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Hurry up and roll. (nm) - musubi May 18, 08:39
I'm not Star Trek fanboy, but I am glad they chose an unkown actor to be Kirk - con_carne May 18, 08:33 3
- I agree...but I do think Matt Damon would have been good in the role as well. -- nm - Remlik May 18, 08:36 2
  - spoiler - tRuMaN May 18, 08:38 1
    - I totally agree with this. I was very impressed. -- nm - ceregon May 18, 10:25
Wouldn't it work with no commas at all? - Subversive May 18, 08:31 3
- Absolutely. But if you are going to set it off with commas, theoretically, that is how you would do it. - TFox May 18, 08:33
- that's still an awkward composition. - Reagen May 18, 08:33
- there are two rewrites posted below with no commas. -- nm - loosilu May 18, 08:32
For the first time in 30 years World Series games will start before 8:00 p.m. -- nm - Beaker May 18, 08:23 3
- I'm shocked. Ideally they'd start no later than 7:15 eastern time. - Don Homer May 18, 08:26
- awesome. -- nm - TFox May 18, 08:26
- *oblivious* -- nm - The West Coast May 18, 08:24
Canadian PSA: Lotto 6-49 is $49 million on Wednesday (tax free, lump sum) -- nm - Beaker May 18, 08:19
Geeks.com has the Sony internal Blu-ray player for $85 shipped. -- (link) - not2fast May 18, 08:18
US Supreme Court to review Conrad Black's fraud conviction -- (link) - Beaker May 18, 08:14 1
- I always thought Mr Drummond was up to no good. -- nm - HdnAgnda May 18, 08:15
STIS: Does this sentence have any punctuation errors? - Subversive May 18, 08:08 67
- You are correct about the comma, but also that does not seem like a complete sentence. - con_carne May 18, 08:11 5
  - It's from a sales brochure of my former company. I still do a little contract work for them and the president showed me the new brochure excitedly - Subversive May 18, 08:13 4
    - Marketing materials usually have fragments like that, so in that context one might work -- nm - con_carne May 18, 08:17 1
      - I put the whole paragraph below. -- nm - Subversive May 18, 08:17
    - that's a shame. if it's all like that, it must be a horror. -- nm - loosilu May 18, 08:15 1
      - my quickie rewrite: "It even checks for identity fraud and alerts authorities when necessary." -- nm - loosilu May 18, 08:16
- the main problem with that sentence is a hysterical typo. -- nm - loosilu May 18, 08:08 60
  - The comma? Or something else? Enlighten me! :) -- nm - Subversive May 18, 08:10 58
    - look closely at the second word. -- nm - loosilu May 18, 08:10 57
      - Oh, that was my typo, it's correct in the publication I got it from. :) - Subversive May 18, 08:11 56
        
        the whole sentence is totally awkward and needs more work than just removing the comma, IMO. - loosilu May 18, 08:12 47
        
        The entire paragraph, for context: - Subversive May 18, 08:16 46
        
        This guy needs to be introduced to semicolons. -- nm - Reagen May 18, 08:21 8
        
        and banned from ending sentences with prepositions. -- nm - loosilu May 18, 08:23 7
        
        You don't know what you speak of. -- nm - tee-woo-gee May 18, 08:25 6
        
        "you don't know of what you speak." is way more elegant. -- nm - mafic May 18, 08:26 3
        
        (or "you know not of what you speak.") -- nm - mafic May 18, 08:27 2
        
        *whoosh* -- nm - over your head May 18, 08:28 1
        
        no, I got it. I'm just saying there are better ways. -- nm - mafic May 18, 08:29
        
        who are you agreeing with? -- nm - loosilu May 18, 08:26 1
        
        Noone is who I am agreeing with. -- nm - tee-woo-gee May 18, 08:27
        
        its is correct. given the context, your comma should be moved to after "alert". -- nm - loosilu May 18, 08:20 31
        
        That doesn't seem right either. -- nm - Subversive May 18, 08:22 2
        
        we need mara. she'll back me up. -- nm - loosilu May 18, 08:22 1
        
        i hope not, for mara's sake. - TFox May 18, 08:24
        
        woah. woah. wicked no. -- nm - TFox May 18, 08:22 27
        
        wicked yes. -- nm - loosilu May 18, 08:22 26
        
        I sort of get why you would, but I'd never put on there. - Reagen May 18, 08:24 23
        
        I agree. The funniest thing about this whole thread is that there's a typo in virtually every post. - pmb May 18, 08:30 4
        
