Judy Anderson

Programmer, been on the information superhighway since it was a goat track. Bicyclist, electric car owner, waterskier, board gamer, generic nerd. Cat lover, square dancer, parent, SFF reader.

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2026-09-25 00:36:50 UTC

Housemate and I did a puzzle the other day. This one was 300 pieces, a pleasurable way to spend half an evening.
#DoorsDay #JigsawPuzzle #JigsawPuzzles
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2026-08-06 13:23:57 UTC

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@nprofile…d0yj I disagree about boosts being separate. The whole POINT is to have your followees add to your feed. If you don't like some particular person's boosting behavior, you can choose "hide boosts in timeline" (I do this for a few of my followees) but I wouldn't make it the default.

2026-06-20 20:36:02 UTC

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@nprofile…d0yj
I never click on videos without some idea of what they are about or why I should care. can you put a one-sentence description when you suggest a video?
Maybe it's my instance's fault for not giving me a preview, but just showing the URL.

2026-03-09 18:03:15 UTC

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@nprofile…d0yj Keep up the masking. Someone who wants to mask but feels stupid might just decide to mask next time because they saw you. Also, you might be less sick, so everyone wins.

2026-02-20 20:24:47 UTC

Today's (lame) political action: Signed an internet petition to call for universities to give the finger to the US. But it turned out to be a few months old so maybe it's a useless gesture.
https://alumni.standforcampusfreedom.org/petitions/sign-the-alumni-petition-tell-your-school-to-reject-the-federal-government-s-compact?share=4566bbc4-a030-4a20-bdec-58d1cb039d45

2026-02-17 18:01:20 UTC

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@nprofile…llgf @FluentInFinance@mastodon.social I was a homeowner before age 30 but I wasn't married so I don't get included in the 1980's line segment. Why did they restrict it to married?

2026-02-01 22:17:56 UTC

T-shirt sighting at #Arisia two weeks ago - @nprofile…yenq
#SilentSunday
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2026-01-24 21:09:58 UTC

cats gotta do what cats gotta do.
#caturday
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2026-01-20 16:45:01 UTC

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@nprofile…4w8z My son, who graduated one year ago with a shiny new CS bachelors *summa cum laude*, is still unemployed. School not top tier but fairly decent, Wentworth Institute of Technology.

2026-01-13 20:28:36 UTC

There is something Karmic about being laid off the same day that Scott Adams passes away.
I'm cool. I'm getting good severance and I'm close to retirement age anyway. Not excited about jumping into the cesspool that is the job market these days.

2026-01-03 01:15:06 UTC

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@nprofile…llgf I got more conservative in my retirement investments several years ago. This was, in hindsight, not the wise choice. I kept enough in growth stocks that I didn't completely miss out on the insanity of the last 10 years.

2025-12-31 00:58:47 UTC

Happy New Year's Adam!

2025-12-28 23:38:24 UTC

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@nprofile…9ake I would probably start by doing something gross with emacs keyboard macros.

2025-12-17 01:21:26 UTC

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@nprofile…9ake I am sorry. I baked cookies tonight but they would suffer in the mail. (Some kinds of cookies work OK in the mail, but not my chocolate chip ones. They get stale. But mostly they don't last long enough to do that!)

2025-10-26 18:40:39 UTC

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@nprofile…9ake I had a bee sting about 4 decades ago that swelled up every summer after that for about 10 years. It was a pretty bad sting the first summer that took a month to heal, and then recurring, smaller every year until it finally stopped.
Bodies are weird.
It could also just be a cyst that has no proximate cause. I had one on my head and one on my arm that I had removed.
Good luck and hope it’s not serious.

2025-05-09 01:54:30 UTC

New England has direct democracy for town government in many towns. Which means that anybody can go to town meeting where we decide on the budget and zoning laws and pretty much anything in the town. There are committees that figure out the important bits, and there's a board of selectmen and various other elected boards, but it's the people who actually get to decide.
It's a bit of a zoo. Because anybody can get up and object to something and make an amendment -- and they do! And then they object to the meeting moderator's call of the voice vote and make us all have a standing vote. But, it is still kind of cool, despite everything taking way longer than it ought to. We were there for five hours on Monday night and four hours on Tuesday night.
Of course, in some ways it's really "non-representative democracy", because a lot of people don't go, because it's not convenient for them to be awake until midnight (it wasn't really convenient for me, but I stayed anyway), or they just don't care enough to spend their evening sitting around the high school auditorium listening to people drone on about this or that planning board initiative.
#TownMeeting #NewEngland #localPolitics

