Ingrid Burrington @ingrid@everything.happens.horse

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

probably taking it too personally that a specific geo person has basically ghosted me on doing an interview for this dissertation but also like, man you want to be written out of a history that only i'm dumb enough to chronicle i guess that's your problem

https://buttondown.com/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-129/ this week in sentences: Daily Shaving, utopia, detestable, uneasy suspension, enduring emptiness, almost killed, sixty-six days, Ancient Greek accentuation

@a very interesting!

@a oh cool! Did that product do tiling?

@quaad slow clap

more blogging, today about the prehistory of map tiles https://placing.technology/notes-on-the-history-of-the-map-tile

@ramsey @aparrish my apologies

I blogged about the burning waymos because I didn't want to actually think about my dissertation lol https://placing.technology/reverse-engineering-the-incinerated-waymo

Decided that Luthen and Kleya were assassinating Jar Jar Binks in that Naboo scene in episode 10

I think it's really funny that Anthony Levandowski still has a personal website with like, his portfolio of projects like he's just some regular guy https://anthonylevandowski.com/projects

https://buttondown.com/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-128/ this week in sentences: balefully, wreckage, IKEA instructions, the sunlight of, maniacs, jungle gym, quarterly performance review, inconvenient fact, strip-mining, managed bad idea, lakes, oak father, only monetary