By bluerasberry on 2015-01-03
I had a peaceful holiday staying in New York. I miss my Seattle friends but the time to visit there is summer, not now, and I had fun with Fabian. On Wednesday 31 December Fabian took me to a party in Bushwick. It was in an abandoned building in a dirty part of one of […]
Posted in museum, New York City | Tagged holiday
By bluerasberry on 2014-11-13
Saturday 8 November Fabian and I went to see a dance show called the Radio City Christmas Spectacular at the Radio City Music Hall. I understand that the show is a New York City tradition and that it has been presented since the 1930s. I had heard it mentioned since coming to New York, with […]
Posted in art, New York City, rights, service industry, work | Tagged theatre
By bluerasberry on 2014-07-26
A team of us at CR visited the Kickstarter office in Brooklyn Thursday 24 July. We mostly did this to see an example of a consumer-to-consumer marketplace. The idea of visiting arose when we noticed demand that we do product testing on several products which had been produced through Kickstarter’s platform. In my mind, Kickstarter, […]
Posted in New York City, quantified self, rights | Tagged activity tracking, Airbnb, Kickstarter, marketing, open notes, PatientsLikeMe, Uber
By bluerasberry on 2014-07-20
On Saturday 19 July I met a physician at the HOPE conference (Hackers on Planet Earth) who does medical device research and policy. Here is his organizational website. We were talking about health records which patients keep for themselves. It seemed to me that his ideas were related to the open notes project, Consumer Reports […]
Posted in health, New York City, presentation, quantified self | Tagged conference, Hackers on Planet Earth
By bluerasberry on 2014-04-07
I made a friend named Fabian and have been meeting him on weekends for a while. He is a creative person and a relaxing person with whom to spend time.
Posted in New York City | Tagged Fabian
By bluerasberry on 2014-01-13
I am interested in the Devyani Khobragade incident just as an America who reads the news and who has lived in India. I also happen to live in New York, so perhaps since this happened where I live people talk about the case more here. I have read enough of the articles to know that […]
Posted in New York City, rights, service industry | Tagged Sangeeta Richard
By bluerasberry on 2014-01-03
I am interested in India and this post contains a perspective on a story happening in India and Manhattan. There is a news-making diplomatic argument happening now and for some months, but it has gotten more tense lately because of many Indian politicians seeking to escalate it. I wanted to write about this because I […]
Posted in New York City, rights, service industry, work | Tagged women's rights
By bluerasberry on 2013-12-23
I did not have a clear idea of how Broadway worked before living in New York. I understand better now but still it is something more complicated than I expected. Broadway refers to the live theatre culture in New York City. It is also the name of a street running diagonally south/north across the grid […]
Posted in art, New York City | Tagged Broadway, theatre
By bluerasberry on 2013-12-05
Lee visited me in New York from Thursday 21 November until Tuesday 3 December. I went to work on the weekdays except 27 and 28 November, which I had off for Thanksgiving. He had some time on his own. On the 23rd he went alone to the Natural History Museum. Together we went and saw […]
Posted in animal, New York City, tour | Tagged Lee
By bluerasberry on 2013-09-15
I went with some Wikipedians to see The Machine on Thursday 12 September 2013. This was a telling of Deep Blue versus Garry Kasparov, which was a story I already enjoyed. In the play the chess matches were actually played and shown on a large screen to the audience. I thought that it was interesting […]
Posted in art, New York City | Tagged theatre