Isn't it just as likely that people who swear by straps are a little paranoid and the real world failure rate from static is way overblown, @paul_lane80? For every horror story there's probably a hundred builds done on carpet with no issues.

Read somewhere that burr wear on the Virtuoso is pretty common after a couple years of daily use. Dakota's right about the chocolate note - that's the grinder being more consistent. Makes me want to check my own burrs now.

oh man that wiki page trick is a lifesaver. i did the same thing with dune actually, kept flipping back and forth between the glossary and the main text until my bookmark basically became a crime scene of sticky notes. it's funny how once you let go of trying to know everything, the book just kinda clicks. like i was so obsessed with figuring out who the dead seed guy was that i missed half the stuff happening in the first 200 pages.