By bluerasberry on 2010-09-07
Monday morning felt great also. We went to the Castro because I wanted to visit a certain NGO called the Center. The San Francisco LGBT Community Center, also called the Charles M. Holmes Campus, also called “The Center”, is a place where LGBT organizations can get inexpensive office space in a great location a few […]
Posted in San Francisco, tour
By bluerasberry on 2010-09-06
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 2010-09-04
So Simon put me on the Muni to Oakland and I meet Jenny and Jeff outside the station. I had worked with Jenny at Free and Clear in 2007 and we used to go to art events. See moved to Berkeley, got a masters degree in East Asian studies, and now she is in a […]
Posted in San Francisco, tour
By bluerasberry on 2010-08-29
This post has no interesting content at all. It is just a record to help me remember what I learned. On Thursday August 19 Simon and I dropped off the car by driving north through Golden Gate Park, into the Presidio, then west along the waterfront to the return at Fisherman’s Wharf. Simon took me […]
Posted in personal, San Francisco
By bluerasberry on 2010-08-28
For a long while I have had this idea to go to Mexico City and then onto Guatemala. I can be really mindless sometimes, and somehow I got it into my head that it would be a good idea to make this trip by land from Seattle. I had the idea that I could Craigslist […]
Posted in encounter, tour
By bluerasberry on 2010-08-07
The Seattle Century is a 100 mile bicycle tour organized this year as a fundraiser for Bikeworks, which is a non-profit organizing which promotes cycling for young people. There were participation levels for 50 and 100 miles; I did the 50 mile on July 31, the day of the event. Registration for the event was […]
Posted in health, non-profit, tour | Tagged ecotourism, fundraiser, sport
By bluerasberry on 2010-07-15
I went to see Lords of Acid and My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult Tuesday July 13 at Studio 7 in Georgetown. I listened to them when I was a teenager and it was cool to see them live. The venue sucked and I gave them a bad yelp but both bands were good. […]
Posted in drug, presentation, Seattle | Tagged concert, dance, music, pop culture
By bluerasberry on 2010-07-09
Saturday July 3 was the Fremont Zombie Walk. I regret not having pictures, but there were three of us together as zombie scientists in lab coats. Here is a picture of me without blood or too much makeup. I participated in a pie-eating contest organized by The World is Fun, and since it was no-hands, […]
Posted in festival, Seattle | Tagged blood, competitive eating, death
By bluerasberry on 2010-06-22
The Fremont Solstice parade was on Saturday June 19. I had worked with this guy named Dave who is a physicist and in a band called the Shamaniacs. I enjoyed talking to him because he was good at explaining popular science. The parade was great as usual and everyone brought their dogs and I petted […]
Posted in festival, HIV, Seattle | Tagged Fremont, Seattle Gay Pride
By bluerasberry on 2010-05-19
I attended part of a performance of Erik Satie’s(1866-1925) Vexations Jack Straw on May 16. Satie was a Parisian musician and dadaist who wrote minimalist repetitive music. This work, Vexations, is a song which most people would choose to play in about 3.5 minutes, but Satie wrote on the page of music the sentence, “In […]
Posted in art, presentation, Seattle | Tagged dada, music, performance
