Ingrid Burrington @ingrid@everything.happens.horse

https://buttondown.email/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-13/ this week in sentences: metallurgy, as new as tomorrow, the missiles may have always already been launched, more ancient, glittering electrons like cocaine

31,343 words total including footnotes

Final count was like 30,000 ish words

and I just noticed the conclusion ends with an unfinished sentence ha ha ha

it's OK there's some time for revisions before it goes to the university

I'm so tired

I did it, I turned in my thesis to my committee today please clap

As dumb as this whole song and dance of academia can be and as tired as I am, it is neat that I've built up a pretty strong case for where two of the kinds of rocks in the first mid-century digital computers probably came from—knowledge that as far as I can tell no one has put together previously

think I'm gonna get a tattoo of a cool rock next week to celebrate finishing my thesis, where do we get tattoos in Brooklyn these days

@collopy oooh I didn't know about Mellel, thank you!

@TeamMidwest I really like it for doing annotated bibliographies!

@yehoak I was this close to being like "fuck it, I'll convert my thesis to LaTex" because that's the only other formatting option my university accepts

@TeamMidwest I like Ulysses a lot? Notion is also good and has a decent Zotero plugin. My main gripes with Word are the interface is by default overwhelming and I have to click too many things to make a footnote.

I haven't used Word in probably over a decade? This is maybe the worst word processing experience of my life, feel like it wasn't this annoying when I was a teenager

can't believe I have my period AND I have to use Microsoft Word today

@aparrish server farm lol

I want to know about the farm where my search engine chatbot was raised

except he called it "raster I/O" and not "rastair-ey-o" which is the name for people who want to pretend that it is a two-bit magician and not a python library

had a real dweeb moment this morning in my geospatial data science class where the instructor introduced rasterio and I almost went "hey I know contributors to that library!!"

"Wolfgang Schivelbusch" would be a great name for a pet chinchilla