Ingrid Burrington @ingrid@everything.happens.horse

Do I really need a citation to make the statement in my dissertation that historically, no one has ever successfully made "good" software

https://buttondown.com/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-142/ this week in sentences: onion, new horrors, mermaids, sheer terror, absolute avalanche, tank top, kind of integrity, meme bullet, in motion, tarot, twenty, squandered, anti-piss defense system, qualified, existence

1446 written / 38,409 total because of editing stuff out

Just did a 4 hour interview for the dissertation with the person who led Rand McNally's efforts to build custom navigation hardware for truckers

2,837 written today / 38,461 but I might cut a section I wrote yesterday so maybe more like 37,449 total

nonsequitur timeline cleanse: i was trying to figure out the origins of the concept of "enterprise software" and this marketing campaign for enterprise software featuring Commander Riker from TNG is not it, but it is really something https://blog.trekcore.com/2013/10/exclusive-inside-boole-babbages-trek-vision/

A little reason I like taking the bus is they use Open Street Map for the little visualization of where the bus is

having to do a lot more document checking for this chapter so it's moving slower but now that I know 10K words is like "normal" chapter length I am less freaked out

OK I know there are Bigger Things happening today but for what it's worth

2,423 / 35,624

2,535 today / 33,201 total

Lin-Manuel Miranda doing backing vocals on the new Mountain Goats album feels very full circle on my "Lin and John are each others' Wario" theory

done today, for a new chapter: 1,729—not a ton but there's kind of more thinking-through-the-structure work that has to go in here and I got a later start because I did a research interview in the morning

total: 30,666 (hell yeah 666)

https://buttondown.com/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-141/ this week in sentences: monopolies, melancholy, Chicago, failed eel, all of its legs, generally defined, rat chaos, taxidermy, texturally, outer space, his own death, no polite, pursue, brothers, persuasive, optimism

doing oral history transcript corrections again and just burst out laughing returning to the moment someone who worked at Esri for nearly thirty years said to me "no, shape files suck"

https://westvirginiawatch.com/2025/09/02/enough-devastation-mingo-logan-residents-worry-about-proposed-power-plants-data-centers-in-wv/ feeling some kind of way about the WV county made famous for the West Virginia Mine Wars potentially becoming a data center region

"Abundance deez nuts"

Sent draft chapters to my committee, very anticlimactic end to writing 28K words in 12 days to just send an email

28,937 which is not a lot words-wise but I think...these two chapters are done or at least as done as they can be for sending to my committee?

thinking about her (the horrible eye in Alien Earth)