yduJ

I am Judy Anderson, yclept yduJ. yduJ rhymes with fudge, and is always capitalized as above, even at the start of a sentence.

A brief history: I've been on the information superhighway since it was a goat track.

Oh my god I'm a mother! How did that happen? Not only that, for a while I was the maintainer of the website for the local MOMS Club! Eek. How domestic!

Even more domestically, I decided to store my recipes online. Bon appetit! (Maybe I shouldn't have, because many of them are uncredited, and I stole them from somewhere, but copied them here for convenience. Some are original creations, though, and some are in fact credited.)

I used to spend too much time on MUDs. Specifically I'm an administrator of LambdaMOO. There were a number of others which I used to hang out on, but they've pretty much all disappeared.

On occasion, I write up interesting experiences I've had. In addition to these below I'm highlighting, I have a number of vacation travelogues.

In 1994 I served on the Grand Jury in Massachusetts, and in 2000 on a trial jury.
I've been driving electric cars for nearly two decades.
In 1999 I went to see polar bears in the arctic.
In 2004 we built a sea wall at our house, and in 2006 we built an interior plexiglass wall.

I've also been writing less formal reports on my DreamWidth blog, so the above haven't been getting updated as often as previously. I used LiveJournal originally, before it turned into a pit of slime. I've been on Twitter but now that it is also turning into a pit of slime, migrating to Mastodon.

I've even been published!

I have an article in the book wired_women.
I appear a number of times in The Unix-Haters Handbook

I've also written a lot of MOO documentation.

Everyone's favorite is the Wind-Up Duck Tutorial.
The MOO Lore Pamphlet is for a more advanced audience.

My housemate Valerie wrote a poem for my late cat, Frankie (RIP March 1998). Sadly, my longest living cat, Mottle, who was the best cat on the planet, is no longer with us (RIP 9/13/03). I had gotten a "backup cat", Squeak, but unfortunately she also failed to stay out of the road (RIP 9/17/02). I was catless for about 9 months until I got a new cat named Tilly, but unfortunately she didn't work out. I found a new home for her, and then in March 2006 ended up with two more new kitties, Tawny and Chloe. September is a bad month for cats. Tawny was hit by a car after only six months (RIP 9/21/06). Chloe reveled in the remaining single-cat household, but four years later, my daughter wanted a kitten, so in July 2010 we took delivery of an 8 week old kitten whom she named Tiptoe. (Chloe predictably didn't like her.) Unfortunately, Tiptoe was hit by a car at age 2 (RIP 10/13/12). Chloe was indeed destined to be in a single-cat household, until her death at age 14, of lung cancer (RIP 2/20/19). In 2021 I got two geriatric cats, Downy, and Jetty. Jetty only lasted a couple of months (RIP 3/23/21). Downy lasted considerably longer (RIP 4/1/24). I wasn't really trying to acquire new cats so quickly, but 6 weeks later I had two: Sophie and Mia.

Valerie also wrote up our Winter Solstice ritual.

Before I had kids, I used to have non-net hobbies as well, including Western Square Dancing and sailing on my housemate's trimaran.

No page is complete without pictures.

In 2001, the trimaran reflects the water in Lake Ontario.
A picture of me on the water, perhaps 1996.
A random shot of me taken in 1993.
Another photo of me taken for the company Lotus Notes database, in 1997.
A photo of our house.
A photo of my entire family, taken in 2010. The kids are 8.

My former housemate Tim has a journal in which he has photos of me and other housemates and our house, among other things.

yduJ@cs.stanford.edu