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 […]
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By bluerasberry on 2008-08-14
I was in DC from Tuesday August fifth through Sunday the tenth. On the sixth and seventh I was in training for my job; NIDA is in DC so they do their Clinical Trials Network (CTN) training there. The training was boring and hardly anything that could not have done by webcast, but I was […]
Posted in animal, art, museum, religion, work | Tagged capitol, church, library, panda, zoo
By bluerasberry on 2007-07-01
I came left Benares the night of the 28th and arrived in Delhi Friday morning. It is too hot for touts this time of year. I walked all the way through the train station and no one spoke to me. Nandan told me that I could walk to Connaught Place from the station and I […]
Posted in animal, health, India, museum, religion | Tagged Baha'i, delerium, Delhi, dinosaur, food, map, police, sickness, zoo
By bluerasberry on 2007-06-07
Today in the main Darbur Square the Young Communist League had a rally. There were a lot of people here. I do not know much about the political situation here now, but for those who do not know anything, the Communist Party of Nepal, Maoist took over the government and defenestrated the king during a […]
Posted in museum, Nepal, religion | Tagged communism, mouse, rally
By bluerasberry on 2007-05-02
As I was saying, we left Varanasi on Friday. We bribed someone at the train station Rs 40 to get tickets for us from beyond the counter so that we would not have to wait in line. Nandan gave the guy Rs 200 and said that he would be back. Even though he looked like […]
Posted in animal, India, museum, religion | Tagged ghost, giraffe, Islam, Lucknow, palace, peacock, sickness, tiger, zoo