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Sore throat, but awesome topics

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We’re having a nice simple week leading up to the forth of July holiday here in the Caffination Lair. Hopefully the weekend will have plenty of grilling and fun with friends and family. On top of all that I’m very excited to start roasting coffee in my house very shortly! Well technically outside or at the very least in the garage, but still I’ve been hungry to get into this field for a while and I’m hoping to have some fun with this in the very near future, details to follow when the green coffee and the popper arrive!

Other than the antici… pation of Roasting is been a relatively smooth week here. So the show has a great feel with lots of nostalgic fun, Legos, Arcade games, a C64 laptop, and so many more fun things have been dug up. Want to try Chunky coffee? I’ll have to explain that.

The CaffiNation is also very proud to take part in the Summer of Podcasts Contest Head on over and check out the shows rocking the codeword this week.

Enjoy the show and Stay Caffeinated!

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Geek Cruft

• I hosted TPN Weekly on Monday. Check in for some fun
• Via Nik’s Tiwtter FriendFace Video
• Arcade Games via Stop Motion Lego. Nostalgic Awesome Fun
• Clock needs flesh of the living to run
• Real Life grappling hook, not a baterang
• Linux for children? sounds like a neat concept
• Crazy Visual illusions
• Challenging Modernity, Walkman Artifact found and used
  • Body Ritual among the Nacirema, Anthro Reference Material
• How bored do you need to be to build a bulldozer? out of a fiat
• Robot hunts for bodies… this can’t end well
• Commodore 64 Laptop?
• Aging Superheroes
• Vacuum Tube sound card
  
• Twitter has issues with Tweet
  
• Clip on battery charger! awesome idea

Food & Caffeinated Bits

Today’s Coffee is Tea

• All the can opening fun without the beer reward
• Shortly going to Roast! Ordered from here
• How to roast with a popcorn popper, by MAS
• Beverage adapter for biking
• Kitchen is more than meets the eye
• Chunky Coffee, and other oddities
• Some play with their food, this family goes to war

Thanks and Stay Caffeinated People!

A Glimpse into the CaffiNation Lair

Hello All, as I’m sure you are aware I’m a proud member for the Tech Podcast Network. Well this week i had the oppertunity to host the TPN Weekly podcast, a show where the members get a chance to run with a show for one episode. If you’re interested in checking it out I hosted Episode 11, For June 29th 2009

For mys edition of the TPN Weekly I’ll be giving you a run down on how build a better blog, complete with Links to my Podcasts’ Blog Design Guide, a series of articles I ran to help people work on clearing their web presence up. So I’m planning on sharing them as well as how to recover from the dreaded Audacity Crash. We’ll also be showing off a couple bits of Geeky Cruft to give you a taste of the style of news we cover.

And it wouldn’t be a CaffiNation Hosted show without a little coffee thrown in at the end so I share some of my favorite articles and recipes.

 

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Productive Fun in the Lair

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As a family we found ourselves with a rare free weekend and enjoyed the heck out of it. So today’s Caffination is suffering from the good kind of tired where you know you’ve drained your batteries, but enjoyed doing so. There is both good news and bad news for today’s show however. The good news is the new dog does not like coffee, the bad news thats pretty much all the coffee news I have for the show. So this episode will lean a bit heavily on the tech side of things.It seems that a good deal of the country was out doing things these past couple of days as the overall volume of substantial news was down.

We’ll be covering some current events and how they affected the tech world, Michael Jackson’s passing, Iran and twitter. Silly people and conclusions, you name it we’ll touch on it. But we also have plenty of time for a bit of silly news and products that happen to have made their way to my inbox as well.

The CaffiNation is also very proud to take part in the Summer of Podcasts Contest, and we’ll be giving you the rundown on what that means in the lead into the show today.

Enjoy the show and Stay Caffeinated!

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Geek Cruft

• Current Ative Topics
  
  • Michael Jackson, inventor?
  • How news Spreads, Organic news is the new party line.
  • Iran, avatars and proxy
  • Next to no water used in a washing machine?
• Cattle Mutilations are up… Lamp
• Cycle
  • Crazy MC Escher esque  Motorcycle with real Side-car
  • Laser Bike lane closer to real product
• Voice
  • Google Voice (Formerly Grand Central ) is slowly opening up again
  • 911, why would the line be busy
• OS Geekery
  • Mac OSX on an SD Card?
  • Windows 7 possibly to be sold on USB drives?
• Aesthetic Aproaches
  • NES Doorbell, weak
  • Steampunk PS3, almost awesome. paint job was phoned in
  • Steampunk Synth, Unbelievable job
  • Alice in Wonderland concept looks amazing
  • Star Wars, once venerable, now laughable

Food & Caffeinated Bits

Today’s Coffee: Kona Style in French press

Notice: No Kona was probably harmed in brewing this pot, rather a different earthy blend was served in its stead…

• Dog stole my coffee, and wasn’t please with the result.
• Working on a few more recipes, espresso based confections and non coffee related
• Iced Coffee Concentrate,  Article to follow.

