Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

Throwing the baby out with the bathwater is supposed to be an obvious mistake but sometimes you're a time travelling nanny, the baby is hitler, and maybe it's fine to throw out that baby with the bathwater.

Cat wants to hang out.

Cat was very interested in the groceries, but I didn't get anything for her.

Short work day tomorrow due to funeral. Need to remember to bring a suit.

I still think it's mildly insane that Amazon doesn't combine the payments for video royalties from different regions. They could have done a single 82 cent transfer instead of a 74 cent transfer, a 7 cent transfer, and a 1 cent transfer. Of course, if Amazon can afford to do that, what's Alphabet/Google's excuse with YouTube?

more orders, more roasting #coffee

Cat mug. There are 5 more cats on the other side.

Cat has a hot head.

The cat disapproves of my dinner choice and so do I, but I didn't want to shop after work.

Does anybody have a recommendation for a good home WiFi AP? Mine is failing at about 5PM almost every evening in such a way that everything comes back if I just unplug/replug the Ethernet cable going to the modem, but it's obnoxious to have to do that nearly every day.

I wonder how much beer you get out of 6 pounds of coffee.

Time to roast some coffee.

cat

At the hardware store I saw a product called OdoBan. Sadly not intended to counter the changeling infestation.

Having written that down, it's actually a little bit surprising how many new machine designs fail on key criteria. Sometimes these deficiencies mean exercises that should be doable in minutes take hours instead. Others mean your very expensive machine is likely to become impossible to repair within a few decades.

Drafted about six pages on how to choose a good machine for learning to roast coffee. It should also be a good read for someone considering opening a roasting company who doesn't know what to look for in a first production roaster. It briefly covers things like controls and instrumentation, a usable trier, batch size, build quality and availability of replacement parts, budget, and training. No mention of specific brands/models because that would be huge and quickly outdated.