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It’s time to light the lights

The Students are back, Podcamp Philly is in a month, and everything is going at lightspeed. Good thing I had plenty of coffee in the house. But supplies are running low, the work is piling up and I may have to start foraging soon. Good things are that the Podcamp Philly T shirt designs have been finalized! Overall the computer setup in work was without issue, except for the one issue which I’m working on. A bunch of boring news you will hear reiterated 40 thousand times happened this past week. I consider it my solemn duty to find the off the beaten path type of stuff, so hopefully you get your fill of fun.

About Tonight’s show,I sifted through the tattered remains of my week to find bits of awesome content. Hopefully you enjoy steampunk, science fiction movies, coffee, t shirts and geekery as much as I do. But then again you ARE listening to the only place that has all of the above with any type of regularity! Enjoy the show.

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Geek Cruft

• Boring News, Apple announces stuff, XBL price goes up DS price goes down
• CaffiNation Sci Fi Love, 100 years in the making
• 5 Sci Fi Movies that got bits of Science right before the fiction
• Speaking of Jules, and Verne. hows about a steampunk Optimus Prime? Sure why not
• Wookie the Chew, and other classics! I love his art but this is crazy awesome
• Death Metal, or Jazz or anything. Cremation Records
• Autocad, coming to iPhone, iPad, and Mac… not sure what to think
• Hmmm playdoh that can carry electricity. Yeah this looks like a bomb
• They’re BAAACK, Commodore PC’s to start sell new tech in vintage shells
• iPhone App replacing Stethoscopes? not sure how I feel about this
• Liquid Nitrogen, Some Dude’s HAND equals Awesome Picture

Food and Caffeinated Bits

• Frosting Pen, Say it with Tasty!
• Awesome idea for a cup coozy
• Under the seat bottle opener
• How to represent coffee and not be naked
• Antioxidants not as plentiful in bottled tea when compared to homebrew
• Tune your beer to the right notes
• Awesome Back to school coffee guide. Mine is taking too long

Many Thanks for listening, Stay Caffeinated!

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Tags: antioxidant, bottle opener, caffination podcast, Coffee, coozy, copyright, frosting, movies, optimus prime, Paul Rj Muller, sci-fi, Steampunk, Tea

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We’re all here because we’re not all there tonight!

By the By that line above is from an Aerosmith song, It just fits me right about now so I’m sticking with it. Things are moving along as they tend to do around the Caffination Lair, nothing too huge planned. However other areas are ramping up, The Students are back, Podcamp Philly is in a month, and so many other little things are piling on. And I have no clue why my dog has decided to be extra skittish of late either. Is there a full moon coming or something?

About Tonight’s show, I found some truly awesome things from inventions which could literally change the world as we know it. To Flamethrower trombones… I reviewed a pretty awesome book, we run down the news of the day and I go off on a bit of a rant about the state of coffee blogging. Somehow the website is inching back towards productivity and I’m feeling better about the shows we are doing, I hope you are enjoying them too!

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Geek Cruft

• CaffiNation Book Review: Hello, Android
• Plastic back into oil?  Why are there not more of these machines?
• Call me from Gmail… WOW
• Bird safe windows
• Flamethrower Trombone… two words I never thought I would write together
• First the Tauntaun, then the bear, now a shark… sleep is getting dangerous
• Sleep is also getting more compact, can you tell i’d like a nap too?
• Buy fine crafted steampunk guns
• Or use your creativity and build a model yourself
• Yet another USB wall circuit, and why it isn’t a good idea yet
• Star Wars as a silent Movie, awesome but lacks James Earl Jones… which is sad
• I loved me some excite bike, now you can have it all over again

Food and Caffeinated Bits

• Coffee Articles that should not be
• Cupping via an app? Hows about some droid love, Via DSOC
• Bats OD on Coffee something Fierce Via DSOC
• Drink from your faucet
• Peel potatoes like a MAN
• But Grill like a GOD

Many Thanks for listening, Stay Caffeinated!

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Tags: android, flamethrower trombone, gmail, grill, laser, meat, Oil, plastic, potato, recycle, sleeping bags, Steampunk

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We’re all here because we’re not all there tonight!

Finding the time is not getting easier per say, but rather working with less time and less planned time is getting a bit smoother. I’m guessing i was just out of practice at working on no sleep. Beyond that things are pretty normal around here. And everything is moving along in work, There is something very satisfying about tackling problems with time to work on them.

About Tonight’s show, we have a mish mash of lighthearted news overall. I steered clear of the doom and gloom. Looking for a way to un-acoustify your guitar? Perhaps you wanted to know Look for secrets from your armchair and a Google earth install? Or mayhaps you wanted to cheer on your favorite nerd themed sports teams? Well all of those fun little bits as well as a goodly helping of caffeinated bits are yours for the taking.

