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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 No mention of specific brands/models because that would be huge and quickly outdated.

Regional rate B boxes arrived today. They don't stock these at the post office, but it's usually the cheapest way for me to send a few pounds of coffee.

What if everybody knows Kent is Superman but they pretend it's a good disguise because they don't want to hurt his feelings.

Mom invited me over for dinner, which is nice and all, but I wish I could convince her that it's fine to use seasonings.

I don't understand people who put butter on cupcakes.

re: software gripe 

I think this supposed epidemic of software not getting updated at the user end isn't really so much a result of lazy users as it is a result of commercial software updates not being trustworthy.
Look at Windows - updates are opaque, are pushed out without warning, occasionally include adware, and put the system out of action for an inordinately long period of time. It's not poor planning that causes industrial systems to be running Windows XP SP1, it's shoddy software quality that does.

Live music at the shop right now. We almost never have that, but it's nice.

Finishing off last night's pizza. I still have $5 left on the gift certificate for next time.

When responsibilities get chopped up to the point that nobody is responsible for anything, problems that have an easy and obvious fix become impossible to solve because nobody has the authority to just do the needful and everything gets hung up because the only person with the authority to do some tiny part of the task got laid off 3 months prior and the person who would have noticed stuff not getting done was eliminated during the merger. But at least it's all documented and CYA'd.

The tea selection at the shop continues to change (one of our suppliers became too insane for us to continue doing business with as a result of getting bought out by a larger company one too many times) so I get to take home the last bit of a really nice oolong tonight.

It looks like the person I've met who was running for SCA board of directors got elected. I met Asli while I was teaching at a trade event in Brazil a while back. She should be a good fit in this new role.

For those of you wondering what I’m talking about: in response to tumblr attempting to drive off the better part of its user base a bunch of fans got together to spec out what they wanted out of a social platform for fandom. The finished doc is 134 pages long & includes discussions on everything from federated vs centralized to identity verification to How Tags Should Work.

If you want to read it, you can do so here: docs.google.com/document/d/1r-

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Cat just started hissing and screaming at the basement door. She's usually an easy going cat.

Working late to roast more coffee. Maybe I'll use the gift certificate for the pizza place across the street instead of cooking.

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