By bluerasberry on 2011-06-05
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 2011-05-20
I arrived in Seattle on the night of Friday May 13. The weather is wonderful here and I love my city. I find that my life is not so different here as it was in India. I work in front of a computer for part of the day and play for another part. Every day […]
Posted in personal, Seattle | Tagged boring
By bluerasberry on 2011-05-19
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 2011-05-15
I met Father Anand for the first time on April 16, Palm Sunday. Ravi and I went to the Catholic church to talk to him and watch this play they were organizing to teach the story of Easter. There were strange things about the service as compared to other Catholic services and I wondered what […]
Posted in India, work | Tagged videography
By bluerasberry on 2011-05-15
Sarukh and Abdul arrived the week I was going to leave and I was very happy to see them. Nandan’s father had a problem with Sarukh because he did not have legal ID, so I suggested that I would put them in a hotel. Nandan’s father wanted me to stay inside the house because he […]
Posted in gay stuff, India | Tagged dance, sex, wedding
By bluerasberry on 2011-05-11
I have been trying to learn some Bengali sign language and it has been fun for me to try to communicate with Abdul. I feel bad about regional sign languages; they seem like languages with little history or cultural attachment and I get this idea in my hide that there should be a big international […]
Posted in India, non-profit | Tagged language
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 2011-04-30
I went out the next day with Nandan and we Sarukh and Abdul and they said they would show us around Kolkata. They pointed out different things and played frisbee in a park on our way to the Victoria Memorial, which was easily the best-presented museum I have yet seen in India due to the […]
Posted in art, 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 2011-04-09
Josh had written me in 2008 asking about Nandan, and Nandan had told me about his visit then saying that he was a fun guy. Josh is a musician. He plays percussion and seems to make music everywhere he goes. He brought this dancer named Penelope with him and together one would start making some […]
Posted in art, education, presentation | Tagged dance, music