It's like a little piece of heaven with bagels and muffin tops.

If that's heaven then Tony Kushner was right about San Francisco.

t quite impolite and a bit selfish Um, is it OK to pop in Natter after skipping-and-skimming to the point of understanding how lurkers-support-stuff-in-e-mail, just in order to exploit the hivemind in English grammar question(s)?

t Not closing the quite-impolite and a-bit-selfish tag, since I'm still those things

It's totally fine!!

And of all the things you are Nilly, impolite and selfish are words that don't exist.

Nilly cannot be not fine.

I wish television news had to run a ticker with relevant facts under every speaker.

Oh, that's even better.

B/c it shouldn't be in Nilly's post - a co-worker just came up to me and basically said "you! do this now!"

1) FU
2) I don't work for you, and please or courtesy go a long way, FU.
3) When I do start letting you know what is what DO NOT F'in QUESTION ME ON MY ANSWERS YOU F'in MFer.

ps - if you had an ounce of intuitiveness you would know that I am about half a twitch away from cutting someone, now it's a good chance that soemone will be you.

Goodness, I miss posting with you guys so much!

But first, I'll exploit the hivemind: I get every spell-checker I use shout at me regarding sentences like these:

The deep and comprehensive description of that topology as well as its effect on the netwrok's properties makes it possible to blahblahblah

We showed that a dramatic improvement in the search's efficiency was achieved even for blahblahblah

Um, not because of the blahblahblah, of course (which transforms into actual, y'know, words, in the actual sentences), but because of the "'s". What's wrong with how I used it, and what's the proper way to write these sentences?

Ta, ever so!

[I'm confined lately to working from my computer at home, which is too old and weak to handle more than one window open at a time, and even then it sometimes needs coffee-breaks and naps - for itself, not for me, and not of the COMM kind, alas), so I can't open the b.org window as well as whatever I have to work on at the time. Goodness, I miss it so.]

[Edit: cereal! cereal! D'you know how long it's been since I posted a breakfast food?]

a co-worker just came up to me and basically said "you! do this now!"

I'm sorry, but I have a deep urge to come to said co-worker and say "You! Do NOT do *this* EVER!".

(Um, yeah, with the asterisks and the capital letters. That's how much s/he shouldn't have spoken this way.)

Those look fine to me. Maybe the checker doesn't think of "search" as a noun? Rephrasing to "the efficiency of the search" makes it more formal, but I wouldn't say it makes it more correct.

They are disassembling the cubicles around us. I take it to mean we're about to move back to our own building, but it's very disconcerting to see light appearing where there was none before.