Ingrid Burrington @ingrid@everything.happens.horse

the vet confirmed something I'd been worried about which is that Kitty is showing signs of degenerative myelopathy, which means she's slowly losing mobility in her hind legs and there's kind of no way to stop or slow it down. she's not in pain, and she's in early stages, but it's a reminder that we're probably not going to have more than 1-2 more years with her.

an undergrad emailed me asking me about good outlets for submitting weirdo freelance pitches and i feel bad telling them that I don't really know who's left anymore but also...yeah I don't know who's left anymore

https://buttondown.email/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-60/ this week in sentences: apprehension, anthropocenic geology, the decency to unscrew, wither, withdrawn, an avoidable duck, Antarctica

Went to a talk by Eyal Weizman and he basically just riffed for an hour and a half--brilliantly, amazingly, poetically--without slides and then went "ok now I'll show you some forensic architecture" and showed us some evidence of war crimes and THEN after the talk said "no questions, for I have no answers--please rambling comments only"

Incredible, no notes

just added some new plotter prints to https://wares.lifewinning.com, including some cheaper items like this new pseudo-isometric vibe https://wares.lifewinning.com/products/isometric-topography-grid-01-print-a3-gray-graph

can some Obsidian power users please tell me about their setup, it seems super nice and flexible but as far as using it for organizing projects I'm a little at a loss and learning other people's workflows sometimes helps

"CRISPR Baby would be a good rapper name"

https://buttondown.email/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-59/ this week in sentences: truculent realities, relationship with geography, dread sustains, overladen, courageous (and not altogether successful), this exotic example

Maybe the economy hasn't been "good" ever since the late 1980s when the top 1%'s share of income bypassed the bottom 50%'s? Feel like these guys telling me the economy is good actually aren't looking at the data

The Ones Who Produce Speculative Design Imagining Different Futures For Omelas

how the hell does a metal water bottle develop a pinprick leak

Everyone always asking for Mads Mikkelson they don't even notice Sads Mikkelson

really miss my expired debit cart that had the 3 digit code 420, always made customer service people chuckle whenever I had to provide a card over the phone

every February I have to decide whether or not to renew wernerherzogvalentines.com

https://buttondown.email/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-58/ this week in sentences: semicolons, a conversation ensues, polemic, golf, Venus, uninhibited

Just got comments back from my first peer reviewed journal article and the peers really liked it!? Minor revisions but pretty manageable. Very relieved!!

Hallmark Christmas movie where a tech executive comes from the big city to get an AI data center built on the town Christmas tree farm