You're so vain, you probably think this plate is about you

I'm not the first to notice this by any means, but a recent flurry of driving and traveling has made it abundantly clear that an obscene amount of Virginia drivers have vanity plates. I used to think vanity plates were kinda fun, providing entertainment on the road and helping you identify cars. But the ratio of regular:vanity plates in Virginia is like 75:1. (On my 10 min drive to work this morning I noticed 8, and even hundreds of miles away in the Boston area one parking lot had 3.) With that many, the likelihood of unclever/offensive plates is pretty high. For example, there's the Expedition that parks next to me at work sometimes and features "JCDYD4U." I'm sure when "JC" was debating dying on the cross, he thought "well at least it'll probably get my name on a vanity plate a couple thousand years down the road."

In other news, the whole Christmas in July idea is cute I guess, but 97.1 playing Christmas music all day today is going a little overboard.

The Sixers actually managed to sign Dalembert, Green, and Korver as promised, without much fuss at all. I'm impressed; their front office moves can be pretty questionable sometimes (that 7 year, $50 mil contract for Kenny Thomas a few years back comes to mind) but hopefully this and getting Mo Cheeks is a good omen.