By bluerasberry on July 30, 2011
In August I am going to a meet up organized by Wikipedia to get training to be a “campus ambassador. Wikipedia is starting to provide support for people to go out to the general public and encourage other people to use Wikipedia. This is markedly different from any other top website’s marketing strategy – here [...]
Posted in computer, research, Wikipedia | Tagged ad campaign, campus ambassador
By bluerasberry on June 5, 2011
Matt Mullenweg is the founding developer of WordPress and he still seems to be a frontman for whatever WordPress does. I was at an event he arranged on June 3. Matt looked like a typical America who, as Nandan would say, gave very little attention to his personal appearance other than hygiene. About 40 people [...]
Posted in computer, presentation, research, Seattle, work | Tagged hero
By bluerasberry on May 19, 2011
On Wednesday May 11 we hosted a conference about HIV vaccination in Varanasi. The below is a video from the event, but I have it set to start at a theater and music portion of the event as most of the presentation is in Hindi. I got a notice about an HIV vaccine conference funding [...]
Posted in HIV, presentation, research, work | Tagged vaccine
By bluerasberry on February 14, 2011
Nandan and I went to Delhi to attend Chandan’s wife’s wedding. She seems to think of many things relating to Varanasi as having the negative attributes associated with a rural place. The wedding had guns fired into the air as part of the celebration process. I talked with a lot of people there but did [...]
Posted in education, health, India, research, tour | Tagged automaton, clinical research, school, vaccine, wedding
By bluerasberry on October 7, 2010
For a long time I have been wondering about the problem of providing software solutions to fix the problems I am having with data collection. I am not sure what the final solution will be, but here are some options which people have presented to me and which I have not fully explored. The problem [...]
Posted in computer, education, research
By bluerasberry on September 6, 2010
Sunday was my own time. When I was wondering with Simon we went to the beat bookstore and I saw an ad for a cemetery bike tour. Jenny loaned me her bike and I aired the tires as she had not ridden in a while, and then left for the tour at the Colma bart [...]
Posted in research, San Francisco, tour
By bluerasberry on February 1, 2010
I have been interested in video production for some time now. I have no desire to be artistic, but I would like to explore the possibility of creating a protocol by means of which anyone can quickly create educational videos of a certain known quality. I am interested in making some videos, but more than [...]
Posted in art, education, India, research | Tagged astrology
By bluerasberry on December 24, 2009
I went to the World Vision US Headquarters on Wednesday December 23. World Vision is the name for a non-profit organization founded in America in 1950 to do humanitarian aid and social development, especially in developing countries, and especially for the sake of children. Their m.o. is to get people in first-world countries to give [...]
Posted in education, non-profit, presentation, research, Seattle | Tagged non-profit organization, youth, youth rights
By bluerasberry on November 20, 2009
The fall conference for the HIV Vaccine Trials Network was here in Seattle November 16-18. This was my second time attending. Conferences like these really get me excited. Part of the fun is in meeting new people who have total expectation of basing a social relationship on the exchange of information. Sometimes I feel like [...]
Posted in education, health, HIV, presentation, research, Seattle | Tagged conference, HVTN, vaccine
By bluerasberry on September 27, 2009
I enrolled in a two month weekly improv acting class and had the first session Wednesday September 23. It is organized by Jet City, who I sometimes go see perform at the Historic University Theater at 55th and University Way. I have been watching these folks since about 2003 when I remember seeing them do [...]
Posted in non-profit, research, Seattle | Tagged Lifelong AIDS Alliance, prevention education, vaccine