Miss Piggy Lunchbox

Probably the busiest week of the quarter this week, exacerbated by the fact that I actually tried to enjoy myself over the holiday weekend instead of “getting things done.”  I went to the Melvins/Green River show and then My Baby and I went to the surprisingly sunny Oregon coast and took a cruise in Oregon’s fourth largest estuary.

I did want to update you that my “internship problem” has been solved.  I’ll be working for one of the faculty members over the summer as an RA.  So it’s not really an internship per se, but it can count as one.  In addition, I’m planning to start work on a thesis this summer that I hope I can wrap up in the fall with my final class and get my degree in December.

That’s the rough plan.  We’ll see.

Update: It doesn’t have to be one or the other.  I can leave captchas on for unregistered commenters and if you want to be registered then you won’t see the captcha thing.

Dear Commenters,

I love you. And up until a couple of days ago my love for you was so great that I filtered out dozens of spam comments for every legitimate comment you left. But recently it’s become too much, with over 50 spam comments per day, and I just couldn’t take it anymore.

So you’ll notice I implemented a captcha thing on the comments. My life is way better now and I feel reborn, as I don’t get any spam comments, but I’m using recaptcha and their captchas are kind of hard to read and, as J-mez found out yesterday, if you get it wrong then your comment is lost.

Anyway, I did the captcha thing because my only other option was to make everybody register with a username/password thing, and I much prefer captchas to registering. I assumed you did, too, but if you’d rather have the username/password thing, then let me know. In the end, I want to implement the solution that’s going to reduce the amount of your comments the least.

If we go with the captcha thing, and we’ve already got one vote for keeping it, keep in mind you may want to ask recaptcha for a new visual if you’re not sure about it and/or copy your comment to the clipboard before submitting.

Much love,

KEN