Classroom Science Initiatives

Because of the slow net that has plagued the office the past week, not only have there been days when it was just too frustrating to try to upload content, but it seems on the days when I do try to upload content like yesterday, the belief that I was not able to connect turns out to be wrong and that my post now has several clones that I had to extract from public view.

@@ Apparently a kid can be so engrossed in what he is doing on the computer that for minutes he will not be able to hear a soft spoken girl behind him asking him to move his chair so she can pass along the aisle.

Yes, I’m in a cyber shop right now, not in school. This is the day they get the antenna of our wireless fixed, so no sense in going there when it might take all day to replace the connection, and I do want to compensate for the days without post by writing something for the first Saturday of the month.

And speaking of cybercafés (which my spell checker accepts as one word even though it does not do the same for cyber shop) this is the one that I mentioned before has three rows of computers where the ones in the middle are solo tables. And in fact, since all the units were occupied when I arrived earlier, I had to get the PC at the middle row, facing the door (that is, my screen is facing the door) with people going to the other units having to pass to my left and the right.

Thankfully, flat screen LCD monitors do not reflect the glare from outside, alternately sunny and drizzly.

I did mention in my status to the social networks earlier about the weather roller coaster ride I had.

It was sunny leaving the house, turned gloomy, then torrential, then back to gloomy, partially cloudy and back to sunny.

We’re talking about a commute of about 27 kilometers (thanks wikimapia.org) as the hovering news cameras fly, z shaped otherwise.

@@ Here’s a comment I got from the space of journals: “Wow! What a website. You have a real knack for making a blog readable and easy on the eyes. Some sites look like train wrecks, but not yours - it’s a pleasure to read. I am always interested in reading other sites about religion, they give me a lot to think about. I have a site with daily Bible readings on it. Please bookmark it - it as at <link removed to avoid potential meat loaf offensive to readers>. God’s Peace!”

I’m not even sure I was talking about religion last time, so it looks like a generic complimentary post.

Here’s another one. “Thank you, you answered the question I have been searching for which was whether or not to place keywords when blog commenting. mirc.” The last inexplicable word (I know it’s a chat software popular in the late nineties and early twenty first century) is actually a hyperlink that I removed.

And it’s a link to a commercial site in another language at that, despite the comment being in English

Do they really think that people on the net are so desperate for appreciation that they would fall for these things and allow them to be published for others to be duped? Well, I’d rather not be party to that.

@@ Daily Leadership Lessons will return (like your favorite TV show before free web streaming was invented) next week, when I hang around in the student center again for most of the day.