Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

I see some extreme packaging situations. Some companies use way too much packing material, others use not nearly enough or configure it in a way that's completely insane, sometimes things show up stacked way too high. It's almost a surprise when I see things that are packed reasonably, and I'm just like, you know that appropriate shipping practices make you more profitable, right?

Remember the company that decided it didn't want to sell to companies as small as mine? Their distributor is breaking open the manufacturer case packs and repacking the stuff in about 50x as much packing material. It's completely obscene, but they also have the best price I can get for that stuff.

Cat allergies are bad tonight.

The obsession with presenting realistic simulations severely limits the artistic potential of holodeck technology.

belly rubs

She's trying hard to lick my arm.

I brought a couple containers of yogurt to eat for lunch today but never got around to it. I don't like the days that I don't eat a lunch.

(AT&T can be pretty terrible at Internet period. I dropped them at home after they couldn't manage to get my Internet connection back up within a week)

In the off chance that Dustin Prudhom sees this, I've tried to answer your question but AT&T is awful at mail server admin and they're blocking both of my mail servers for absolutely no good reason. I'll try again if they fix whatever their issue is (they say 24-48 hours), but otherwise please try asking again from an email address associated with a mail provider that's not utter garbage.

Yesterday's test production batch is quite nice. Sumatran coffee, medium roast (getting near to where I'd start considering it a dark roast but not quite there yet). I've been buying this mark for a while now because while it still has that traditional Sumatran earthiness and thick body, if you roast it right you can also pull out this neat apricot note that I think is just delightful.

Just unloaded another 2500ish pounds of coffee. It's hard to do that while the alley is still full of ice.

Got the bill for the replacement water meter (old one froze) at home today. It's not too bad.

@sean More platforms should let users self-identify as cats.

The cat thinks my arm is delicious.

Trying to enjoy dinner but the cat is yelling at me.

A supplier wanted to mail back a check, but the check they wanted to mail back didn't come from me so I told them there's no way that would be the right thing to do and they'll do some more research and hopefully figure out which account they should be applying that money toward.

@debugninja@banana.dog Wasn't Smalltalk supposed to be the future? How do I get on that timeline?

@debugninja@banana.dog When I first learned Java the computer I had to work with was a then mid-range Mac running a MC68LC040 processor (no FPU) and the JVM was, compared with today, not optimized at all. It wasn't long before I decided that this would never catch on and that native platform abstraction layers would be a better approach to write once run anywhere (compile once for each platform you care about vs. every user JITing). Predictions are hard, especially about the future.

It turns out that while there are clear flavor differences among each of the cups, most of them are quite good. That's useful to know when talking with home roasters because this means they can put the coffee pretty much wherever they generally like coffees and there's a good chance it'll be delicious. That isn't always (or usually) the case.