Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

First day of retreat. I roasted some coffee for one of the lectures (a roasting chemistry one) tomorrow because of course I'd rather do that than attend a poolside reception.

Place I stayed last night had 2 tiny dogs. This morning both were on my lap so I guess I'm a friend.

Instead of blogosphere...

Hopefully she remembers to send proof of life photos.

Dropped off the cat. She was acting sad but my sister will be a good cuddle provider while I'm out of town.

Took a "content ideation" survey for an event that I'm unlikely to attend (unless they wanted to fly me out to Zurich to lecture at it, but that seems unlikely). The take away from my answers is that beating the dead horse of wine/coffee parallels has been played out for decades. Coffee is a far more complex beverage that should be encouraged to be its own thing. (wine comparisons are a lazy crutch that the coffee industry should be sick of in the year 2020)

The cat will not be pleased tonight. I still don't have a street or driveway access so I'll need to carry her about a block to get to the car for the trip to my sister's place. Since I'm driving alone she'll need to be in her carrier which she does not like.

Got phone calls from two people who work for other coffee companies today. I enjoy getting those calls.

A recent ad that hit the shop's inbox suggested that I buy an internet domain name for my baby.

1. To the best of my knowledge I don't have a baby
2. Is that really a thing? Like, shouldn't a child be old enough to have The Internet Safety Talk before they get their own domain?
3. They should pick their domain instead of being stuck with their lame dad's choice.

Today's fortune cookie says to "address the elephant in the room," which I take to mean, "post more on Mastodon," so here we are.

Have the external optical drive plugged in to rip some fresh driving music. I still think it's neat that I can just use the file manager to drag and drop virtual MP3s from CD and the ripping and transcoding just happens in the background as part of the file copy operation. #kde

Trying the gift beer and yeah, it's quite tasty. I can taste the coffee and overall it's very smooth and easy to drink. Pairs well with cheesecake.

related: I had no idea there were so many kinds of oreos these days.

Bought a supply of driving snacks and beverages for the trip to GA. I'll want to stop for a real meal at some point but having some stuff I can grab without taking my eyes off the road will be essential.

"DARPA's $10 Million Voting Machine Couldn't be Hacked at DefCon (for the Wrong Reasons)" is the wrong headline. Correct headline should read, "DARPA DOS'd themselves, no hack required."

If you don't have at least 5 cups are you even really drinking coffee?