Thanks and Stay Caffeinated People!

 

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Cry Havoc and let loose the Dogs of war.

Mayhem in the CaffiNation Lair

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We’ve been invaded by another animal. not that I’m complaining I love dogs. The newest denizen of the CaffiNation Lair is named Suki, which fits into the food theme we have going around here. Its a bit harder to get an episode together with a fun little dog running about.

Today’s show is packed with interesting tidbits, quite a few of which were sent in by listeners. Thanks to everyone who supports the show Either by sending in stories or emails. You’re going to find out about coffee breath, Kona beer, Video games, flamethrowers, legos and so much more. We’re back on schedule and back to normal so things should be falling back into place shortly.

Enjoy the show and Stay Caffeinated!

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• Where else can you find me? www.paulrjmuller.com

Geek Cruft

• Joe writes in about Maglight LED upgrade kits! Thanks for the warning!
• Lego flamethrower, via Norbert
• Star trek engineering T give away. Beware the Red Shirt
• Ejection Seat, or office chair?
• Lego Robot interfaces with your iPod
• Credit Card sized USB Drive looks like its done right
• Tekken 6 goes for authentic arcade feel. Who’s got next?
• Girly Gundum… just plain odd
• Windows 7 running on a Pentium II?
• Neat looking but LED goggles lack function
• Pac Man now followed
• Computer Key Cuff links, but obscure keys are chosen

Food & Caffeinated Bits

Today’s Coffee: Chock Full of Nuts in an office Coffee Pot

• Chainsaw Pizza Cutter
• Circular Saw Pizza Cutter, i think this is the better design
• Dunkin Lovers iPhone App, coffee runs made simple
• Instant cup holders with Drink Klip
• 100% Kona Coffee Beer? Interesting
• Mini Grill
• Beer in a pouch via Norbert
  
• Canned Food Oddity from around the world from MAS
• Starbucks is going to try fresher coffee, hows about not over roasting it instead?
• Lego Makes a fine cup of tea
• Coffee prevents bad breath? Empirical evidence would differ

Thanks and Stay Caffeinated People!

 

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Today’s show was the first guest recording in the Lair. The mother’s day show was the first co-hosted show ever. I have awesome parents

Father’s day Mayhem with Paul and Scott

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I’d Like to thank and welcome my Father to the show, the first programmer I ever knew and one of the primary reasons I’m as curious about the world around me that I am. today’s show we cover a couple new territories and makes some jokes along the way. There are a ton of great stories that show up in between the hyperlink so i hope you enjoy.

We cover ground from Beer to BBQ, for Babies to bombs and everything in between. My Father and I have a similar sense of humor and this show worked really well as a whole I’m exceedingly happy as to how it worked. Hopefully you’ll enjoy it as well.

I’m getting the cohost bug i might start inviting people to share the Caffination with me. Its turned out to be fun so far what do you think?

Enjoy the show and Stay Caffeinated!

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Geek Cruft

• This candle is the bomb
• A little throwback for my dad. Commodore 64 twitter client
• Pill alarm
• Cyclops baby ride? Children are only afraid of what you let them be
• Baby cloths tell you of fever
• Bladed nursery furniture
• Regular medieval furniture
• Man den alert, Sofa-Billards
• Deathtrap of a chair
• Play No hands Mario. Via theremin
• make a coil gun in woodshop
• Tactical grade flashlight

Food & Caffeinated Bits

Today’s Coffee:

• What would a father’s day be without a Steampunk Grill
• Perhaps a grill more traditional yet innovative, and overpriced
  
• Sword b que
• Craftsman grill tools
• Ninja Spices, does this count as hidden salt?
• Perhaps a little more frugal with Microwave potato chips?
• Concept or not take out the trash
• Discussing some coffee recommendations for Father’s Day…
• Coffee Bar at a wedding? lets make things more complicated… and expensive
• How to simple coffee illustrations for a home barista

Rundown Tasting: Prelude to a review

• Flying Fish Imperial Espresso Porter
• It would be nice to compare the three olives espresso vodka… but alas we can’t find it anywhere locally
• Pinnacle Le Double Espresso Vodka

Thanks and Stay Caffeinated People!

