Woozle Hypertwin<p><strong>Extended Profile</strong></p><p>Synopsis:</p><ul><li>a herd of cats, most of whom are asleep at any given time</li><li>social media girlboss</li></ul><p>Truisms:</p><ul><li>Time not only flies, it goes first class and charges the tickets to my account.</li><li>I have so far succeeded in my life goal of never graduating from anywhere.</li><li> 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.)</li></ul><p>Personal sites:</p><ul><li>creative: <a href="https://woozalia.com" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">woozalia.com</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></li><li>technical: <a href="https://wooz.dev" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">wooz.dev</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></li></ul><p>I also run <a href="https://issuepedia.org" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">issuepedia.org</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> and <a href="https://htyp.org" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">htyp.org</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> but nobody knows why.</p><p><strong>Details</strong></p><p>My legal name is:<br><strong>Woozalia Nicola Jadzia Rayner Staddon</strong><br>(...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.)</p><p>I met <span class="h-card"><a href="https://toot.cat/@Harena" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Harena</span></a></span> online in February 2001, and we've been hypertwins ever since.</p><p>We both live in <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/DurhamNC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DurhamNC</span></a>, where we grew up 3 blocks apart (but, again, we first met online) in the 1970s (give or take).</p><p>I was born in Toronto, grew up in Durham (1967-'85), spent a summer in Ann Arbor MI (1985), lived in <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/ProvidenceRI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ProvidenceRI</span></a> working at <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/BrownU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BrownU</span></a> Psychology Dept. (1985-1989), moved back to Durham and worked at <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/DukeU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DukeU</span></a> (Humanities Computing Facility, 1990-'91) writing neural network software, lived in <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/AthensGA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AthensGA</span></a> (1991-2001), then finally again moved back to Durham.</p><p>Things I sometimes do:</p><ul><li>post original music</li><li>write about <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/JennyHypertwin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JennyHypertwin</span></a></li><li>escalate the War on Bullshit</li><li>write lots of unfinished software</li><li>administer TootCat</li><li>complain about tech</li><li>feel inadequate</li><li>take photos of clouds</li></ul><p>(If the above doesn't show as a bulleted list for you -- please complain to your instance admin. ^.^)</p><p>I was on <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/GPlus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GPlus</span></a> when the walls fell.</p><p>I was on Facebook in the early 200?s, several years before everyone else discovered it (a Dutch friend from IRC dragged me there).</p><p>Defenestrated* since 2005; prefer Ubuntu MATE.</p><p>I started an online store at about the same time Jeff Bezos did. He had family willing to invest in it, though.</p><p>I never understood the appeal of marriage, but I tried it for ten years anyway. Not my cuppa cola.</p><p>(I don't drink coffee; I don't like it. Cola is my one vice.)</p><p>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.)</p><p>(* exited from Windows)</p>