Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

cats are shaped like a friend

The 4K remaster of Star Ocean The Last Hope looks really good, but there are a couple areas where I wish they also reconsidered some control choices.

Pay check for the last class I taught arrived in the mail today. Also the water bill which, because it now has something that used to be on the property tax bill, will use most of that.

The batches I roasted during the field trip passed QA. I chose a coffee with wide tolerance because it's hard to control a roast and deliver a lecture at the same time.

Quintessence is just a fancy word for Boron. Send toot.

It won't be available at launch, but I kind of want to do an app version of the book I'm writing in addition to the print and ebook editions. This is exactly the sort of thing that could benefit from interactive elements that shipping it as a program would enable. For example, you could enter data from the machine calibration exercises and be able to see the graphs as they'd appear had the batches been roasted on your machine. There are lots of little things like that to make the case.

Gas came back on a little later than I hoped but everything is re-lit now and I don't have to worry about the cat freezing while I'm at work.

I feel like red is the NES Duck Hunt dog but now it's wearing shades while it laughs at your failure.

Which dog are you?

(okay, technically I tagged along sometimes when I was a little kid and my father was getting his degree but I didn't have email then)

How did I end up on the mailing list for donating money to the local university? I never went there as a student, they never gave me an honorary degree, I've lectured there but not as real staff and it's been a while since the last time I did that anyway.

My gas is getting shut off tomorrow morning, but it's just a temporary thing because they're doing utility work.

Group 2 is done and now I don't want to talk for the rest of the day.

Did my roasting demo/where coffee comes from lecture for about 50 kids. One more group to repeat that for.

Oh, I missed that the new chapter of VFiS is translated. https://mangadex.org/chapter/596737/1

I've done this a few times before but I have a chat with their teacher before hand so I can connect what they see to what they're learning in class.

I have a school field trip visiting the shop tomorrow. Half of the group visits the coffee roaster while the other half is at the bakery on the other side of the street and then they switch so I need to do my thing twice.

A couple of Colombian gentlemen visited the shop today. They seemed happy to see the Colombian coffee, related decorative objects, and had some espresso.