Ingrid Burrington @ingrid@everything.happens.horse

going through old diaries and vacillating between "destroy these, they are so cringe" and "future generations need to understand that keeping a diary is incredibly cringe"

4 years ago today I brought home Kitty and what a gift to live with this gentle giant. Here's one of the first pictures I took of her from that day.

sometimes when I'm reading about the fucked up historical origins of now-commonplace digital technologies I think of the "I used to be a piece of shit" sketch from I Think You Should Leave

the fact the nonbinary flag is Wario's color palette remains incredible

- grant proposal submitted
- podcast episode dropped
- got an email officially confirming my master's degree diploma is in the mail

I think I am going to sleep a lot now

https://ripcorp.biz/episodes/the-story-of-this-town-is-failure-fairchild-semiconductor-and-its-children new RIP Corp and it's a doozy IMO! we took on the history of Fairchild Semiconductor, which is usually told as one of triumph and innovation---which is part of it, but only like the first decade of the company. We get into the everything else of its 59-year history.

feel like there's gotta be people in my network who would be perfect for this? there are lots of other open jobs at Internet Archive too https://app.trinethire.com/companies/32967-internet-archive/jobs/78121-program-officer-archiving-and-data-services

oh right everything in the 1970s looks like this because of pollution

I regret to inform you that Spiders-Man, the hive mind of thousands of spiders who believe they are a man named Peter Parker, is not in the new movie

my advisor was like "I want you to focus on your book this summer because there's too much uncertainty and writing books is the thing you came here to do" bless

the soundtrack, honestly, it's got some sick needle drops

i'm more of a vision amateur (wears glasses)

look, getting a funded MA was pretty sweet and at this point if I want to try for a PhD somewhere else I will, but going into academia was always a means to the end of "getting paid to write and make cool shit", not the end in itself. mostly the bummer is I do really like my advisor and enjoy working with her!

my advisor told me she hoped I had plans to "decompress" tonight as I (mostly) wrapped up my stupid grant proposal and like, I am entirely certain that I'm not going to get this grant?? So instead of "decompressing" I think I am "looking for a job because there are no other avenues for funding my PhD so I'm dropping out" hahahaha

a great time to double down on headset technology that has consistently failed to obtain widespread adoption is definitely during a recession