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Podcasting from a Cave tonight

So I’m facing a problem i haven’t had to deal with since i was 17. I’ve had a migraine for over 5 days now. Not sure whats causing it but man alive if it hasn’t affected every thing I’m trying to do.

But that little fact can’t stop the awesome news and tech we have coming for you tonight. I have a heavy does of reality and honest to goodness real news to talk about from apple running at HTC to the importance of Adopt a Newb. You’ll need to listen to find out the particulars

So tonights show will be done in the dark with squinted eyes and no coffee. Hopefully the awesome will shine through and the problems will slowly dissipate over the course of the episode.

Random bits of cruft caffination.tumblr.com

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Geek Cruft:

• Adopt A Newb
• Is Apple Bluffing?
• Sleep Mutants
• Ever wonder about Gmail?
• Britekite trys to climb back to relevance, Group TXT
• Giant Lego Blackberry, Thanks Norbert
• Remote Controlled Steampunk Tank, Actually IS Steam-Punk
• Iron Man Spare Heart Collectible
• Nostolgia just took a turn for the awesome. Lego Little Green Army Men
• How to do a Hoboken
• Mythbust Make Blade Runner’s Gun
• Adam Save explaining his drive to create

Food and Caffeinated Bits:

• Smoke em if you got em. Inhale-able Espresso Thanks Mas
• Worst Latte Art Ever? I think not
• What is responsible for your coffee’s Flavor?
• Caffeine and Headaches

Thanks and Stay Caffeinated People!

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Tags: adam savage, apple, army men, blade runner, brightkite, Coffee, Espresso, geolocation, gmail, Google, hoboken, iron man, Lego, migraine, patent

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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.

Random bits of cruft and the slightly off color remarks caffination.tumblr.com

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Geek Cruft:

• EagleFanCast, new Look!
• Weather Geeks Sense a warm front of awesome coming in. Solar Style
• The future is here, but its ugly and expensive. Jetpacks Meh
• Meh is a real word
• Science behind the movies, Bomb proof suit
• Bleeding Glaciers
• Apple to crack down on Cookie Cutter Apps
• More Info on Microsoft Courier
• iPad won’t tether, direct from the Jobs’ Phone
• Simple Solution for Cold Bike Hands
• Lighted Gloves look like a bright idea, Yes… I went there
• Spiffy Hidden Antenna!
• Candybar style remote keyboard

Food and Caffeinated Bits:

• Play with your food. Bacon Rocket
• Coffee Powered Car
• Espresso vs Drip Caffeine Factor
• MAS has a great attitude towards the AntiCoffee
• MMMM Chill Pill

Thanks and Stay Caffeinated People!
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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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Geek Cruft:

• Media needs to take responsibility for medical reporting
• 5 spiffy internet collectibles! Thanks Jen
• Apple Sues over multi-touch
• Kansas does stupid publicty, thanks Jay
• More geeky Pillows, tweetie
• Chatting Pillows
• Geeky Geolocation apps squaring off, what say you? Buzz is pretty cool
• Ever wonder why its so hard to get tickets online? blame these guys
• Compass table doesn’t steer you wrong
• So wrong it had to be right, the iMaxi
• Your pet fat, Expensive lesson
• Turn Your phone into a remote, IR is needed
• Know Your Meme, awesome resource
• Shady URL
• OKGO rocks video insanity Epic Rube Goldberg style

Food and Caffeinated Bits:

• Red Espresso, Rooibos ftw
• Cooking shouldn’t be hard. but using the dishwasher is a bit much
• knives and your coffee mugs can be friends
• Molecular cooking weirds me out
• Color changing Easter eggs
• Evil water bottle?
• Coffee and your heart rhythms
• Beheaded R2D2 cake!

Thanks and Stay Caffeinated People!
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Tags: android, apple, giveaway, kansas, medical news, meme, Microsoft, okgo, pillows, responsibility, Robots, shady, Tickets

One of my problems with Apple is that they provide very few options to keep old machines current. It’s called planned Obsolescence, your machine will not only be out of date soon, but the OS might not even run on your machine in a couple of years. And since Apple updates their OS nice and often the third party vendors choose to support the latest incarnation. For Apple lovers this is a double edged sword.

First off their OS becomes much slimmer since it doesn’t have to support older machines. However Apple’s are also usually built well. I have a 10 year old machine that still runs, and it was an everyday machine for 3 years. I have a 6 year old machine that is in mostly working order, only 1 usb port isn’t working, and this machine was very roughly used.

The problem ends up being that the machines are built well enough to last but shuffled off to the also ran pile due to upgrades.

What to do with the old machines then? One example is the timepiece to the side, but i think a $1,500 time piece is a bit outlandish don’t you? What would you rather have? A passable Machine that lasts a bit, but has a long tail for OS 3rd party app compatibility?  OR An extremely well made machine which will soon be forced to backup status by frequent os / New 3rd party software compatibility issues?

SlipperyBrick.com.

