This is the personal website of Josh Dady. Anything you find here hasn’t been checked for accuracy, may not be written very well, and doesn’t solve any of your problems. Any opinions expressed are those of the author, not those of anyone else associated with the site, our employers, parents, offspring, or other innocent bystanders.

Myself

I’m not a man on a mission; not yet anyway. This site is about stuff that interests me and stuff I think might interest others — in roughly that order. I was born and raised in Metro Detroit, where I currently live and work as a software wonk.

My wife and I were married in the Fall of 2005 at a small ceremony at her parents’ house. We’re talking about having kids, and given the constraints of human biology, that’ll have to happen pretty soon. My parents have been divorced for some time now, but they separated on good terms — Mom now worries that they set an unrealistic example for their children (although I, for one, hope to keep myself to zero divorces).

Multi-User Domains/Dungeons/Dandruff

That expansion of what MUD means comes from MacMUD, which I last used a lifetime ago, and which I assume doesn’t still exist, given that it was a MacOS Classic application from long before I left the Mac (and have since returned). In modern times, when I’m using a MUD driver of any sort, it is DGD, built as a Darwin app (as opposed to the one with a GUI — and I don’t really know if that still exists either).

My formative (MUD) years were spent on NannyMUD, basically at precisely the times I probably should have been working on assignments in college. When I left NannyMUD over a decade ago, the Damned Guild (the original one, coded by Ramses, mind you) had just been closed down for a recode, and there was a massive argument on the wizboard about some policy from the admins that I thought was completely self-evident. The last time I logged on, precisely the same conditions were present; some things never change.

More recently, I was Source on IgorMUD for a while; probably longer than was healthy for either myself or Igor. My successor there, who also happens to be my predecessor there, is a good friend of mine and got honorable mention for agreeing to take over again. I used to lean on him when the world broke in strange and spectacular ways, so naturally I cower under my desk on a daily basis in fear of the day he returns the favor.