Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

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.

25 years ago, Captain Janeway murdered Tuvix and Voyager was a worse show for it.

@cypnk the keyword you want is Kaldi.

@cypnk This is a re-enactment of the French invented marketing myth of how coffee was first discovered.

@mhoye Choose the goose.

For this session, I decided to go with one coffee taken to 3 different ending temperatures, and for each of those ending temperatures, adjusting the roasting plan so there are three different ways of getting to each of those. 9 roasted coffees total. The ones that are roasted to the same end temperature are closer to each other than to the other groups, but there are more subtle differences within each group as well.

Tasted the class coffees today. I believe they work for the educational objectives.

Various tea infusers arrived today, but not the ones with sloths on them.

Had to re-send a box to a student. They're an intern at a big company and the mail room doesn't know who they are so it got marked return to sender.