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
By bluerasberry on 2012-05-13
Richard Knipel ([[user:Pharos]]) took me to the Museum of Modern Art the night of Friday 11th May. On Wednesday 9 May I was at a conference at Consumer Reports for the Choosing Wisely program, and at this conference I met collaborators in the program and came to understand what the program would mean to them. […]
Posted in art, health, museum, New York City, research, Wikipedia, work | Tagged Brooklyn Bridge, Choosing Wisely, coffee, Consumer Reports, Museum of Modern Art
By bluerasberry on 2012-05-01
I like Patrick a lot. I am not sure how I first met him. I think that it was at some HIV vaccine event in Capitol Hill in late 2010. Patrick says that we only talked during that night, but I thought I had spent a lot of time talking to him since then and […]
Posted in museum, New York City, personal | Tagged American Museum of Natural History, Brooklyn Bridge, coffee, Patrick
By bluerasberry on 2011-10-26
On Tuesday 25 October from 7-9 Kat and I hosted a Seattle Wikipedia meetup for the “Wikipedia loves libraries!” program. The intent of the meetup was to promote local libraries, and Wikipedia had encouraged all users around the country to do the same thing in their own regions. I was fresh from Infocamp was was […]
Posted in Wikipedia | Tagged coffee, meetup
By bluerasberry on 2009-04-16
I took a class at Theo Chocolate on Wednesday, April 15. They have a proper chemist named Andy McShea as their head chocolatier and he gave a lecture on the fermentation of cacao beans. The way he explained it was that there were three processes – sugar to ethanol via yeast, ethanol to lactic acid […]
Posted in education | Tagged chocolate, classes, coffee, food
By bluerasberry on 2008-11-02
I met this Indian at a coffeeshop the other day. I was practicing Hindi writing (my tutor Ali at http://www.zabaan.com/ is awesome!) and he came up to me and asked me if I spoke Hindi. I answered him in Hindi and asked him if he spoke Hindi, but he just said he did not speak […]
Posted in education, encounter, India, Seattle | Tagged coffee, Hindi