2025-05-02 00:23:06 UTC

Protest number six!
My town had a little protest for #InternationalWorkersDay. It was located on the sidewalk in front of a little strip mall that's right at the freeway entrance/exit, and they held it from 5:30-7:30 to get the commute home people. I worked from work today, and so I didn't actually arrive until a little after 6:00, but people were just coming and going. It was a little bit cool and windy, and I don't think people were expecting that, so they got cold and wanted to go home, but as people left more people came who were getting off work or finishing dinner. I stuck around for about 45 minutes.
There were about 100 people there, so probably overall more like 150-200 what with people coming and going.
Lots of good signs about workers' rights. Lots of positive beeping from people driving by.
#MayDay

2025-04-22 23:26:11 UTC

Very small protest
For #EarthDay I decided that I should go to a protest. I figured #ExtinctionRebellion would be doing something so I checked their website, and they had a thing listed, conveniently at noon (the train gets me there at 11:45).
It turned out to be a very small event with only about 50 people. They had a sort of silly skit and some speakers about how private jets were killing the environment (they are), and then we had a little die-in, for only 5 minutes. The whole thing was over in about an hour, so I just took an earlier train home. There seemed to be more people taking videos and stuff and than there were attendees. I guess they just didn't really advertise it very well.
I hadn't known whether it was going to be a real protest or not, so I brought a #HandsOff sign that was relevant to the environment. When I got there, nobody else had signs, but I was randomly chatting with the other attendees and they encouraged me to get it out. A few more people with signs did show up later.
Their next thing is on Saturday, marching to the state house. Maybe there will be more people there.
https://xrboston.org/action/2025-earth-day/

2025-04-19 19:57:50 UTC

We had some cardboard boxes. Cat likes!
#caturday
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2025-04-11 02:24:23 UTC

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@nprofile…xy93 My partner writes theoretical physics simulations in #CommonLisp. He makes his graduate students learn lisp.
https://cosmos.phy.tufts.edu/~kdo/

2025-04-05 20:49:59 UTC

Today's protest was vastly larger than any of the previous 4 I attended. It wasn't as big as the Women's March, but it had that size vibe. I did not get close enough to any speakers to hear them, either at the beginning in the Common or later after we "marched" to Government Center. Really it was an extremely slow stroll as the huge crowd covering half of Boston Common had to squeeze onto the street.
I had hooked up with my daughter and a friend of hers, surprisingly we both had cell service, so we were able to locate each other. By the time we got to Government Center, other people were already leaving, having had enough of standing around in the rain. (It did not rain very hard, but enough for people to deploy umbrellas or pull up their hoods.) I was there until my train left so I stuck around reading signs. I had seen a number of them before. My daughter got a kick out of "Porsche: fast. Ferrari: faster. Tesla: Fascist".
The friend had been to a few of the "#TeslaTakedown" protests at the Boston Tesla dealership. I have mixed feelings about the whole thing, since I'm not ready to realize the $30,000 loss by dumping our very devalued Tesla and then having to buy a replacement. So we're driving it, with one of those "we didn't know" stickers.
#HandsOff2025
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2025-04-05 20:15:00 UTC

Too busy protesting, almost forgot about #Caturday !
"What to read today?"
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2025-04-01 02:30:28 UTC

Sorry about the lame #AprilFools jokes on #LambdaMOO ; I just kicked the feature object so old jokes were reenabled.

2025-02-01 14:23:17 UTC

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@nprofile…de2h
From @quota display:
Note that quota is held in escrow -- `look #69500' for more details.
Also displayed:
There are 10 objects which are not yet included in the tally; this tally may thus be inaccurate.
So really you just needed "@measure new"

2025-01-26 15:42:46 UTC

We're having work done in our garage, so we had to clear it out. Found this in the rafters. Not really the time for nesting anymore! It might have been there for more than just nine months, who knows? Guess this guy didn't hatch.
#SilentSunday
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2025-01-25 14:57:49 UTC

what might we see with this?
#caturday
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2025-01-15 03:47:21 UTC

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@nprofile…l9v9 @nprofile…qudt
But first...
@request handle for your@email.address
because you can't create as a guest.

