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  1. Woozle Hypertwin @[email protected] ·

    RE: mastodon.com.br/@xkcd/11560680

    (Aha! Apparently @[email protected], unlike @[email protected], does not block quoosts. Switching my follows...)

    I feel like talking about #Tigger and #JennyHypertwin but I also am not sure what to say; rambling now ensues, therefore....

    [CW: very old death & sui refs follow 💀 🧪]

    Tigger got cancer but didn't make it; Jenny either left on her own initiative or was killed by a deadly bullshit infection (evidence strongly suggestive but inconclusive).

    "Do I sound like a 17-year-old? (I've only had two days to practice.)" -- J, who never got to be 18

    🎵
    You might feel so bad that you wanna die
    But if you died you would never know
    That it didn't kill you
    Soon you would've felt better.
    [...]
    You're not ever going to feel any better
    Once you're dead, you don't get any deader.
    [...]
    Now you're never gonna get any older
    And I really do miss you, but how would you know?
    🎵 -- Fastball, "Love Doesn't Kill You"

    ...and I would have done anything to have more time with either of them.

    I sometimes think that maybe by honoring J's stated boundaries so thoroughly and literally, I gave her the impression that I didn't care anymore -- and that maybe she wasn't worth caring about, and maybe that's why she decided to do what she did. ...but there's no way to know, now. Maybe I just want to either blame myself and/or feel like I was still important to her.

    We've had 22 (T) and 42 (J) years of not being together ever, not talking or smiling or looking at the sky or taking walks or just sitting in the same space, and it really sucks and the emptiness never goes away.

    ...and it occurred to me today to wonder if maybe I'm having a hard time taking the idea of new relationships seriously because they'd first need to achieve something on the order of the longevity of those existing relationships. I really first got to know both J and T around 1980-81; my relationship with both of them is (therefore) 4 decades old. A mere 15 years still seems like "recently", and I've only been nominally the right gender for 8 of those.

    (...and at this point I run into things that I no longer feel free to talk about because it could too easily hurt someone I care about if I say it wrong, so I should probably just stop.)

    #tigger #jennyhypertwin
  2. Woozle Hypertwin @[email protected] ·

    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:

    I also run issuepedia.org and 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)
    • 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)

    #gplus #durhamnc #jennyhypertwin #providenceri #brownu #dukeu
  3. Woozle Hypertwin @[email protected] ·

    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:

    I also run issuepedia.org and 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)
    • 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)

    #gplus #durhamnc #jennyhypertwin #providenceri #brownu #dukeu
  4. Woozle Hypertwin @[email protected] ·

    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:

    I also run issuepedia.org and 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)
    • 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)

    #gplus #durhamnc #jennyhypertwin #providenceri #brownu #dukeu
  5. Woozle Hypertwin @[email protected] ·

    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:

    I also run issuepedia.org and 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)
    • 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)

    #athensga #dukeu #brownu #providenceri #jennyhypertwin #durhamnc
  6. Woozle Hypertwin @[email protected] ·

    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:

    I also run issuepedia.org and 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)
    • 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)

    #gplus #durhamnc #jennyhypertwin #providenceri #brownu #dukeu