Ingrid Burrington @ingrid@everything.happens.horse

Debating inviting another committee member to whatever meeting she wants to do just to deflate the tension but suspect she will get mad about that

Not sure why my advisor who I haven't spoken to in months because she financially screwed with me and multiple other students and wouldn't take responsibility for it thinks that I'm inclined to get on a zoom with her to discuss my dissertation, or get on a zoom with her for anything really

it's a "go to two yoga classes in one day because I can't stop grinding my teeth and need the little endorphins to fix me" kind of Monday

Just reminding everyone that there's a Mercury retrograde starting this week, good luck

https://buttondown.com/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-133/ this week in sentences: bygone stairway, babies with guns, carapace, jerking off, dinosaur action, not on anyone's side, thalassophobia, Moog, linger on, picky about, not full of juice, alas

@Moore fair

it's actually Dr. Brightside, but it's in anthropology

@eldang I'm obviously not one to talk given my own instance lol

also that this listserv was 1) created by the guy who started https://del.icio.us and 2) hosted on the vanity domain https://burri.to, like come on guys

feels deeply dumbass-millennial coded that one of the most consequential listservs of people doing geospatial software stuff in the 2000s was called "geowanking" and now I have to explicate that name in a dissertation

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