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We are rocking the world of Street art, and Remixing. A common threads throughout the different cultures and geeky references with interesting stories to tell.

Tags: Anonymous, Archaeology, Culture, father's day, Graffiti, Lessig, light bulb, Lulzsec, Remix Culture, rip remix manifesto

Ok seriously you shouldn’t be reading this today, you should be off doing something fun, and rembering the fathers in your life. If you happen to be a dad, live it up dudes. This day isn’t a day to take a load off your feet, it is a day to take stock of how you are doing overall as a geek father.

Some people teach their kids sports, some people teach their kids how to play an instrument, some people teach their kid what thors hammer is named, why there are 8 planets now instead of 9, what a quasar is, how midaclorians and a swell head ruined Star Wars. Some dads will talk at length about why wet processed Sumatran coffee is different from a costa rican Meil coffee. Some dads are geeks to sum all that up. It doesn’t matter what you geek out about. If you are a stat geek from baseball, try to find a way to break the numbers down for the little ones, if you are a d&d geek, make your toddler a character and refer to her as Fl’ora the Half elf when in character.

OR, if you are me you want to do all of the above. I’m a geek of all trades, master of none. And that’s fine. Hopefully my kids will end up well rounded and great at jeopardy.

The best part about being a geek…. any geek is that you thirst for knowledge. it is you duty to pass this thirst on to your kids, answer their questions, and expose them to new things they haven’t seen or experianced before with wonder in your eyes. teach by doing, and learn from them.

To keep a long story  short, too late. Enjoy your children. If your father is still with you find at least one awesome small memory that you have some little thing he did to make your eyes sparkle and share it back to him. Or if your father has passed on honor his memory by sharing a moment like that with someone else. Lastly just enjoy the day. At least around here the sun is shining, the grass is green and I smell a cookout in my future!

Happy Father’s Day!

Tags: father's day, Father's Day Geek Out!, Geek Dad

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Tonights show we talk about star wars, the levels of geekdom, sweet cakes, coffee benefits and so many other little pieces of awesome. Stories about raising and entertaining a geek in training.

Tags: 8bit, ascap, Coffee, father's day, geek life, geek pride, Hackers, lawyers, lightsabre, Math, megaman, metal sculpture, mr men, Retro, Star Wars, Starbucks

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Tonight we talk about updating wordpress, zombies, electric cars, going to coffee college some fun little tech news stories and other fun bits

Tags: axe sling, bie, Coffee, coffee burger, dad's day, drinks, father's day, ketchup, Star Wars, Starbucks, Wordpress, zom

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I got a fever, and the only thing for it is more Podcast

Tonight’s show is a delayed version of yesterday’s lineup. I changed and tinkered with the stories a bit but overall it remains the same. With fevers chills and every other type of illness trying to harsh my mellow i wanted to get this show out, missed far too many these past few months.

Tonight we talk about tips for great coffee, demystifying marketing terms associated with coffee, the star wars kid, ways to redesign traffic lights, build your own transformer on the cheap and so much more. I wander, rant and lament about a slew of different things. Its a stuffy show, but someone had to do it.  Apologies in advance for my voice.

I wanted to put the call out for anyone who wanted to get their feet wet with blogging, try a guest post every once in a while I’m looking at ways to make the blog and podcast better.

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Geek Cruft

• Where to watch the World Cup Online
• Popular Photo Spots, Tourists vs Locals
• Moose vs 12yr old: Warcraft to the rescue?
• Pacman tech support issues. FacePalm
• iPad Emails out in the open
• just for fun features not included in iPhone new update
• Actual Mashup: Transformers vs Chinese Warrior
• You know… Legos may end us all, lulling us into submission with their
• Sesame Fuzzy Wiimote covers… long time coming
• New traffic signals that just make sense
• How to hack a computer
• Star wars kid is a lawyer now… no story just news

Food and Caffeinated Bits

• Dads Deserve good Coffee, Quick tips for making good coffee
• Dads Deserve Good Coffee, Tips on how to get better coffee
• and so does everyone else for that matter
• Beautiful Teapot, sale… w00t!
• Siphon Brewing, just watch and enjoy

Many Thanks for listening, Stay Caffeinated!

