how can one be "over" the name butterstick? I DOUBT IT. jealous they didn't come up with themselves is more like it!

let's all give a big round of applause to my lovely and talented little sister, marggie, who just found out tonight that she was accepted early decision to UVa! BOOYEAH. not that there was any doubt, but i know she had been stressing about it. but, hey, marggie, now you can spend the rest of senior year as you should: WITH MUCH SEX AND DRUGS AND BEER. haha, just kidding, mom and dad. that's what college is for!

Maybe I read the wrong blogs, but this whole Fifty Cent/Bat Mitzvah debacle seems like it deserves more attention than it's been getting. Charles has the details (and links to pictures!).

I'm trying out a few new plugins to cut down on comment spam. I had thought that MT 3.2 had finally solved the spam problem, but it didn't. There was a brief improvement, but then things started up again — except now we don't have MT-Blacklist with which to defend ourselves. Argh.

So there's now some javascript trickery involved in comments. I'll be testing it out in a moment, but the best-case scenario is that you'll need JS enabled in order to post a comment. How do folks feel about that? Would it be better to use a captcha (ie an image-based code that you have to read and enter)?

UPDATE: Okay, looks like everything works — even from my phone. Since I'm the only person likely to care about mobile commenting, I'll count that as "good enough". In other news, I'm a dope: blacklist capabilities still exist in MT, you just have to go through the plugins page to get to them. Not super-convenient, but tolerable. I think I'll keep the new javascript obfuscators enabled anyway, though.

one reason (i'm sure amongst many) why austin sounds like paradise: they're hosting a 22-hour veronica mars-athon, with appearances by creator rob thomas, kristen bell, and hottie jason dohring.

is anyone watching tonight? any guesses as to what was in the letter duncan read last week?