Last year I started to carve a dragon, and messed up a bit. Put a hole in the other side of the pumpkin. Only one thing left to do when you mess up. Make it into something amazing. What dragon was bitten by a hole in the side of the mountain? None other than the chief of calmities Smaug.

This carving probably took about 15 or 20 hours to get it done right. And it more than a bit obtuse since all you can really see on the pictures is the Dragon. But I loved this.

If you’d like to see the rotation this video doesn’t really do a good job, but it works well enough.

And the rest of the gallery has the full story. I need to find inspiration for this year’s pumpkin. Not sure what road I’m going to go down, but I only have a week elft to figure it out. What are you carving?

Tags: Dragon, dragon pumpkin, geeky pumpkin, smaug, Tolkien, tolkien pumpkin

Not sure what more description is really needed. This is 4 kinds of awesome all mixed together. We have a Dragon, We have legos. Dragons breath fire, but legos do not. Now… they do

This is Firestorm The Lego Firebreather. Fear him. Although i was looking for more of a sustained flame.

Firestorm, The Fire Breathing LEGO Dragon.

Tags: Dragon, Fire, fire breathing legos, Lego

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Coffee Breath a new Citizen of the CaffiNation Lair, and Legos galore Episode 344 is now up and ready

Tags: coffee breath, Dragon, flame, flamethrower, Lego, Windows 7

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Today’s Show:  robots, gardens, NES, Pacman, Dragon, turntables, GE, Math, Pi, Coffee, Scanwhiches, Sushi, review, TP

Tonight’s episode was almost labeled The Wasteful because of the huge number of leftovers after this show was created. I simply could not cram any more awesome into the time slotted. While the podcast could theoretically go on forever we had to draw the line somewhere, and that line was here.

Instead I decided to break it down into the two most represented categories R and R is Retro and Robots, a metric ton of awesome in each subcat. Caffeinated all the way in today’s show we speak of coffee as fuel for your car, fuel for your mind, and robots which tend gardens. We discuss the finery of Pacman, the majesty of Zork and the horror of modern advertising which is so cool you can’t avert your eyes.

This Episode also could have been called the Birthday Super Throwdown Edition.

Happy birthday to My father in Law, My Father and My Sister!

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• Quick Tip for Recovering from a Crash
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• Adopt a Newb Day 2009 is coming! 4th Annual

Geek Cruft

• Hummers or TP, pick your poison
• Crazy GE viral ad, do it yourself breaking the 4th wall
• 8 sided Wheel of the future
• Robots:
  • Tend our gardens, it must be a trap
  • Rescue Dragon? or pull us out of frying pan into the fire?
  • Trash Robot,Wall-E ancestor Thank Norbert
• Retro:
  • Ultimate retro game: Zork? Is that you?
  • Retro wristwatch, modern style Digital Cuckoo
  • NES key Hideaway
  • Beautiful Turntables, Audiowood
  • Pacman Earings
  • Pacman Ghost and Cookies
• Video: Zombie Jamboree, Brazilian Do Wop with Zombies… yeah about that

Consumable & Caffeinated Bits

• Antique Coffee Machine Pool
• Food pron: Scanwiches
  
• Math is now cool, Pi day approaches
• Coffee to fuel my car? Please and thank you
• Eerie presidential Sushi, style not politics
• nasty but intriguing, Pizza and burger of massive proportions
• Coffee tongue needs insurance

Thanks and Stay Caffeinated People

Tags: Coffee, Dragon, gardens, GE, Math, nes, Pacman, Pi, Review, Robots, Scanwhiches, Sushi, TP, turntables, Zombies