Ingrid Burrington @ingrid@everything.happens.horse

*to the tune of boygenius' "Not Strong Enough"

I don't know why I am / the way I am / ten thousand tiny spiders, man

A year late to this but I'm so sad that the mayor reorganized and rebranded the NYC office of IT stuff from Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications ("DoITT") to the "Office of Technology and Innovation", DoITT was such a cute acronym and vibe

live in such a way that the NY Post will make a stupid pun headline about your death

looks like cormac mccarthy reached the end of...the road

https://www.britannica.com/video/185632/formation-sand-quartz-role-processes-weathering-grains highlights of this weird video on how quartz becomes sand:

- the "everyday examples" of using sand are making sand castles (sure), keeping time with an hourglass (I guess if you're literally Jafar), and fracking (???)

- comparing quartz chemical bonds (strong) to orthoclase and olivine (weaker): "kind of like how a relationship forged in the heat of passion might not be as stable as deep bond developed over time" did...did something happen to this narrator?

https://buttondown.email/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-24/ this week in sentences: uncanny allure, the big news, expectations, not insane, all that math, phosphorescent steel

help I'm being haunted by the ghosts of cringemas past present and future

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