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Geek Cruft

• Secrets and information from Google earth
• Vote for Pacman!
• Guitar Hole Amp
• Petal drop rain collection system
• Lego… Steampunk… Sooo Awesome it hurts
• File this under things you would have a hard time shipping
• Android battery life helper, Plus my experiences with 2.2
• We’re all read through a plastic submarine
• D and D sports teams?
• Lady Java, double entendre theater, Slightly nsfw song
• Office Telephone, More than Slightly nsfw song: Apparently Geeks Loves Lady Gaga
• Nuetra Face, Because Fonts Need Love too. More Gaga, this one is older
• Standing Desk? I like the idea, don’t know if I could swing it

Food and Caffeinated Bits

• { Lolly } Pop Art
• Coffee Hero unplugged… a long strange road ahead
• You Roast too dark, Try what the wonderful world outside of dark roasted can bring
• Coffee Articles to come, got tangled up this week

Many Thanks for listening, Stay Caffeinated!

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Tags: acoustic, android, D&D, dark roasted, Google Earth, Guitar, lady gaga, lady java, petal, rain, secret, Sports, standing room only, unplug

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While I may have found the track, I’m not sure i’f I’m on it yet

Fun times are hear again, it is Wednesday, the day with the secret N. Its also time for yet another installment of the CaffiNation Podcast. While I may have found a bit of energy in some dark mystic corner of the coffee pot, there is no garuntee that I’ll be able to keep the party going for long. So with that in mind i cut out the junk and found only some fo the most interesting and offbeat content to share for the night.

Tonight’s show has a bit of things you may hear elsewhere, Like Net Neutrality and Facebook Places A bit you may find intriguing like Coffee toothpicks and bits that just had to be shared because of their sheer awesomeness, like a set of filing cabinets… Wait…. Doesn’t sound too awesome? Well you need to listen in to find out why they ARE!

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Geek Cruft

• Facebook desperately trying to remain relevant takes on Geolocation, thanks Mom
• Google and Verizon throw some bits at a wall but will they stick?
• Immortal Trees loosing their potency, why not just cut off their head?
• Dislike at you own risk, beware of scams
• How to make office work fun! Add Mario
• If you deliver soda, your work is your pallet
• wii tablet? Fingerpainting sans mess just isn’t as fun
• iPad to finally get some competition
• First Chrome OS device to roll out soon!
• Homer, iPhone… iPhone… Homer DOH!
• Yes… this is the droid I’m looking for
• Snuggie for nerds
• Gadget Shaped Silly Bands… I never understood this trend

Food and Caffeinated Bits

• Coffee toothpicks for those hard to reach latte kinda days
• Portable, Recyclable French press. Pirillo?
• Zagat recognizes people like charcoal. Starbucks wins best coffee, again
• Bubble Tea I hardly Knew ye

Many Thanks for listening, Stay Caffeinated!

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Tags: android, apple, bubble tea, charbucks, chrome os, coffee toothpick, dislike button, Droid2, facebook places, foursquare, French Press, Google, homer, immortal trees, ipad, iphone, R2D2 edition, silly bands, Simpsons, Snuggie, Starbucks, tablet, verizon

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Short of time large on fun, Baby steps to getting the show back on track

I sit here at a desk I should have been at long before, with a contrite and exhausted heart. I’ve missed more time than I intended but thats not going to slow me down, the problem is that I haven’t been forthritght with my notices. You deserve a post at the vvery least if and when things come up.

So we have a shortened show tonight, brimming with great bits of fun, and a fussy little helper. Did the whole show with my daughter on my arm because she’s having a bit of a rough go of it right now. Hopefully the sultry sounds of my voice lull her to sleep without dulling the awesome content we have for you

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Geek Cruft

• Venn Diagrams are awesome
• Sam’s Club now has wifi, is it free if you need to be a member?
• Dark Jedi have laundry problems
• Chill Pill… take one
• How lazy do you need to be to have a machine slink your slinky
  • [This is a clean show folks get your minds out of the gutter]
• Flash drive luggage Tag. Not too sure about this one
• Sharpie comes out with Liquid Pencil
• Weeble Wobble Markers?
• True Bona Fide Dustless chalk
• Ape on a DS

Food and Caffeinated Bits

• Horrid Espresso, dirty shame
• Revive Energy Mints Review
• The four M’s of Espresso
• Modified Mug for Cookie allowances?
• State of Coffee News, 3 good and three bad stories. Trend the good people

Many Thanks for listening, Stay Caffeinated!

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Tags: Ape, cookie, DS, Energy Mints, Espresso, mug, sharpie, weeble wobble, writing tools

Hello formerly loyal listeners of the CaffiNation Podcast, I hope you’re still out there. So By now you may have noticed we missed two shows in a row… this is bad… very very bad. And something i can’t remember having done in a very long time.

