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  • Just Call Me the Anole Whisperer

    July 14, 2011
    anole, photo

    Just Call Me the Anole WhispererOriginally uploaded by Ezra S F Got a couple of feet close to this anole. They seem to trust me enough to get close enough to grab them like I did as a kid. These days I just take a photo. (Not as traumatizing for both when grabbing results in…

  • Desoto Falls

    July 13, 2011
    Photography

    Desoto Falls, originally uploaded by Ezra S F.

  • Desoto Falls

    July 13, 2011
    De Soto Falls, Georgia

    Desoto FallsOriginally uploaded by Ezra S F

  • TED Talk: Derek Sivers: Keep your goals to yourself

    July 7, 2011
    Goal Progress, Movies / Films / TV

    I read quite a bit. Not having a spouse, children, or real adult responsibilities, I have much free time to spend. Reading is a preferred way of spending that time. My goals probably are better described as self-challenges to stretch my reading in new ways. Perhaps it is more like a 5K race winner deciding to…

  • Tenacity in Action

    July 5, 2011
    GeorgiaVIEW

    Work PR piece about the team for which I work. The ITS GeorgiaVIEW Team provided an example of tenacity when Blackboard, a product that enables universities to host classes online, released a security bulletin announcing a vulnerability which allowed a student to view a course’s full grade book by manipulating the course URL.  Although the…

  • Goal Progress

    July 2, 2011
    Books / Novels / Writing, Friends, Goal Progress

    Yesterday was the 182nd day of the year, so at the halfway point, here is an update on my resolution progress. Complete unfinished novel series. I finished the Harry Potter series at the first update. The Sword of Truth series is now done. I have most of the Ender’s series books, so I am working on…

  • Quotes That Make You Think: Collected for First Half 2011

    July 1, 2011
    Quotes

    More quotes for Quotes to Make You Think collected over the past year. Additional ones can be found under the Quotes tag. The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. — William Arthur Ward (1921-1994) Making the simple complicated is commonplace. Making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity. — Charles Mingus The…

  • Moral Operating System

    June 28, 2011
    Ethics

    “We have stronger opinions about [iPhone vs. Android] than we do the moral frameworks to guide our decisions.” To be fair the choices were selected to be ones most people would have to have taken a Philosophy major to understand, Kant versus Mill. There are other moral guides like Jesus, Aquinas, Richard Dawkins, Mohammed, Pope…

  • Elemental Nuclear Threats

    June 27, 2011
    Astro / Climate / Geo, Build / Engineering

    I was sequestered in a war room for a month during which the Japanese earthquake and tsunami happened as well as the meltdown of the nuclear power plant at Fukushima. We projected on the wall video of the stories over and over. It just occurred to me each of the Empedocles classical elements (air, fire, earth,…

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