Ingrid Burrington @ingrid@everything.happens.horse

it's very petty of me but one of the comments on my grant proposal was that critiquing the tendency toward Great Man narratives of computer history is "overdrawn and out of date" and I'm sorry, in a world where people think Elon Musk is smart there is definitely still value in critiquing Great Men narratives imo??

https://buttondown.email/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-29/ this week in sentences: gum, a secret opinion, a new name, subsumption by the great enzyme, chatting away to a tortoise

I started crying tonight because I love my dog so much?? she's fine I just felt overwhelmed by the vulnerability of loving

Found this web page about Jonathan the tortoise, the world's longest living land animal, and it is a delight http://sainthelenaisland.info/jonathan.htm

Related, feel like we should be talking more about the fact Ron Perlman's IG handle is "perlmutations"

My favorite part of academia is spending a lot of time developing comprehensive and detailed grant proposals that demonstrate I'm doing groundbreaking work but also the grant cannot pay me a stipend of more than thirty thousand dollars

For years we thought Kitty was afraid of/physically unable to get into the bathtub and last night during the thunderstorm she just got into the tub like it was no big deal??

Feel like an important but often unsaid aspect of critiques of decentralized protocol stuff is that centralization better facilitates celebrity/visibility and that some people want that. I say this as someone who achieved niche visibility on Twitter for a specialization and benefitted, I appreciate why people want it--often I want it! But there's shame about admitting to wanting celebrity that makes people go in circles w arguments against decentralization.

Thrown out of brunch for calling marriage "a throuple with the state"

Ramsey just said that Ron Perlman is "nightmare Anthony Bourdain"

Thank God I found an 82 year old neighbor invited to the party who told me about starting one of the first co-op buildings in Brooklyn

Thank God this is a book release party because I can literally hide in the back with a book

"oh fuck, right, I have social anxiety" --me five minutes before I show up to a party, every time

Have to keep reminding myself that I was coughing up blood like, a week ago and even if I'm feeling much better I can't overdo it

https://www.npr.org/2023/07/14/1186550169/cellphone-exhibit ahhh I've been hearing about the development of this exhibit for years, so excited it's opened!!