Ingrid Burrington @ingrid@everything.happens.horse

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lnnWgprN0A forgot that this little video essay I made in 2023 for an online lecture series at a Mexico City artists space was pretty good

Also the album rips, which is nice

(the photo in question, which escaped containment at some point and sometimes people will be surprised to learn that I was the originator of it

https://thearmed.bandcamp.com/album/the-future-is-here-and-everything-needs-to-be-destroyed in 2016 I posted a photo I took of an electronics shredder company's trade show booth and the photo went viral bc of the company's incredible slogan and today I learned an extremely good punk band used it as the title for their new album, who says posting never leads to anything good

pivot to wario

https://placing.technology/expanding-on-the-zirp-geo-hypothesis-with-data-probably-part-1 I made some charts to try and see if data backs up my hot take that open source geospatial tech was a zero interest rate phenomenon

Oh my gosh then a block later I ran into ANOTHER neighborhood dog friend, message received universe maybe life is worth living cool

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