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Today’s show has a ton of great tech in the lineup, a bevy of awesome food and coffee related articles at its beckon call but more than anything is has the warm assistance of my new baby girl helping out in the wee hours. It seems she’s a night owl like her father.

I have big plans going forward for both the Caffination Podcast as it sits right now and Puzzle Piece Productions as a company. I’ve put off a bunch of work that needed to be done but vacation is over and things are getting back to what passed for normal around here.

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Geek Cruft

• Info from a listener about the baby monitor! Thanks Brandon
• New Kindle new price, do you care?
• Chevy Volt has a price tag, It Ain’t Easy Being Green (Kermit is crying)
  • Bonus for awesome iPhone Jab
• Darth Vader Crime Spree, Photoshop is awesome
• Remote control Millennium Falcon, Please stop the Kessel Run jokes. Lazy and Bad
• Awesome Belated Koopa Trooper Shirt
• Zombie Mario, Thanks Norbert
• So Awesome… Flamethrower vs Fire Extinguisher in slow motion
• Is Hulu less popular or are the numbers wrong, never trust statistics
• Lego Headphones
• Panasonic packages headphones just right
• iPhone jail-breaking is now legal

Food and Caffeinated Bits

• Yes there is a robot that can flip pancakes
• But can it deep fry them
• Why would you need to save a beer? Well now you can
• Awesome digital scale, not quite perfect
• How others Do Iced Coffee, JimSeven Speaks
• CoffeeNate throws down on some overused terms
• What do you think of Coffee steak: Caffination Cooks!
  • I want to do more of these
  • but better
  • I mean a lot better

Many Thanks for listening, Stay Caffeinated!

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Fresh Tech news, some funky edible links

I fixed the problem with coffee in the house. Forgot I could program a drip brewer I have in the basement. Now on to tougher issues like why my baby monitor sounds like the new kid is on dialup, I swear it was a 14.4 to boot. Between Cell Phones, wifi, Baby monitors, cordless phones, clickers and anything else wireless in your house these airwaves are getting pretty crowded. .

I have a bunch of fun lighthearted news stories for you from the tech realm, and awesome bit of geek cookery on the caffeinated bit side, so you wanted Caffeinated steak? I have that one, and it tasted oh so good.

When things calm down and we have a schedule back in place I’ll keep more up on the news, Or you can always send your lovely bits of cruft in to us and we’ll get right on it. I have a couple fun reviews coming up, a bit more video if i can do it as well. So in short this should be fun.

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Geek Cruft

• LED chess, the only way to geek it up more would be 3D LED chess
• Groovy awesome Fireflow Portable Lava Lamp
• 8 bite cites, Google Maps gone retro, make every city look like an Ultima Map
• Comi9con brings the Geek Cred and the awesome
• Stand back Stark Ent, Real Repulsor
• Millennium Falcon Guitar, que the Kessel run jokes
• No More Sofa King Awesome Couch Mobile
• Make your own Android Plastic buddy
• Onstar / GM release the app for multiple cars. Subscriptions

Food and Caffeinated Bits

• New Geek Food site Nerdalicious brings the awesome with Coffee Design Love
• Cold boulders or faux ice?
• Stick with whiskey stones
• Beer opening T shirt? Thinkgeek strikes again
• May the beer be with you, Lightsaber Bottle Opener
• Coffee reviews and equipment, my .02
• iNeedCoffee rocks Iced Coffee
• How to do a real Cafe au Lait for the lactose tolerant
• Coffee steak: Caffination Cooks!

Many Thanks for listening, Stay Caffeinated!

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This is the first attempt at a Cooking show CaffiNation Style. That is I hold the camera in one hand and make the yummy with the other. This bit is around 15 minutes long,, but takes you completely through two different steak rubs and adds a bit of information in about the perfect corn on the grill as well.

So grab a cup of your favorite Iced Coffee and join us for the Inaugural CaffiNation Cooks!

As always I’d love to hear your experiences with the recipe and your take on the video. What can I do to make this better for you?

Special Introduction by the Boy, but he didn’t stick around for the rest of the fun.

Tags: Coffee, coffee steak, Grilling, Love, steak, sweet and spicy steak

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Sweet Dreams, and Awesome tech

So tell anyone around that you have a newborn and they laugh in your face about the lack of sleep. Quite rude when it comes down to it. But so far we’ve had the bad and the good, and it is our second kid so we sort of know how to operate on minimal sleep. Hey I might even know a thing or two about coffee…

My problem has surprisingly come from the coffee. I haven’t made time to make enough coffee in a timely manner so I look a lot more tired than I really should be. Thats my story, sticking to it.

So We have a bunch of fun tech and a few bits of really awesome content to share as well. I need to speed up video production, I’ve come to the understanding that I can’t do video onmy spiffy point and shoot, the codec just plain doesn’t play well with Premier. Using that camera adds an extra 5 steps into any video shoot. not cool Canon.

