Ingrid Burrington @ingrid@everything.happens.horse

18,035--like pulling teeth today, kind of just hit a hard patch that I have to wrestle with a bit. hopefully tomorrow will be better.

today's dissertation rabbit hole nightmare was finding a video of Sam Altman in 2008 at WWDC announcing that Loopt would be available in the App Store while wearing a lime green polo layered under a magenta polo

https://buttondown.com/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-140/ this week in sentences: supersede, worryingly short, fonts, around the clock, even dumber, poisoned, rave flyers, oyster is praxis, lederhosen

Real Aliens of The Nostromo

16,650 which is a drop from the streak of the last couple of days because I didn't get started until noon, but it's fine

debating titling the section of the dissertation about geo and ZIRP money "What Was the Geohipster?"

14, 392

Google's news algo loves to show me small town and county news web site articles about local perspectives on data center development and they're really interesting so I started saving them in an Are.na channel, if you're into that sort of thing: https://www.are.na/ingrid-burrington/data-center-real-estate-things

10,255 today

https://ripcorp.biz/episodes/what-happens-when-wealthy-people-die I forgot we scheduled this yesterday, new RIP Corp on dead billionaires and all the unfortunately entirely legal ways they avoid having their wealth resdistributed

OK to be completely transparent it's 6998 words

OK I'm on day 3 of Actually Writing and at 7000 words (of which I'll probably end up ripping out a bunch but better to get those garbage words done sooner than later?)

https://ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/a-notional-design-studio/ get their asses, Ethan

Incredible 2004 speaker bio: "She is also an acclaimed software critic whose opinions are eagerly anticipated on several important mailing-lists."

lmao this escaped containment

"You say you are an anarchist yet you keep building state machines, interesting"

https://buttondown.com/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-139/ this week in sentences: in fairness, brain cells lost, dachsund, doorbell, cherish, goofyfication, away in the night, wolves, visible headline, the moon, even the trees, cube-based, mouse bones, coma, graying, erection pathway

Today for the fourth time in my life a stranger asked me if anyone's ever told me I look like Tilda Swinton, which is to say I have met four people who are very nice but clearly unaware of how tall Tilda Swinton is