Tags: apple, obsolete, old machines, planned osolescence, recycled, recycled art

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Its an HTTP Error Silly

This week has been one long error. From the moment I step foot in the door at work until my head hits the pillow at night I’ve been beset by projects and delays. One fantastic thing did happen, we heard the heartbeat of CaffiNation 2.0 Rev 2 on Tuesday, so no week can be entirely bad with that happening.

I have to-do lists nested inside my to-do lists both at work and home, so its really no surprise that I’ve been living off coffee something fierce. Fearing a recursion mistake or a syntax error I’ve been hitting the java hard, and often. I can see time right now. Just had to share.

I’m focusing on putting more content on the blog as a whole, updates daily and one off fun news and design stories all week long. Its like a to go portion of my special brand of crazy. However for the random bits of detris and the slightly off color remarks caffination.tumblr.com will still hold sway.

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If you’re not reading the blog you’ve missed

• Water Blocks Stacking Color
• Cult of Hype Rant
• Auction Art
• Drink Caddy for Golfers

Geek Cruft:

• iPad, It can’t be avoided. I’ll try not to rant. But rather predict
• And here is why, iPad to have Apple Processor
• Geeks teaching people how to spell
• Let me Google That for you,  learn to help yourself
• Sleep Talking Man Blogs
• What if your ink never ran out?
• Wife already said no. Pacman Bookshelf
• Pacman blanket is pretty nifty too
• 3D, probably stands for Dollars Star wars cashing in Chess
• Mars Rover up on blocks, parked in a bad neighborhood
• Worst idea for a remote control EVER. Bomb shaped Helicopter

Food and Caffeinated Bits:

• What should I Eat. Snack Flow Chart
• Espresso Death toll rises
• Best Coffee beers ranked,
  • Triumph brewery’s Coffee and Cream Stout not there but should be
• Friends come and go but Mugs Accumulate (Favorite Mugs)
• Swoop there it is
• Different variations abound but Knitted cup Cup Coozies are in
  • These are beautiful
• How many of you roast your own?
• Even Coffee fears the end times
• Beep Mug, Barcode fun
• Caffeine prevents brain cancer… possibly

Thanks and Stay Caffeinated People!

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Tags: apple, beer, Chess, chess set, Coffee, cruft, Espresso, fans, geek, Ink, inkjet printer, ipad, laptop, Star Wars

I’m sure if you are even passingly interested in technology news you are probably aware that we are once again on the cusp of a big Apple event. This happens every year to some degree. Since the world went gaga for the iPod some time back this means tons of media coverage. Even the morning news shows now tart up a 4 day old story as Tech Bytes and feed it to the masses.

The iPod, the iPhone, iMac, iaM tired of it. Even the i fixture in front of the word speaks less of original thinking and more of branding, and its fast becoming hackneyed

I like a machine that does what it is supposed to do, hopefully with as much transparency as possible and then goes about its business. I have never been one to give in to devotion or cultish following of any tech products. At their core they are purchases to be made, or not. Ecosystems to support, as someone in tech support, and liars. All products lie to you either through omission, or through outright deception. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: apple, Bill Gates, devoted, fanboy, functionalism, Linux, Mac, Microsoft, open source, PC, Steve Jobs, Windows, your rights

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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

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So sleep did not come, and technology has risen up against me

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I have often related a belief held dearly by one of my previous employers. He always  said, whatever it is that you do for a living will end up causing you no end of difficulties at home. Meaning if you’re a plumber prepare for a lifetime of leaks, electricians blown fuses are in your future. The Computer guy? Hows about a whole bunch of off the wall nonsense errors and mishaps? Well tonight yet again I feel that pain. Nothing seemed to gel correctly for me. I decided to go with the flow and try and do the best that I could. Windows 7, Apple’s Mice and Missteps, The Nook, The evils of DRM, Disney, legos star war, its mass mayhem here

I had an awesome time doing TPN Weekly at the start of the week, however productivity dropped right after that.

There is a new contest from Jeffery Powers over at Podcast Madness, Enter the code blogsimple for a chance to win a year-long subscription to Mozy, a web backup solution. Listen to the show for a second chance to enter. Lots of shows are involved and each one of us has a different code so be sure to head over to Podcastmadness.com to see the rest of the gang.

Enjoy the show!

• Back Channel: All the Cruft, non of the Chaff
• Where else can you find me? www.paulrjmuller.com
• CaffiNation Approved TPN Weekly Episode 27

Geek Cruft

• Dresser tool chest, save some coin
• Nook new Barnes and Noble venture, Borrowing feature
• Presentation Zen: Sumi-e, color, and the art of less
• OS Throwdown
  • Windows 7 rolls out
  • I’ll be upgrading machines in work tomorrow
  • Would you throw a launch party? I guess i just don’t have those type of geek friends
  • How To Throw A Windows 7 Torrenting Party Without Getting Arrested
  • Microsoft throws down a theme gallery as well
  • Real Free Software free software freebies worth $1,089
  • Ubuntu 9.10 comes out soon as well
  • Apple Continues to erode their warm fuzzies with their core
  • Magic Mice from Apple, some people think not?
• Trust Disney to be the keymaster to your gatekeeper? I personally think not
• Keyboard shortcuts – Google Reader, its all about the workflow
• Wave Slowly taking shape as we play: Caffination@googlewave.com

