Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

Did a PDF export from LibreOffice on my laptop and for some reason it decided to replace all of the non-bold 0 with fi. Doing the same export on a different computer didn't replicate the problem. This is why I generally make my PDFs with xetex instead.

@gnomon I don't know what you're using, but if it's any consolation, most home machines are a lot harder to use for that compared with commercial machines. Generally underpowered and then a lot of them also have an attachment that adds another tube going back up that I honestly wish they'd cost optimize out because I've never seen a machine that doesn't work better if you take that off and pretend it doesn't exist.

Today's physical mail included a data breach notification for my father who has been dead for years and hasn't lived at this address for even more years. Needless to say, I'm not signing him up for credit monitoring.

@jamey I don't know about brownies specifically but I've eaten chocolate pizza and it was delicious. Not as good as banana pizza, but still fine.

Why did the raccoon cross the road? I don't know, I'm just glad I didn't run it over.

@jamey Ah yes, books that say, "this will teach you standard C++" then immediately start throwing in totally non-standard stuff that's only in the DOS libraries. I remember those.

@Taweret And Guinan calls him out on it.

Had to fire a supplier. I was expecting a couple shipments from them, but after I'd already paid for the first one the owner of the company informed me of a change in payment terms which is really the sort of thing that needs to be disclosed either before sending out contracts or in the contract. Their new terms are unacceptable to me and they weren't willing to make an exception to honor the original deal so I'm not getting the other shipment. A shame as the coffee would have been excellent.

Cat is snoring,

@Taweret https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yY1KdQNodN0

Was doing some post-holiday roaster maintenance and I found shockingly little chaff in the cyclone of the lab roaster (I use this for product development and sometimes as a sample roaster if I want to do that myself instead of just pushing a button on the automated machine). It could just be that someone else cleaned that out and didn't mention it but I'll have to find some time to look into that.

Very festive.

Someone liked my photo of this glitchy photobomb sprite. If I moved the camera up or down, the sprite also went up or down, even if that meant clipping its body through the ground like this.

Had to go grocery shopping again because nobody thought to inform me I was responsible for a couple desserts before my previous shopping trip and I want to have something more reliable than hoping customers don't buy the shop's holiday cookies (I'd rather sell them).

Made a big bowl of spicy chicken with rice.

cat

Installed extra RAM in my sister's new computer. Hers came with the SSD retaining screw on the unpopulated slot that mine was missing so I didn't have to give her one of my spares.

The five cups are all the same thing for this kind of cupping as that allows a uniformity score (do these all taste the same? If not, how many cups are different from the others?) and it gives a better chance of detecting if there are defects.

This one is pretty straightforward. I have an arrival sample on a coffee previously sold to me against a type sample and I'm just approving that yes, this is a close enough match to the type (the arrival sample is actually a little better than the type sample it was sold against).