Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

No utensils at a party? No problem.

I should probably build a video on this slide, or at least dissect that in the next episode of Coffee and Code.

Apparently my badge for this event is coded as all access. Over the years it seems somewhat arbitrary whether I get that or not.

How to smell coffee: https://video.typica.us/videos/watch/2d7ab4e4-c476-4426-a958-2873054b0b9e

Video taken during one of the classes I was helping out with yesterday. The goal was to roast a coffee on two different machines, helping students understand how to match flavor profiles across different roasting systems, and then set up a blind triangulation so they could taste for themselves how close they could make that match and whether they could, in fact, reliably taste the difference. (the answer is no)

Instructor group photo from yesterday. Roasting Styles Exploration

It's been a while since the last cat pic.

Had hot pot with a couple other instructors. Got another proof of life photo of the cat.

Got today's proof of life photo of the cat. Also found a snack.

Landed in Boston. The descent was unusually hard on my ears.

At Milwaukee's famous recombobulation area.

Star Trek DS9 video game where you choose their path, short or long then watch how they move along home.

Packed up my gift coffees for the show. Quarter pounds of coffees from Brazil, El Salvador, Ethiopia, India, Kenya, and Timor-Leste.

Need to put the cat in the carrier for the trip to my sister's house (I'm not having a cat wandering around the car while I'm trying to drive). Hopefully she won't hide very well when she realizes that tonight is when that's happening. For the return trip I'm getting back in early enough that the person picking me up will still be driving so I can just hold her instead of stuffing her in a box. She prefers that.

USPS changed the design on their schedule a pickup page. Everything is gigantic now and you have to think to unfocus the pickup location if it's not in the drop down before later steps appear. It's so bad and the whole site would be so much better if they just stopped trying to be clever.

Will anybody tell Nelke that one of her first acts as village administrator was putting a trans-dimensional ghost in charge of the grocery store? Will she figure it out for herself? #AtelierSeries

Bought a fresh supply of hair elastics. Assorted colors.

@cwebber@octodon.social Right. You buy it when it looks like that, keep it wrapped in paper and stored two or three decades, the value goes up a lot in that time and then you sell it.

@cwebber@octodon.social You're not supposed to drink the pu'er. In China it's an investment vehicle.