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  Hey Everyone! As Clothbot says, only a f...

  amymyoung 7:03 pm on March 30, 2010 | 0 Comment Permalink | Reply
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  Hey Everyone!

  As Clothbot says, only a few hours until the fun begins!

  I’ve been living here in Ottawa for the last three years, despite being married to an Ottawa Valley boy for almost a decade. I’m an author, blogger, photographer and part time musician, and I’m certainly in awe of the company I’m included in! To quote a classic 90s film – I’m not worthy!

  I’ve spent ten years in technical pursuits – from a major e-learning provider to independent work – before ditching it all for the lonely, poor paying, but happy and satisfying world of writing (almost) full time.

  I’m one of those people who is possessed of the curious mind, and got into the wonder of TED through Mary Roach. I’ve done a bit of everything in life, and have become a vocal advocate for the Creative Commons and Open Source software as well as the arts. I’ve been finding my feet in Ottawa, so I’ve been pretty quiet, but you can expect to hear more from me soon – especially since my first novel is coming out next month.

  Looking forward to meeting creative, innovative people tonight!

   

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  clothbot 6:42 pm on March 30, 2010 | 0 Comment Permalink | Reply
  Tags: artengine, makerbot, modlab, ottawa

  Hey Everyone,

  Only a few more hours left until the fun begins!

  I’ve been living in Ottawa for nearly twelve years now, working as an engineer involved in one form or another in the integrated circuit (IC, aka semiconductor) design process (see http://www.linkedin.com/in/aplumb).

  Now that I have two children and don’t travel quite so much I’ve been turning my focus more locally to see what I’ve been missing and more importantly what might be missing that I can do something about. It’s much easier to get and stay involved when you don’t have to travel out-of-country on a moment’s notice for weeks at a time!

  I’ve been helping to get Ottawa ModLab started (a hackerspace; see http://hackerspaces.org/) in collaboration with ArtEngine (http://artengine.ca/). This involves among other things, carting along my MakerBot 3D printer (http://clothbot.com/wiki/MakerBotNumberNine) every other week to bounce around ideas. I’ll bring along some of my fabricated objects (I call them “fabjects”) tonight for folks to get hands-on with.

  If you want to see it operational (barring technical glitches), I’ll be doing a PechaKucha Night 20×20 tomorrow night (March 31st) on the subject: http://www.pecha-kucha.org/night/ottawa/2

  On twitter: http://twitter.com/clothbot
  Launch pad for me everywhere: http://clothbot.com/wiki/

  Later!

  Andrew.