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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.

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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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Crazy Gadgets and fun announcements, Free Coffee Too!

Today is a fun day. February is always a weird month its over far too quick, you think some of the months with 31 days could spare a day here and there, make a little sense in the world, but no. Leap years aside tomorrow starts March already!

Plenty of bits of random interesting detris littered their way across my feed reader, lego dinosaurs. Mario, Batman, and The search for ET all show up in this episode so pay attention. Not to mention a wonderful coffee section, listen in for how to get free coffee!

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Geek Cruft:

• Latitude, and why i’m not your friend
• Totally Cool New Layout! Norbert’s Blog Update
• Skype in your TV? Neat Idea
• Batman foils Superman’s Collectible Supremacy
• Fauxiron Man
• Mushroom Kingdom in your ears
• 2fer! Robotic lego Dinosaurs / Crazy German Evolutionary Steampunk video
• Baba O Thinkgeek! Anything to sell gadgets
• Human Ball, I saw a water version of these
• Hyperdrive Album photo storage made huge and awesome
• Floppy Drive Pillows
• Tactile Concept device for the blind
• How to fake being hardcore, buy a smashable guitar
• Arecibo Scarf, confuse even well read geeks. Arecibo?

Food and Caffeinated Bits:

• CaffiNation Reviews: Peet’s Uzuri African Blend
• Hows about some Free Coffee? You only have till Wednesday!
• I really like these coffee cup hooks
• Wine Temp means everything
• Do you need a knockbox?
• More Beautiful Coffee as Pigment Paintings

Thanks and Stay Caffeinated People!
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Tags: Batman, dinosaur, free coffee, Google, latitude, Lego, peets coffee, robot, skype, Steampunk, totallycooltech, TV, Uzuri

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You know… I’m disappointed in the geeks

Believe it or not today was my monday and it felt like it. The whole fam, save for me, went down for the count starting last friday. So we’ve been doing shots of lysol, and rubbing alcohol around these parts.

Great Conversation leads to fantastic stories and information. A wonderfully full episode. Brimming over with awesome and topped with humor and rampaging cats.

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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Geek Cruft:

• TDIT: Gutenberg’s Legacy. Project Gutenberg
• Edison would be proud, Replica Gramophone
• Lego Wallet?
• Lego Rubic’s Cube Solver
• Massive Lego Airbus a380! Touchscreen enabled With Snakes
• From Awesome, to horrifying, Lego Attack Spider
• Take it with you Simon Says, my best score was 26
• Cell Phone Range extender, get a signal in a CAVE
• Its On! Multitouch comes to Nexus One
• G-Blade. A Butterfly Knife for Shaving. I’d love it!
• AV Geeks Unite, Awesome Connector Shirt
• Bittorent leaks for Lost, but no one bit
• Ship-Wrecked 1925 Bugatti
• JooJoo throws a gauntlet
• Data Permanence is a problem, Heiroglyphs beat Hardrives

Food and Caffeinated Bits:

• Pizza Plotter? where do i sign up?
• Coffee Not Linked to tinnitus
• Ethiopian Coffee Sorting Video
• Coffee Taste tests of major brands surprise no one in coffee community
• Coffee Analytics. Interesting Idea
• Caffeinated Chaw? ummm…. yuk

What you may have missed this week

• Fold-able Power
• Coffee and Chocolate
• Hot Mugs, Cool Art
• Wardriving Made Easy

Thanks and Stay Caffeinated People!

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Tags: android, Coffee, coffee geeks, Google, gramophone, gutenberg, Lego, Nexus One, robot, shaving, simon, torrent

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It’s not the number it’s the people

So here we are, 400 episodes later, and 4 years after I started doing this show twice a week. I was trying to plan something for the show but it was not meant to be. I still enjoy doing the show, and more than that I enjoy the interaction with the people who stop by and hopefully enjoy the show. I enjoin you to be with us going forward for 401 and beyond. Tonight’s show isn’t really anything but a big round number, and a bit of the standard awesome that the Caffination has come to represent. Hopefully you feel the same way that I do about the show.

All of that being said we have a wonderful show tonight going from Nuclear posters to simple calendar hacks. Geek beach balls, bad puns and even worse attempts at jokes in general. In short this is just like every other episode of the show but with different bits of awesome crammed into the nooks and crannies.

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Geek Cruft:

• CaffiNation Stats!
• Charity has pitfalls, Wyclef’s Charity Suspect
• Wyclef responds. the lesson… do your research
• Boston Arcology? Sim City Coming to life?
• Nothing canstop D and D geeks from frolicking with a D20 beach ball
  • Except a failed roll for initiative or a lack of sunscreen
• Eternia lives on He-Man Art Show?
• Printable Nuclear Reactor wall charts
• Soft Maps, a quilted bit of cartography, awesome
• Calendar and a ruler all in one. No need to buy this one
• Re-pot a flower or plant easily
• How do bugs get into your code?
• Google attacked by China,  changes course
• Chinese citizens preemptively mourn the loss of a service
• Social Media Counter

Food and Caffeinated Bits:

• Food in tubes? But i LIKE to cook. Iron Chef Sundays
• Expensive cup of coffee, 90 Dollars for a taste, Thanks MAS
• Caffeine Coffee vs Drinks. Poster Battle Royale, Thanks MAS
• Cold Drip Coffee Snob Coffee machine
• Steampunk CoffeeMaker. NewsBrews, palatable news piping hot

Thanks and Stay Caffeinated People!

