guided tour-- I'm not totally sure about what's personal property and what isn't, or protocol for playing with stuff. Right now, I'm most interested in learning some metalworking stuff. I want to try my hand at jewelry. I think making a pen is a good beginning project. Anybody in the middle of any metalworking projects? Anybody who wouldn't mind me watching and asking questions?<BR><BR>I imagine you're drowned in new people with new ideas right now. Taking a quick look around the place, I thought of a couple of things I could do that would make it cooler:<BR><BR>1) A portfolio of stuff people have made, along with contact info/ltd biographies. The idea would be that people could browse it to get ideas, and to figure out who to contact when they needed help with a project.<BR><BR>2) A negative air-flow booth for doing things like spray painting or grinding nasty materials. This'd probably take a couple of days to make, but would require a little discussion (run a vent through the space? Dump to outside air, which would probably be okay, or dump to filter?)<BR><BR>If anybody thinks these are exciting ideas, let me know, and I'll figure out how to do them (I'm not going to bother if nobody'd really care).<BR><BR>And, seeing the Adventure discussion, I wanted to point all y'all to this article by Julian Dibbell (fairly well-known tech journalist and author) on Adventure. It's long been a favorite of mine:<BR><BR>http://www.juliandibbell.com/texts/cavespace.html<BR><BR>Thanks for making something awesome.<BR><BR>--Nathan<BR></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><BR><BR>_______________________________________________ Noisebridge-discuss mailing list Noisebridge-discuss@lists.noisebridge.net https://www.noisebridge.net/mailman/listinfo/noisebridge-discuss </body>
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