By bluerasberry on 2017-10-13
On Saturday 21 October Fabian and I went to Maria Hernandez Park near our place in Bushwick. We go there on nice days to talk and enjoy the park. I have always perceived some class conflict there and we a violent manifestation of it act out on that day. Fabian and I were sitting on […]
Posted in encounter, New York City | Tagged homeless, violence
By bluerasberry on 2015-06-28
The “Aspen Ideas Festival Spotlight Health” conference is over. It is late Sunday afternoon and I am having tea at a restaurant listening into the conversation at a table nearby. A table of four people are talking about how their employees fake job injuries so that they can get payments from employers while enjoying time […]
Posted in encounter | Tagged class struggle, conference
By bluerasberry on 2014-03-12
Today Vint Cerf, Google’s “Internet Evangelist”, presented at Consumer Reports. He talked about the history and the future of the Internet. What he said was familiar to me but hearing it from him in the way that I suppose he has been performing continually for 50 years was a thrill. Vint Cerf is called one […]
Posted in Consumer Reports, encounter | Tagged Vint Cerf
By bluerasberry on 2012-12-04
On Friday night people decided to threaten my life. I was robbed at knifepoint by potential murderers. Fortunately, no one was hurt, the cops caught the criminals, and I recovered my stolen property. I was excited about Marcus coming over. I walked to Greystone station to receive him and we were walking back to my […]
Posted in encounter, legal, New York City | Tagged crime, Marcus, police
By bluerasberry on 2011-10-11
I went to this conference called “Internet Research 12” where the focus was on people using the internet to pull data. One of the keynote speakers was Mike Minello with a marketing agency called Campfire. Wow! Advertising people are fun! I had never heard this guy’s name but I was familiar with a lot of […]
Posted in computer, encounter, presentation, research, Seattle | Tagged advertising, conference, hero
By bluerasberry on 2011-06-06
I attended the June 4 open house to celebrate the opening of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation building opening across the street from the Seattle Center. This is a 500 million dollar building whose employees have the responsibility to manage the spending of 3 billion dollars a year to improve the human condition. The […]
Posted in education, encounter, non-profit, Seattle | Tagged conference
By bluerasberry on 2011-04-30
So Nandan and I went to Kolkata to retrieve that 250kg of books I sent there from Seattle back in January. It arrived March 3 but no one contacted us or became aware of its arrival. I had the American shipper track it and he found in it Kolkata. We hired a customs house agent […]
Posted in encounter, India, museum, tour | Tagged Kolkata
By bluerasberry on 2011-04-14
Amit came to my place early this morning. This was about the fifth time he visited. He is cute and I like having him around. I am not really sure of what to think of this culturally and Nandan does not know either, but when he came today he brought his troll with him and […]
Posted in encounter, gay stuff, India | Tagged dance
By bluerasberry on 2011-02-20
Nandan and I stayed at this hotel called Ranjeet. As far as hotels go it suited my needs but I want to mention that it had a ground floor restaurant with a lounge singer every night. He had a cassette deck and a bunch of tapes and a microphone. He sung old Bollywood songs. Many […]
Posted in encounter, India | Tagged music
By bluerasberry on 2010-08-28
For a long while I have had this idea to go to Mexico City and then onto Guatemala. I can be really mindless sometimes, and somehow I got it into my head that it would be a good idea to make this trip by land from Seattle. I had the idea that I could Craigslist […]
Posted in encounter, tour