[Market Research] What’s Something You Do Completely Wrong?

@chienfou This will be a long list. Let me grab the popcorn.

@chienfou we’ll wait

@jouest
Still compiling…

@chienfou @jouest It’s now Thursday…
/giphy impatient foot tapping

@jouest @Kidsandliz
Not following up is WAY up the list!

@werehatrack https://wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Little_Red_Hen
10% of the people do 90% of the work

@pakopako @werehatrack
Those who can …Do
Those who can’t do… Instruct
Those who can’t instruct… Administrate!

@chienfou Where do consultants come in? If you aren’t part of the solution there’s good money in prolonging the problem.

@chienfou @pakopako
Those who can’t administrate run for elected office.

@yakkoTDI you could practice on here and we can help you be better? Throw out some lines! Yakkity yak!

@sillyheathen @yakkoTDI I kinda think we may not be helpful in this endeavor. He’ll end up with yakkity yak…

but no yakkity sax.

@yakkoTDI @sillyheathen @brainmist Two words: Ybor City. Tequila. Some really dumb dance moves.

Ok, possibly more than two words, but that’s how I got married

@sillyheathen amen!

@Cerridwyn Huh? How DO you pour your coffee?

@Kyeh from the coffee pot silly goose
I have an older hario drip but . . .

@Cerridwyn So making a cup at a time with a single filter holder is the right way?
In that case, woohoo, that’s one thing I do right! (Melitta drip here.)

@Kyeh
grin

i purposefully (a long time ago) bought a coffee pot that for a full pot was SCAA approved but that still made a cup at a time.

Now, mokkamaster or however you spell it, makes a smaller pot, but I have 2 of the ones I bought (One was at work back in the day) so when the second one dies (both currently work) then I will go for something else.

@Cerridwyn Gosh, I knew nothing about the SCAA.

@Kyeh
Certified Home Brewers — Specialty Coffee Association https://share.google/b7OLwSL7xnMQ4FmDZ

The second a is gone now because it used to be specialty coffee Association of america. It’s not anymore. It merged with one from somewhere else. And my apologies that Google screws the links up now

@Cerridwyn This all seems smart and practical, and I am the same way about clothes. It survives the wash or, unless it’s VERY special, I don’t keep it.

@brainmist @Cerridwyn I don’t hand wash. I barely remember to pull something out of the washer to line dry. And I don’t buy anything that needs to be ironed. I’m not even sure where my iron is.

@brainmist @lisagd22
I know where mine went. to the donation bin about 5 years ago.
i do have one set of things that should be ironed but are rarely worn at home. Hotels have irons, but did I use it? nope

(Disclaimer, this is not the one I bought, but close)

They are 100% cotton

@Cerridwyn @Kyeh Dangit! How did I miss a discussion about coffee? I know a guy who roasts his own.

(looks around cautiously)

Anybody need some?

@capnjb–you need your own Mediocrebot alert to page you every time someone says “coffee!”
@Cerridwyn–I love that shirt! I bet yours is red, though.

@capnjb @Kyeh Yes it is.

They are from China and run small, but have a lot of nerdish ones.
I have a link to another site that does a lot of trademark breaking images, but it is polyester. and polyester bowling shirts are like wearing an oven when it is 100+ outside.

@capnjb @Cerridwyn
Euw, yes. Cute, though!
Oh, I see yours is cotton - worth ironing, definitely.

@capnjb @Cerridwyn @Kyeh yes! I need the beans in my face! The stuff I’ve been getting is meh at best.

@Cerridwyn @Kyeh I’ve got a wonderfully nerdy cowboy shirt

@capnjb @Cerridwyn Cute!

@Cerridwyn @Kyeh

you need your own Mediocrebot alert to page you every time someone says “coffee!”

