Ingrid Burrington @ingrid@everything.happens.horse

I emailed the founding CTO of MapInfo about my dissertation and links to my posts about going through his company's old software and he was into it, hooray let's hope he wants to let me come upstate to interview him

On one of the new open gangway G trains and I don't like it. God did not want us to see this far into the G train

@nyalld huh, ok. Thanks!

@aredridel ooof what was the context?

https://placing.technology/more-media-archaeology-mapinfo-mapxpress-2-0-1996-and-mapinfo-pro-1996 I blogged about using Windows 95 GIS software (some very good screenshots of crunchy graphics included)

STS and computer history nerds: does the ribbon toolbar as an interface component go back to Xerox PARC or is it later in the timeline?

https://buttondown.com/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-134/ this week in sentences: smiles, Cartesian vortex, selves weep, athwart history, roomful of dirt, beast with no shortage, Karl Marx, just because, a baby recognizing colors, as much as Todd, burgeoning pothole, Yeti blood oath

@egoldblatt I only just learned what that is!

Saw a kid wearing a t shirt that just said "FANTASY" and had a dragon on it and I was so into the premise of a t shirt for a genre but then I saw the dragon had a little football and the word "FOOTBALL" below the dragon

Which at least is a much more exciting interpretation of fantasy football

My mom met Ramsey's parents for the first time today and it was fine and chill but I am now so tired

They should invent a kind of common that can't be enclosed

@dalan fair! And even the low end estimates of revenue are nothing to sniff at. Maybe another way to frame this is if it has earned back the sunk costs that went into making it back in the day?

@LinuxAndYarn they make money, it's more I wonder are they profitable or sustainable.

https://placing.technology/how-does-google-maps-make-money-or-the-curious-case-of-vanessa-mayer I got mad at a paper and then I laid out why I lowkey don't think Google Maps is profitable

@liaizon I'm sort of assuming that I won't be able to speak directly to him given he's a fancy VC now

@jmeowmeow oooh very cool!

@jmeowmeow I am being a lil loosey goosey with political economy so Ostrom is probably worth a look!

honestly this is probably a boring blog post for most normal people who want to read about geo stuff but I am sharing it for personal accountability purposes and also maybe someone who's better at Latour than me can splain him a little

https://placing.technology/my-dead-white-guys-or-i-have-to-retcon-theory-into-the-dissertation I complained about having to think about theory for my dissertation because I'm approaching the "shut the hell up and actually write it" stage of work