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Server… you got some splain’in to do
Next week we start to gear up for the Adopt a newb celebration. but tonight is all about a fun little look at some of the more egagning tech stories out there.
From Lego Synths to Google Apps this episode covers a lot of ground. We talk about failed and winning art projects good verse bad coffee and i rant a little bit about control of the factors of production
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Where oh Where di the blog post go? Server has been down / database problems abounding for a day now, and i’m back in. Somehow this episode got deleted, but the fun thing about that is that it had been up for a day and a half before anything had happened to i am at a loos for words…
From Bleeding Glaciers to well placed products and people this show touches briefly on all the awesome bits of pop culture geek cruft and caffeinated goodness floating about the interwebs tonight!
Tonight’s show is a perfect example of why Sunday Shows simply can’t be live, but can still be awesome. I started researching the show with the idea of a bite sized version of the caffination to put up. A couple of stories here and there and early to bed. Well it wasn’t to be there was just too much awesome floating around on the interwebs to truncate the show too much.
This is shaping up to be a crazy week, with the kidlettes all gone for spring break I have a ton of stuff to get back on track. After this the crazy sprint to the end of the semester begins. Its funny how working at a university, this closely with the students, shifts your focus to the condensed timeline that students use. Either way its going to be an interesting ride.
Next week we start to gear up for the Adopt a newb celebration so I’m going to be talking about that a bit as well.
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Tags: antenna, apple, bacon robot, Bike, bike hands, candybar, chill pill, Coffee, glaciers, gloves, ipad, Meh, Microsoft courier, repost
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Free Coffee, And a night full of energy
Tonight’s live show is yet another in a long line of fun shows we’re trying. If you see something that could be better or some feature you would like to have added please feel free to drop me a line. I love the interaction of the live taping and if you’ve never stopped by we’d love to have you.
This show is a bit of everything and i really felt like we did in fact seize the night. A great crew of people assembled to listen and comment in on the taping as well as host of wonderful tech and caffeinated goodies played a fun part as well.
Everywhere from medical journalism to coffee community’s responsibility was covered. Funny stories hard hitting news, and everything in between.
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Tags: android, apple, giveaway, kansas, medical news, meme, Microsoft, okgo, pillows, responsibility, Robots, shady, Tickets
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Crazy Gadgets and fun announcements, Free Coffee Too!
Today is a fun day. February is always a weird month its over far too quick, you think some of the months with 31 days could spare a day here and there, make a little sense in the world, but no. Leap years aside tomorrow starts March already!
Plenty of bits of random interesting detris littered their way across my feed reader, lego dinosaurs. Mario, Batman, and The search for ET all show up in this episode so pay attention. Not to mention a wonderful coffee section, listen in for how to get free coffee!
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Tags: Batman, dinosaur, free coffee, Google, latitude, Lego, peets coffee, robot, skype, Steampunk, totallycooltech, TV, Uzuri
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 I was recently contacted by representatives of of Peet’s Coffee to try their new Uzuri African Blend.This is nothing out of the ordinary, but what sets this product apart is the information that accompanied the blend. Peet’s Coffee is working with Technoserve as a way to promote and fund sustainable economic development in impoverished nations. A noble ideal and an interesting concept. All the while promoting the partnership through tasty beverages.
Basically Technoserve works with local farmers to teach them the skills to increase production refine their product and market it more efficiently so that the people responsible for growing the coffee can have a better life. Technoserve does not seem to limit their activities to coffee, but in this case the proof was in the press pot.
After reading the rest of the review below make sure you enter in to win some for yourself. Deadline March 3rd
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Tags: African Coffee, Peet's Uzuri Review, Peete's Coffee, peets coffee, peets uzuri african blend, Technoserve, Uzuri Review
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Updated Stories, fantastic reviews and a well caffeinated evening
To say that I’m surprised would be an understatement. I honestly left the live show for dead over a year ago thinking that no one would ever come to watch a taping of my podcast let alone develope into any sort of community. Now i have people looking specifically for this, I’m both humbled that people enjoy it so much and pretty enthused about where we could go. I’m not quite stoked yet, i don’t think i’ve ever been stoked.
