By bluerasberry on 2009-06-29
I spent Gay Pride this year at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center booth recruiting for people who might be interested in receiving an experimental HIV vaccine. The general criteria is that we are looking for people of all genders and sexual orientations who are between the ages of 18-50 and who are willing to […]
Posted in drug, education, festival, health, HIV, non-profit, presentation, research, Seattle | Tagged Gay Pride, HIV, vaccine
By bluerasberry on 2009-06-25
I was at Greenlake last Sunday, June 21, as I often go there to jog and see people and pets. Northeast of the lake there is a park and a community center, then outside the park there is this hang-out neighborhood with coffeeshops, restaurants, fitness stores, and other social places. I was leaving the park […]
Posted in animal, Seattle | Tagged rescue, rodent
By bluerasberry on 2009-06-08
Actually, the plant is in the city of Renton, which is very close to Seattle. I took a tour there Saturday, June 6. Here is the summary of their work (PDF) that they present in diagram form. Public wastewater treatment is the process of channeling used water from private homes, businesses, factories, and all public […]
Posted in education, research | Tagged environment, tour, water
By bluerasberry on 2009-05-21
On Wednesday May 20 I went on a tour of the Hanford Site. This is a decommissioned nuclear reactor on the Columbia River in south-central Washington which had the sole mission of creating plutonium for weapons. The B Reactor there was the first large scale reactor built for this purpose; it was created for the […]
Posted in education, health, museum, presentation | Tagged military, science, tour
By bluerasberry on 2009-05-19
It seems appropriate to me that I and all other people should periodically announce our own sexual disease status as a way to promote the idea that everyone should get periodic STD testing. As the results of my tests show, on May 13, 2009, I Lane Rasberry did not have HIV, syphilis, or hepatitis B. […]
Posted in health, HIV | Tagged STD
By bluerasberry on 2009-05-11
Actually, this is not a license. It is a medical assistance certification that may or may not have any value. In any case, I just finished a phlebotomy class and got a lot of practice performing and receiving blood draws. As a person who has participated in more than forty clinical trials requiring blood draws, […]
Posted in education, health, research, rights | Tagged blood
By bluerasberry on 2009-04-20
I went to the Friends of Seattle Public Library Book Sale this last weekend. This is a fundraising book sale that happens twice a year at the Hangar in Magnuson Park on Sand Point Way in Seattle. They sell books donated to the library and also library books which are being removed from the library’s […]
Posted in education, non-profit, Seattle | Tagged book
By bluerasberry on 2009-04-16
I took a class at Theo Chocolate on Wednesday, April 15. They have a proper chemist named Andy McShea as their head chocolatier and he gave a lecture on the fermentation of cacao beans. The way he explained it was that there were three processes – sugar to ethanol via yeast, ethanol to lactic acid […]
Posted in education | Tagged chocolate, classes, coffee, food
By bluerasberry on 2009-03-09
A dear fried of mine named Adam died last week. I had known him since I was about 12 and we were close until I moved away to go to school. I would even say that until that time, we had a lot in common. I still talked to and emailed him after I left […]
Posted in drug | Tagged civil rights, death, opium
By bluerasberry on 2009-02-23
In Hindi, “maha” means “big,” “Shiva” is the god, and “ratri” means night. February 23, 2009 was Shiva’s Big Night. I went to Traveler’s Chai Shop to celebrate, as Allen and Leon (the proprietors) often host Indian cultural events. This night they were also showing some locally-made ceramic shivlings. They were not particularly Indian but […]
Posted in art, festival, religion | Tagged Shivaratri, tea
