By bluerasberry on 2011-01-31
Pradeep and I were supposed to go to Humsafar and a museum after that but it was in the afternoon and kind of hot and his house was nearby so he suggested we stop for a half hour and then go. As it turned out I was interested in talking with his family and I […]
Posted in animal, gay stuff, India
By bluerasberry on 2011-01-31
I went on a date with Pradeep the next day. He had named some museums and said that we could go to Humsafar Trust. When I met up with him he asked me if I wanted to go to a clinic with him as he was due to get his third and last Hep B […]
Posted in gay stuff, health, HIV
By bluerasberry on 2011-01-30
The day after pride Mantu and Nandan wanted to chill but that night we went to Juhu Beach. Chowpatty Beach was contained in a neighborhood in Mumbai; I am sure it connected to the rest of the shoreline somehow but it seemed like one area to me. Juhu Beach went on for miles. When we […]
Posted in India
By bluerasberry on 2011-01-27
Mumbai is huge and full of people. This is my first time visiting. There was a snowstorm in DC and this led to me missing connecting flights and getting redirected through multiple carriers to finally arrive in Mumbai. I was compelled to go to Delhi and from there to Mumbai in order to arrive in […]
Posted in India
By bluerasberry on 2010-11-22
I participated in the Mashed-potato Munch Off at the Green Lake Gobble again this year. I ate 75 ounces of mashed potatoes (4.7 pounds, 2.1 kilograms) in four minutes. The woman to my right was second place. I was intimidated because I had expected them to leave my finished bowls in front of me, but […]
Posted in art, Seattle | Tagged competitive eating, contest
By bluerasberry on 2010-10-22
Four times in one week I have heard the same story in different contexts. I am struck by the profundity of this problem, it being that there exists evidence that funding social wellness programs for children is both the simplest and most effective way to improve individual and societal health, and yet in America and […]
Posted in health, legal, presentation, religion, Seattle | Tagged politician, weapon
By bluerasberry on 2010-10-20
The University of Washington Alumni Association does these environmental lectures every year. The series is on Tuesday nights for eight weeks. Last year the talks were about coffee and I went to all of them and they were great. This year it is about top-level economic policy on food production, and the series is called […]
Posted in health, presentation, Seattle | Tagged lecture
By bluerasberry on 2010-10-07
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 2010-10-06
I went to Infocamp at Seattle University on Saturday and Sunday October 2-3. I saw a sign or something about this conference – I am not sure what I saw, but I had never heard of it. It was $50 for two days and the website seemed to have a lot of community input on […]
Posted in computer, presentation, Seattle | Tagged conference
By bluerasberry on 2010-09-23
I went to the Consortium of Universities for Global Health meeting Monday and Tuesday September 20-21. The purpose of the conference was to discuss the role of the university in promoting global health. I had been talking with Nandan for some years now about doing things to attract enough students to merit the establishment of […]
Posted in non-profit, presentation, Seattle | Tagged conference
