Ingrid Burrington @ingrid@everything.happens.horse

Is it poor form at this stage to send a note politely asking for an update, unclear to me if this is miscommunication or petty power tripping and not sure if inquiring will violate some unspoken rule

Unclear why my dissertation committee is taking its sweet time in sending back signed defense paperwork but it's due tomorrow and it's very annoying having done everything asked of me well in advance and still have this all come down to the wire

https://buttondown.com/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-160/ this week in sentences: cubes, inadequate, embarrassing, fool, talent, ghost, superior, inkjet, rudely, impatience, searing, eyrie, sickos, neither, fine

exciting update that I officially got the rights to Networks of New York reverted to me from Melville House, which means I can self publish a revised edition for 2026 watch this space

most rooms are situation rooms when you think about it

https://buttondown.com/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-159/ this week in sentences: splintering, threefold, extinguishing, television, sincerely, soul-sucking, upheaval, library, minor, ornament, quasi-government, gentler, virtually, peculiar

a footnote in a section on Sam Altman's find-my-friends startup Loopt: "Arguably, ChatGPT could also be framed as a product to prevent people from never having to eat lunch alone, although I don’t know if “lunch with a sycophantic imaginary friend who might encourage you to commit suicide or start a cult” is an improvement."

I passed my defense with some minor revision requests from my committee that I'm working through today; it is very funny coming back to my punchier commentary and seeing them be like "hmm rethink this"

still thinking about the store that sells bone broth and slop bowls near my work that has a sign outside that says "drink your bones"

why would you say it like that

annoyed that it's been easier to find archival media of geo software stuff from the early 1990s than find decent documentation of geo conferences in like 2007

https://buttondown.com/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-158/ this week in sentences: gloves, decorum, ejected, stone, special, techno-monsters, grinding, little packets, civilized, most French, insanely surpassed, oozing, interface, jellybeans

gathering media to use in my defense presentation, please enjoy this 1990 promotional video by Esri: https://youtu.be/TL_HN1zSQx4?si=K6jHgnQDmIcmhWVh

A new aesthetic, in this economy

https://ripcorp.biz/episodes/2025-corporate-in-memorium the third annual RIP Corp In Memoriam episode is out, this year the team behind the show got together to do a bracket for saddest corporate collapse of 2025.

Sent to my office for self reflection after saying I didn't really do much in 2025 and having to be reminded I wrote a dissertation

Ramsey just said that Marty Supreme really sounds like none of his business, that he's crossed a line just knowing about it

https://buttondown.com/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-157/ this week in sentences: phantom, stranger, parcels, parents', aortic valve, adjectival, beans, giant rabbit