 

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The Erosion of rights online is upon us, but we also have Jello, booze & legos all in the same episode, coffee anyone?

Fight for your rights online!

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With more and more of our lives being spent online it a wonder that the erosion of our rights has taken this long to really start to degrade this far. If you’ve been listening to the show for any length of time you probably know that i’m a fan of an open carrier / content neutral internet. My packet isn’t any more important than yours everyone has to wait in line.

Some days its hard to put into words exactly how i feel but basically Censorship breeds even worse horrors by pushing them under the rug. Information wants to be free. But i also don’t like it when people climb up on their soapboxes and preach to the heavens, we have a couple articles pointing to some of the real danger zones of policy floating about right now. But we like to cut the drug with funny stories designed to break up the nasty. Because while we all want to save the trees no one wants to feel guilty all the time. This will hopefully turn out to be a light and fluffy version of a rant.

Enjoy the show and Stay Caffeinated!

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Geek Cruft

• Hamsters cruising in style
• Apple and the tale of Palm Pre…
• Wacom goes funky and learns how to spin
• Out of the box thinking with guitar acoustics
• Anti stab knife, but slash will still work
• Cute robot car test drives auto-automobiles. is cute the new harbinger of doom?
• Disney netbook?
• Braille concept cell phone, why don’t we have these yet
• Cellphone personal use tax… cleared up
• Nesting Doll cell phone history
• rights flying away all over the place today
  • No personal copy in japan…
  • No more anonymous bloggers in the UK… let the fun begin
  • Germany looking into blacklisting
  • In the US its all for the children
• Kinetic energy from cars at a green supermarket
• Lego Movie posters
• Keyboard molded bike grips. Thanks Chris
• Social Media Pillows, sweet digital dreams sheep
• Social Media ven Diagram
• Do you google yourself? video expose

Food & Caffeinated Bits

Today’s Coffee: Tanzanian Peaberry

• Drive through shame
• Coffee Jello?
• Anthropomorphic kitchen utensils?
• Humerus Garfield, Bean me
• More Coffee Cocktails

Thanks and Stay Caffeinated People!

 

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Happy Flag Day in the US

Small Aside. treat your flag with respect. here is how in the USA

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What do beer and coffee have to do with each other? Well besides both being categorized as beverages and at times bookending my day, they have come together in a couple of different fun stories for today’s show. They will also show up in a slate of new reviews coming.

But today’s show is much more than coffee beer, we also run through facebook URLs, Microsoft news and GPS blunders. As well as a ton of great odd and yet still geeky stories.We also give a rundown of the DTV transition and some local issues, and the sad state of news media surrounding the change.

Also since you can’t have a show called Beer and Coffee without giving a shout-out to Matthew Ebel, who has an album of the same name We’ll feature a podsafe music track at the end of the show. Its been a while since I had music in the show.

Enjoy the show and Stay Caffeinated!

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• Where else can you find me? www.paulrjmuller.com

The show is rated G but the Links for today might contain a bit of harsh language. Its not that I don’t think you can handle it I just want to be upfront about it.

Geek Cruft

• Trent Reznor has left the building, and twitter (Harsh Language)
  
  • The one way NIN Twitter Space
• Your GPS is not always right, what ever happened to Measure twice cut once?
• DTV Transition going off pretty well according to FCC
• Small Local Issues, and silly news stories RE: DTV
• German Teenager struck by meteor, does not gain super powers
• iPhone Upgrade Hoopla, here’s your bed. Now lie down
• Microsoft offers to ditch browers in the EU
  • Apple should ditch Safari too. but no one will sue them
• Microsoft to develope free antivirus solution!
• Officially Windows 7 will drop October 22
• Navy is getting lasers for their ships, no word on shark training
• Did you get a Facebook URL? Humerous take on the process
• Geek Art, Open Source Embroidery

Food & Caffeinated Bits

Today’s Coffee: French Press Kona

• This would be a huge hit in our house. Mac and Cool Bowl
• Via Twitter: Today show invites Coffee Guest and then acts badly
• Kona Coffee… or is it?
• Topless Coffee house will rebuild after fire
• Ya Mon! Marley Coffee debuts and looks to help Jamaican People
  • I’m looking forward to trying this stuff!
• Energy Drinks banned in schools? Education not legislation
• Flying Fish Imperial Espresso Porter

Music!

