Why lace? Up until a few weeks ago, I had relatively long hair. My fellow sysadmins often took the opportunity to comment on how feminine it made me look. Their opinions were only vindicated when we went to Chili's and the waitress took everyone else's order, then turned to me and said, "And for you ma'am?" Never ones to let a sleeping dog lie, they decided to beat the dead horse until it was jerky. Hence, the lace.