By bluerasberry on 2016-03-17
On Sunday 6 March, Fabian, his housemate and I went to “Saint Pat’s For All”, which is an all-inclusive Saint Patrick’s Day Parade. The complaint was that the organizers of the traditional Saint Patrick’s Day Parade restrict who can march in the parade, notably, by banning LGBT people. St. Pat’s for All is not an […]
Posted in festival, tour | Tagged Fabian, march
By bluerasberry on 2015-07-13
Puerta Vallarta is a resort town in Mexico. I am in Mexico for the 2015 Wikimania conference. Fabian is joining me for the travel. We left early for tourism and From Friday 10 July – Tuesday 14 we are in Puerta Vallarta. I knew some about the place before arriving but there was not much […]
Posted in gay stuff, Puerta Vallarta, service industry, tour | Tagged botanical garden, expatriate
By bluerasberry on 2014-08-14
I went to the Palace of Versailles. I had studied the place a bit and wanted to see it for myself so that I could better understand it, so I went Thursday 14 August in the morning. There was a line for a security check. It took some time for me to get through this […]
Posted in Paris, tour | Tagged Devyani Khobragade, labor, museum, palace
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 2013-09-03
Sunday 1 September I visited the New York Botanical Garden to study and relax. There was an exhibit there called “Wild Medicine” which I wanted to see. I walked as much of the garden as I could because I was eager to see it but then also I had some reading to do, and I […]
Posted in Geneva, museum, New York City, tour, Wikipedia | Tagged botanical garden, medicine, translation
By bluerasberry on 2013-06-20
CERN was a sponsor of OAI8 and they hosted a meetup at the center for science. They arranged for us all to tour some part of CERN on 19 June. My tour was of the facility in which they test the tunnels which comprise the 27km circular track in which the experiments are conducted. I […]
Posted in Geneva, tour | Tagged CERN
By bluerasberry on 2013-06-15
On Thursday 13 June I left for an open access conference in Geneva, OAI8, which was to happen 19-21 June at the University of Geneva. I planned to return Sunday 23 June. I wrote to Wikimedia Switzerland to see if I could meet Wikipedians there. Gabriel (User:GastelEtzwane) responded and I met with him within hours […]
Posted in Geneva, tour, Wikipedia | Tagged Gabriel Thullen
By bluerasberry on 2013-02-22
The night of 13 February I returned from Kumbh Mela with Sou, and I had wanted a peaceful 14 February morning and day with him. Hotels were crazy overbooked in Varanasi and I had not been able to find a room, and I asked Nadya if she could share a room with her cameraman so […]
Posted in festival, gay stuff, India, love, religion, tour | Tagged Kumbh Mela, Nadya Kadrevis, Sherwin, wedding
By bluerasberry on 2013-02-19
Tanvir met me at my hotel in the morning and we got in an autorickshaw. He talked about everything we passed detailing what happens in which neighborhood and the sort of development which happens in Dhaka. He proposed his own alternative urban planning schemes including the destruction and rebuilding of entire neighborhoods and and minor […]
Posted in Dhaka, festival, tour | Tagged Chobi Mela, Shabab, Tanvir Rahman
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