Tonight’s Show we talk about giant LEGO robots, massive man made machines and ghostbusters on the wii. We touch on location based problems with Google buzz and tap into the latest in serious real world problems facing the tech of today. But nothing too serious wouldn’t want anyone to learn anything too quickly now would we?
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So its going to snow again, philly averages 20 inches a year we have had 65, the last snow just finally started disappearing and tonight we try to add some more ice to the fire, what a crazy year this has been. Chances and forecasts are looking for 5 – 18 inches in my area depending on your impending doom cast…
A wonderful live show was interrupted by a kid-let waking in the middle of the show, and a house in disarray. Things got back on track but only after a hunt through the bowels of a spare parts box found the mystic universal power adapter. All hail the universal adapter. Its been a long night so please excuse the crazies, unless you enjoy them then enjoy away.
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Tags: bagger 288, free coffee, kettle, Lego, nanny state, Review, robot, Rooibos, star destroyer, Star Wars, Tea, Village Tea Company Review, Walmart
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When people see the CaffiNation they assume I only drink Coffee. I love coffee, but I also tend to drink my fair share of tea as well. Not only do I enjoy a good cup of tea i think bad tea is worse by far than bad coffee.
I was approached about reviewing the Village Tea Company’s Rooibos. Specifically the Cherry Me Bloom Rooibos with Acai. First order of business with anything new is to check up on what all the fun words mean and apparently this tea like so many others is full of antioxidants and other bits of healthy goodness. Selling points of health marketing aside I wanted to know how it tastes! Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: CaffiNation Review, Product Review, Rooibos, Vilage Tea Company Tasting, Village Tea Company, Village Tea Company Review
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 I know that chances are you like coffee if you are eyeballing this site. If not no worries, coffee being the 2nd most traded commodity in the world besides oil, means you probably at least know someone who likes coffee. Possibly even loves coffee. And Everyone i know loves free things. So how does free coffee sound to you?
I recently received a sample of Peet’s Coffee’s new Uzuri African Blend. Peet’s Coffee is working with Technoserve as a way to promote and fund sustainable economic development in impoverished nations. The Uzrui blend is only available for a limited time.
And the lovely people who sent it to me also wanted to share the wealth with the rest of the CaffiNation listening audience. So I have 5 bags of coffee to give away. And we’re going to start doing that next week. The review for the coffee will be up before the end of the week but the fun starts now! Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: free coffee, free peets coffee, peets coffee, peets uzuri african blend, uzuri african blend, uzuri blend, win coffee, win free coffee
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Heavy Topics and Lighthearted laughs
There are a ton of different stories that can be covered by this show, they range in the stone serious to the laughably funny. We try to strike a balence to keep people both entertained and informed. With Caffeine in our bellies and concern in our hearts we try to walk the line between the stoic and the silly. This episode showcases that dichotomy quite well.
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Tags: Coffee, Contebnt, dragons, DRM, droid, laptop kerfuffle, LHC, LOL Button, Mushroom Kingdom, Piracy, Quilts, Rube Goldberg, School Laptop, sleep, Study
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 Wave of the future or messy addiction? This gizmo uses a shortwave radio reciever to create what they dub very slow scan TV. The machines is a Canvas of ink filled bubble wrap. It is able to create 1 frame of Video per day. At 24 frames per second you can make a 30 second commercial in 720 days, or 1.97 years… AT very low def i might add. with shifty color…
Ok at some point its not tech and its just fun because we can. The scanner travels back and forth across the canvas which is a giant roll of bubble wrap injecting dye inot each bubble. The problem is that TV is don in RGB, percentages of Red Green and Blue, as the three primary colors of light. Pigment doesn’t work that way so they need to use Cyan Magenta and Yellow dye to create similar colors. CYM. Which is the same set of basic inks most printers use. Bigger images and a video of the contraption in action after the jump Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: cmy, cmyk, high def. fun, just because, low def, printer, rgb, tech, TV
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