By bluerasberry on 2024-12-28
My little chinchilla Pip passed today, Saturday 28 December, 2024. He had a healthy life. A few months ago he began to slow in his activity. About a week ago his sleeping behavior changed in that he took minutes to wake, when previously for his meal times, baths, and outings he would come to alert […]
Posted in animal, Charlottesville | Tagged chinchilla, death
By bluerasberry on 2023-05-09
On Tuesday 2 May 2023 Shagwüf played a concert at Chinchilla Café which was special because it was recorded. We are all big fans of Shagwüf and were keen to make it happen. Here I describe what it means from an administrative perspective to operate a house venue. I live in a house where we […]
Posted in art, Charlottesville, gay stuff, non-profit | Tagged concert, party
By bluerasberry on 2023-02-10
Chinchilla Café is a concert venue, community center, and animal coffeehouse in Charlottesville, Virginia. Robin Brown, Gabriela Toledo, Eli Draizen, Fabian Garcia, and I Lane Rasberry established it last year in 2022. I want to describe what it is, the shows we have presented, and what we are trying to accomplish by hosting it. See […]
Posted in art, Charlottesville, festival | Tagged chinchilla, coffee, music, party
By bluerasberry on 2023-01-03
For New Year’s Eve we went to the Southern concert venue in Charlottesville for Shagwüf and the Falsies. When I first moved to Charlottesville Fabian and I went there on 16 March 2018 to see Southern Culture on the Skids. Fabian had not been back since but I had gone there for concerts sometimes. Robin […]
Posted in art, Charlottesville, festival, gay stuff | Tagged holiday, music, party
By bluerasberry on 2021-11-15
I tried explaining something in video by webcam which is new for me, but I want to try more often. I sorted notes in my head, rehearsed out loud once, then recorded. I watched it and thought it was fine, so I published it. I wanted to start a conversation on demographic profiling in the […]
Posted in data, Open access, Wikipedia | Tagged demographics, profile, Scholia, WikiCite
By bluerasberry on 2021-06-03
Someone asked for my thoughts on this early draft of “Citation needed? Wikipedia and the COVID-19 pandemic” at the preprint repository bioRxiv. I look at lots of such papers and often have the same thoughts about them, so I thought I would share my views here to list how I think about medical research on […]
Posted in health, Wikipedia | Tagged sickness
By bluerasberry on 2019-12-23
Wikipedia has many active features which are broken. Conventional product development practices the idea of the minimum viable product in which there is a schedule of feature rollout to give most users a narrow but working experience. With Wikipedia, anyone can integrate a new product into the user experience and if there is any oversight […]
Posted in election, rights, Wikipedia | Tagged copyright
By bluerasberry on 2019-10-23
Fabian and I went to the Charlottesville Saturday 19 October 2019 morning farmer’s market. We met Andy there, a CHUVA former resident and regular, and bought some of his dried peppers. He had grown 50 different types and was still producing peppers, and he had given some to us for Thursday night pizza. Dried ones […]
Posted in Charlottesville, service industry | Tagged crime, ecotourism
By bluerasberry on 2019-10-22
Fabian came to visit me in Charlottesville for the first time in a while on Thursday 17 October. He came to me at school then we joined Eli and Daniel at the Newcomb cafeteria for lunch. On Friday Fabian and I did a couples photo shoot with Gabriela. We talked about her photography hobby, and […]
Posted in Charlottesville, data | Tagged coffee, crime