I apologize. I can only offer the bags under my eyes and the nighttime crying, mostly from the baby, up as a panacea for your tech and caffeine deprived ears. I am committed to continuing to bring you awesome content. Hopefully the baby will calm down a bit. With most of the monumental functions for a little while out of the way I can focus on sleeping and enjoying coffee, and recording great shows.

I can’t do a show with lackluster effort, nor content. So If I wouldn’t listen to me I can’t in good conscience record something. I may end up moving to slightly shorter shows for a while in a concerted effort to get the best content and show out as possible. So stay tuned another episode isn’t too far behind.

“Life is not one big joke, life is a bunch of little ones all lined up right in a row… there they are”

~ Richard Pryor : Moving

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Life is still throwing curveballs and I’m still fouling them off. But I think I’m wearing the pitcher down a bit. So Sports metaphors aside. Its late, the show must go on and I have a ton of great things to share. Trying to keep the tone light and fluffy, way too much doom and gloom in the world. We need more fluffy, bright shiny and fun news.

Today’s selection is filled to the brim with awesome. I’m going to be working on a couple videos this week and some product reviews so While the stuff isn’t out yet I have big plans! So for tonight i collected the best of this past week’s news and shared it in one easy to enjoy format.

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Geek Cruft

• Join the dark side, Storm trooper Hood Ornament.
• Geek Inferno, A 3D collage of awesome, should have been a luxo lamp
• You Build it Monopoly, Neat concept
• Train fanatics have a little hotel love in Japan
• Faux Vintage ads for modern stuff, not quite as awesome as propaganda style but still neat
• Duct tape race track!
• Spy tools update twitter with a fun little hack
• Do I need to pay for these or can i just make them? Floppy Disk Fridge Magnets
• Ahh the FCC, the toothless wonder is barking again.

Food and Caffeinated Bits

• Mmmmm multiple mini steak thermometer
• MMMM Multiple digital steak thermometers.
• I still prefer the eyeball method
• A little Coffee Dry Rub? Sounds awesome
• Apparently my recipe is a bit heavier on the coffee
• Spiffy yellow espresso machine, just for the pretty
• Even Biker’s need espresso

Many Thanks for listening, Stay Caffeinated!

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Tags: ad copy, Coffee, duct tape, Espresso, fcc, Google, monopology, Net Nuetrality, rtech chet, rumor, steak, temperature, thermometer, verizon

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Today’s show has a bunch of fun links sent in by our wonderful listeners. The more you send the more I share! I love getting emails, stories or whatever that you think is cool. I try my best to pass everything relevant on to the group. Tonight’s show was a rough one, Sunday would have been impossible. First day back to work in a while on monday and not much sleep going on. It’s not an excuse its a very real reality right now. I’m just doing the best I can.

Today’s collection is full of serious and fun content as per usual, but with a focus on the fun. Because who really needs all the hard hitting news all the time, there are better educated people out there who are qualified to tell you whats up, I just try to entertain you along your journey. We have coffee and closings, hot sauce and cool couches the fun never ends!

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Geek Cruft

• Google wave: no one could figure it out so away it goes, sort of
• I kind of liked it, I thought of it as Email Plus
• Google to add sign in for multiple account holders! this is awesome
• Just for fun… the DUMP Star!
• Paleontologists find out that the Triceratops is actually a Torosaurus, But make the right choice vis a vi naming rights. We miss you Brontosaurus
• To everyone who submitted this. Halo for the Atari is awesome! and Thank you
• Epson makes us all kids again. Prints giant Tab A to Slot B Car!
• Pixels? Cushions? Living Space Invaders
• Mini Racer with big display, so many cool ideas
• OK who wants to try experimental cribs out? Not so much…
• So… you need to pick a typeface. Comic Sans is never an option BTW
• Cubicle or Ball Pit you decide

Food and Caffeinated Bits

• The Anthropology of Coffee, The name seems off. Possibly Modern US Coffee Culture would be better
• And now for something completely different. A pig Nose Mug
• Hand ground coffee on the go? Thanks Russel
• Frozen… hot… Chocolate? Can’t be that hot then can it?
• Big Easy Cold Brewed Coffee
• Dial your Hot Sauce in, great idea!
• Star Wars Cupcake Armada, May the the Frosting be with you

Many Thanks for listening, Stay Caffeinated!

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Tags: Anthropology, Coffee, cubicle pranks, Dinosaurs, google accounts, google wave, halo 2600, history, retro halo, Star Wars

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Recorded with Help, Awesome all on its own

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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Tags: android, Caffination, chevy volt, Coffee, deep fry, digital scale, flamethrower, iced coffee, iphone, jailbreaking, Kindle, Mario, pancakes, Star Wars, statistics, Zombie

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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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