By bluerasberry on 2019-03-22
There is a 2008 comic book, Umbrella Academy, which contains a joke about the assassination of United States President John F. Kennedy (JFK).In 2019 the comic became a video series and presented the Kennedy assassination joke again. I liked the comic and I recently watched the video series. The joke is incidental, but since the joke […]
Posted in Texas, Wikipedia | Tagged conspiracy, death, policy
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 2016-09-29
I was doing some research on the concept of LGBT bookstores, and I started thinking about how LGBT bookstores provided information which was not otherwise available. Nowadays it is harder to identify examples of physical locations which share information of a sort which absolutely cannot be found outside of those locations. I feel like there […]
Posted in gay stuff, religion, Texas | Tagged book, sex
By bluerasberry on 2015-03-13
The AMSA conference in DC ended on Sunday 1 March. Wednesday 4 March in San Antonio the conference for the Association of Professors of Gynecology and Obstetrics was being held. Celeste Royce, the doctor in Boston with whom I had presented a workshop last summer, had taken initiative in inviting me to present Wikipedia to […]
Posted in education, health, presentation, Texas, Wikipedia | Tagged conference, Wikipedia education program
By bluerasberry on 2014-11-26
The Berkman Center for Internet and Society offers a free online class called “Copyright X”, which invites the interested public to learn about copyright. To join the class one must submit a 2000 word essay describing one’s interest. This is my essay, a bit longer than what I actually submitted with the 3000 character limit. […]
Posted in education, health, HIV, rights, Texas | Tagged copyright, prevention education, public education
By bluerasberry on 2014-06-03
My mother had been sick for a long time, and especially sick for the past few weeks. About a month ago I talked to her and she told me that she was immediately going for surgery to have her gall bladder removed. She had not told me of problems previously, but upon asking about this, […]
Posted in health, Texas | Tagged conference, death, public health, surgery