Unity: Heading out (2008/12/30)

Juni [pulling a jacket on]: I guess I lost my favorite coat in the tunnels. Meh. That really eats into my material budget.
Sam: Hrnh. Heading back out, hon?
Juni: Tamu and Sasha are waiting for me outstairs. Keep mom out of trouble.
Sam: Yes, ma'am.
Juni: Don't even start gendering me, dear.
Sam: Hee. Sorry.
Juni [hugging Hira]: [Kajoshi] Okay, mom, I'm sorry about all this. I know there's a good reason, though.
Hira: [Kajoshi] It had better be.
Juni: I've got a [Hiero]data node [Kajoshi]with me. Sam can show you how to call me if you need my help.
Hira: Hmph.
Juni [heading out the door]: [Hiero] Okay, you two, have fun. Stay out of trouble!
Sam and Hira (simultaneously): Okay, "mom."
Hira: Maybe we can be friends.
Sam: Hee.
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Journal: 2009 (2009/01/01)

fluffy narration: Some new years' resolutions:
[[fat fluffy scowling, thinner fluffy smiling]]
fluffy narration: 1. Lose some weight
[[fluffy sitting on the couch, playing PS3.]]
dotted line to fluffy's right: You could be here!
dotted line around fluffy's lap: Or here!
fluffy narration: 2. Get a cat and/or partner
[[Venn diagram]]
Medium-size circle: Comic ideas
Smaller circle: Music ideas
Even smaller circle overlapping them both: Useful completed stuff
Huge circle: Weblog, twitter, and forum content
fluffy narration: 3. Blog less, create more
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Womble: Four square (2009/01/03)

[[The Duchess is holding a remote control. The Womble sits nearby in a meditative state.]]
[[A blue portal begins to open beside The Duchess with the green toes and white tail-tip of an alternate universe Womble barely visible. A purple portal opens under The Womble, rousing him from his meditative state.]]
[[The Womble, a panicked look on his face, begins to fall through the purple portal. A green Womble shoots out of the blue portal, startling The Duchess.]]
[[The Womble is gone. The portals are shrinking to nothing. A green Womble and The Duchess look at each other with blank expressions.]]
[[The first four panels repeat infinitely in a golden spiral, rotating 90 degrees counterclockwise each time. The sets of panels cycle through four radically different color schemes. Each time, the Womble that emerges from the portal is the Womble that disappeared in the previous set of panels.]]
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2009/01/03: Site disruption

Sorry about the site problems today. I was tweaking some stuff and didn't realize that Movable Type is case-sensitive with its category names. Oops.

If anything else appears to be broken (pages missing comics or the like), please let me know.

2009/01/01: The power of reevaluation

So I looked at this site in MSIE for the first time in a year or two and saw how badly things were broken. I wonder how much of a turnoff that was for people. Fortunately, it turned out that there was just a bit of overcomplicated legacy stuff in the header which was no longer necessary, and removing it somehow fixed the stuff on the rest of the page as well. Hooray for IE, I guess. Anyway, sorry if that was turning off the 80% 30% or so of readers who were trying to navigate the site via IE.