Author: Ezra S F


  • Ev said, “To those asking: Site slowness today had nothing to do with @Oprah.” Social networks are amusing and fun at times. I’m just a fan of moderation. Too much of anything will ruin it. Ever since Twitter became the new Golden Tool of PR, I knew it would be a matter of time. Friends and…

  • I noticed a little black and white sign: “Single? athensdating.org” a while ago. A couple weeks ago it came up in conversation. Today I saw it again. So I visited the site. First impression: A local site should have images to represent something about the locality. Generic stock photography doesn’t cut it for me. The…

  • George R. R. Martin ranting about bad endings seems odd. “C’mon. Writing 101.” One of my bigger terrors is his end to A Song of Ice and Fire will be bad. A slightly bigger one is 3 years between books means the end is possibly a decade away and a sedentary lifestyle will prevent us from…

  • I ran across this photo of an amazing painting on Flickr. Derrick says: The story goes that the young Sesshu loved to draw. His love of drawing was so great that one time when he was tied to a post as punishment for an infraction at the temple he created a picture of a mouse…

  • Bell on a manhole cover.

  • George sent me this. I’m amazed at the work that went into making this face out of a cassette tape ribbon. Ghost in the Machine: Jimi Hendrix, originally uploaded by iri5.

  • Flickr has millions of photos. (Maybe billions.) Many of these photos are tagged. One can look at all the photos with a tag. Every tag has a built in RSS feed. However, to view a combination of tags, one needs to search for the two tags. Athens tag – which includes Athens, Greece and Athens,…

  • The Dali Wall on the UGA campus. I took this during a photowalk with other Flickr users. I’ll try and keep you informed through the Athens, GA Flickr Meetup group.

  • This morning there was a flurry of effort to locate an article called “Hacking WebCT.” My coworker was able to locate it. We were disappointed.  The main points of the article were: Lazy administrators make compromising user accounts easy. Lazy instructors make getting questions for assessments easy. These apply to any LMS. So, here is some…