Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

@stux I once had a hotel cat escort me from the lobby to my room at check in.

Saw someone out walking their lizard.

@fribbledom black. insurance rates reflect that.

@mhoye But without the cloud, how will you manage to alert criminals to when you're not home or starve your pets when some random third party botches an update?

Discovered that Linux support for some really nice data acquisition hardware that I have may have improved to the point that it's usable on non-obsolete distros (and only a decade too late to matter!), but wow has the price of the nearest thing they still sell gone up. Is it good? Yes. Is it so good that it's worth paying nearly $1000 when there are comparable options with better support closer to $50? Not so much.

@mono Become soylent green.

How to Klee

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeviiH9YVVA

@Taweret@octodon.social I didn't think about it when it was on the screen, but apparently Big Bird was pure nightmare fuel.

Have to wake up early tomorrow to talk to a reporter about our mask requirement plans. The health department has asked the city leaders to end the mask mandate and I expect the politicians will all go along with that. Once that's official, our stand is going to be masks required for entry but optional for fully vaccinated people handled on the honor system, free masks still available for those who want them, and still no customer seating for a while.

@debugninja@banana.dog Nope, but my middle school years were the least impressive in terms of educational quality.

I have been informed that it is time to praise the cat.

Sketched out the start of a design for what could be a new coffee roaster control console and I kind of want to order parts and hack out a prototype because it could be a lot better than what currently exists.

Strongly tempted to replace the data acquisition hardware on my roasters to all stuff that works with Linux. Just spent entirely too much time fighting with Windows (an update messed up my login settings because surely I didn't really want the local account that I explicitly went out of my way to create in the first place) instead of getting my work done.

I guess it's bill paying day. Water, property tax, mortgage, car stuff, electric, domain names, &c.

It's been a long time since I've been there. Looking forward to some good creole food.

Looks like I'm going to be teaching my next class at an event in New Orleans at the start of October. Planning to just drive down for that.

I think today's online class went well. Lots of good questions from students (most of whom did not turn in their homework but it's fine, they're not getting a grade from me). Oddly, the cat stayed out of the way. She usually likes to be my co-instructor.