By bluerasberry on 2018-07-29
Fabian and I visited Kruger National Park. On Wednesday 11 July we flew from Johannesburg to Skukuza Airport, which is in Kruger Park. We picked up a rental car and drove 2.5 hours to Satara Lodge where we stayed 2 nights. The night of the 12th we took a nighttime tour to see nocturnal animals […]
Posted in animal, South Africa, tour, Wikipedia | Tagged monkey, zoo
By bluerasberry on 2018-07-27
The Apartheid Museum in Johannesburg has a global contemporary museum design to convey the most objective information without making demands that visitors work hard to understand. It was an easy museum to visit in terms of how much I had to think to be able to understand the exhibits. For anyone who wants the museum […]
Posted in museum, South Africa, tour | Tagged discrimination
By bluerasberry on 2018-07-26
On Tuesday 10 July 2018 Fabian and I joined a tour group which advertised trips to Soweto. The tour included a drive around Soweto and and explanation but what I really wanted was the walking tour of the place that was a slum, or shanty town, ghetto, or favela. Soweto has a long history but […]
Posted in museum, rights, South Africa, tour | Tagged death, discrimination
By bluerasberry on 2018-07-25
We went to the Voortrekker Monument in Pretoria. The monument is a combination of a memorial to the Dutch colonists who died in the course of various violent conflicts during their settling in South Africa, and a gallery of exhibits in which the early 20th century Dutch tell their own story the colonizing experience, and […]
Posted in rights, South Africa, tour | Tagged discrimination, monument
By bluerasberry on 2018-07-25
Wikimania Cape Town was 18-22 July 2018. Fabian and I went to South Africa early for tourism and to be together. We arrived in Johannesburg on Monday 9 July and he stayed till 18 July, at which time he returned to New York as I began my conference. I left at the end of the […]
Posted in rights, South Africa, Wikipedia | Tagged discrimination, Wikimania
By bluerasberry on 2018-06-22
Corporate forces use a dirty trick to undermine community activism: they steal the social movement with counter-propaganda by publishing media to redefine the movement goals. The way it works is that after a social movement names and defines itself, the corporate forces start publishing media using the same name but report that the social movement […]
Posted in Open access, rights, Wikipedia | Tagged consumer rights, net neutraily, propaganda, Tim Wu
By bluerasberry on 2018-05-20
Today Sunday 20 May 2018 I went to the University of Virginia (UVA) graduation ceremony which includes “walking the lawn” in front of the Rotunda. The ritual is that graduating students should walk from the Rotunda on UVA grounds through the lawn out into the world as a symbol of taking learning from here to […]
Posted in Charlottesville, education | Tagged death, protest, university
By bluerasberry on 2017-12-02
Feisty the Chinchilla died Friday 31 November 2017. I had known him for almost 4 of his 6 years. Every day that I was home I played with him. When I was not home it was part of my check-in routine with Fabian to ask about the chinchillas’ behavior and whatever they might be doing […]
Posted in animal, New York City | Tagged death, rodent
By bluerasberry on 2017-11-07
Fabian and I went to see the new Tom of Finland movie on Sunday 5 November 2017. The movie told how Tom of Finland fought against the Russians in World War II, faced discrimination for being gay, then found a popularity base and international distribution network by publishing gay erotic comics in Los Angeles. I […]
Posted in gay stuff, Wikipedia | Tagged movie, Richard Knipel, WikiConference, women's rights
By bluerasberry on 2017-10-13
On Saturday 21 October Fabian and I went to Maria Hernandez Park near our place in Bushwick. We go there on nice days to talk and enjoy the park. I have always perceived some class conflict there and we a violent manifestation of it act out on that day. Fabian and I were sitting on […]
Posted in encounter, New York City | Tagged homeless, violence
