Ingrid Burrington @ingrid@everything.happens.horse

https://placing.technology/more-media-archaeology-mapinfo-mapxpress-2-0-1996-and-mapinfo-pro-1996 I blogged about using Windows 95 GIS software (some very good screenshots of crunchy graphics included)

STS and computer history nerds: does the ribbon toolbar as an interface component go back to Xerox PARC or is it later in the timeline?

https://buttondown.com/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-134/ this week in sentences: smiles, Cartesian vortex, selves weep, athwart history, roomful of dirt, beast with no shortage, Karl Marx, just because, a baby recognizing colors, as much as Todd, burgeoning pothole, Yeti blood oath

Saw a kid wearing a t shirt that just said "FANTASY" and had a dragon on it and I was so into the premise of a t shirt for a genre but then I saw the dragon had a little football and the word "FOOTBALL" below the dragon

Which at least is a much more exciting interpretation of fantasy football

My mom met Ramsey's parents for the first time today and it was fine and chill but I am now so tired

They should invent a kind of common that can't be enclosed

https://placing.technology/how-does-google-maps-make-money-or-the-curious-case-of-vanessa-mayer I got mad at a paper and then I laid out why I lowkey don't think Google Maps is profitable

honestly this is probably a boring blog post for most normal people who want to read about geo stuff but I am sharing it for personal accountability purposes and also maybe someone who's better at Latour than me can splain him a little

https://placing.technology/my-dead-white-guys-or-i-have-to-retcon-theory-into-the-dissertation I complained about having to think about theory for my dissertation because I'm approaching the "shut the hell up and actually write it" stage of work

Debating inviting another committee member to whatever meeting she wants to do just to deflate the tension but suspect she will get mad about that

Not sure why my advisor who I haven't spoken to in months because she financially screwed with me and multiple other students and wouldn't take responsibility for it thinks that I'm inclined to get on a zoom with her to discuss my dissertation, or get on a zoom with her for anything really

it's a "go to two yoga classes in one day because I can't stop grinding my teeth and need the little endorphins to fix me" kind of Monday

Just reminding everyone that there's a Mercury retrograde starting this week, good luck

https://buttondown.com/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-133/ this week in sentences: bygone stairway, babies with guns, carapace, jerking off, dinosaur action, not on anyone's side, thalassophobia, Moog, linger on, picky about, not full of juice, alas

it's actually Dr. Brightside, but it's in anthropology

also that this listserv was 1) created by the guy who started https://del.icio.us and 2) hosted on the vanity domain https://burri.to, like come on guys

feels deeply dumbass-millennial coded that one of the most consequential listservs of people doing geospatial software stuff in the 2000s was called "geowanking" and now I have to explicate that name in a dissertation

RIP Corp team a month ago: working on an episode about pensions, maybe after the city primary Brad Lander will have time for us?

RIP Corp last week: LOL, LMAO even