Aieee! What happened to my directory?! Everything that is called by the blog document is gone. Style sheets, images--all poof. And I'm not going to be able to fix it until Sunday. Oof.

Going to AggieCon tonight. Terry Pratchet and Harlan Ellison are guests. Woo! As a result of the last-minuteness of the decision, I'm dashing about trying to prepare Invisible City propaganda. The up-side is that I get a chance to try my hand at design.

More words of my day from Merriam Webster: Equivocate (intr. v.) means to lie, to avoid making a commitment in your statements, to evade; and tergiversation (n.) means equivocation. Therefore, unequivocal (adj.), a word I'd stumbled over for years, means undisputed and without doubt. Ahhh...

Raisins, when dropped on a mottled carpet, can travel really far. Perhaps there is a future propulsion technology hidden here.

This is probably the height of vanity. I am so taken with my new blog design that I want to post over and over. But I can't think of anything to say. Um... Things are shaping up for Invisible City Productions (Jeremy is back in Chicago now); we've got a cool blog over there. And, um... The T.W.I.N.K.I.E.S. Project is amusing.

Apparently the problem is just with IE4. And if I copy the source of the file to a local copy on my harddrive, the page works fine. Bother.

So this is a switch. Something looks cool in Netscape and totally fails in Internet Explorer. Note the metal sheets these witty words of wisdom are etched upon. In Netscape, they look like metal sheets (though the colors won't appear to match, even though they do mathematically). In IE, it's anybody's guess as to which side image won't load. I don't think there's anything wrong with my html, especially since if I change the tag for any one image, the non-loading side on every sheet will switch. Pfoo.

It came it came it came! And it looks terrible. But, for better or for worse, I now have an official Texas driver's license.

Yee haw.

From the 'Bout Dang Time department: Girlstart, an organization dedicated to empowering girls in math, science, and technology. This jives right in with my Grace's Girls movement, and it is holding its grand opening here in Austin, next week.

New name! I was feeling out-cooled in the blogging community, and I lamented this fact to Jon last night. And Jon, brilliant, sexy guy that he is, suggested this froody new name: Phlebotomy. Get it? Spider... collecting blood...

Well, I'm pleased, anyway.