Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

Sent off some images for Fresh Cup. I don't know which of those, if any, they'll use, but it's possible that you might see me in two separate trade magazines (if you read coffee trade magazines) published around the same time. Hopefully people don't react, "ugh, not that guy again."

I've mostly been ignoring the VR stuff (and modern Tetris, put the old randomizer back, cowards) but Tetris Effect seems oddly compelling to me. Tetris seems so far away from what anybody thought VR would be good for and yet, here we are.

Part of me wonders if Dell just assumes that anybody who expects their computer to work is immediately deleting the pre-installed Windows and replacing it with a better OS (I expect any major GNU/Linux distro would have had that working). Sadly, I'd need to swap out the data acquisition hardware at the roasters and possibly add some additional hardware support (one of the machines is a bit odd in what it presents for data loggers) to Typica in order to do that. It'll probably happen eventually.

I should probably pop a disc in the optical drive just to make sure that's not similarly screwed up.

Tried hooking up the external display on the new computer at the roasters and it didn't work. Turns out the problem was that Dell didn't bother to ship a driver (because what, you expect all the ports on your new computer to work?). Once I noticed the ultra-generic driver it was using and installed one from the chip's manufacturer it started working.

Have been asked for photos to go with an article that someone else wrote for Fresh Cup Magazine. They want it by Monday but I'll try to pull a few choices together within the next couple days.

Ordered a replacement laptop pre-loaded with Linux. I've tried this Mac (originally purchased just for building and testing new releases of Typica) for over half a year and while it's nice for some things I just can't get over this sense of reduced overall productivity. Plus, System76 is having a sale and I've had good experiences with their stuff.

Need to find some time soon to upgrade my PeerTube instance. I have captions that I can add to some of the stuff there.

Was sold a defective can of spray paint (missing the spray head). Need to get that replaced.

Set Uta Macross speed faster, started playing better. Okay, then.

Tonight the cat is alternating between being a too hot puddle of liquid cat and insisting on sitting on me for cuddles.

@pla I think they usually sell it to farmers for making big hay bales.

@pla A 2 pack of this was the smallest pack of twine larger than a fist I could find locally. 12 ounce cup for size reference. I don't know about life time, but each one should last years.

I need to roast more coffee. There are orders to put together and shelves to fill.

Slammed through the run through of the class I'm teaching soon with my station instructors. That went a little faster than expected, but everybody seems to be good with the changes that I made for this event.

Made 2 sandwiches.

I should make a sandwich.

(also, in the unlikely event that someone reading this here organizes another trade event with a coffee roaster education aspect, you can totally hire me to customize/deliver this workshop for your event, too.)

Getting in some last minute tweaks to my class before the run through with station instructors. When I first designed this I tried to make it easy to customize for different events that might have different machines/number of stations/time constraints/&c. and that's paying off now.