        You misspelled grammar on porpoise, didn't you? -- nm - tee-woo-gee May 18, 08:31 1
        
        Know. -- nm - pmb May 18, 08:32
        
        It's an Internet rule, I think. -- nm - Reagen May 18, 08:31
        
        I claim impairment from travel exhaustion. -- nm - loosilu May 18, 08:31
        
        Reagen is right! -- nm - mafic May 18, 08:25
        
        the fragment needs to be flushed down the crapper and replaced. I'm just saying, given the shit I'm working with, that's where it goes. -- nm - loosilu May 18, 08:25 16
        
        "even assess for and alert, authorities if it senses identity fraud"? - Reagen May 18, 08:27 14
        
        one might argue, correctly even, that between "alert" and "authorities" is the single most obvious and worst place to put a comma in the sentence. -- nm - TFox May 18, 08:28 1
        
        and one would be wrong. -- nm - loosilu May 18, 08:29
        
        no no no. "Assess for, and alert, authorities." Oh, I see the problem. I'm not moving it, I'm adding a second one. -- nm - loosilu May 18, 08:27 11
        
        but "authorities if it senses identity fraud" can't stand alone as a clause. - Reagen May 18, 08:30 4
        
        isn't that the same as my previously posted rewrite? -- nm - loosilu May 18, 08:31 3
        
        maybe? I didn't see it. -- nm - Reagen May 18, 08:32 2
        
        here. not even in the IM! -- (link) - loosilu May 18, 08:33 [Backboard] 1
        
        Yes, the rewrites are better. I was meaning if you kept the order of the words the same. - Subversive May 18, 08:37
        
        and you are still wrong, because the thing doesn't assess for authorities. -- nm - TFox May 18, 08:29 5
        
        Correct. -- nm - pmb May 18, 08:31
        
        I ... crap. dammit. fuck fuck fuck. THe sentence still sucks! -- nm - loosilu May 18, 08:29 3
        
        thank you. -- nm - TFox May 18, 08:32 2
        
        hate. -- nm - loosilu May 18, 08:34 1
        
        you'll do better next time. i still have hope for you. commas are really hard. - TFox May 18, 08:36
        
        nope. -- nm - TFox May 18, 08:26
        
        like, a million and a half no's. i will forge a no out of steel and award it to your answer. -- nm - TFox May 18, 08:23 1
        
        I will bury you with fluffy yeses until you suffocate. -- nm - loosilu May 18, 08:23
        
        its is correct! -- nm - mafic May 18, 08:17 4
        
        Is it? I thought it was signifying ownership? -- nm - Subversive May 18, 08:18 3
        
        in the case of ownership, "its" has no apostrophe. -- nm - loosilu May 18, 08:21
        
        it's = it is, its = belonging to it (or more than one it, I suppose). -- nm - mafic May 18, 08:20 1
        
        Oh, I always get that one wrong then. Doh! -- nm - Subversive May 18, 08:21
        
        Extremely stilted, but not wrong. -- nm - TFox May 18, 08:11 7
        
        it has dangling prepositions! -- nm - loosilu May 18, 08:12 6
        
        that's a punctuation error? - TFox May 18, 08:13 5
        
        actually yes. and then some. -- nm - loosilu May 18, 08:14 4
        
        to the point of the original question, however, that is an acceptable use of commas. -- nm - TFox May 18, 08:17 3
        
        no, it is not, if the sentence doesn't make sense. -- nm - loosilu May 18, 08:19 2
        
        *sigh* ok, except it is. you can put a period at the end of a shitty sentence, and it is still the right spot for a period. -- nm - TFox May 18, 08:21 1
        
        it is not the right spot for the comma in that sentence, smarty. -- nm - loosilu May 18, 08:21
  - after that, it is kinda awkwardly stated. I don't like the part between the commas at all. -- nm - loosilu May 18, 08:09
Mel: there's snail mail on its way to you. -- nm - loosilu May 18, 08:07 1
- awesome! Thanks. -- nm - Mel Profit May 18, 08:28
Hm. LiveNation is running a deal for 4 tickets to the NINJA show in Mansfield for $75. - TFox May 18, 08:07 1
- *whimper* -- nm - Mel Profit May 18, 08:29
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    - We're using z as an example to prove and disprove things now? - TFox May 18, 08:10 1
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        I did, but you were probably drunk at the time. ;) - znufrii May 18, 08:15 2
        