Video Glimpse:

• Where were you when the Deathstar blew up?
• Human Jumbotron

Food and Caffeinated Bits:

• Inspiration from Gary Vaynerchuk How does Wine make you money online?
• Beautiful Letterpress coffee Bags
• Naked Coffee? not in this town, Thanks MAS
• Make Lego Cookies
• Storm the Lego Wedding Castle

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: apple, apple comercials, free software, lego cookies, lego wedding cake, mac osx, Microsoft, snarky, sumi-e, torrenting, Windows 7, zen design

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Getting hard to see through all this mental fog

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Tonight we’re not running behind schedule so much as we’re procrastinating splendidly. I’ve been putting off doing the show tonight for a ton of different reasons. but either way we’re trying something new. Rather than releasing the show as soon as its done I’ll be posting it the next day at 12:30, Eastern. So from now on Monday and Thursday lunch hour will debut the next version of the Caffination.

Things to look forward to? Well this week i have two neat reviews coming out on for a product and another for a place. I’ll also be posting a recipe for my Veggie chili so you can join in on the fun at home. So many more things to talk about so why don’t you listen in.

Today we’ll be discussing Legos, Robots, iPods, Bananas, and Copyright. Anythings fair game in this episode.

Enjoy the show!

• Back Channel: All the Cruft, non of the Chaff
• Where else can you find me? www.paulrjmuller.com

News in brief

• File Sharers pay it forward and backward
• Yet crazy bad patent and trademark law still stick
• RiP! was fantastic give it a try
• DJ AM, passes, should he still be in the game

Geek Cruft

• Like Eve from Wall-E la Petite Prince loves him some plants
• Lego universe?
• Next gen business card? Or just silly, Poken
• MC Hammer and Zombies
• NES Cart used as an external hard drive, awesome stuff
• Brute force hacking of an iPod via robot assistance
• NYC to commission bike helmets that don’t look horrible
• Video Link: Google as a Roomate
• Video Link: Ze Frank’s TED Talk

Food and Caffeinated Bits:

• As a Coffee Guy… this article has good and bad points… Consider the source
• Old Patents: Banana Ice Cream injector
• Massive Warhammer Cake
• Via @weeklyroast top 5 worst coffee for you
• Clean things with Coffee filters? Works great for eyeglasses and scanners
• I should try this for coffee, Around the League (NHL) in 30 beers

Thanks and Stay Caffeinated People!

Tags: apple, copyleft, copyright, dj am, ipod, Lego, remix manifesto, robot, ze frank

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Getting hard to see through all this mental fog

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Tonight we’re running on one engine and trying to bring the plane down safely this metaphor might not land at the right airport or even the correct city but by golly we’re gonna try. So I suffer from migraines from time to time. I’ve been through most medical treatments out there some work, others not so much. Mostly a ton of the latter and not to many of the former. They tend to come on stronger when I’m under stress, not saying things are stressful but just making conversation.Tonight’s show is overshadowed by one such migraine and my standard fix just isn’t working.

Despite working under a cloud, or fog as the case may be we managed to find some rather awesome and tasty links to share with the group. From Food tech to Lego Letter, Adobe and Apple to Hulu and the Wii, lots of tech, some fun flavors and as always great caffeinated links.

Enjoy the show!

• Back Channel: All the Cruft, non of the Chaff
• Where else can you find me? www.paulrjmuller.com

News in brief

• Wikipedia Changes Editing Policy
• Microsoft ad agency goofs up, but people focus elsewhere
• Snow leopard to dominate the news for the rest of the month strap in

Geek Cruft

• Adobe and Apple Cs3, CS4 the kerfuffle begins
• Apple, Antivirus?
• Lego Spaceships Spell Out the Alphabet
• Create a fake life
• Sony’s E-Reader v Kindle, neat features coming
• Tetris, yes… haircut no
• Stream video from Hulu to your Wii
• RiP! A Remix Manifesto: Open mind good points but a little one sided

Food and Caffeinated Bits:

• Gizmodo has a tasty run going on
• The perfect coffee cup
• Japanese do Pizza up right
• Alton Brown is my Homeboy
• Getting Lit takes on a whole new meaning
• Not unlike a ship in a bottle this glass is just for looks
• Astronaut works on Zero G coffee Cup Concept
• How is coffee affected by the climate?
• A short tale from the dark side
  • Chocolate Cookies Recipe
  • Royal Icing Recipe
  • The Results
  • Coffee Cat Approves
• What does the future hold? and how can coffee help me figure it out

Next time we’ll look over this and so much more

• As a Coffee Guy… this article has good and bad points… Consider the source

Thanks and Stay Caffeinated People!

Tags: Adobe, Alton Brown, Antitrust, apple, astronaut, Coffee, cs3, CS4, hulu, Japan, Lego, Microsoft, migraine, RiP!, tetris, Wii