Extended Profile
Synopsis:
- a herd of cats, most of whom are asleep at any given time
- social media girlboss
- actually 3 LLMs in the emperor's new trenchcoat
- time-traveler from the past... oh FFS, what have you kids been up to??
- Unfrozen Cavegirl Coder: your modern client-side paradigms frighten and confuse me...
Truisms:
- Time not only flies, it goes first class and charges the tickets to my account.
- I have so far succeeded in my life goal of never graduating from anywhere.
- That which didn't kill me just really messed me up for a long time and I was lucky to ever get myself back together again. (It also made me stranger.)
Personal sites:
- creative: https://woozalia.com
- technical: https://wooz.dev
I also run https://issuepedia.org and https://htyp.org but nobody knows why.
Details
My legal name is:
Woozalia Nicola Jadzia Rayner Staddon
(...but you can call me Woozle, which is short for Woozalia and is also what my parents called me from the time I was about a week old.)
I met @Harena online in February 2001, and we've been hypertwins ever since.
We both live in #DurhamNC, where we grew up 3 blocks apart (but, again, we first met online) in the 1970s (give or take).
I was born in Toronto, grew up in Durham (1967-'85), spent a summer in Ann Arbor MI (1985), lived in #ProvidenceRI working at #BrownU Psychology Dept. (1985-1989), moved back to Durham and worked at #DukeU (Humanities Computing Facility, 1990-'91) writing neural network software, lived in #AthensGA (1991-2001), then finally again moved back to Durham.
Things I sometimes do:
- post original music
- write about #JennyHypertwin
- escalate the War on Bullshit
- write lots of unfinished software
- administer TootCat
- complain about tech (mainly software [toot.cat])
- feel inadequate
- take photos of clouds
(If the above doesn't show as a bulleted list for you -- please complain to your instance admin. ^.^)
I was on #GPlus when the walls fell.
I was on Facebook in the early 200?s, several years before everyone else discovered it (a Dutch friend from IRC dragged me there).
Defenestrated* since 2005; prefer Ubuntu MATE.
I started an online store at about the same time Jeff Bezos did. He had family willing to invest in it, though.
I never understood the appeal of marriage, but I tried it for ten years anyway. Not my cuppa cola.
(I don't drink coffee; I don't like it. Cola is my one vice.)
My ideas are my children. (Wait, I guess I'd better explain that... I helped Harena raise her 3 youngers, and I have a biological daughter from the aforementioned marriage who is awesome and doing well for herself in Atlanta -- but I very much never wanted kids, and neither did H. It was always other people who did.)
(* exited from Windows)
