Today's Penny Arcade post spoke to me in a way things on the Itarwebs rarely do. The sentence about his refrigerator magnets? Brilliant. The entire post drips with expression. Well, the first sentence in the last paragraph drips with ichor from the typographic morass from which it was dredged. Some random punctuation got stuck in there on the way up. Overall, though, I feel that grammar euphoria is an oft-overlooked topic and deserves more such rhapsodies.

Also, my dream last night was a survival-horror combination of World of Warcraft meets Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Thrilling.

Things that suck:

• My cold-that-won't-go-away is back with a vengeance.
• My car with only 40k miles on the odometer failed its smog check this morning.
• The hard-drive on my computer at work died and I'm still trying to get the data back.
• On top of my general laziness, my cold plus an unusually busy schedule mean my apartment is an absolute sty. gross.

Things that rock:

• I'm learning how to use Linux as a desktop. Yay Knoppix!
• I'm going to Costa Rica in July.
• There's a long weekend coming up.
• WoW is a lot of fun.

My lack of updates has been fuelled by the failure of my commenting system and my bussiness with the Berkeley Opera. Here's a review of our opening night performance. The reviewer is a UC Berkeley alum, and as such was over-kind to the UC Alumni Choir (of which I am a member).

Instead of sets and such, Berkeley Opera hired some artist to put together some video that was projected on screens on the stage. The reviewer expressed pretty well how I felt about the results:

"One set of [projected] images was hackneyed. Macbeth becomes a tyrant and so we saw the familiar faces of twentieth century tyrants, including – surprise – Henry Kissinger and Donald Rumsfeld. Does the audience need this kind of prompting? Leave the simplistic parallels and polemics to Bill O’Reilly and radio talk shows."