[Noisebridge-discuss] self introduction

[Mitch Altman]

Hey Nathan,
 
Welcome to the Bay Area.  And welcome to Noisebridge!  I'm glad you found us.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
Best,
Mitch.

 


Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2010 09:27:47 -0700
From: vasiln at yahoo.com
To: noisebridge-discuss at lists.noisebridge.net
Subject: [Noisebridge-discuss] self introduction





Howdy all!

Writing a self-introduction in hopes of finding friendly-ish teachers.

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.

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.

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?

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:

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.

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?)

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).

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:

http://www.juliandibbell.com/texts/cavespace.html

Thanks for making something awesome.

--Nathan


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