Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

Game: When creating your character you can give them cat ears.
Me:
Game: All the head armor conceals the cat ears.
Me:

The cat is insisting on sitting on me.

Accidentally dropped a glass on my toe. The toe was protected by a sock and a shoe and there won't be any lasting damage, but it's still painful.

New bags of coffee arrived with the claim of "Extra Hand Picked". It seems to me that coffee is either hand picked (which is basically all of it except in Brazil) or it isn't. I'm assuming they're just using a weird term for some extra manual sorting, but that's not what the words they've chosen to use mean.

Game: You should really team up with another 4 players and take on this dungeon in co-op.
Me: Nah, I'm just going to solo that.

Post more cats, please.

I voted. Am wearing my I voted sticker.

Started on a new game a few days ago. On the one hand the controls are terrible. On the other hand, I just got a cute dog-like pet to follow me around.

Spotted Carmen Sandiego at the grocery store. I suspect she's in town to steal the Golden Rondelle theater.

@emma Clearly the right thing to do is migrate Twitter's infrastructure so that it can be hosted on Starlink satellites which can then be crashed into strategic targets.

@Taweret Over here on an effectively single user instance I remain blissfully unaware of the new September.

@gnomon I have source code at least (for which derivatives would be legally dubious to distribute), but yeah, they did a lot of utterly pointless work on the software side where they would have had a better product by not trying to have a moat. It's a common problem with hardware companies when they fail to realize that nobody wants them to be a software company.

I'm thinking the shop might need to have an email list. I've avoided doing that because I hate most of those.

It looks like in the near future I'll be sorting out roasting plans for 6 new coffees, one or two of which I might do a couple different roast levels on, then I'll be working on 2 or 3 new or updated blend recipes. There are a few things coming where I still need to use up what I already have so I don't need to worry about doing the full product development work on those right away. I think I need one more coffee order before the end of the year still.

My new Ethiopian coffee is scheduled for delivery today and I've just placed an order for another few thousand pounds of assorted things including some coffees I haven't had in a while so I'll be pretty busy once that shipment arrives.

@gnomon I'm still annoyed that Acaia couldn't be troubled to hook up data pins on the USB port and put a lame obfuscation layer on the Bluetooth communications instead of just using an openly and correctly documented communications protocol (I have their protocol docs, they're wrong).

@gnomon Brewista Smart Scale II, though I have a couple of pre-Lunar Acaia scales from the kickstarter.

My personal view on this sort of technology in coffee brewing is that it can be interesting for experiments and some kinds of training, but if you feel the need to weigh all your shots of espresso something has gone very wrong and it would be worth investigating better solutions to whatever problem is leading to that decision. (Unless your using it as a theatrical prop, which is a valid artistic choice even if it's not one I would make myself.)

This is not something that I would have purchased for myself as it has far more features than a cupping scale needs (it has a bunch of modes geared toward timing and weighing espresso and manual pour over), but I also didn't have to pay for it since it was a sponsor gift connected to some teaching work.