Ingrid Burrington @ingrid@everything.happens.horse

https://buttondown.com/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-154/ this week in sentences: raccoon, redwood, gambling, bruised, sweater, mysterious, winter, ripeness, cult, flesh-tone, beaver bombing, laissez-ed, ethics, definitionally, glands, indolent, robot wolves

@bob @jimmynohands it was coined by Andy Cameron and Richard Barbrook in 1995?

Between this and the abundance nonsense I low-key believe there's a guys-in-a-room-planned-this project to appropriate lefty rhetoric to serve shitty capitalist ideas through dumb thought leader books

I read a review of the Stewart Brand maintenance book and I'm pretty sure it's a psyop

I did it, the full manuscript has been sent to my committee, hope it is deemed defensible!!

also I haven't written the acknowledgments because that seems like bad luck to take the victory lap prematurely

sorry, 256 pages for the actual dissertation, the whole document is 335 pages

265 pages, word count around 65K (I've added the bibliography etc so the document word count is much, much longer), tempted to just turn it in early by sending tonight but should probably do one last round of spellcheck etc.

1 ) why is my retired mom on LinkedIn

2) why is my mom asking to connect with me on LinkedIn

Someone told me their birthday is the winter solstice and I said "cool, you were born into darkness. Like Bane"

@geospacedman amazing!

@eldang i took a class for my graduate coursework just to see what the fuss was about and: i guess if you like clicking through software wizards it's great, but i kept mentally working through what chain of geopandas commands would get me the same result

@clhenrick my apologies I forgot they are your employer

@clhenrick cross platform software, unimaginable for the GIS professional LOL

@geospacedman wow! what year was that?

managed to write this whole chapter on desktop GIS without mentioning that the reason Esri only runs on Windows machines is they went all in on COM architecture and I guess they thought Apple was too niche, is this a thing anyone else will care about

https://buttondown.com/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-153/ this week in sentences: styrofoam, kill-time, sci-fi prison, truth, Ross Perot, knives, extraordinary, apology, swanning, Marx!, Kochian night, feline, discomfitingly, footfalls

https://www.wsj.com/business/telecom/africa-ip-addresses-china-3e543b9d this is a real niche "right into my veins" type article for probably a lot of the sickos that follow me

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