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Just for those aren’t sure how to accurately and succinctly answer the question “How are you?”, this online biorhythm generator will help out with this sometimes pesky but common question:

Biorhythm Generator

And in case you were wondering how *I* am today: I (apparently) haven’t quite reached my intellectual peak for this week, so don’t expect my best work for a day or two. Unfortunately I’m now in decline regarding my physical energy, so I might have to leave early if I can’t get a sleep at my desk. But on the good news front, I’m still in the ascendent emotionally – so if you have to upset me, please wait for a few more days …

Found this one, when looking through an educational publishing catalogue - Getting it to work: Physics equipment for high school. (1996). The description reads “the manual provides information on how to use selected pieces of equipment, hints on how to overcome commonly identified problems in their use and ideas for innovative teaching strategies using the equipment in the classroom.

I am ’staggered’, to say the least. After 16 years of teaching high school science, I’d always thought that oscilloscopes etc weren’t actually supposed to work; that they were merely techno-boffin props to lend a vague air of authenticity to lab practicals …

The US Department of Education’s E.R.I.C. (Education Resource Information Center) has included the (irreverent) Warrior Librarian Guide to Library Assessment (“Strikeback”) in its database. Probably because it was published in the august journal LMC … although under the banner of satire.

And I’d always thought that The Suits didn’t have a sense of humor.

Amongst the many utilities offered on the M$ website are a number of templates, presumably to help those rendered nearly wordless by any number of annoyances, to write a letter of complaint.

But there seems to be a number of critical issues that aren’t covered.  They need to add assistance to cover other life-enhancing issues such as:

• the lack of a cappuccino machine in the tea room,
• scratchy toilet paper in the facilities area,
• the nausiating colour of the office carpeting, and
• the oversight in providing an unlimited supply of free chocolate.

Now I’m looking for the template to complain about the complaint templates …