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        It's cool. - znufrii May 18, 08:34
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pippy, ygm. -- nm - loosilu May 18, 07:57
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I caught up on NCIS. OMG!!! (spoils) - loosilu May 18, 07:55 3
- There's going to be some fireworks. -- nm - Mel Profit May 18, 08:03 2
  - starting next week apparently. spoil. - loosilu May 18, 08:06 1
    - Agreed to the inside. - Mel Profit May 18, 08:29
I've always wondered what it would be like to be in a movie theater during an earthquake. I need wonder no longer. - con_carne May 18, 07:55 10
- I was sitting in front of the computer when shake started...I was reading posts on ST (naturally) and started my post while shaker was still shaking. -- nm - BAD May 18, 08:01 2
  - They say they felt it strong in Long Beach, so it would make sense you guys got some -- nm - con_carne May 18, 08:06 1
    - It was pretty stong here...they said they felt it in San Diego -- nm - BAD May 18, 08:11
- but the important question is, what movie? -- nm - mafic May 18, 07:59 2
  - its in the IM lazy -- nm - Redmond in Sin City May 18, 08:00 1
    - I really do need reading comprehension lessons. -- nm - mafic May 18, 08:01
- The movie is THAT good! -- nm - Redmond in Sin City May 18, 07:57 3
  - It was right during a dramatic scene, too (Star Trek spoiler) - con_carne May 18, 08:01 2
    - wow you missed a lot of movie -- nm - Redmond in Sin City May 18, 08:03 1
      - It was all good, though. I remember before the quake during it, I had already specifically decided I was going to see this movie again. - con_carne May 18, 08:05
DC Store Universal Gear robbed, video is on youtube for info, Got to give it to the empoloyees for at least trying to stop it - MDH May 18, 07:52
Repost for the weekday crew: Apartment photos -- (link) - ty97 May 18, 07:45 [flickr] 22
- So I take it you got this apartment? Congrats! -- nm - con_carne May 18, 08:13 1
  - Oh I see you signed the lease. Very nice. -- nm - con_carne May 18, 08:19
- It looks really nice. Great choice. -- nm - pmb May 18, 08:10
- Btw, Chicago question I might be going in October for urbanathlon - MDH May 18, 07:54 2
  - Depending on the neighborhood name, I might know if it's good or bad (I know many now!) - ty97 May 18, 08:00 1
    - I'm thinking a cheaper hotel, I'll look into it and let you know, thanks! -- nm - MDH May 18, 08:04
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- heh. marble countertops. and walls. you satisfied all the criteria. :) - TFox May 18, 07:53 6
  - I know. They're not granite. Phooey! -- nm - bro 97 May 18, 08:18
  - No one place met every criteria (considering we had lots of them, we knew we'd have to compromise). This came closest. - ty97 May 18, 07:58 4
    - a 15 minute walk to the train is hardly a horrible situation. -- nm - znufrii May 18, 07:59 3
      - Not terrible, just not perfect. - ty97 May 18, 08:00 2
        
        That would be loud. Perfect is having Wonka's great glass elevator. -- nm - TFox May 18, 08:01 1
        
        or a teleporter -- nm - znufrii May 18, 08:02
- Very nice. When are we having a party in that huge tub! -- nm - lileve May 18, 07:51
- very nice!!! are you going to sit on this one for a week while someone else snaps it up? don't! -- nm - loosilu May 18, 07:48 3
  - We signed a lease on Saturday. -- nm - ty97 May 18, 07:50 2
    - Congrats! It looks really nice. -- nm - MDH May 18, 07:53
    - Don Homer!!! -- nm - loosilu May 18, 07:53
- I really really like this place. -- nm - Epiphany May 18, 07:47
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  - It's on the edge of Bucktown, right near Lincoln Park. Both are great neighborhoods. - ty97 May 18, 07:49
LYC: I got great crap in Nairobi. the Rwanda stuff is in my checked luggage, which is in Amsterdam, so I can't gloat over it yet. - loosilu May 18, 07:42
As far as I'm concerned, my boss would pay another dude if he did my job. - TFox May 18, 07:41 4
- the more I think about it, the funnier it gets. - Reagen May 18, 08:18
- I am not understanding this post -- nm - Epiphany May 18, 07:48 2
  - As far as I'm concerned, if some other dude had the right lottery numbers, they'd give him the money instead of me. So I don't even want it. - TFox May 18, 07:51
  - About the dude who wants to be invited to the White House because he's him and not because he won the Super Bowl. -- nm - Jim May 18, 07:51
You know, it was kind of a rough morning, and I almost called out sick... - TFox May 18, 07:40 1
- I'm taking a recovery day. -- nm - loosilu May 18, 07:40

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