Well, my guess is that certain pieces of Linux naming conventions might apply.
I could imagine that you could label various roasts of coffee as "Edgy" (a natural name for a coffee addict) or maybe "Dapper", which could be the more decaffeinated one. You could probably market coffee labeled as "Feisty" but drinking something called "Feisty Fawn" might not go over so well... and, labels like "testing" or "unstable" really aren't associated with things people drink. Are you looking for serial numbers? Many products include full sub-component dispositions in their serial numbers. So, when you buy the TV set with a serial number of: XYZ123ABC1234DEF567890. The first XYZ is the manufacture location (China/Canada/US/etc), the first 123 is the type of signal (NTSC vs PAL vs HD), the ABC is the type of power required (100/120/240 volts), etc... down to the "567890" which is the actual serialization number. (A better example would be to look at a hard drive serial number and identify the drive size, the interface speed, etc...) You could do something like that, with different codes for your variables. Example: Ar190Fr18 == Arabica, 190 deg, French Roast, 18 mins The real interesting part (and the part that would not be offtopic for a Linux list,) is if you find a way to control a roaster via Makefile and log all those different parameters to MySQL when you roast it (with a Timestamp). If you get that going, make sure you do a write-up for Make magazine or Wired. Roger Rustad wrote: > Completely "off topic", but I'd appreciate any feedback ppl here might > have on the subject. > > How might one come up with some sort of "build version" (similar to > software) for coffee roasts? > > Another friend of mine on the 909 list (Chris Penn, > [email protected], [email protected]) and I are thinking of > roasting our own coffee. We're looking at various roasters and are > looking for places to get green beans. (In short, we have amassed a > crapola of "coffee roasting porn" in the last week or so) > > So, what type of nomenclature do you use to differentiate between all > the different variables on coffee? The following variables (and more, > I'd imagine) would need to be taken into consideration for each "build" > > type of bean > type of roast > temperature > duration of temperature > > so, something like: > > type of coffee, type of roast, roast 1 (and in my log I note the > variables in roast 1) ? > > Or do I somehow include the variables in the "build nomenclature"? > > When a friend tells me, "Your coffee sucked," I wanna be able to look at > my log and/or their "build" and see what that was all about. > _______________________________________________ > 909linux mailing list > [email protected] > http://909linux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/909linux
