Ingrid Burrington @ingrid@everything.happens.horse

I was in a bad mood and then I saw a neighborhood dog and we said hi and now I'm about to cry because of how happy I was about seeing the dog

https://buttondown.com/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-136/ this week in sentences: Ozymandian, uncomplicated, Fish Falls, dust mote, Esperanto, historical buffet, least terror

Ramsey really wanted to watch the Tim Robinson movie Friendship and I keep having to hide under the pillow because the cringe is so much

this post partly brought to you by revisiting the 2021 Mapbox union busting fiasco, what a miserable business

https://placing.technology/notes-on-geospatial-software-labor-narratives blogged through my dissertation ambivalence some notes on types of labor involved in geospatial software

Showed Ramsey a video of a white woman in Lululemon leggings yelling at an ICE agent and he said "it's nice that she donned the traditional clothing of her people as part of the uprising"

https://buttondown.com/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-135/ this week in sentences: syntax, inarticulate, mountain too big, constant vigilance, crew cut spirit, werewolves, 27th place, grappling, doomed to hear, hard candy, the vibe, doorbell-synth, curiosity, communal spirit

"you are a little prince! you are a dauphin! france is promised to you"

https://supplystudies.com/research-guide/ I didn't realize this was online--I worked on this research guide for supply chain investigations in 2023-24, and I think it's pretty useful for teaching purposes?

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

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

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