Ingrid Burrington

So funny that we still have to call the company "Meta" after they basically abandoned the VR pivot, like if Microsoft had renamed itself Zune

Ramsey's co-op has a 22 year old summer (paid) intern who told Ramsey "bro you pulled!!" after meeting me, so that's pretty good for my ego

"eggs don't lay eggs" well not with that attitude they don't

Networks of New York layouts in progress, having a lot of fun with this but need to decide how consistently to apply the collage-y textures alongside more flat color bars

https://computerhistory.org/jobs/director-programming/ what if i moved to mountain view california

as kindly as possible it is hard for me to get stoked on "people's data center" and public compute discourse when there are people living adjacent to data centers who actually just need inhalers for their kids

https://buttondown.com/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-187/ this week in sentences: shellacked, currency, orange, warm, ruins, jests, cocaine, tender, DNA, mascara, NO CRYING, voices

starting to think the harder part is making the day after the revolution and all the ongoing maintenance irresistible

heat wave means the most comfortable outfit at my disposal just looks really slutty, a burden I must bear

Trying out some things for the 2026 Networks of New York layout

Just overheard a teenage boy tell his friends "when humans started farming bro that's when it all went wrong" and had to stop myself from chasing them down and goose game meme-ing them

https://placing.technology/belatedly-yes-i-finished finally did a post on the dissertation blog about finishing the dissertation and maybe using the blog for other internet-is-real-place work I'm up to rn

https://urbanomnibus.net/2026/06/tide-and-current/ new piece I commissioned for Urban Omnibus just dropped, it's an interview with Marie Lorenz reflecting on 21 years of running an art project taking people around the NYC harbor in a rowboat and what you learn about the city by doing that

sorry but is the head of FIFA basically named Johnny Baby in a caricature of an Italian accent

https://buttondown.com/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-184/ this week in sentences: ignored, wound, ghosts, specklebelly, Unix, lungs, gregarious, sweet cheeks, laughing, windows, problems, bats

https://ripcorp.biz/episodes/what-happened-to-pensions RIP Corp x @oddletters@everything.happens.horse crossover event, this is not a drill

Upon reflection the phrase "well we can't put the genie back in the bottle" seems flawed if it's drawing on Aladdin; being tethered to the bottle is the whole thing about the genie, you absolutely can tell the genie to go back to the bottle

https://buttondown.com/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-180/ this week in sentences: convenience, pleasure, capacity, little friends, living, substrate, pie, mosaic, cities, audio, shattered

Sitting in on final crits at RISD because I'm an external committee member for a student here and it's just so cool to see students making their extremely specific weird beautiful projects!! This is what we live for

https://buttondown.com/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-183/ this week in sentences: whales, slime, atoms, cranberry, postmodern, locked, thing, clock, alpha, Yodas, waist, filling in, inert, vile, supernaturality

Not sure if it's just me being very self conscious about it but I feel like singing is a more embarrassing hobby than just playing an instrument as a hobby, like my downstairs neighbor playing cello is fine but if I'm learning to sing a song for fun I'm like "ugh no one likes a show off"

Just saw Stellan Skarsgard signed some petition about better protections for artists from AI and man, that should not be any of his business I'm sad Stellan knows about AI

https://buttondown.com/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-185/ this week in sentences: coterie, peripheral, pumpkin, elegance, respect, diabolical, canary, cigarettes, aphorism, steep

https://buttondown.com/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-179/ this week in sentences: stepsons, crocodile, lyric, lies, nostalgia, enemy, ouroboros, midsentence, microplastic

https://buttondown.com/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-172/ this week in sentences: violence, pre-credit-card, provincial, construction, mirror, mistakes, THE SUN, shrimp, earnest, concede

A little offended Grammarly didn't make a sloppelganger of me

Last week my mom texted me and my sister to let us know she has cancer and it's probably the shock of it not sinking in yet but I'm still kind of stuck on "was text the best way to convey this" more than the ramifications and logistics of taking care of her through chemo

glad I made choices in my life such that a colleague just sent me an email that reads "WHY AREN'T YOU AT THE GALA?!?"

https://buttondown.com/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-186/ this week in sentences: conditions, credit, shampoo, echoes, egg, imbued, oceanic, colour, cultish, goo, ham

Just watched a woman sample the wines available at a diner before choosing one, wow

https://buttondown.com/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-174/ this week in sentences: becoming, properly, antipoem, malfunction, mujahedeen, periscope, sunless, legit, flattened, orb, velveteen rabbit-ass, Swedes, barracuda, Stamford

https://buttondown.com/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-173/ this week in sentences: feeling, glacier, or cocaine, volley, future, nubiform, loftier, Dr Pepper, poetry, orb, machine

https://buttondown.com/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-171/ this week in sentences: charismatic, blood, spinster, vivid, sphere, burden, zipping, wink, malignancy, tortoise, monuments, ghost, cinnamon bun

https://buttondown.com/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-170/ this week in sentences: high sign, disarm, electricity, undead, attitude, clear, limber, no longer, madness

https://buttondown.com/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-168/ this week in sentences: preposterous, clothed, sheepskin, particulate, hapless, cool, mottled, sensationalized, metaphor

https://buttondown.com/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-178/ this week in sentences: compliant, sand, forever, disappointment, quests, doppler, procured, witchcraft, outlier, honks, spite, elastic