Ingrid Burrington @ingrid@everything.happens.horse

niche "working on a geospatial software dissertation" joke: dying every time the transcription software calls the primary open source geo conference "Phosphor G" which I imagine is Bill Nye's rapper persona

Thinking about making a pamphlet titled "advice for the habitually suicidal living in fascist times" as a way to force myself to cope

Hard to distinguish between depression for regular selfish personal life reasons and world historical event reasons but really struggling to remember good things that have happened since my dog died in October 2024

Did an unpleasant thing I didn't want to do and didn't act out or actively sabotage it, please clap

today I learned about Georges Sorel and I guess it's good to know that "engineer turned intellectually incoherent philosopher who acts as a gateway to fascism" is just a type of guy and not like, an anomaly of our times

Not a fan of it!!

https://buttondown.com/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-138/ this week in sentences: England, monopoly men, microwave, sea of rats, inevitably, still not, the earth owns, ego death, all of your rights, passionately, aftertaste of spite, rubber duckers, cargo shorts, tetanus, synthetic corpse scent

our neighborhood friends whose dog was best friends with Kitty are moving away and we hung out with them tonight and I got so sad when they left because their dog is one of our connections back to Kitty and now we won't get to see him as much and everything in my life has gotten so much worse without her

https://www.canibefrank.nyc/ NYC, I just saw this show and it was terrific, go see it!!

for accountability purposes I blogged some dissertation updates: https://placing.technology/a-fun-little-mapinfo-update-and-working-through-the-dissertation-outline includes some fun vintage MapInfo advertising at least

https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/international-journal-of-fatigue found the academic journal about me and my problems

more specifically: the lineage of routing/nav in operations research and the transfer of these methods to industry are the story that's less legible to me

STS mastodon: who/what should I be reading for history of operations research? trying to piece together some stuff in routing and navigation tech history and seems to all come back to OR but wondering if someone's actually written this up already

Bro do you even dérive, bro I notice you haven't been stepping back to appreciate the sidewalk ballet bro

One of my more pedantic nitpicks is finding it annoying that people forget that in the movie Minority Report the "tech" was not AI or fancy algos but three psychic orphans with weird drug-induced aliments who spend most of their time in a milk pool

in Saratoga Springs to interview one of the co-founders of MapInfo today; any longtime GIS nerds have niche questions I should ask? (Note he left in 1999 so limits to what he can speak to in terms of 2000s specific developments in the software)

I myself am a bit of a mysterious force that has a magnetic personality

https://buttondown.com/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-137/ this week in sentences: often dismount, disliking stuff, lobster republic, exotic transistors, jester, solitary feral, wrong version, roofs caved in, on earth

I wonder if Elkanah Tisdale used to annoy people at parties by bragging about how he coined the term "gerrymander"