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Apologies ahead of time for the quality of my voice today

I’m very stuffed up. Didn’t think it showed as much as it did. After editing the show it sounds pretty funny if i do say so myself. think clothespin on the nose.

So the caper went down like this the wife baked cookies today, not just any cookies but chocolate chip cookies, thus starts the descent into madness around the holidays. I’ve been working on the lair most of the weekend including a goodly time today, so a stolen cookie is my reward. They may be being saved for a family function later on this week, but they tasted sooo good.

By the by… stolen cookies topped with uncooked cookie dough is a lesson in love… right there on your tongue, it dances. But you came to learn about tech and all other manner of fun things. I have a snippet of tech a little bit of deals and a couple morsels of caffeinated hijinks to saite you for the week.  This episode is dubbed the sneaking cookies, because that act of theft powered the show into the wee hours of the morning.

The Podcast Madness continues, they’re now giving away an Epson Artisan 810, on a spiffy new site no less. I love Epson printers, you simply can’t beat them for clarity and brilliant colors, and these loons are giving a good printer away scott free. Well you do have to listen in to our show and the others in the mix to get you chances. Last chance to enter till November 25th

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Enjoy the show!

• Back Channel: All the Cruft, non of the Chaff now with more fluff
• Where else can you find me? www.paulrjmuller.com
• Congrats to Paul & Kim on my new cousin Connor.

Geek Cruft:

• Presenting, my presentations
• NASA live online launch was awesome
• NSA helps design windows 7 security should we worry?
  • Cattle mutilations are up…
• Google puts out more information on Chrome OS, debuting 2010
• Taun-taun costume… scary awesome
• Stormtrooper shoes?
• 20th Anniversary Pump Sneakers
• Plane lands in LAVA
• Smokers denied service at Apple Store
• Black Friday deal page, so far

Food and Caffeinated Bits:

• A chocolate chip cookie dunked in coffee is pure heaven… that is all
• US closer to a ban on Caffeinated Alcohol
• Caffeinated Alcohol industry responds
• If caffeine fights cancer, then the FDA is endangering me?
• 25 innovative coffee cup designs
• Mustachio’d Wine holder

Want to contribute?

Feel free to send in any recipes, reviews or like minded articles and I’ll gladly post it with a link back to your lair!

Thanks and Stay Caffeinated People!

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Tags: alcohol, apple, black friday deal, caffeine, Cancer, chocolate chip cookies, Cookies, lava, Nasa, nsa, sneakers, Star Wars, stormtrooper, tauntaun, Windows 7, wine

Red Bull and Vodka, the drink of doom. Sure it is. Apparently ABC news got a hold of some shady science and some suspect statistics to point to in their ever present quest to horrify casual observers. Can you hear the sheep bleating as they run towards the cliffs? Lemming style. I’m more than a little irritated by the sensationalist tract of news that pervades even the most inane subjects. Within this article they make blanket statements, and throw in tid-bits to excite the mind over nothing. Red Bull and Vodka impairs your judgment… Yeah you’re drunk. Then there is this little gem of a sentence.

“A Brazilian study found that college students didn’t perceive themselves to be as intoxicated as they really were.“

Lets break this down a bit. Your expecting College kids to know just how wasted they are? What are you basing this judgment on? Johnny Football Guy didn’t say “I am so wasted” quick enough that night? Your blaming the fact that they didn’t feel drunk on the caffeine? How about the increased tolerance that comes with increased alcohol consumption? I understand what they are getting at here but be serious. Stimulants and alcohol have been mixed for a lot longer than Red Bull has been around. Irish Coffee Anyone?

Couple all of this with the news being a little late to the party. This drink has been making its way around the Bars in the US for 2 or 3 years. great reporting.

And as for the three unfortunate souls who died as a result of drinking Red Bull, not even Red Bull and Vodka, I calmly direct you to the ultimate guide to Caffeine induced death, as we have pointed you there before. There are people on this planet who can not handle caffeine Red Bull has less caffeine in it than a strong cup of coffee does. 80 mg per 8oz, whereas a strong cup of coffee can have 100 mg, per 6 oz. news agencies would do better by stories by reporting the facts without going to the lengths that they do to scare us. Yes Red Bull and Vodka makes you an alert drunk, Caffeine can affect people with weak hearts

Thats about it. I’m done here.

Expect more hard hitting news from this outlet in the future. Check back often, or you could DIE

Tags: alcohol, caffeine, Caffination, rant, Red+bull+vodka, redbull, Vodka