Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

Did a little clean up on the graph showing roasting plans for a class I've been teaching lately. Temperatures are based on what they'd be on my machines locally and should probably be removed because it's the timing of event milestones that's important here and those are going to happen at different temperatures on different machines with different probes in different places. It's cooler in interactive form.

Whatever happened yesterday, after getting it back up and running, nvidia graphics are still ridiculously unstable even after all the updates that are available so I'll be switching over to Intel graphics for a little while and I'll deal with sorting this out later.

I don't have to talk on today's teleconference. I probably didn't need to show up at all, but it tends to be useful for me to know what happens at these.

more cat

Cat wants to hang out with me.

Dad's cat has a chair. I was invited over for free food and that sounded better than lawn mowing.

cats are using Toronto as a proving ground in efforts to take their global domination activities to the next level. It's the only way to explain so many people suddenly "accidentally" obtaining hundreds of cats.

The nice thing about GNU/Linux is when stuff like this happens I at least have a clue where to start with fixing it and it's still possible to do a lot with a handful of virtual terminals.

X isn't working and Wayland gives about a minute before the fans all kick up to maximum and then everything hard powers down. Alt+Ctrl+F* to a text console works fine so I guess I'm fixing this from there.

GPU has fallen off the bus. I hope it didn't get injured. #linux #YearOfThePenguin #nvidia

The Engrish in the Gundemoniums trophy descriptions is pretty painful. Tonight I picked up, "TRAPEZIUM Never loosen the hand is not."

It seems that the city hasn't measured this since 5 years ago, but at the time the local tap water was slightly radioactive. Not as radioactive as a banana and nowhere near EPA limits, but a tiny bit of alpha and a little more beta.

My sister made it impossible for me to work on the stuff that I was planning on doing today (hard to focus your senses in the presence of paint fumes) so I did server maintenance instead.

A while back my Vita turned into a brick (won't charge, won't turn on). Replacement arrived today but themes don't seem to have survived the move.

Should my coffee roasters get fediverse bot accounts? Someone suggested that we should post what we roasted that day and my thoughts are:

1. Isn't there enough spam in the universe already?
2. The oldest stuff in my shop is still fresher than what you'll get elsewhere locally and if too many people are buying out of order it makes keeping things that way harder.

Did a coffee tasting with the latest hire. What I like to do for a first formal tasting is similar roast levels of an African coffee, an American coffee, a coffee from somewhere in the Pacific, and then the same coffee as one of those taken to a darker roast. Future tastings can build on that experience, but the idea is to give people a basic framework for thinking about how coffees taste and get some of the key vocabulary with a sensory experience.

I think I'm done sending thank you notes for a while. Would be glad to be wrong about that.

There's a guy who uses the coin counter at my credit union and I've now seen him break the machine twice because he keeps bringing in a couple thousand dollars in coins and I think the machine just gets full. Where he's routinely getting thousands of dollars in random change, I don't know.

Time to hug the cat

Remember the company I was complaining about their taking stuff out of the manufacturer case packs and sending the product in 4x the packaging materials? They stopped doing that for the latest shipment. Now they're taking the stuff out of the manufacturer case packs, individually bagging the bottles, and putting them in a competing brand's case pack, but splitting it so it's not even full cases but like 10 bottles of one thing, 2 of another, and the reverse in a different box.