Ingrid Burrington @ingrid@everything.happens.horse

for accountability purposes I blogged some dissertation updates: https://placing.technology/a-fun-little-mapinfo-update-and-working-through-the-dissertation-outline includes some fun vintage MapInfo advertising at least

https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/international-journal-of-fatigue found the academic journal about me and my problems

more specifically: the lineage of routing/nav in operations research and the transfer of these methods to industry are the story that's less legible to me

STS mastodon: who/what should I be reading for history of operations research? trying to piece together some stuff in routing and navigation tech history and seems to all come back to OR but wondering if someone's actually written this up already

@christa @ranjit WRONG WAY by @jomc

Bro do you even dérive, bro I notice you haven't been stepping back to appreciate the sidewalk ballet bro

One of my more pedantic nitpicks is finding it annoying that people forget that in the movie Minority Report the "tech" was not AI or fancy algos but three psychic orphans with weird drug-induced aliments who spend most of their time in a milk pool

in Saratoga Springs to interview one of the co-founders of MapInfo today; any longtime GIS nerds have niche questions I should ask? (Note he left in 1999 so limits to what he can speak to in terms of 2000s specific developments in the software)

I myself am a bit of a mysterious force that has a magnetic personality

https://buttondown.com/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-137/ this week in sentences: often dismount, disliking stuff, lobster republic, exotic transistors, jester, solitary feral, wrong version, roofs caved in, on earth

I wonder if Elkanah Tisdale used to annoy people at parties by bragging about how he coined the term "gerrymander"

Been in upstate NY for maybe 14 hours and weirdly aware of how city-adjusted I am, it's like I'm at a different frame rate from the landscape

Pettily relieved that the person Cooper hired instead of me for that FT role I interviewed for in March has such radically different research interests that I can't take the rejection personally

RIP Michel Callon, pouring out some scallops 4 u today

Oops! All Infrastructure

@williampietri I was just scrolling on Bandcamp! Turns out we have a mutual friend and they showed someone in the band the photo, said it had their vibe, and the band loved it