2024-12-28 15:04:31 UTC

#Caturday story in four photos
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2024-12-25 03:11:22 UTC

I made Judebröd (Swedish Christmas cookies) from a recipe passed down from my grandmother (who died before I was born) to my mother and then to me. I make them annually. They're pretty good; the cardamom makes them a little out of the ordinary.
I substitute milk for the cream, but they seem to come out just fine. Indeed, the amount of cream is not really known in the original it said "shot glass"
I have some fun cookie cutters. Christmas village?
https://www.olum.org/yduj/recipe/judebrod.txt
#FoodPorn
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2024-12-18 03:12:28 UTC

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@nprofile…de2h
Yib's Guide to MOOing: http://aaactive.com/ygm/ygm/
My wind-up duck tutorial is #11110 in #LambdaMOO and has been HTMLized in several places. Here's one: https://netlab.gmu.edu/muve/html/Winding-Duck.html
(I am insulted by the people who took the wording and replaced "yduJ" in the examples with their own names. This one seems to retain my identity.)
My MOO Lore Pamphlet, #34443 in LambdaMOO, appears at https://www.hayseed.net/MOO/yduj_lore.txt
Looks like hayseed.net also has the duck doc and other useful stuff.
Enjoy!

2024-12-18 02:56:36 UTC

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@nprofile…l9v9 none of them?
https://olum.org/yduj/recipe/pumpkin-cc-squares.txt
You were close with the PDF but this is the adaptation for improved health.

2024-12-17 02:19:36 UTC

I wrote a holiday letter. Content, ICYC:
https://www.olum.org/yduj/holiday-letters/2024/
(The actual .rtf file was enormous, I guess it's a very inefficient way to store images.)
Note: Some of my readers will be receiving physical copies and a nice card.

2024-12-08 03:01:58 UTC

We had our garage floor replaced recently. It was fun to watch the #construction. Details and pictures:
https://www.olum.org/yduj/garage/

2024-11-27 02:05:57 UTC

I'm not really thankful for much this year, but I'm thankful that all the people attending my #Thanksgiving are politically aligned, and that we have agreed not to talk about it.

2024-11-23 14:50:58 UTC

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Adding to my "cats know what color they are" montage
#caturday
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2024-09-02 21:33:57 UTC

After our many summer guests finally cleared out, we had random things in the fridge, including a few very squashed hotdog buns, a couple of dinner rolls, and some bread crusts that were cut off of fancy tea party sandwiches.
So I made chocolate bread pudding! It's delicious. You'd never know there were hotdog buns in it.
http://www.olum.org/yduj/recipe/chocolate-bread-pudding.txt
#cooking #chocolate

2024-09-02 21:23:40 UTC

#Capitalism is such a failure. I have a dishpan that I am using as a cat potty, which fits nicely in the bathroom. I want a second one. Of course there is no makers mark. Searching for "8x15x18 inch plastic dishpan" finds so many wrong items!
I found one that is smaller but acceptable. Now how to buy it? I can pick it up at Walmart later tonight or tomorrow, with a pickup fee. Is it available at a nearby Walmart? Walmart.com won't tell me! I just want to buy it! Why is that so hard?

2024-07-15 02:16:39 UTC

Seen at the Durham NC farmers market during a heat wave. Note: I did not try this recipe 😃
#climateChange
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2024-06-19 01:54:05 UTC

Saw #fireflies in the yard tonight! Something useful about heat waves, anyway 🙂

2024-06-12 01:46:27 UTC

Changed the battery in a little timer that got very sad about trying to beep.
I think that companies should be prohibited from calling their batteries "green cell" if they are not #rechargeable! In small letters it said "may explode if recharged" like all nonrechargeable's do.

2024-06-02 01:31:24 UTC

It's #PrideMonth, so I swapped my regular orange bicycle flag for a rainbow flag, and I re-dyed my hair. In five weeks I'm going to the International Gay Square Dance Convention #IAGSDC (I bet you didn't know that was a thing), and I don't want to have my hair be bleeding so much pink that I'm embarrassed to sleep on the hotel pillowcases.

2024-06-01 15:51:32 UTC

#caturday fun
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2024-05-14 22:28:49 UTC

Our #BlackLivesMatter sign was stolen again a couple of days ago. It looks like the person knew that there was a security camera, because they approach with their back to it, wearing a hoodie, and turn in such a way that their faces never visible to the camera.
This is the 14th time this has happened to us. We've got back a few of them by reporting to the cops and giving them the video. Never pressed charges; having the cops look sternly at a 17-year-old sometimes is enough.

2024-05-12 18:51:32 UTC

#MothersDay was #caturday for me today! I picked up two new-to-me nine-year-old rescues. One of them is bold and has been exploring the entire house. The other has been hiding in an area we use for some storage, but will come out to be petted if you sit next to her.
https://media.hachyderm.io/media_attachments/files/112/429/616/967/036/329/original/0e953caa219bcb75.jpeg
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2024-05-10 03:47:12 UTC

Saw a lovely #CrescentMoon and thought, yeah, 31 days since the #eclipse, that's about right 😉
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2024-05-08 02:59:08 UTC

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@npub19y8…wxgj Sadly, I was not available this week. So maybe next time, if you didn't go to the pool #1428 this time!