By bluerasberry on 2009-08-22
Today I went to a Rick Steves travel workshop. Rick Steves is, I think, the single most prominent travel adviser in the English speaking world. He hosts an excellent European travel documentary series that is available on dvd and shown on public television channels, and he supervises the writing of travel guides for all areas […]
Posted in education, Seattle | Tagged pedagogy, travel
By bluerasberry on 2009-08-02
On Saturday, August 1 I participated as a contestant in a doughnut-eating contest at Top Pot Doughnuts in downtown Seattle. The event was hosted by El Vez and some lady in a doughnut bikini. I and my eating companion Adam from Barsuk Records won second place. The format was that a random selection from audience […]
Posted in art, encounter, Seattle | Tagged competitive eating, contest, doughnut
By bluerasberry on 2009-07-02
I got a lot of emails and calls about the Craigslist ad and flyers that I posted about the lost rat that I found. Over two weeks eighteen people wrote to me; if anyone is interested in seeing what kind of attention this kind of story gets in Seattle, then read their letters here. More […]
Posted in animal, Seattle | Tagged rodent
By bluerasberry on 2009-06-29
I spent Gay Pride this year at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center booth recruiting for people who might be interested in receiving an experimental HIV vaccine. The general criteria is that we are looking for people of all genders and sexual orientations who are between the ages of 18-50 and who are willing to […]
Posted in drug, education, festival, health, HIV, non-profit, presentation, research, Seattle | Tagged Gay Pride, HIV, vaccine
By bluerasberry on 2009-06-25
I was at Greenlake last Sunday, June 21, as I often go there to jog and see people and pets. Northeast of the lake there is a park and a community center, then outside the park there is this hang-out neighborhood with coffeeshops, restaurants, fitness stores, and other social places. I was leaving the park […]
Posted in animal, Seattle | Tagged rescue, rodent
By bluerasberry on 2009-06-08
Actually, the plant is in the city of Renton, which is very close to Seattle. I took a tour there Saturday, June 6. Here is the summary of their work (PDF) that they present in diagram form. Public wastewater treatment is the process of channeling used water from private homes, businesses, factories, and all public […]
Posted in education, research | Tagged environment, tour, water
By bluerasberry on 2009-05-21
On Wednesday May 20 I went on a tour of the Hanford Site. This is a decommissioned nuclear reactor on the Columbia River in south-central Washington which had the sole mission of creating plutonium for weapons. The B Reactor there was the first large scale reactor built for this purpose; it was created for the […]
Posted in education, health, museum, presentation | Tagged military, science, tour
By bluerasberry on 2009-05-19
It seems appropriate to me that I and all other people should periodically announce our own sexual disease status as a way to promote the idea that everyone should get periodic STD testing. As the results of my tests show, on May 13, 2009, I Lane Rasberry did not have HIV, syphilis, or hepatitis B. […]
Posted in health, HIV | Tagged STD
By bluerasberry on 2009-05-11
Actually, this is not a license. It is a medical assistance certification that may or may not have any value. In any case, I just finished a phlebotomy class and got a lot of practice performing and receiving blood draws. As a person who has participated in more than forty clinical trials requiring blood draws, […]
Posted in education, health, research, rights | Tagged blood
By bluerasberry on 2009-04-20
I went to the Friends of Seattle Public Library Book Sale this last weekend. This is a fundraising book sale that happens twice a year at the Hangar in Magnuson Park on Sand Point Way in Seattle. They sell books donated to the library and also library books which are being removed from the library’s […]
Posted in education, non-profit, Seattle | Tagged book