I’m currently writing a paper on Catullus and I arrived at a grammatical impasse. It led me to look this up: Statements in parentheses ( ) can be ignored when it comes to Subject-Verb agreement. Thus, I didn’t have to completely rework a handful of sentences to avoid the awkwardness of a possible subject-verb disagreement. [...]

Not the website, so much, but we did set up a bitching Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/lacc-ser. It actually wasn’t even my idea, I’m mildly overcome with joy. On that note, I’ll probably be whipping up a gCal sometime tonight and piping announcements through to the Group. That, with a nice redirect (like blah.blah/calendar) should help deal [...]

from woot last week. It came today (oddly enough the same day the tracking number was emailed). As I’m installing it, it apparently needs a firmware update, which prompts the installer to say “Your Zune needs an update. How about showing it a little love?” All I can think of is that arrest photo of [...]

New Nightwish video up on last.fm… now, I was never really a fan of Nightwish’s videos, but just listening to the track there just isn’t that same sorta vocal power from Anette Olzon as there was from Tarja. It’s more of an Evanescence-like sound, which isn’t bad (Cy’s apparently a fan of Ms. Lee‘s singing), [...]

From the University of Illinois College of Business Style Guide, “If the URL is at the end of a sentence, include the ending punctuation.” Also, “If the URL requires an ending slash to be accurate, it is used. Test the URL with and without the ending slash to see if it can be deleted.” I [...]