Author: Ezra S F


  • D is for…

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    Drinking Alcohol Living in a college town, alcohol is readily available. There are plenty of bars, restaurants, and stores where the purchase should be no problem at all. However, I don’t drink alcohol. Why I don’t is a multi-pronged issue: My religion, the Baha’i Faith, prohibits the drinking of alcohol. Plenty of religions prohibit the…

  • Good? Well? I used to say “fine,” but pessimists pretending to be optimists tried to psychoanalyze me. So now I say “good,” but people correct me with “WELL.” Yet… I’m not ready to say well. As a native of the south without much of the accent I need something to allow other natives to identify…

  • Warm fuzzies abound when support uses this as the last item for when something occurs. Some form of dark wizardry I know this was meant to be funny. I even found it funny. Seriously…. There is a lot of dark wizardry….

  • Purple

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    IMG_6039, originally uploaded by Ezra F.

  • Who Are You?

    I’m so vain…. I probably think this post is about me…. Probably only people who do vanity searches notice this, but there are spiders pulling names off web sites. They link the names to companies, blogs, and other web content. Supposedly, these sites allow online reputation control. Rather than you claiming your identity as others…

  • Sibling Rivalry, originally uploaded by Ezra F.

  • Albert Einstein Memorial, originally uploaded by Ezra F. This morning I ran across an email asking for permission to include this photo in the Schmap: Washington DC travel guide. They are not asking for offering any money to publish it. I find it interesting they like this one. I gave permission for them to use…

  • DNA For Everyone

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    So, 60 Minutes has broadcast a report on the tracing of DNA. Leslie made a statement, “The are just two bits of DNA which remain pure. The Y chromosome which passes directly from father to son. And something called mitochondrial DNA which passes unchanged from mother to child.” Logically speaking, if the mDNA really passes…

  • Open letter to Flickr developers, Generally, I agree, writing with full capitalization (aka all caps) violates computer etiquette much to the chagrin to the computer literate. The illiterate obliviously walk into this trap. Lack of any capitalization lacks the capability to cause the same anger. That said, there are legitimate uses of full capitalization. Batman…