Although just a design concept these shelves are just awesome enough to get me thinking about how i should properly decorate the CaffiNation Lair. The idea looks simple enough to implement. I can’t help but think these shelves, depending on their price would be a huge hit in many a geek lair.

The Obvious end to this would of course being some truly smart geek finding a way to use conducive paint, or hidden wires, and make the shelving actually do something… The walls the limit here

OhGizmo!

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Kids toys need to be two things to pass muster, durable and quiet. These blocks look mighty quite unless there is a hidden compartment for batteries I’m missing, and they also fulfill the hidden third category of an educational plus. The only real question i would have is about durability. can the water compartments take a three year old with a good arm?

I love the simplicity of the design and the classic shapes. they hit all of the right buzz words of the day. Made from sustainable rubberwood, in Thailand. Its not so much that Thailand is an advantageous place t do business but its not china, which has a whole ton of bad press about kids toys and disregard for product safety.

I’m almost tempted to buy them for school as they perfectly illustrate additive color theory. However at $39.99 I think they will be a wonderful example from afar. 6 blocks for 40 dollars breaks down to just over $6.67 per block, and that’s might pricey.

Via OhGizmo!

Tags: blocks, color theory, fun, geek toys, tech, Toys

Caffeine Metabolism: A great article going over the pathway Caffeine takes to get into your system and how it effects you once it does. I was originally pulled in by the spiffy image but the  rest of the article is very worth your time if you are in any way interested in how caffeine changes you.

Caffeine begins to effect you in as little as ten minutes and by the time the next hour rolls around your body has already metabolized over 99% of the chemical. Think of it this way Caffeine is a plant toxin,  it just happens to have a very pleasant side effect of waking you up while your body attempts to get rid of it.

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We’re back and having a blast!

Its been an up and down week, I know most people are ready for Friday so I’m bringing back a fan favorite. Form over Function Friday. These blog posts are dedicated to music I love, and doodles that happen while listening to it. Today’s post was partially inspired by twitter, in that every day I see people tweeting about coffee, and its not just me! Seriously just check out the update stream for coffee, its crazy. People need it, people want it. The silly ones are even giving it up! But more than that, if you are a coffee person you know there is a time of day when you need that second cup, for some it is sooner than others, mine is usually by 10 am at the latest. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: beer and coffee, Caffination, coffee clock, doodle, form over function friday, fun, goodbye planet earth, Matthew Ebel, sketch, Wallpaper

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Today’s Show:  Server Migration, Apple, Health, Windows 7, Media,  Google, Transformers, The Military, Coffee, Noodles

Consider this a bit of a State of the Podcast episode, we brush over how things are going on the back end very quickly and remind everyone to enter into the 3 in 3 contest, deadline is this Wednesday the 21st! Its a bit of a morose weekend here in Philadelphia, football team under preforming coldest air in quite some time and a massive project all put the damper on a nice weekend.

However today’s show is a testament to the pervasiveness of the content i cover, its not just that I have to do a show twice a week but i was to spread it out any farther The sheer volume of content would swamp me! We have a bit on the inauguration and how it relates to coffee of all things. We cover some of the silly kitchen products that are leaking their way to market and we hit, briefly on the top 3 stories of the last week.

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Tags: apple, Coffee, fun, Google, Health, Media, Noodles, Opinion, Server Migration, Steve Jobs, The Military, Transformers, Windows 7

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Today’s Show: Hospitals, Caffeine, Hallucinations, Color, Star Trek, Laundry, Halo, Astronauts, silk worms, DC, AC, Caffeinated, Coffee, Economy, fun

I slacked off in putting the show together in a timely manner now I’m paying for it. I had a good deal of the research done in drabs and drabs only to drop the ball. The entire city is once again electric with Playoff atmosphere and it just might do some collective good for our frail psyche.

Go Eagles!

BTW check out the Eagles FanCast for a true sports podcast, great guys

Today’s show takes its name from 302, being involuntarily committed, while i might be crazy I’m not quite there yet. And apparently caffeine of a certain level can induce hallucinations… who knew. Now if you’ll excuse me Abraham Lincoln and I have to migrate some servers.

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Tags: AC, Astronauts, caffeinated, caffeine, Caffination, Coffee, color, DC, Economy, fun, Hallucinations, Halo, Hospitals, Laundry, migration, silk worms, Star Trek