Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

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.

Sent the prototype roast cam back. They're going to put some cooling on it to make it work better and send it back. The mounting holes aren't problematic.

Someone wanted me to send them something by UPS, but the UPS web site didn't want to take my money so I'm spending a couple dollars less and using USPS as usual instead.

Fediverse pro tip: just post cats. Everybody likes cats.

At the end of his battle with the Pah-wraiths, Captain Benjamin Lafayette Sisko fell into the fire caves and vanished. He woke to find himself trapped in the past, facing mirror images that were not his own, and driven by the prophets to change history for the better. And so, the Sisko finds himself leaping from life to life, striving to put right what once went wrong, and hoping each time that his next leap will be the leap home.

Which stage would the CONTACTLESS PICKUP ZONE be in a Sonic the Hedgehog game?

The Internet is made of cats. Sometimes they want to shove your database off the shelf.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/07/more-than-1000-databases-have-been-nuked-by-mystery-meow-attack/

Updated the shop's web site. Decafs are listed again as is the new coffee from El Salvador.

https://wilsonscoffee.com/

The city is going to be requiring people to wear masks starting Monday. I expect the courts (with a judge I would have voted against had he not been running unopposed) will say the city can't do that, but as a business I can say we're requiring that for entry (don't like it? Phone order with contactless pickup for you or take your manufactured outrage to one of my competitors). We did a tally today and it looks like about 1/3 of customers were bare faced.

This morning the cat followed me into the kitchen for breakfast and was surprised that there was already food in the dish that she could start eating without waiting for me to fill the food dish.

Software update on the new equipment does seem to be an improvement now that I've roasted some batches with it. I think there's still some low hanging fruit for potential improvements. Took some bad cell phone videos to demonstrate that I'll need to process and upload somewhere to link in from that feedback.

cat: what is posture?

The cat is really into belly rubs tonight.

It's too late in the day to fire up the roaster and try the update, but just based on sticking some bags of roasted coffee under the camera, it looks like it's a lot faster. I'm a little curious now to see what changed in the code (as long as I do have access to that) to improve perceived responsiveness by such a huge margin. I'll see if that's still my assessment during tomorrow's roasting session.

I pretty much skipped over USB sticks for file transfer so now that I need one to update the software on the prototype analyzer I have Neptune's head as about my only option.