Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

I'll be in Boston next week. Where should I eat/get good coffee? Preferably within walking distance of the convention center.

Remember that time I broke ヨイヤミドリーマー? (it breaks about 1:25)

https://video.typica.us/videos/watch/2e528694-27a5-4d48-83cc-bb3c049a9ea5

#YoiyamiDreamer

@garbados I don't remember the exact amount but it was in the hundreds per month to keep colitis under control. Eventually I figured out that the flare ups happened if I let myself get chronically stressed and it was cheaper to just take a really nice vacation every year or two instead.

Dentist was able to get me drugs today, will do more Monday.

I voted.

Product development cupping for the next Ethiopian coffee: sweet lemon drop candy most prominent on cups 3 and 10.

The latest Musynx update wiped out my scores, custom control settings (I find the defaults unplayable), but I think songs also got added?

Today's mail: what the DoR giveth, the DMV taketh away.

I think I need to figure out how to get a dentist to look at me tomorrow. Half of my jaw is numb and my face is swelling.

The brewery that made some beer with my coffee is doing another batch.

The free puzzle shelf now has signs explaining the concept in English, French, and Spanish. That covers the most common languages I hear people speaking here. Italian is rare here (only hear that a few times a year) and the German speakers do a lot of code switching so I figure they're covered.

My car still smells like last night's pizza.

My phone went beep. Someone sent me a cat pic.

There's a local election coming up. I vote for the people who are daily customers because they tend to be helpful about getting problems fixed and providing information. Elected officials who hide from the people are bad news.

When you run into a coffee like that, it can be interesting to sort a sample of that back out into its constituent parts and try roasting the separate components and comparing those with the combined coffee. You'll often find that the combined coffee is superior to either selection, and doing that exercise is a good way to start busting myths that some green coffee buyers believe about excessive sorting.

While writing about blending that sometimes happens at origin (at the mill or exporter) I got to use the phrase "bimodal distribution". Finding a raw coffee with a bimodal distribution on some physical attribute (color of the raw seed is easiest to spot) is a good indication that some kind of blending happened before the coffee reached the roaster.

The cat's on a rampage.

I put too much crushed pepper on my pizza.