Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

Had to double back and reroute on the way to work today. There was a convoy of extremely slow moving public works trucks going the wrong way on 1 way streets blocking my route.

One of the great things about my eclectic professional experience is that lots of people talk to me. I can't share most of the stories I hear (I'll anonymize and/or wait until the company involved gets bought out/goes out of business or until the people involved are no longer in the business) but I do enjoy hearing them.

Sadly, nobody locally wants to talk shop. I might "steal their secrets." (I totally steal ideas from others but local competitors don't have secrets worth stealing)

The oldest video game in my collection is a 2 player Computer Space cabinet (glittery green color). One of the neat gameplay elements is that shots are implemented just as a distance in front of your ship that increases over time until it hits something or reaches a maximum distance. The play field also wraps at the screen edges so you can do things like fire off screen and then rotate your ship to curve your shot into the other player. It's unusual enough that most don't expect it.

@fribbledom The computer I'm using now, 0. The computer at the coffee roaster: 6

* touchscreen input
* USB serial adapter connected to a scale
* DATAQ DI-148 for logging data at the small roaster
* NI USB 9211 for logging data at the big roaster
* thermal receipt printer (prints batch tags that get clipped to the coffee buckets)
* barcode scanner

I make a better lemonade.

Take out again because I'm out of clean dishes. Got a free lemonade (this was my 4th drink choice because the first 3 choices were out, but hey, free).

@Satsuma I hope not. Those can get incredibly violent and I'm not sure I can take it.

@mhoye Other reasons include stuff getting taught in the wrong order and weird priorities in terms of how much time is spent on various topics.

Here's two days on matrix operations. It makes a lot of what we'll cover later a lot easier, but I won't tell you how and we'll never speak of this again.

I was hoping to have the next episode of Coffee and Code out by now, but I thought it might be nice to have some graphics for one of the sections and I haven't had time to finish writing the code to generate what I want. If it takes too much longer I'll just do without and maybe extract the audio from that section and turn it into a different video once I have more time.

Immediately after everybody left the cat came out and asked for hugs.

I have running water again. All the damage was in one place.

Whenever I end up with this sort of plumbing problem I get the valves upgraded to the kind I like. The kind I like are faster and easier to turn and you can see at a glance if the water is supposed to be on or not.

The cat is in her usual hiding from strangers spot. That's behind a big chair in the corner of the bedroom upstairs.

Plumber has verified that water service to the house is off so now he can find out what the damage is and get things fixed. I miss having a toilet that flushes.

@debugninja@banana.dog My grandfather managed to keep his Coleco Adam running well into the 1990s but I don't think there are a lot of machines left that take audio cassettes.

@em The most frustrating thing about this Pluto stuff is that apparently nobody knows what an adjective is anymore. Pluto is an orange dog. Orange doesn't negate dog-ness.

Something went boom outside and then power went off then on then off then on again

Water utility is trying to shut off water to my house so the plumber can repair the burst pipes. This apparently involves a blow torch and what seems to be the longest socket wrench I've ever seen.