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By bluerasberry on October 19, 2011
I went to see Joanne Silberner at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation tonight. Silberner is an elite American journalist who reported public health stories, most notably for NPR. The title of her talk was “Global health and the media: what’s news and what’s not, and why.” The audience were statisticians in public health [...]
Posted in education, presentation, research, Seattle | Tagged computer, journalism, social media
By bluerasberry on October 11, 2011
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 October 10, 2011
Seattle InfoCamp was on October 8 and 9 and I went both days. I learned a lot and consumed new ideas. I love the format of this “unconference” – how it works is that they only schedule keynote speakers and everyone attends their talks, and then on the day of the event anyone who wants [...]
Posted in computer, presentation, Seattle | Tagged InfoCamp
By bluerasberry on September 18, 2011
On Saturday the 17th there was a cupcake eating contest at this event in Interbay called the Mobile Food Rodeo. Trophy made the cupcakes so they were awesome. The organizers called me because they knew that I like to compete in eating contests. There were three contestants and I got reminded of something important at [...]
Posted in festival, Seattle | Tagged competitive eating
By bluerasberry on August 23, 2011
I just have a short story about my neighborhood. This kind of thing is not atypical where I live. I was walking on the sidewalk with a friend in my busy neighborhood, which is as close as possible to the center of the University of Washington. We saw a car pull next to another car [...]
Posted in legal, Seattle | Tagged crime
By bluerasberry on August 4, 2011
Dear X-person – I am sorry. I regret my actions and I learned from my mistakes. I wish that I had not upset you and I regret my behavior for that reason. Since I cannot change what has happened, I hope that you find consolation in the fact that I am making an effort to [...]
Posted in research, Seattle, Wikipedia | Tagged mistake
By bluerasberry on July 27, 2011
I met Sarahjane yesterday. I brought lots of books and work with me while I waited at the coffeeshop. She told me to be there at 4 and she showed up at 6. We got to her mom’s nearby hotel 2.5 hours later. She looks great. She has in spirits which were higher than most [...]
Posted in personal, Seattle | Tagged Sarahjane
By bluerasberry on July 25, 2011
I have been dating this boy named Xu since the middle of June and we have been seeing each other a few times a week. He is from Liaoning, which is the coastal province of China which shares a border with North Korea. He is doing a logistics program through Penn State’s industrial engineering department [...]
Posted in China, love, personal, Seattle, tour
By bluerasberry on June 29, 2011
Recently I met a lot of leaders in public and global health. The World Affairs Council is a Seattle non-profit which organizes for leaders from other countries to come to Seattle and give presentations. Global Health Nexus promotes talks about health issues in Seattle. WAC definitely does a lot more events. On June 6 WAC [...]
Posted in health, non-profit, presentation, Seattle | Tagged conference, politician, royal
By bluerasberry on June 26, 2011
There was a pie eating contest at the Fremont Outdoor Movie screening of Shaun of the Dead. I went in a Shaun costume and was very serious. There were not many willing competitors and only two others volunteered for this. I have no idea why other people do not see this sport the way I [...]
Posted in Seattle | Tagged competitive eating