Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

snax named after scooby tied for first, but there was an episode where the gang took a tour of the scooby snax factory and I don't think anybody acknowledged that possibility. Was this to preserve plausible deniability and avoid needing to pay the dog for use of his name? If so, why did nobody dress up as a monster to keep THAT under wraps?

(I'm legitimately surprised by just how large the page count there has gotten. It used to be a much smaller program. I blame having users.)

Yesterday I did a cweave/pdftex on the code I was working on because I wanted to double check the typesetting on a table I added to the documentation. I'd just like to apologize to anybody else who tried to do that for my failure to notice an old typo that caused the last several hundred pages of source documentation to be set in typewriter font. I'm not going to comb through and fix all the typography, but that one bad error is fixed and ready for my next commit.

printer: jam in tray 2

There was no jam.

Was expecting an $8.70 payment. Got $100.00 instead. Unexpected, but welcome.

Which is it?

If MLB was going to pipe old crowd recordings through the stadiums and CGI in the fans for broadcast, why not just find a good baseball sim video game with current players (or get EA to throw something together for them) and just fake the whole season? Pay the players for an NDA about the scam and let them not get sick.

What ever happened to Red Herring? Did Fred ever manage to frame him for something?

Longer term (probably not for the next release) I'd like to do output channels as well. There's some limited support for outputting to Modbus RTU devices, but support for a broader range of output types might be useful if I ever have a good test platform for experimenting with control automation strategies. I have a theory that manipulating heat settings in a drum roaster is mathematically very similar to the problem of aiming WW2 era anti-aircraft guns. (if true, we can do better than PID)

Getting lots of code written today. I'm adding more hardware support for Typica, specifically Phidgets devices with channels that can use the CurrentInput API. I'm probably not going to finish that today, but I'd like to get that and some other stuff done before the upgraded optical head comes back so I can start logging data from that automatically. Before the next release I'll probably go back and add VoltageInput support now that I have an easy way to test that and maybe DigitalInput?

Today I got a text message referencing a photo of a screen showing a video of me from someone who works with someone I've worked on education projects with who wanted to know if they knew me. Apparently I came across as a cool roasting teacher, but the video also had my cat in the background which I'm pretty sure makes me seem cooler. (at the very least, my cat thinks I'm cool)

I know that's structurally awful. I'm not editing it.

We had a lot of bare faces over the past few days (we were keeping a tally to plan for what kind of disposable mask supply we might need), but now that the mask ordinance is in effect people are wearing their masks and not throwing tantrums. Better late than never, I guess.

Tonight was a 2 slice of cake night.

Affectionate cat is affectionate.

This is the latest cat to start hanging around the house.

Front porch cat is now on the back porch.

There's one of those boxes that tries to sell the local newspaper in front of my shop. I think it only has the front section of a paper from I don't know how many weeks ago for display purposes only. I hope nobody tries to buy that. They'd be disappointed.

Got another order for coffee I roasted today. If the post office hadn't cut their lobby hours I'd've just packed that and dropped it off after work, but since I can't do that it doesn't make sense to bother filling any more orders until Monday.

At some point I'd kind of like to try sticking some screen casting software on the prototype and live stream a roasting shift.