Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

@mhoye This reminds me of my grandfather. He kept a Coleco Adam running well into the 1990s (it did everything he wanted a computer to do) until he couldn't find more machines to scavenge replacement parts from. My uncle passed along an already obsolete DOS PC as a replacement which he did not get along with at all, at which point my family got him an iMac which he did better with, but the existence of hidden files had him perpetually convinced the thing was stuffed full of viruses.

There's a cat on my lap.

One thing that I will say is that the attribute he identified as what he wanted to cut out is completely absent in the coffee.

Auto drip was not one of the recommended brewing methods for the coffee so I'll probably use the last of it on an aeropress which is on the recommended brewing method list.

As an auto drip brew, there's some unpleasant mustiness to it and an overall deficiency in intensity, but as the coffee cools the more positive attributes become easier to pick out and match the description on the bag. Personally, I'd probably roast this a little darker and change up the profile timing to make the stuff I like about the coffee more obvious, though I get the sense that the machine this was roasted on has less of an ability to use unorthodox profiles this coffee would benefit from

Got a bag of coffee from someone who asked for some roasting advice a while back so I'm brewing a pot of that now. There's also some cupping that needs to get done and a web site update that needs to get finished.

The cat thinks I should skip dinner and burn down the kitchen so she can keep sitting on me, but she would regret that since her food stuff is also in the kitchen.

Continuing to taste production test batches. The new coffee from Java is right on the edge between what I'd consider medium and dark roasts. I'll label it as a dark roast because the sensory cue I use to make that determination is present, but it's present at a low enough intensity that someone not sensitive to that could easily miss it. That's also the safer call because I do skew darker than a lot of places. Nice body, slightly sweet, probably a good blender.

Got a box I was expecting yesterday. It has an assortment of hardware that I want Typica to work with and I'm more confident that I'll get the code right if I can just plug in the hardware and see it working.

Windows: "Could not print"
Printer: *successfully prints*

Tasting the lighter of the two roasts now, this is really a pretty interesting coffee. Conventional wisdom is that the lighter you roast a coffee the more you're tasting origin character rather than tasting the roast and the opposite as you go darker. While I've never subscribed to that line of thinking, this coffee is really a direct refutation. The darker you go, the more it tastes like what you'd expect from the origin/drying.

For coffee, I've got a production test batch of the darker of the two roasts of a new coffee from El Salvador that I did yesterday. It's a little fruitier than I expected based on yesterday's cupping, but really nice.

Shop Internet is back up. They did some line checking stuff and replaced an ancient modem (that was old enough that they didn't even know what it was) with something newer, one of their cables is a centimeter or two shorter now and has a new connector on the end of it. As soon as they had the new thing in all of my stuff noticed and popped right back online.

I did a fake rage when the bot asked me to answer yes or no to what was not a yes or no question.

I kind of wonder if call center people would have less rage to deal with if rage weren't apparently needed to get past the bot.

Also got through to a human at the Internet company who was able to verify that our connectivity issue is, in fact, something to do with their equipment so they're going to send a technician out to deal with that soon. It would have been nice if the robot lady could have looked at the same diagnostic yesterday instead of making me act angry to get through to a human who could actually be helpful.

Got a coffee sample of something I might be interested in buying. Shortly after that arrived I got an email with the tracking number for that.

@stux I always find it bizarre when customers get upset that I don't want to violate the food safety laws we do have. It's like they want me to poison them.

The people in front of me at the 1 staffed check out lane of the grocery store were packing their own groceries, but I guess the very unmotivated looking kid at the checkout decided I looked like I didn't know how to pack my own groceries because they took care of that for me.

Moving past the light roasts, it's pretty good across the whole rest of the range, though at the very darkest roasts there's no compelling reason to choose the last couple samples over something a bit lighter. I'll go with both a medium and a dark roast where the acidity is massively tamped down, but the sweetness is still there and the body is great.