Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

At the time I joked that the experience made me want to enter the competition to be the one person who wasn't afraid of 2nd crack.

The roasting plan I came up with also fits nicely in the narrative of what I found somewhat disturbing that time I judged USRC. While all profile options were on the table for this, the overall approach and final profile decision was very different from what competitors in that described, especially with their compulsory coffee which everybody roasted too light.

It took three runs through the lab roaster, but I think I've decided what I want to do with the competition coffee. I still need to do a production test batch to verify that it's what I want when brewed the way a real person might enjoy the coffee and get my final product spec details documented. If all goes well, I'll probably have 3 or 4 small batches total before I run out of coffee. I'd rather do that than roast all of it at once because this will have to be expensive and may not sell fast.

Found a baggy of voter information on my porch on the way out of the house. Wish I'd noticed they were there. They could have left mine somewhere else since I'm already a registered voter and I know where I vote. #IVote

Apparently I'm a horrible person now because I'd like customers to please stop asking my employees to break the law. As in, food safety laws. In other news, nobody has read The Jungle by Upton Sinclair.

@Colophonscrawl Whose bright idea was it to run the bridge terminals permanently set to Battleshort?

I've seen Escaflowne so I know better than to trust something like that.

In other questionable email, I got spam from a psychic offering fate alteration services.

Someone pretending to be my mail admin at work just tried to phish me in Spanish. Of course, that's unlikely to succeed because I am my mail admin at work and I never send messages like that in any language.

assume a spherical cat at rest

What's wrong with the Argrathi? They have tech that lets them live decades in an artificial reality while their bodies only age a few hours and the best use they can come up with is SimJail? #DS9

The competition coffee is very obviously a high quality coffee with a lot of potential for different flavor expressions, but I think a different roast profile would give me better results.

Time for coffee

@debugninja@banana.dog I recognize that I'm the only active user on my server and have accepted that anything I post might be ephemeral. You can guess the appropriate backup procedure from that.

*remembering that I have pudding*

I think I want to do a video on coffee cupping forms. I have a bunch of different ones that nobody uses anymore and am old enough to remember a lot of the history of why the forms changed and some approaches that never gained traction. I have other projects that need to get finished first, but I think I could make that video both entertaining and educational.