Ingrid Burrington @ingrid@everything.happens.horse

Pedro Pascal shaking his head ruefully like 'all the maps are wrong'

gonna get into writing prestige TV just so GIS classes can show other clips of fictional characters talking about maps

literally illegal for a GIS class to not show that one West Wing clip about Mercator

logging on to my online class from the Amtrak lounge

telling me you're going to have a SPA day and that actually means using ten thousand javascript libraries to make a web page instead of snoozing in a sauna and maybe putting some lil cucumbers on your eyes? no thanks

feel like referring to a web site as a "SPA" when the web site is not relaxing in any way is a bit of false advertising

listening to Kimya Dawson like it's 2004, still good

this week in perfect sentences: geolinguists, pebble-smooth, the incident of the owl https://buttondown.email/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-07/

no one told me that the whole point of these books was that spies suck lol

I'm sorry it took me this long to read Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

my mom mailed me a tin of Berger cookies, feeling very Baltimore nostalgic now

has anyone asked ChatGPT when the legs are coming

I'm something of an uneasy confluence myself, etc

saw a multidisciplinary artist bio where they described the work as "at the uneasy confluence of" xyz things and I appreciate this immensely after many years of "intersection of" tropes

I'm pretty sure more than half of those stories don't hold up/weren't even that great when they were published, but it's nice that some people still get something out of them!

every now and then someone will email me out of nowhere to be like "hey I read one of your 2015 Atlantic stories on internet infrastructure and here's my related anecdote gleaned from spending decades working on some niche aspect of industry, take care!" and it is a real treat

it's becoming very apparent to me that this class is largely stuff I already know but I'm kind of fine with that insofar as I just want to keep from getting rusty and I have to focus on my thesis this term so I'd really prefer any other coursework to be relatively rote

Feels about right that it took almost the entirety of this hour-and-fifteen minute class on geospatial data science for my computer to download and install QGIS again

https://www.newinc.org/cooperative-studies NEW INC is offering a track for cooperatives this year!