Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

While I was out at lunch a shipment of chocolate came in. That comes packed in shiny metal bubble wrap to keep the cold in the box. This is nowhere near as good for popping as the more familiar kind.

2nd batch of my cemetery dried Mexican coffee looks much better. I'll taste it tomorrow.

I had extra funds in my Japanese PSN account so I picked up Gensokyo Defenders. It seems odd that all the trophies are in English when none of the rest of the game is. #touhou

FedEx driver confirmed he never tried the front door yesterday. Was expecting 1 coffee sample, got 7. Between those, the coffee I got yesterday, and the coffee I sorted yesterday, there's a lot to do at the lab roaster.

While I didn't get the coffee samples I was expecting, I did get some unexpected hand delivered coffee samples.

Here's the blog post where I write about the stuff that I did in Seattle. https://typica.us/events/2018/05/03/expo-2018-recap.html

81 pounds of tea on the way.

And now I have a 4th email today from FedEx about the package they lied about trying to deliver. No new information has been conveyed.

This coffee had all the defects except fungus and severe insect damage. After sorting those out the coffee is still ugly, but ugly is not a defect.

Given decent tasting results on not a great roast with the defects left in, I'm optimistic about this next batch and curious how this could have turned out with professional processing at a real mill instead of just spreading the coffee out over a cemetery.

That's an odd thing to see.

Should have looked at the other half of this before roasting it. Will pick out the defects before roasting the rest of this.

Apparently instead of 1 email from FedEx today I got 3. The first letting me know that they really meant it, delivering the package today. The 2nd lying about attempting to deliver it, and the third letting me know that they'll try again tomorrow. There's no way any reasonable delivery attempt would have failed.

The cat wants to "help".

red lights are not stop signs.

My latest video just passed 500 views. It's about how temperature measurements get from a sensor into a logging program and some of the stuff that can be done with that data.

Lots of people use settings that aren't optimal for their hardware and understanding what's going on under the hood can help people diagnose those issues and understand which of those can be fixed with a simple settings change and what sorts of things are better addressed with better hardware.

https://youtu.be/___jFPe5GSs

FedEx sends me an email every day about coffee samples.

Day 1: We're going to deliver this package, probably on given date.
Day 2: On second thought, make that given date+1.
Day 3: Yeah, we really mean it. Coffee samples getting delivered tomorrow.

I assume they'll also send me one tomorrow just in case I somehow forget that I'd literally just gotten the package.

If you could redesign the control panel on your coffee roaster, what would you change?

Should I raise the character limit for toots on this instance or is everybody fine with 500?