I do NOT need that

But I think I need to go fire up the roaster to get @sillyheathen some beans

@Cerridwyn @Kyeh @sillyheathen Oh, I love the smell of roasting beans… it’s almost woody. And it is something you would never experience walking into a Starbucks. I guess I’m just a big fan of the process. I like to see the whole picture. I have a buddy with a young coffee tree that produces a small amount of fruit every year. Coffee beans are just the seeds of the cherries that grow on the tree. It’s an interesting process to wash and dry them. I don’t think I good job, but I can say I’ve done it

Sorry, my ADHD put me on a tangent I came in to let @sillheathen know that beans will be inbound at some point in the future. The first rule of the Secret-Not-So-Secret coffee club is I only ship on days where I don’t feel like hating the post office

@capnjb @Cerridwyn @Kyeh bless your face piece! I still need to send you and Star and Kyeh some mehl. I’ve just been so busy that it hasn’t happened. Hopefully I actually sleep tonight so I can get up early and get all that stuff packed up. In fact, @kyeh can you whisper your address to me please? I know I have it somewhere but it’s just easier if I ask.

@capnjb @Cerridwyn @sillyheathen
Okay - thanks!

@Cerridwyn That’s sort of like how I wash clothes. It if won’t survive the dryer forget it.

@brainmist @Cerridwyn Cool shirt! I occasionally need my iron for craft projects, so I haven’t gotten rid of it; I just dig it out of whatever hiding place I put it in.

@brainmist @Cerridwyn @lisagd22 @capnjb @Kyeh @sillyheathen

Capnjb’s Cowboy Coffee Cartel, always pushing that grade-A caffeine crack to the masses! I love the heavenly aroma of roasting, too, so i was excited years ago when a commercial roaster moved into the old converted mill building where i worked. Little did i know, they must have specialized in ultra-dark roasts, because it always smelled like a fire at a coffee plantation throughout the entire building when they really got going. Fortunately, i worked overnight, so i usually was leaving by the time it got really overpowering – there’s nothing worse than the sacrilege of ruining good beans!

@brainmist @capnjb @ircon96 @Kyeh @lisagd22 @sillyheathen
damned straight (well, that’s a cliche that doesn’t always apply, LOL)

Back when it was newish, I walked into the Starfucks Reserve Roastery in Seattle and down the stairs to where a man was roasting this coffee. It did not smell like Starfucks, it did not look like Starfucks. It smelled and looked (and tasted) like real awesome coffee.
Goes to show they know how to do it, they choose not to because you don’t get great beans without that hands on touch, and where is the profit in that?

POPSOCKETS! SPROCKETS! DAVY CROCKETT! AWESOME!

@Cerridwyn @Kyeh @sillyheathen Coffee inbound for @Sillyheathen. And by inbound, I mean it has been roasted and packed. It will likely start traveling out tomorrow morning. I’m not going out in DC rush hour traffic to a place I hate and stand in line with my grumples But it should land next week.

Who is next in line? I think I’m up to 11 Mehtizens I’ve sent coffee too. I really can’t believe the zombie virus hasn’t worked on anyone yet Dang.

If you are in the Secret-Not-So-Secret coffee club (or would like to become a member) and would like some freshly roasted coffee just raise your hand. It’s first come first served. My only request is that you are active in this community and have been around for at least a little while. But… I mean… if you are new here, I could probably send you some tea that you could microwave

Holy shit I ramble

@pakopako I love this reference and am curious about how many people are of the right era for it…

@Ten9Eight Well that is certainly one way to do it. Very interesting.

@milstarr @Ten9Eight
one of 120 to be precise…

@chienfou @milstarr @Ten9Eight I don’t even know what I do… but I think it’s the most conventional way. I have to pretend I am writing a Haiku to find out.

How we count fingers
How many ways could there be?
It’s more than I thought

@Ten9Eight I start with my thumb but in sequential order. I do like the order of operations in your method though but I’m a quirky kid.

@sillyheathen @Ten9Eight How do you handle parenthesis and exponents? And/or negative numbers?

@chienfou @milstarr @pmarin @Ten9Eight

The number of five
Mixed with the prime number three
Makes you think fifteen

@sillyheathen @Ten9Eight Starting with the index finger allows you to hold the others down with your thumb until you’re done with them!

I do:
Index
Index+middle
Index+middle+thumb
Index+middle +ring+pinky
All

@capnjb @Ten9Eight don’t you taunt my math brain Capn lest ye shall be pelted with all the avocados in my store!!!

@Ten9Eight I think I just strained a tendon in my hand.