Matthew Ebel: Drive Away, from Beer and Coffee

Thanks and Stay Caffeinated People!

 

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Today’s Show is free and clear of any issues… sort of

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My time is over for recovering now its time to get back to work. A bit of a missed show from last time was due to exhaustion from the weekend activities. I hope you enjoy today’s packed episode with tons of great stories dealing with legos, ships and caffeine it will all make sense as you listen in I promise.

Lots of interesting news items came across my desk but I culled out the weak to only deliver the strong, interesting and funny to your ears.

Enjoy the show and Stay Caffeinated!

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Geek Cruft

• Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday is upon us. here is what is being fixed
• Know your little green men
• Sound like you belong in the engine room on Star Trek
• Think outside the box, for your kids. Lego Style. For James
• Lego Architecture, the designer Thanks James!
  
• Lego Battleship Yamamoto, to lego minfig scale for dave
  
• Remote control Titanic, good idea? Leo not included
• Spend it if you have it. Sail  a mini oil tanker
• More than meets the eye. Lifesized Mech
• Possible battery breakthrough?
• Modded CNC Machine, Kali
• how lazy are you? metal detector sandals
• Tricorder’s great grandfather invented
• Incandescent bulbs strike back
• Handheld game emulator

Food & Caffeinated Bits

• Let them eat cake, robots fatten us up for the kill
• Swiss army knife meets the modern kitchen
• Bacon Ball candy… errr
• Lego Cake
• Crackheads now have their own candy
• Mini Microwave for beans
• Caffeinated Water? Avitae Energy Water reviewed

Thanks and Stay Caffeinated People!

A short time ago i was approached about reviewing a caffeinated water product called Avitae, pronounced  ah-vee-tay. I jumped at the chance because their hook is that there are no extra flavors or chemicals in the beverage, just water and caffeine. I was intrigued, and frankly after trying and panning more than a few syrupy sweet energy drinks I was looking for a refreshing change.

The Claims:

I like simple  and easily provable claims to judge products on. Most companies that make simple statements don’t have anything to hide, which is what I like. Cut the buzzwords give me the facts.

• Claim #1: Water, Caffeine Nothing else
• Claim #2: Tastes like nothing
• Claim #3: Gives you a boost

Like I said Simple enough for anyone to give it a run down. Read the rest of this entry »

 

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Today’s Show is freewheeling

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Due to E3 happening this week there are a ton of news items floating around about video games in general i roll through a general discussion about a couple of things in the industry as well as take a look at some of the cooler announcements. We also look at lawnmowers, peek and Windows 7 and see whats trending in the world of Caffeine.

Overall the show is a bit front loaded, but no less awesome we are running today’s episode on a good deal of coffee, but what else is new? Like a Indy race this episode is open wheeled. I’m getting a little tired of the show note format i was using so i’m trying to go off the reservation a bit more with these episodes. Still delivering fresh and new content but not necessarily being tied down to one article on a topic.

Please let me know which style you prefer? Links galore, or freewheeling discussion. I’m probably going to stick with a mix for now.

Enjoy the show and Stay Caffeinated!

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• Where else can you find me? www.paulrjmuller.com

Geek Cruft

• What is the Web Trend Map? The 2009 version is here!
• Why Windows 7, debuting Oct 22nd, won’t inherit vista’s problems
• Video Game Rundown, a bit of discussion, not just links
  • Video Link: Xbox 360 Project Natal
  • People who got to play with the Natal hardware give their impressions
  • Yet more accessories, but this looks intriguing, Tony Hawk Knows Skateboards
  • Sony has motion capture now too
  • Wii to add pulse tracker and New motion senors
  • New Wii fit game too
  • As controllers change what do the games do?
  • Lots of exciting news about news games too
• Philly brings in Solar Powered trashcans to save money? Big Belly, neat idea
• Beautiful Steampunk laptop
• They have figured how to keep a heart beating without us…
• Rechargeable lawnmower, My small yard makes me smile
  • I wish we still had this
• A Nintendo in a shoe?
• Color Picker Pen, design concept only, but unbelievable idea
• Two Different Secret Agent Pens

Food & Caffeinated Bits

• Caffeine Nap, it works but would your office let you?
• Trending: Caffeinated gum warning for kids… ummm duh?
• When does common sense kick in?
• Does your water need an 800 dollar filter?
• Beer ants… not really but still kind of cool
• Working on a bunch of reviews and articles a new Espresso Vodka, and Caffeinated water

Thanks and Stay Caffeinated People!