Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

Some water kettles that were backordered until tomorrow got delivered today. The same order had some less expensive kettles also backordered until tomorrow which have not yet arrived.

I've been regifted about a third of a box of peanut brittle. It's not bad.

Did some roaster maintenance today. Ended up using a surprisingly large number of tools to pull parts out and put them back in better.

@celesteh So do I, but even if you accept that MAD is still needed, the current implementation is pointlessly risky.

@celesteh That should have been changed ages ago anyway. There are enough nukes on subs and we can get enough nukes on planes that even if the missile silos got wiped out in a first strike we can take our sweet time with ending the world a few times over anyway.

The latest shipment of Earl Grey tea is fluffier so to keep the bag looking attractive the amount in the larger size bag will be reduced. The price will also be reduced so that it's the same price per pound as it was. Web site is updated, in store purchases will have the quantity/price swapped once we sell out of the previous shipment.

I had to tell people to go away and stop talking to me because I kept getting the math on the new price obviously wrong.

@cwebber that too.

@cwebber Literate programming helps me a lot with this problem, but then you get the problem of nobody else wants to touch your code because that style never caught on.

So last night's dream had several groups of characters who mostly weren't interested in each other arranged throughout an old Chinese mansion. There were a couple people going around with guns trying to loot the place but nobody really cared about them aside from sometimes begrudgingly unlocking a door for them. Then there was a gap and suddenly I was chatting with some of the non-looters in the Denver airport and I didn't have my luggage. Then I woke up.

@ersatzmaus @vogon Some of these terms are barely a century old and for better or worse, pretty much none of them have percolated into primary or even secondary education.

In the pros column on the decision, surely my book would be out by then and doing more stuff like this might help with sales.

At this point I'd be looking at sourcing another coffee that works well for the class, designing a new set of roasting plans with that coffee in mind, updating the lecture with the new bleeding edge stuff I've got access to that didn't exist last time I taught the class (you wouldn't expect it, but I routinely operate about 2 years in the future), and then closer to the class time doing all of the roasting, packing, shipping involved in that.

I've been asked if I want to do another online roasting class in March/April. I'm a little on the fence here as I do enjoy doing that, but it's a huge amount of prep work.

@vogon In fairness, mathematicians have struggled quite a bit with that question.

We're advertising the results of the fundraiser as $685.86, but we've rounded that up to $800 plus another $25 check that someone left in the donation box. There are people who will see the not round number and decide to push the number up with a post-event donation.

Last night's dream had an unusually large cast of characters. Also, a huge hole in the plot.

The cat is vibrating on my foot.