By bluerasberry on 2012-12-24
Marcus and I went to Philadelphia on Saturday 22 December. I wanted to meet Smallbones to talk about a collaboration between the Khan Academy’s Smarthistory program and Wikipedia and to meet with UseTheCommandLine and Ocaasi to talk about instances of the campus ambassador program at medical schools in Portland and San Francisco. Wiki Med just […]
Posted in New York City, tour, Wikipedia | Tagged disaster, Marcus
By bluerasberry on 2012-12-04
On Friday night people decided to threaten my life. I was robbed at knifepoint by potential murderers. Fortunately, no one was hurt, the cops caught the criminals, and I recovered my stolen property. I was excited about Marcus coming over. I walked to Greystone station to receive him and we were walking back to my […]
Posted in encounter, legal, New York City | Tagged crime, Marcus, police
By bluerasberry on 2012-11-25
I went to see Reverend Billy at the Highline Ballroom on Sunday 25 November 2012. Chuck had received some notice that he would be preaching and when he told me about this, I was excited and went. I had been a fan of Reverend Billy since about 1999, about the same time I discovered Adbusters. […]
Posted in New York City, religion | Tagged consumer rights, protest, Reverend Billy
By bluerasberry on 2012-11-20
I had and passed a kidney stone last Saturday night. It was a trippy experience characterized by feelings of extreme pain, panic, urgency, defeat, restlessness, helplessness, and dependency. I know that I did not like the experience but once it was over I felt as if I could remember it objectively without any traumatic memory, […]
Posted in health, New York City, service industry | Tagged hospital, kidney stone, Marcus
By bluerasberry on 2012-11-13
Hurricane Sandy happened and I thought little of it. Marcus was house sitting for some friends in Jersey City and I went to stay with him for Saturday 10 November night, and he took me on a damage tour. The hurricane hit on October 29 and I was surprised that there was still no electricity […]
Posted in New York City, tour | Tagged disaster, Jersey City, Marcus
By bluerasberry on 2012-10-01
Marcus and I went to the Maker Faire on Sunday 30 September at the New York Hall of Science. It was fun. Stephen Wolfram was there giving a talk about the future of personal drones. Lots of people at the fair were showing off their drones both live and with video displays. There were 3D […]
Posted in education, festival, New York City | Tagged conference, Marcus
By bluerasberry on 2012-09-23
Patrick was in town with his friend Aiden on vacation seeing lots of theatre. He had told me months ago that they were going to see Einstein on the Beach and asked if I was interested. I had not yet heard that the show can been revived. I had wanted to see the show because […]
Posted in art, New York City, presentation | Tagged opera, Patrick
By bluerasberry on 2012-08-12
I visited the Museum of the City of New York, El Museo del Barrio, the Museum of Arts and Design, and the Noguchi Museum this weekend. I also went again to the Metropolitan Museum of Art – this being perhaps my tenth time there and I still have not walked through all the galleries – […]
Posted in art, education, museum, New York City, tour | Tagged industrial design, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Noguchi, protest, Shakespeare
By bluerasberry on 2012-07-05
I have been very upset since Nathan’s Hot Dogs would not allow Takeru Kobayashi, known also as Kobi the world’s greatest competitive eater, to compete in their contest. In this report Kobi talks about how unjust and cruel they are. The Wikimania conference in DC is upcoming and many international visitors are here in Manhattan […]
Posted in festival, Japan, New York City, rights | Tagged competitive eating
By bluerasberry on 2012-05-26
In this post I give some background about coffee in Seattle, tell horror stories about New York Coffee, and talk about early explorations about New York City coffeehouses. I like coffee and for years have enjoyed coffee in Seattle. I made an effort to visit Seattle coffeeshops when I heard they were fun and I […]
Posted in New York City, service industry | Tagged coffee