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If you draw a venn diagram of people that collect washers, and people that would set up a booth to talk to others, the intersection is going to be extremely small.

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this is part of the first friday art walk happening every month in portland. i can imagine that while this display is still unusual in that context, a lot more people are going to be out looking for interesting stuff, and i'd like to think that at least once in a while an interesting conversation will happen. maybe someone collecting screws or nuts or even offers to add to the collection or someone working with these with their own stories to tell.

I looked at the photo before I read the tweet itself and was thinking that corner looked familiar! That’s the corner where Congress and Free St, right? I’d recognize it anywhere - when my kid was still small, the children’s museum was still there and I’ve walked past that spot a million times.

Yep, that is the building: https://pearlgallerymaine.com/

The intersection will most likely only contain this woman.

No, I think it will also include a smattering of Englishmen, a score of Germans and (maybe) a guy with a mechanical engineering degree who dedicated his career to washers.

Ok if you draw a third circle representing all women then this would be the only woman.

I suspect there will be a bunch of washer field engineers, and some washer CTOs.

What do you think are the odds she's on HN?

If not... could we get her to join and do a Show HN? Or even an AMA?

Because I'd tune in.

Do you mean like to overlapping washers?

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