Seattle
sometimes I talk about Seattle
By bluerasberry on 2017-09-28
Fabian and I left NYC for Seattle in the late afternoon of Wednesday 13 September 2017. I had been telling him about Seattle for so long, and he had never been. My hope for the visit was that I could show him what the city meant to me, and how what I did in places around […]
Posted in personal, Seattle, tour | Tagged coffee
By bluerasberry on 2017-07-18
When X-Day happened on July 5 1998 I was living in Dallas, which was a holy city for the Church of the SubGenius. Leading up to X-Day various evangelists had graffiti’d the face of J.R. “Bob” Dobbs on everything, everywhere around. I acquired some religious pamphlets and took to the faith. I have been a […]
Posted in Seattle | Tagged coffee, SubGenius
By bluerasberry on 2017-06-15
I started working for Consumer Reports in 2012 and just passed my five-year anniversary as their staff Wikipedia editor. I see five years as a milestone and I started thinking about how I came to be where I am. I care about the concept called “open content” or “free culture“. I would say that modern […]
Posted in personal, Seattle, Texas, Varanasi, Wikipedia | Tagged free culture, open content
By bluerasberry on 2016-11-17
I had the positive experience of publishing a paper titled “Why Medical Schools Should Embrace Wikipedia” in Academic Medicine, which is the journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges. Their conference was in Seattle Saturday 12 November to 15 November, and as an author I could present the paper at the conference. I wanted […]
Posted in HIV, Seattle | Tagged Evan J. Peterson, history, Lee Haertel, Pat Slaven
By bluerasberry on 2016-11-16
In November 2016 I and my friend Lee went on a tour of about 10 cannabis shops in Seattle. Cannabis is legal in Washington state. Lee and I have both done regular activism toward legalization of cannabis for years, with us participating since 2001 when I moved to Seattle and him participating for years before […]
Posted in Seattle, Wikipedia | Tagged marijuana, politics, Vivian McPeak
By bluerasberry on 2016-11-12
The process elected Trump to be President of the United States on 8 November. Lots of people are publishing reactions. I am from Texas, and because I know the culture there, I always felt that Trump was a respectable candidate from the perspective of my culture of birth. Most of my friends are in Seattle […]
Posted in election, New York City, Seattle | Tagged harassment, politics, president, violence
By bluerasberry on 2016-09-07
I moved to New York from Seattle in April 2012. NYC has a reputation as a city which has everything, but after having visited 100 coffeehouses here over the past few years I am sure that Seattle has the better coffee culture. I miss it. I just visited Seattle again a bit over a week […]
Posted in Seattle, service industry | Tagged coffee, culture
By bluerasberry on 2015-09-05
Theo Chocolate is a company in Seattle which makes chocolate. I was fortunate enough to watch its founding and early years. On 5 September 2007 its founder, Jeff Fairhall, died following a series of unusual circumstances. Jeff was my dear friend and many things about his death were very unfortunate. When we would meet he […]
Posted in religion, Seattle | Tagged chocolate, Jeff Fairhall, magic, ritual
By bluerasberry on 2013-10-16
On Friday 4 October I went to Seattle and returned Sunday 13 October. I wanted to visit friends and have coffee. On 5 October Lee and I went to the zoo to visit animals. It felt good to go there but I was very tired. I missed Lee a lot. I went to Evan’s place […]
Posted in clinical research, Open access, Portland, research, Seattle | Tagged Brian Glanz, Christian, Cyan, Evan, Jason, Jonathan, Kelly, Lee Haertel, Mark, meetup, PATH, Patrick, Roman
By bluerasberry on 2012-11-05
The 2012 Seattle HVTN conference was from Monday 29 – Wednesday 31 October. I went to Seattle for that and to see friends. I flew to Portland on Friday 26 October to attend the Wiki Loves Libraries event organized by Jason Moore, user:Another Believer, on Saturday 27 October. We went out for breakfast, did the […]
Posted in clinical research, HIV, legal, non-profit, Open access, research, rights, Seattle, Wikipedia, work | Tagged Adbusters, Brian Glanz, Christopher Sheats, coffee, conference, HVTN, Jacob Caggiano, Lisa White, Open Knowledge Foundation, Patrick, Patrick Earley, Victoria Chinnell