Ingrid Burrington @ingrid@everything.happens.horse

this week in perfect sentences: geolinguists, pebble-smooth, the incident of the owl https://buttondown.email/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-07/

no one told me that the whole point of these books was that spies suck lol

I'm sorry it took me this long to read Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

my mom mailed me a tin of Berger cookies, feeling very Baltimore nostalgic now

has anyone asked ChatGPT when the legs are coming

I'm something of an uneasy confluence myself, etc

saw a multidisciplinary artist bio where they described the work as "at the uneasy confluence of" xyz things and I appreciate this immensely after many years of "intersection of" tropes

@ranjit c'est moi

I'm pretty sure more than half of those stories don't hold up/weren't even that great when they were published, but it's nice that some people still get something out of them!

every now and then someone will email me out of nowhere to be like "hey I read one of your 2015 Atlantic stories on internet infrastructure and here's my related anecdote gleaned from spending decades working on some niche aspect of industry, take care!" and it is a real treat

it's becoming very apparent to me that this class is largely stuff I already know but I'm kind of fine with that insofar as I just want to keep from getting rusty and I have to focus on my thesis this term so I'd really prefer any other coursework to be relatively rote

Feels about right that it took almost the entirety of this hour-and-fifteen minute class on geospatial data science for my computer to download and install QGIS again

https://www.newinc.org/cooperative-studies NEW INC is offering a track for cooperatives this year!

@divya oh this is great, thanks! remote sensing people (or I guess remote sensing people I tend to know lol) seem to be more attentive to power dynamics around their tools which is cool

the barrel of high purity semiconductor grade quartz is still on eBay https://www.ebay.com/itm/233947436297?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=eA75L3M3SoK&sssrc=2047675&ssuid=s45yvgRWQCy&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

@migurski man I owe you a call anyway about all the current weird stuff in maps--is email the best way to schedule something or should I DM?

almost earnest-posted on twitter about this but thought better of it:

had a call with the RIP Corp team today and just thinking about how I'm so glad to have a project in my life that's a team effort with such smart and talented people.

in my experience when people who don't do map stuff learn that the industry standard source for coordinate reference systems still used today was made by a professional association of oil geologists they think it's weird. (the Esri monopoly is less weird; Adobe or Maya tend to be the analogies that come up which makes sense I guess)

disappointed that this mostly got favs without recommendations, seems like a bad sign/fuck do I have to write a history of EPSG codes