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Christopher Robin (A. A. Milnes’ character from Winnie the Pooh) mashed together with (some rapper, don’t know who I’d use) as a Twitter bot. Just a thought.

Beer brewing and coffee brewing have so much and so little in common. I really want to build a better system for both.
Coffee:
The pod coffee systems (Keurig and stuff) do a decent cup, but the amount of packaging kills me. Also, I don’t drink a cup of coffee. If there’s dregs in the pot, I’ll drink those while I get another pot going. So I need a water reservoir (or plumb it), a heater element, a hopper, and an output. Bonus points for the hopper filling itself and dumping itself. More bonus points for a sensor package where I give it the specs of the bean/roast/grind and it gives me great coffee. Extra bonus points for a barcode scanner to enter in those specs on the fly as a lookup table.
I’ve got some ideas for start I’m envisioning. I should lookup the ideal temperature for beautifully made coffee. That’s going to drive a lot of the design I think.
Beer:
Writing about coffee made me think about some of that as well. The major challenge I think will be temperature again. Looking online I think I’ll need to get two heater elements on different circuits bit I’ll have to check the house’s wiring. While a 110v element will get to temperature eventually it would be a lot easier if it didn’t take an hour and a half. I think I’ll rewatch the episode of BrewTV with Will Wheaton to nail down the process I’m looking at doing.

(Fremont?) Summer Ale at Cinerama.
Red face/cheeks
Puffy cheeks, hands (hands might be normal dehydration)
Bleh feeling in stomach, got wise with time, roughly two hour recovery

Appeared unfiltered, might have had active yeast of I guessed.

Pulled the trigger. I’m registered and going to school starting 6/27, assuming they don’t cancel my class. I am the fourth person registered. I wonder if it’s because of the hours involved. The word thing is thinking about how much more expensive school is since I was enrolled at UW. If I remember it was only 1500 for a full load there, but this quarter well be 600 for one class.
I am feeling optimistic though.

There doesn’t seem like a better solution. It looks like my first quarter back in college I’m taking a class from 6:00-10:40 pm twice a week. I get up at 5:40 am.
This does not sound fun.
Of course, the class itself does, so, ya know.

I took the COMPASS test this weekend. Placed into Calculus I and English 101. In other words I still have my game. I’m trying to decide what class I should take to get back in it. I also need to register for said class tonight. Must register… I’m thinking I’ll wait to talk to an advisor before subjecting myself to English, I might be able to talk my way out of it. It’s not that I’m against taking an English class, it’s that I’ve come pickier with years.
I also gardened like a machine. Sine choking chive stiff has been ripped out, tomatoes and pass have been planted, Christmas lights taken down, some rando flowers the Wif liked have been planted, and general brush clearing.
So tonight is registration. There was something else, but definitely registration. Oh yeah, pay bills and stuff. Bills and registration.

This would be for a mission non-critical clock. I’m not the best about going to bed on time, so it’d be good to have a visual system to know oops.
Have an arbitrary midpoint, in my case midnight, based on my sleep patterns. Have a voltage slowly ramp up over the course of the day… hmmm, I have a different idea now. I wonder if I could do this entirely discrete components. Right.
I don’t know…

Looking at unstructured databases. As it is, this is all for my own edification, so making a ghettotastic (just had to add that word to spellcheck?!?) database sounds fun.
Thinking something like an object oriented value pair setup. So for beer: bottles are made of their values, aging values, ferment values, boil values. Every value has a time associated with it.
So a data insert might be something like:
(Bottle,4,Carboy,2,06152016154756)

Create (for round one) an Excel (Libre Office, whatever) file with bottle identifier, maybe not going to go numbers, website (for the sake of the barcode encoding), rando key, which will allow a review to happen without blatantly asking for script kids to show up, and data.
Transform this into a set of static wordpress pages.
Client (used in the sense of person holding bottle, quite often me) scans barcode.
Goes to static page that’s hardcoded into the bottle.
If the rando is in the request, and the rando is right for the bottle, and the rando isn’t used yet…
Give the form for review collection.
Else, just the static page, with the review, quick links for previous bottle pages.
(Need to look into form submission stuff, also a shutoff switch would be good, safe data collection is good days collection)
The review info should be radio buttons or dropdowns, potentially reviewer name, if I take in the name make it clear that their name is only for looking at trends or something. Might skip the name, a username maybe?

The static pages should be generated based on the data available. Probably a timeline kind of graph.
Start with the recipe / source. Name if available.
Next is boiling. This will be a graph of temperature versus time with dots showing when stuff happened.
Next still be a graph of temperature versus time for fermentation (look at temperature ye git!), again add points of interest for interesting points. When I start collecting it, other data can live on here as well, pressure, atmospheric alcohol, ambient temperature, ambient pressure. O2 and CO2 would be fun, but if I remember not cheap. Light levels would be interesting, as might NIR if I get that going.
Next would be the same graph for aging. A lot of the spare data would be wasted, but there might still be value.
I need to have a way to easily identify all the data I don’t collect, or data collection for lazy data collection. As in I only had the first couple temperatures dir the boil because I broke the thermometer. Ideally a dot style graph, and maybe our clear that connecting lines are entirely guesses.
Right. 41 days until bottling.

Had a bit of a panic attack last night about this. I’m better now.
If the barcode is printed on the bottle, than the bottle is no longer reusable.
But.
I think it might be fun to look at the progression of the bottles along Herbert’s Golden Path. Each bottle, if it’s reused lives and dies and lives again. Valhalla!
But seriously. I scan a barcode for bottle number 67. It brings me up the information on bottle 67’s current contents, as well as each previous version. For the minute, I need to build the data backend for the website. I have roughly 6 weeks until bottling some hefeweizen. Then, either I print bottles, or I print labels as a stop gap. Maybe I should print labels for the rest of the Wootst0ut. Probably should.
First, the web backend.