If you love tech, the FABLab should be familiar to you. Described as the ‘first advanced manufacturing, prototyping and design lab in Namibia’ and the largest within Africa, Kirstin Wiedow is not only the co-founder but the director, and is partly responsible for producing some of Namibia’s finest tech products in collaboration with the Namibia University of Science and Technology. Basically, she’s superhuman.
Really 2016 2.0. The madness didn’t end.
A year full of robots.
That you need to pursue balance between work and home, and then when you are halfway through the year and it was all one-sided, you have to try again.
‘Bad Day To Go Fishing.’
Humbug-black.
I would give Loux The Vintage Guru a smackeroo on the cheek for his fabulous style and epic suits!
Already taken, and I would marry him again!
There is a guy at the dam with a whole bunch of hunting dogs. I avoid him like the plague because his dogs have hit my dog below the belt – not cool!
Socks, FNB Happiness Store school clothing for two pupils and a Violent Femmes CD – old-school!
“Martini, shaken not stirred, extra olives gov’na, the thirst has taken me.”
One of our female security guards hung herself; we were all aware something was troubling her but nobody knew it was that bad. It came as a real shock.
Karaoke singing in the car with my husband to Gary Numan’s ‘Cars’.
Crop tops!
“Nambia”!
Attending the Internet of Things (IoT) World Congress in Barcelona, Spain.
No more funding for FABlab.
On a barge in the south of France.
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