Ingrid Burrington @ingrid@everything.happens.horse

https://buttondown.com/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-159/ this week in sentences: splintering, threefold, extinguishing, television, sincerely, soul-sucking, upheaval, library, minor, ornament, quasi-government, gentler, virtually, peculiar

a footnote in a section on Sam Altman's find-my-friends startup Loopt: "Arguably, ChatGPT could also be framed as a product to prevent people from never having to eat lunch alone, although I don’t know if “lunch with a sycophantic imaginary friend who might encourage you to commit suicide or start a cult” is an improvement."

I passed my defense with some minor revision requests from my committee that I'm working through today; it is very funny coming back to my punchier commentary and seeing them be like "hmm rethink this"

still thinking about the store that sells bone broth and slop bowls near my work that has a sign outside that says "drink your bones"

why would you say it like that

annoyed that it's been easier to find archival media of geo software stuff from the early 1990s than find decent documentation of geo conferences in like 2007

https://buttondown.com/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-158/ this week in sentences: gloves, decorum, ejected, stone, special, techno-monsters, grinding, little packets, civilized, most French, insanely surpassed, oozing, interface, jellybeans

gathering media to use in my defense presentation, please enjoy this 1990 promotional video by Esri: https://youtu.be/TL_HN1zSQx4?si=K6jHgnQDmIcmhWVh

A new aesthetic, in this economy

https://ripcorp.biz/episodes/2025-corporate-in-memorium the third annual RIP Corp In Memoriam episode is out, this year the team behind the show got together to do a bracket for saddest corporate collapse of 2025.

Sent to my office for self reflection after saying I didn't really do much in 2025 and having to be reminded I wrote a dissertation

Ramsey just said that Marty Supreme really sounds like none of his business, that he's crossed a line just knowing about it

https://buttondown.com/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-157/ this week in sentences: phantom, stranger, parcels, parents', aortic valve, adjectival, beans, giant rabbit

just remembered this year started with the image of a cyber truck in flames in front of a Trump hotel

Found out today while getting a haircut that at some time in the last few months that a chunk of my hair must have fell out and I just hadn't noticed, cool normal 2025 stuff

https://buttondown.com/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-156/ this week in sentences: uncool, crystalline, early, contemptuous, golf, flesh, posthumously, guarded, shrubbery, name, ensemble, cells, eminently, transcend, clown, shrimp, so many ways, landmass

Sometimes courage is not the presence of hope but the absence of fucks

Going on Shark Tank to pitch "molly for bugs"

Fun professional news: I'm one of the two new Editors at Large at urbanomnibus.net, a publication of the Architectural League of New York. please get in touch if you have ideas you'd like to develop into commissions on any broadly-defined NYC architecture and/or urbanism topics!