By bluerasberry on 2019-03-22
There is a 2008 comic book, Umbrella Academy, which contains a joke about the assassination of United States President John F. Kennedy (JFK).In 2019 the comic became a video series and presented the Kennedy assassination joke again. I liked the comic and I recently watched the video series. The joke is incidental, but since the joke […]
Posted in Texas, Wikipedia | Tagged conspiracy, death, policy
By bluerasberry on 2019-03-20
I visited NYC from Friday 8 March – Sunday 17 March 2019. On Saturday 9 March Fabian, Wayne, and I wanted to see the Captain Marvel movie. Somehow we were confused about who reserved tickets, and while on the subway, we realized that no one had. We were all trying to reserve tickets clicking on […]
Posted in education, New York City, Wikipedia | Tagged comic, movie
By bluerasberry on 2018-11-25
Fabian and I went to see Torch Song on Broadway Thanksgiving night Thursday 22 November 2018 at the Hayes Theatre. The play is 3 hour adaptation of the Torch Song Trilogy, which was a series of plays telling a gay life story in New York from 1970-1980. I am reviewing the narrative here and describing […]
Posted in gay stuff, HIV, New York City, work | Tagged Broadway, gay rights, history, sex, theatre, youth rights
By bluerasberry on 2018-10-28
At WikiConference North America 2018 I chatted with Jackie Koerner / user:JackieKoerner about wiki professionalism in research and university collaborations. We both want for universities around the world to routinely and continuously collaborate with Wikipedia to do research to everyone’s mutual benefit. Wikipedia offers the benefits of a popular media channel, and universities have expertise […]
Posted in other, research, rights, Wikipedia | Tagged ethics, WikiConference
By bluerasberry on 2018-10-28
On Friday of WikiConference North America in Columbus we had “cultural crawl” day, which is a wiki conference tradition of going to any specialized knowledge center near the conference like a STEM organization, museum, university collection, or whatever is a source of information for developing Wikipedia. I went to the Thurber House, which is a […]
Posted in museum, other | Tagged tour, WikiConference
By bluerasberry on 2018-10-28
I was happy to help organize and present WikiConference North America 2018 in Columbus Ohio Thursday 18 – Sunday 21 October 2018. This was the fifth iteration of this annual conference. I had been a core organizer for 2014 in NYC, 2015 in DC, and 2016 in San Diego, and have been happy to have […]
Posted in presentation, research, Wikipedia | Tagged WikiConference
By bluerasberry on 2018-09-16
I have been Wikimedian in Residence at the Data Science Institute at the University of Virginia since March 2018. 6 Months into this role I wanted to share an update summarizing what I do. Graduate student research with Wikimedia projects The Data Science Institute’s primary activity till now is running a masters degree program in […]
Posted in Charlottesville, education, Wikipedia | Tagged Wikipedia education program, Wikipedian-in-residence
By bluerasberry on 2018-09-04
Fabian and I went to Wigstock on Saturday 1 September 2018. I wore a blue spiked wig. Fabian wore his Kaz Kaan wig from last year’s Comic Con along with a Lesotho hat we got from our summer trip to South Africa. Wigstock was a drag festival in NYC which ran from sometime in the […]
Posted in gay stuff, New York City | Tagged documentary, performance
By bluerasberry on 2018-09-03
I am visiting New York City from Charlottesville when I can. I visited for Labor Day weekend 2018 arriving Thursday 30 August and leaving Sunday 2 September. Fabian is one of the more active people in his union, IATSE Local 798, and I imagined that we would join the Labor Day march but I had […]
Posted in New York City | Tagged coffee, theatre
By bluerasberry on 2018-07-31
On Sunday 15 July Fabian and I visited the Iziko South African National Gallery in Cape Town. After purchasing an admission ticket at the entrance we walked through through about 20 rooms to visit every gallery in this medium-sized museum. There was a mix of permanent and special exhibits in a variety of galleries. The […]
Posted in art, museum, South Africa, tour | Tagged discrimination
