Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

Lunch today had a crossword puzzle challenge. Two of the prize winners got answers from me and one of them gave me the shirt from the prize so I now have a new Roast Magazine shirt.

I have a full set of station instructors for tomorrow's classes. I had a plan B if that wasn't true but I'm glad that wasn't needed.

First day of retreat. I roasted some coffee for one of the lectures (a roasting chemistry one) tomorrow because of course I'd rather do that than attend a poolside reception.

Place I stayed last night had 2 tiny dogs. This morning both were on my lap so I guess I'm a friend.

Instead of blogosphere...

Hopefully she remembers to send proof of life photos.

Dropped off the cat. She was acting sad but my sister will be a good cuddle provider while I'm out of town.

Took a "content ideation" survey for an event that I'm unlikely to attend (unless they wanted to fly me out to Zurich to lecture at it, but that seems unlikely). The take away from my answers is that beating the dead horse of wine/coffee parallels has been played out for decades. Coffee is a far more complex beverage that should be encouraged to be its own thing. (wine comparisons are a lazy crutch that the coffee industry should be sick of in the year 2020)

The cat will not be pleased tonight. I still don't have a street or driveway access so I'll need to carry her about a block to get to the car for the trip to my sister's place. Since I'm driving alone she'll need to be in her carrier which she does not like.

Got phone calls from two people who work for other coffee companies today. I enjoy getting those calls.

@chillallmen@witches.live 92U

@chillallmen@witches.live What fast food restaurants are serving uranium? If they were, it would be on the nutrition facts, but since they aren't people go to Google for it, explaining why that's first on the list.

@chillallmen@witches.live Calories are energy. Makes perfect sense. Just like how some places the food labels are in kilo-joules.

@shahaan@mastodon.social Sure, if it's free (though I think most children should be pseudonymous online: the compartmentalization makes them harder to target for cyber-bullying and it's easier to throw away a pseudonym when you decide that's no longer who you want to be), but squatting a vanity domain for years seems like a waste of money.

A recent ad that hit the shop's inbox suggested that I buy an internet domain name for my baby.

1. To the best of my knowledge I don't have a baby
2. Is that really a thing? Like, shouldn't a child be old enough to have The Internet Safety Talk before they get their own domain?
3. They should pick their domain instead of being stuck with their lame dad's choice.

Today's fortune cookie says to "address the elephant in the room," which I take to mean, "post more on Mastodon," so here we are.