@capnjb @sillyheathen I think you’re not ready to hear that yet!

@sillyheathen @Ten9Eight And while I sometimes will calculate bit-boundaries in binary on my knuckles, I rarely count with my fingers. I pretty much only tell people that they are number one. And I seem to use the same finger every damn time

@jouest @Ten9Eight I am still dealing with some tendinitis between painting a mural, lifting weights and driving my parents cross country. 0/10 would not recommend.

@sillyheathen @Ten9Eight

Starting with the index finger allows you to hold the others down with your thumb

@Kyeh Exactly this! It’s the only way i can do it – my fingers aren’t that independent of one another, i guess.

@ircon96 @sillyheathen @Ten9Eight All the other ways feel so awkward to me; my fingers don’t want to straighten all the way up.

@brainmist did you take ASL?

@Ten9Eight very European of you

@chienfou @milstarr @Ten9Eight I checked your math. You did it right.

@Kidsandliz
Thanks for the vote of confidence… I think?

@Star2236 it gives them the illusion of control (but when you overlapping free time, that might give you two a chance to see eye to eye and maybe he’ll have more sympathy)

[This is me, trying to exert control over something way beyond my reach out business]

@kittykat9180
what! Microwaving tea will cause you to have 2 left hands??

@chienfou @kittykat9180 You’re the ER nurse. You should know this Also microwaves with buttons on the inside will likely be showing up on Meh at some point in the future

@chienfou @kittykat9180 and a disproportionately large thumb on at least one of those hands.

@chienfou @kittykat9180 @sillyheathen Holy shit I just noticed that

edit - and no ring on that finger(s) so she is still likely single! Hah

@capnjb @chienfou @sillyheathen
I think we’ve all learned here that microwaving tea can have some serious negative consequences.

@chienfou @kittykat9180 @sillyheathen Safety third

@chienfou @kittykat9180 To go along with my two left feet?

@chienfou No silly. Doesn’t your Microwave come with a hand to grab your hot items with? Or is it just me?

@Wollyhop
I guess I should have checked the available models better.

@chienfou @Wollyhop Last thing I want is an appliance that grabs my hot items.

@capnjb @chienfou @kittykat9180 @sillyheathen @lisagd22 @ Wollyhop I think most of her problems started when she purchased a microwave with a gap in the front panel large enough for a hand to reach through in the first place.

@chienfou @Wollyhop
@macromeh: Are you sure about that? After all, it could come in handy!

@chienfou @ircon96 @Wollyhop Maybe a bit too handsy…

@Kidsandliz
My wife also prefers to end her meal with savory foods a lot of times.
Once, when the kids were small, we went to an Old Country Buffet with my sister and her two young sons. When we sat down at the table my wife had a plate full of desserts. My sister got all indignant and asked ‘what kind of example is that for your kids. You wouldn’t let them do that would you?’ At that point my 6-year-old son piped up with ‘oh, she asked me if I wanted to but I told her no… I’d rather eat it last’. Total vindication!
(Her kids, of course, would have never eaten dinner had they eaten a plateful of desserts first.)

@chienfou @Kidsandliz in Daltonwood, if you hear “sometimes you have to eat ice cream for dinner, you know someone has had a pretty awful day. We often eat dessert first, but the kids know they absolutely have to eat their dinner. It’s easier on your digestive system as well allegedly. So why not?

Also a really good cheese plate is the best dessert!

@Dr_ava_shamban I just dump the box out. PEOPLE USE SPOONS?

I smell an AI bot.

@werehatrack @Wollyhop Bot or not, what a freak!

@ircon96 @werehatrack @Wollyhop

/showme an AI bot that doesn’t know how cereal works

@carl669 hey you lily livered scalawag! After living in England for a substantial period of time, I learned to eat this way. It’s SO much more efficient. It drove my grandmother insane. She would get really cross and tell me to “stop eating so EUROPEAN!” Bless her little heart!

@sillyheathen right? i don’t get why anyone would want to switch hands. get the food in my mouth as fast as possible!

@carl669 my first official tea at his parents’ house, I was still half way through my mains and they were almost finished with their puds. I learned quickly to change the way I ate.

@Thumperchick at some point it’s performance art.