January 2012
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Inventory Day
Today it was time to take inventory of all of the coffee to get an end of year inventory value figure for the accountant. Earlier this year I was working on an Android app that would make getting that information for the roasted coffee as easy as it already is for the green coffee, but things got busy before I was able to finish that. I’ll have it ready well before next year. I did, however,...
December 2011
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c0d3 asked: As a huge coffee aficionado and developer, I often gravitate to decent coffee shops to develop in while enjoying a good roast. However I haven't found quite the right coffee roast here in Atlanta. Since you are at the top of your game in Racine, I was curious if you happen to know of any decent roasters in Atlanta, GA area or even anywhere in North Greorgia. Help?
Furries, Bronies, and Ron Paul
Today I saw the following tweet:
Now, I haven’t clicked the link to find out the context for that quote, but I think we can find out a little bit by examining that.
First let’s consider Ron Paul supporters. I’m not going to say anything good or bad about Ron Paul or his candidacy, but those most vocal supporters who think that it’s a good idea to turn any discussion on...
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My Socks are Wet Because of the IRS
Every year since I started working I’ve paid more in federal withholding than I’ve owed. I don’t go around looking for tax loopholes. I don’t have any off shore accounts hiding money. I pay my taxes. For the 2010 tax period, the IRS made a mistake. I’ve done my best to provide them with additional copies of the relevant portions of my tax filing which they seem to...
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Anonymous asked: I give you loads of credit, as an employee of Dunn Bros downtown from day one, until the last day I can say I am happy to know there is someone in Racine who knows how to roast, and actually cares about the process.
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Today I got email that was written in Portuguese. I even understand what it says, which is odd because I don’t know Portuguese.
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Back to the Code
Now that Christmas is over, I’m finally able to get back to spending some time programming rather than spending all of my work time roasting coffee and making sure product gets out on the shelf.
On one project I deleted one class that it turns out wasn’t needed (I was hoping I could do that and some statistical testing confirmed this [those of you who are still in school, take a...
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Mystery Cards
Someone (nobody knows who) just left a pile of cards addressed (with some misspellings) to members of the bar and support staff. As the people who were working today all started opening their cards one of them says, “we’re all getting our anthrax at the same time.” Of course, the cards didn’t have any mysterious white powder. Just money. Now they’re wondering who sent...
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End of Year Data
As the year’s end draws near I look over my various reports and poke around in the database with an eye toward seeing how the business has done over the past year and start to work out what I should expect in the year to come. One of the reports that I’ve looked at, which I think hasn’t yet appeared in a public release of the software is a very brief report of coffee purchases....
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Got some spam email asking me to tell Congress to pass SOPA/ProtectIP immediately. I’m a rights holder and my response to that is hell no. The pirates I’m most concerned about are the ones in our government who have extended copyright protections to obscenely long terms, stealing massive amounts of art from the public domain. I’m concerned with the pirates who allow media cartels...
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I Need a Drink
This post might come across as unreasonably angry and if that’s going to bother anybody just stop reading now and I’ll get over it by my next post. It’s probably just the stress of being involved with a retail business this close to Christmas (and since our main product is best when fresh we try to encourage people to wait until the last minute to buy it so a lot of sales get...
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More Private Praise for Typica
As many of you already know, I developed (and continue to develop) a data system tailored to my needs as a professional coffee roaster. The main component of this is a cross platform application called Typica. When that reached a certain level of maturity some years back, we made the decision to make that available to anybody rather than keep it as an in house application. We didn’t really...
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Today I attempted (and perhaps even succeeded) to...
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peter911sc asked: Are you Wilson's Coffee? (Just found your ECU post and am trying to connect the dots.) pete
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Remember when nobody with a cell phone had the...
Disregard
That whole should I learn AppleScript thing? Yeah, don’t need it. Can do it purely from Automator.
Folder Action -> Filter Finder Items (Find files where file extension is pdf) -> Copy Finder Items.
I kept thinking that it was surprising that the parts I wanted weren’t already built in and sure enough, it was there. It just took me a while to find it so for now I’ll go...
Should I Learn Applescript?
Way back in ancient times when the shop I work at needed product labels for coffees, we used some specialized software to create and print these. You would select the size of the label and on the screen was a picture of one label from the sheet. You could then draw text boxes onto the label, type in the text, change various features of that text, and save the result to a file. It was simple to use...
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The Six Day Month
I just got an email claiming that I have funds in my PSN wallet that have not been used for six months or more. I currently have 3¢ in my PSN wallet left over from a promotional credit that was applied on 8 November, 2011. Don’t worry Sony, I’m sure I’ll get around to spending that eventually.
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internetwarrior101 asked: Do you buy from or know anything about Red Bird Coffee online?
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Reblog if your Tumblr is NOT connected to your...
keirraaa:
What Facebook? Does anybody even still use that?
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Things Happened Today
1) Truck arrived with a few thousand pounds of coffee. That should keep me in good condition inventory-wise through the end of the year. I’ll need to figure out how to roast several of these immediately.
1a) Java. People miss having Mocha Java Blend and I wasn’t selling it because I was waiting for coffee from Java to get into the country. (Indeed, someone is asking about that as I...
On this date last year I wrote my first post on tumblr. Thanks for sticking around and filling up my dash with neat stuff.
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A neat little programming toy. →
I could see using this if I wanted to learn one of the supported languages for fun without wanting to go through the trouble of setting up a build environment for it.
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PostgreSQL Migration
I recently needed to move the database Typica uses from an old Linux server to an iMac. There wasn’t anything wrong with the setup on the software side and the hardware was more than capable of handling things as well, but the Ethernet ports on the motherboard were getting to be rather unreliable and as part of reorganizing the coffee roasting area to accommodate another roaster I needed the...
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SaikoNet: Sorting Algorithms →
saikonet:
So after coming across the strcmp() function in C and realizing I’d probably have to use it alphabetize arrays later on, it got me interesting in sorting algorthms. Although for the size of the arrays I’ll be sorting the particular algorithm used will most likely be inconsequential, I find this…
While it doesn’t cover quite as many algorithms, some might find it easier to...
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“Take a carefully blended, full-bodied, highly aromatic coffee and brew it...”
– Charles Trigg, 1917 (via jacwee)