Ingrid Burrington @ingrid@everything.happens.horse

RIP Corp team a month ago: working on an episode about pensions, maybe after the city primary Brad Lander will have time for us?

RIP Corp last week: LOL, LMAO even

@smathermather helpful, thank you!! I did get one person on Bluesky who told me they learned GIS on MapInfo in the early 90s while at a nonprofit, mainly b/c MapInfo was cheaper and easier to use than ArcView, and later they helped set up Columbia's planning school's GIS lab on MapInfo which was an interesting deviation.

@scruss yes, this is how open source works obviously

@scruss I take it the learning curve was not great lol

https://placing.technology/media-archaeology-with-mapinfos-mapxpress-2-0-1996 blogged about old mapping software (well, advertising for it) to feel something as I work on my dissertation

https://buttondown.com/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-132/ this week in sentences: Everglades, several inches, reason to believe, humbled by age, dreamcatcher forearm, between a lentil and, unembarrassable, regolith, turned out

Respect to the guy in his fifties I saw today sitting outside the laundromat with a paperback edition of All Fours

Just overheard a guy greet a sparrow that landed on his cafe table with "well hey, little freak!"

Worried that a job interview I had scheduled was abruptly cancelled today not because of someone being sick as they told me but because this org actually accidentally scheduled me by mistake and is trying to save face or looked at my social media and said JK, both of these options feel great

https://buttondown.com/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-131/ this week in sentences: equilibrium, rolodex, co-suffering, operatives, actual logistics, dreadful visage, no California, bleeds, polka-dot, envy the rats, this mid, scrutiny, parroting, if a newspaper could

https://buttondown.com/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-130/ this week in sentences: reddened waters, each next pair, billboards, bros, lettuce, whimsy, small holes in their heads, merciless prolixity

@jonty it'll be in my dissertation for sure, probably should post about it

@jonty maybe more precise to say "an accident"—no grand scheme to make a standard file format, just some guys who made up something no one asked for

Still reeling from a nearly five hour long interview in which someone who worked at Esri for nearly 30 years told me that shapefiles were, essentially, a mistake

man, turns out the fast cancellation of the future is worse