Ingrid Burrington @ingrid@everything.happens.horse

So hypothetically if I made karaoke style subtitles for a movie so that viewers could do a live fan dub, would it be funnier to do this to Titanic or Goodfellas

They're playing CHVRCHES in Rite Aid???

https://observablehq.com/@lifewinning/cleaned-up-hillshade-generator sort of a hack but here is the cross-hatched hillshade map visualizations with cross-hatch bodies of water--because of the particular complexity of the river I'm using as an example I tesselate the water polygons but in theory you might not have to for a basic shoreline or something. Also yes, it loads super-slow sorry

Sat next to a sleepy little corgi on the subway home, NYC is back baby

Maybe it's a good time to mention that the grant I got for my PhD research is a project collecting documents and oral histories of GIS software development. Materials collected will eventually be accessioned to the Computer History Museum. If you work/have worked on GIS tools (web mapping is part of it!!) I would love to talk to you!!

Every time ProPublica drops a "Supreme Court justices being corrupt fools" story even if Justin Elliott didn't work on it I imagine him starting the day with a little smile

How do I phrase this for the gram? Like "some personal news instead of dying later this year from burnout and economic precariousness I will die later this year from burnout but I might leave like $500 in a savings account"

Oh no I got the grant, congratulations but also fuck fuck fuck

One time at the dog park someone said Kitty had "gravitas" and every time she does a goofy little face I whisper "gravitas" to her

Is it controversial to believe that Visions was a pretty good album and also a pretty good album eleven years ago isn't much of a defense for the rest of Grimes

Instead of going to yoga I got ice cream it has been that kind of day

in addition to killing Toys R Us and generally being vultures feel like it's also fun to note that David Petraeus has some nonsense job title at KKR that probably pays him some obscene amount of money https://www.kkr.com/our-firm/leadership/david-h-petraeus

https://www.axios.com/2023/08/08/openai-journalism-ethics-nyu this is an embarrassingly small amount of money relative to OpenAI's resources and the asset that they're allegedly trying to support

Trying to become a podcast guy, what are the good ones