Author: Ezra S F


  • Misfit, originally uploaded by Ezra F. “If the glove don’t fit… You must acquit!” – Johnnie Cochran Goofing off in CPR / AED training

  • Wallet frequent visitor spender cards money identification receipts Cell phone I try to make sure I have the work pager, a camera, and a pen.

  • 5 & 10 is a nice place. aya1081 and brittsaqt invited me out for dinner with some others. Good trout and ‘tater pancake and desert. So now I am home and killing time before doing the maintenance for work tonight. At least that will be short. I won’t even get to catch up much on TiVo…

  • File Conversion

    Zamzar came in useful today. Someone sent a WordPerfect document. My Windows XP didn’t know what to do with it, so I found Zamzar off my del.icio.us bookmarks and sent the file for conversion. I was able to open the file no problem. Fantastic! I can see lots of uses for this sort of thing.…

  • The modest proposal of having students help teachers learn to dance makes an interesting point. Suggesting the learners do not want to learn is an easy way to avoid the real problem. I hear from higher education faculty, students are unmotivated and fail to see the importance of learning. I hear from academic technical support…

  • Maybe I need to add a “What were they thinking?” category? A student created a Facebook group for chemistry students to ask peers for help. As these students already collaborate face-to-face in a study room and use official tutoring services, this was just replicating this online. The students claim to just be helping each other.…

  • Because of racial profiling, I get false positive screened for extra security screening in airports. So, I need to look more African American. Some suggestions so far: Grow out my hair and wear it in an afro / dreadlocks / cornrows. Clothing improvements: baggy jeans, Jordans, tall teeshirt or sports jersey, one stud earing, chain,…

  • Poor Death… By the way, two poll questions: How many D&D (all versions D&D, AD&D, AD&D 2nd Ed, D&D 3rd Ed) do you think I have owned? Don’t worry, I only know because I counted years ago. Have you played?

  • How often do you go with your gut? If the answer is very little, then maybe you should listen to your intuition more? Now… How to legitimize intuition so oversight bodies accept it….