Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

Advantage of administering your own systems: phishing scams claiming to be from your whatever admin are obviously bogus no matter how well they're crafted because you certainly didn't send that email to yourself.

I wish I could convince my sister that not only do I not know anything about iPhones, I do not wish to learn enough about iPhones to be competent technical support.

Relaxed cat is relaxed.

Is there some reason computer makers haven't figured out how to put the headphone port on the front of the machine?

Working from home this week. Full time continuing work on Typica 2.0. Will need a grocery run and might have a brief PR thing that isn't scheduled but otherwise unless my staff gets into some trouble I shouldn't need to leave the house. The cat approves.

I recently swapped a different old computer in at the coffee roaster and was a little surprised to come in today and discover a Squid Girl screensaver running. I think I had forgotten that screen savers were even a thing.

Nobody will confirm or deny hugging a cat.

The event I thought I was teaching at next week was cancelled. Must have missed the memo. Glad I reached out to check on that as it would have been awful to show up and find nobody there.

Have you hugged a cat today?

cat

The shop's web site has been updated to add 6 recent coffee arrivals. Also removed some older main page entries.

https://wilsonscoffee.com/

Ask your cat about naps.

I wonder what the cat is doing, but not enough to put creepy cat surveillance tech in the house.

It looks like the person who abandoned their sketch book at the shop still hasn't come back for it. It was mostly empty and what had been drawn on was mostly furries.

I have a roasting class coming up in a couple weeks and this is an interesting enough coffee that I think I'm going to try to use it there.

As for the dark roast, this is one of the lighter dark roasts and I'm pushing it fast enough to get to the high temperatures needed to get the dry distillation notes that dark roast drinkers are looking for while also preserving some of that fruitiness (moving it more to the aftertaste) and sweetness that I like about the coffee. That combination brings a complexity to the flavor often missing from dark roast coffees, making it an excellent gateway to the dark side.

The medium roast is super juicy with a lot of the coffee fruit flavor coming out. Going lighter, this coffee expresses as overly citric, not especially well balanced, and can easily end up having a drying effect on the mouth, which is not a particularly nice quality for a beverage to have. People who are overly sensitive to ferment flavors should avoid the medium roast as it's the sort of flavor that's wonderful, but rightly causes deep skepticism if encountered on a pre-ship sample.

We're brewing the last of the previous coffee from El Salvador today which means the new coffee will be hitting the shelves and the web site soon. This one is a natural Pacamara and based on discussions with my supplier apparently people find this one a challenge to roast, but really all it needs are techniques that were common among pre-third-wave roasters. As someone willing to steal roasting ideas from anybody, I didn't have a problem recognizing how to get what I wanted from this.

I likely would have responded something along the lines of, "by our mask rule you mean the city ordinance based on recommendations from the city health department informed by local data which has gotten good enough that the health department has recommended removing the ordinance and that our expert agrees is the right call? Because if you need to make an ass of yourself about this then you can keep not showing up. Nobody missed you."