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Geek Cruft

• Dyson Multiplier Balloon test. 450 is a tough nut to crack for a fan
• Smart use of Geolocation, in your Thermostat.
• Optimus Prime is actually made in China, Probably covered in lead paint too
• Would you pay to sit? Art or lawsuit waiting to happen
• Super Mario Playing Cards! I so want these
• Super Mario Chess, fan tas tic
• Real Life Mario Cart board game?
• I’m a geek, gadgets for kid raising do not entice me
• Perhaps this is a bad idea. Pay attention to your child

Food and Caffeinated Bits

• Not really Duct tape mug, but still pretty awesome
• Hello Kitty Sushi Maker
• Chemex How to video, i need to get me one of these
• Coffee steak video coming up soon!

Many Thanks for listening, Stay Caffeinated!

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Newest Staff Member now on the Scene.

Ladies and gentlemen boys and girls children of all ages, Come one come all to to meet the newest member of the CaffiNation Lair’s Staff.

It is with great joy that we welcome Amber Elizabeth Muller, She entered the world yelling at 3:09 pm July 12th. Despite the fact that a true lady never tells we are making an exception in this case. She weighs in at 6 lbs and 9 ounces. And stretches out to 19.5 inches long. Both Mother, baby big brother and yours truly are all happy and healthy

So we have plenty to talk about but for great tech content I’ll have to direct you elsewhere.

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Geek Cruft

• How does a geek pass the time?
• What Am I Reading? Hackers, a great book on history of computer crufting
• What am I listening to? Well Totally Cool Tech Huge thanks for this show!
  • Geek Radio Daily
  • Podiobook : How to Succeed in Evil
  • The Knightcast
• Sketching but more on that Later

Food and Caffeinated Bits

• Starbucks coffee in the Hospital, So much better than machine Made

Many Thanks for listening, Stay Caffeinated!

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How secure is your connection? The countdown has begun.

So the final countdown to three becoming four has commenced, things are locked down around the house and names have been chosen. Funny thing about all the little preps and plans is that life outside our home is moving forward at the same breakneck pace and we’ll just be getting off the bus for a little bit.

So there are plenty of things to talk about today, information security, LED’s, Zombies, Espresso, hacking and iPhones, because what would round out a fun old fashioned mish mash of an episode like a complete 360 of Internet and caffeine culture?

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Geek Cruft

• Secret code in a US government agency seal? Yawn
• Real data on iPhone signal loss, yes it’s there, no it’s not that bad
• you could always add an antennae
• It’s Peanut Butter Jelly TIME!
• Zombie Fit Classes, via Chris
• What Really Happens during a Zombie Outbreak, via Dean
• Some Kids never grow up, Cockpit bedroom, kinda freaky
• Hey McFly! Shoes that lace themselves
• July 5th 2010… we missed it
• Magnetic putty?
• Social Engineering will always work, because humans are weak.

Food and Caffeinated Bits

• OBEY the Bean, possibly a shirt design
• Cooking / baking cheat sheet
• The most reassuring words from an expert? I don’t know…
  • It means they are being honest with you
• Stack your libations
• Yet another Cold Brewed Contraption, Similar to the Ronco. Interesting
• Diary of an Espresso Hacker. A walk though and a fun read for hacking your machine
• Via MAS, Zombie Fit? Nope hows about an Espresso Cart?

Many Thanks for listening, Stay Caffeinated!

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Form over Function Friday returns with a fun little design concept I’ve been working on. This is probablky going to end up as a T-Shirt design, hopefully.

I’ve had the idea rattling around my head for a while, I think it turned out pretty good. What say you?

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Tidy is the Name of the game: It Ain’t Easy Being Clean

There is plenty to do around the house right now, i just have to be sure not to mess anything up too badly, there would be consequences, so besides staying out of trouble and getting things set up in work for me being out for a bit we’re on autopilot.

Tonight’s show we talk about Star Wars, again! propaganda again! and steampunk AGAIN! The topics are staying the same but the content just keeps flowing. The good thing is that the content, like a grape left on the vine through a frost, is only getting sweeter. We have plenty of cruft from all different angles pouring in so sit back, grab a mug and enjoy the ride!

With no end to the video problem in site I might just give in and call off the video show for right now, Or see if i can approach the video from a different camera angle. If you have ever converted an FLV from Ustream into an actual usable file I’d love to hear it your process. Basically that is m,y problem, i can’t find a way to reliably convert the flv into a manageable format. Ustream has some funky encoding going on.

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Geek Cruft

• Dell messed up BAD
• Verizon, the iPhone and sales predictions. My spin as well
• Take your iPhone on a retro trip, Tin can anyone?
• Hi… this is NASA can you lend us a hand
• OK now I want an AT-AT as a pet
• Victorian Star Wars Portraits
• Propaganda inspired Star Wars Movie Posters
• Nintendo Love Tester?
• Armchair warriors rejoice! A Mouse in hand is worth one on the desk
• Spiffy new, REAL TRON bike
• A LEGO and a turtle go into a room… this comes out
• Chrome, flash and youtube all in one crazy setup
• Military Power Leaching made easy, please don’t try this
• Thomas the Transformer? Awesome
• Think you had a good costume? 7ft tall Halo Elite

Food and Caffeinated Bits

• Everybody needs an Inflatable Pub, darts would be a bad idea
• Do we really need to improve on Popsicle makers?
• First the Pub now a Backpack Tap system?
• Waffle on a Stick?
• Simple utensil change for a cleaner kitchen

Many Thanks for listening, Stay Caffeinated!

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