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Tags: apple, Coffee, father's day, hack the gibson, hack the planet, ipad, ipod, photo density, star wars kid, Traffic, Transformers, world cup

But really who doesn’t?

You owe it to the men, women and people in general in your life to focus on good coffee. With all the terms and marketing speak thrown about in the coffee world I’m going to help you by cutting through the junk to get to the information. We already learned about simple tricks to make a good cup of coffee, now we need to pick the best coffee for the job. I have a vested interest in this topic, being a father of one with a second kiddlette on the way in mid july, I’m trying to look out for myself here too.  Consider this bite sized coffee information.

Quick tips for buying good coffee:

Dark roast, light roast, medium roast, French, Vienna, the terms that are thrown about in coffee sales boarder on criminally confusing. Roasts, Origins, acidity, caff or not to caff… I’m going to hopefully try to demystify this for you.

1. Roast: is how long the bean has been cooked. On a scale from light to dark a common roast scale
   1. Light, Cinnamon, Medium Light, American, City, Vienna, Dark, French, Italian
   2. One of my biggest pet peeves is when someone says that the coffee is French roast flavor…
   3. Second Pet peeve, Espresso as a Roast, an espresso is a blend,
2. Origin: Where the bean comes from, African Coffee is usually Bold and fruity, South American Coffee is usually Mild and Spicy and Island coffee is usually much more bold and can be either earthy or fruity
3. Darker the roast the less likely you are to see the flavor of the origin, So Don’t pay premium for burnt coffee.
4. There are two types of coffee, Arabica, and Robusta. Most big chains blend both.
5. Arabica is smoother and more subtle flavor wise
6. Robusta is bolder, has more caffeine, and much less flavor variation
7. Pay for the good stuff, its worth it, to an extent. don’t sweat not being able to afford the super expensive, but shelling out 9 – 12 bucks for a bag
8. Home Roasting: Trust me if you love coffee, I mean LOVE it then you owe it to yourself to research and try it.

Tags: caffeinated content, Coffee, dad, father's day, good coffee, making coffee, tips, tricks

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Today’s show was the first guest recording in the Lair. The mother’s day show was the first co-hosted show ever. I have awesome parents

Father’s day Mayhem with Paul and Scott

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I’d Like to thank and welcome my Father to the show, the first programmer I ever knew and one of the primary reasons I’m as curious about the world around me that I am. today’s show we cover a couple new territories and makes some jokes along the way. There are a ton of great stories that show up in between the hyperlink so i hope you enjoy.

We cover ground from Beer to BBQ, for Babies to bombs and everything in between. My Father and I have a similar sense of humor and this show worked really well as a whole I’m exceedingly happy as to how it worked. Hopefully you’ll enjoy it as well.

I’m getting the cohost bug i might start inviting people to share the Caffination with me. Its turned out to be fun so far what do you think?

Enjoy the show and Stay Caffeinated!

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Geek Cruft

• This candle is the bomb
• A little throwback for my dad. Commodore 64 twitter client
• Pill alarm
• Cyclops baby ride? Children are only afraid of what you let them be
• Baby cloths tell you of fever
• Bladed nursery furniture
• Regular medieval furniture
• Man den alert, Sofa-Billards
• Deathtrap of a chair
• Play No hands Mario. Via theremin
• make a coil gun in woodshop
• Tactical grade flashlight

Food & Caffeinated Bits

Today’s Coffee:

• What would a father’s day be without a Steampunk Grill
• Perhaps a grill more traditional yet innovative, and overpriced
  
• Sword b que
• Craftsman grill tools
• Ninja Spices, does this count as hidden salt?
• Perhaps a little more frugal with Microwave potato chips?
• Concept or not take out the trash
• Discussing some coffee recommendations for Father’s Day…
• Coffee Bar at a wedding? lets make things more complicated… and expensive
• How to simple coffee illustrations for a home barista

Rundown Tasting: Prelude to a review

• Flying Fish Imperial Espresso Porter
• It would be nice to compare the three olives espresso vodka… but alas we can’t find it anywhere locally
• Pinnacle Le Double Espresso Vodka

Thanks and Stay Caffeinated People!

Tags: baby, beer, blades, C64, Coffee, coil gun, craftsman grill tools, father's day, ninja spices, ninjas candles, sofa billards, Steampunk, swords, twitter, Vodka