Ingrid Burrington @ingrid@everything.happens.horse

https://www.sculpture-center.org/exhibitions/14595/a-bunch-of-questions-with-no-answers went to see this video installation my friend Rob worked on at SculptureCenter tonight and there's an opening for another show happening at the same time and honestly felt like I was losing it watching this while a bunch of people network around abstract art

Got basically nowhere on revisions today because it turns out still being mad at my advisor for mismanaging money and lying about it makes me very hostile to her feedback even if some of it is reasonable! I will get past this it's just annoying

what do you mean the thesis statement of this chapter can't be "making hating intellectual property law your entire personality is a pretty shitty politic"

1,903 / but a lot of it was revision and cutting stuff so total is down to 39,365 whooo

Actually added a few more words and maybe chapter 1 is done for now?

1389 written today with lots of edits and moving around / 39,798 total

Got first notes back for a chapter submitted 10 days ago so updates might become more about cutting words than adding them, which is probably good

based on feedback from others I have conceded there is one exception that proves the rule and it is tetris, the only good software ever made

Do I really need a citation to make the statement in my dissertation that historically, no one has ever successfully made "good" software

https://buttondown.com/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-142/ this week in sentences: onion, new horrors, mermaids, sheer terror, absolute avalanche, tank top, kind of integrity, meme bullet, in motion, tarot, twenty, squandered, anti-piss defense system, qualified, existence

1446 written / 38,409 total because of editing stuff out

Just did a 4 hour interview for the dissertation with the person who led Rand McNally's efforts to build custom navigation hardware for truckers

2,837 written today / 38,461 but I might cut a section I wrote yesterday so maybe more like 37,449 total

nonsequitur timeline cleanse: i was trying to figure out the origins of the concept of "enterprise software" and this marketing campaign for enterprise software featuring Commander Riker from TNG is not it, but it is really something https://blog.trekcore.com/2013/10/exclusive-inside-boole-babbages-trek-vision/

A little reason I like taking the bus is they use Open Street Map for the little visualization of where the bus is

having to do a lot more document checking for this chapter so it's moving slower but now that I know 10K words is like "normal" chapter length I am less freaked out

OK I know there are Bigger Things happening today but for what it's worth

2,423 / 35,624

2,535 today / 33,201 total

Lin-Manuel Miranda doing backing vocals on the new Mountain Goats album feels very full circle on my "Lin and John are each others' Wario" theory

done today, for a new chapter: 1,729—not a ton but there's kind of more thinking-through-the-structure work that has to go in here and I got a later start because I did a research interview in the morning

total: 30,666 (hell yeah 666)