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Tags: arcology, bug, caffeine, cartography, China, Coffee, coffee snob, D&D, Food, Google, haiti relief, he-man, nuclear, sim city, soft map

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What is WWFD? well you’ll need to listen in to find out

I’ve been slightly askew in my reading of late, so the resulting show you get is a bit more geeky and more design based than normal. I hope you enjoy these different takes on things. I also showcase a new video i made called Learning from Stupid, its exactly what it sounds like…

I make mistakes and you get to listen, laugh and hopefully learn a bit.I’ve been thinking about different ways to make the show more engaging and hopefully some of them will come to fruition in the short term. The first video is up in this episode, expect more to come after that, different things, some coffee tech, some lectures and talks i’ve done. I have a lot of things that need to be edited, i just have to make the time to do it now.Who doesn’t like free stuff? Hows about free awesome stuff?

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.

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

Geek Cruft:

• Learning from Stupid?
• Recording Industry Bands aren’t the problem
• Google to start feeling the need for speed in ranking sites
• Archaeology A Case in Antiquities for ‘Finders Keepers’
• Split Window, pretty cars, nifty gadgets Car design Corvette Style
• IT workers the unhealthiest in the UK, probably beyond as well. We need to change this
• 10 Geeky Laws That Should Exist, But Don’t
• Map-Hole a nifty concept for city mapping
• Getting the wrong impression Bad Messages From Good Movies
• Off the wall Designs, off the wall, on the wall and part of the wall
• digital natives by Ze Frank a different Take on the topic

Food and Caffeinated Bits:

• Energy Management Tips
• Shelton’s coffee cubes
• Drink Coffee Like Its 1765
• Why do we drink coffee? Instant gratification isn’t ideal when it comes to coffee
• Banana comes with a certain a-peel

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: Archaeology, Caffination, cocept art, Coffee, conceptual design, Design, energy, epson, Geeks, Google, graphic design, Health, industrial design, instant coffee, laws, learning from stupid, Paul Rj Muller, podcast madness, Tea

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Noise in the neighborhood during the daytime

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So far this week has been a non starter, out of work for Family Maintenance and unable to get going writing. however yesterday i received my Green Coffee and new coffee roaster. So the next few weeks will be very well caffeinated. I also lied when i said i would never again record during the day, as I sit here and attempt to do it once more. Its been an odd week.

There are so many stories on today’s show i don’t have time to write snark. And thats saying something. I barely managed a pun or two. For some reason the bad jokes were writing themselves today. Wrong day of the week for a Punday reference but a great book non the less. Spider Robinson’s Callahan Chronicals

The CaffiNation is also very proud to take part in the Summer of Podcasts Contest Head on over and check out the shows rocking the codeword this week.

Enjoy the show and Stay Caffeinated!

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

Geek Cruft

• Once in a forever happened today, and we all missed it
• Gmail is no longer Beta
• Pandora is no longer completely free, but is sticking around
• Google OS? Coming to a netbook near you in 2010
• Exploit or Coverup. Open SSH
• Your SSN isn’t that hard to figure out
• The thing that should not be wii mote controlled 15 ton robotic arm
• Less colors more battery. Hi- enough def
• Urine Power… Tanks alot
• Fastest RC Car in the world
• Hamster Dance in the pool. I want these
• fact or fiction, USB Chainsaw…
• Airline to have people stand?
• This Gentleman not standing for his treatment on United. He’s Signing
• Life is Lego. Lego is Life
• So you want to be a pirate? Pirate Party Explains their Stance

Food & Caffeinated Bits

Today’s Coffee was roasted in My Own Back YARD! 2nd Batch

• Coffee has Arrived! Roaster has been tested. Results were good but not great. More later
• Cotton candy toothpicks
• Beer can ammo belt. tailgate in force
• Dept had 7,000 dollar coffee budget
• Coffee Maker Recall
• Inflatable turkey, fowl play

Thanks and Stay Caffeinated People!

Tags: Airlines, chrome os, Coffee, cotton candy, gmail, Google, Google Chrome, google os, Lego, openssh, pandora, pandora radio, Turkey, USB Chainsaw

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Lots of things happening on today’s show, and this is the second show I’m recording today the mother’s Day episode recorded with my Mom will air this coming Sunday morning be sure not to miss it. But for this show we have a ton of great news cobbled together for your listening enjoyment. There is a lot of talk about movies, Goats, video games, corporate mergers, the At symbol and tons of news about coffee.

In other news the weather is starting to effect everyone around here, from the weathermen who aren’t quite as happy about rain events as the used to be to the arks being built on hills all around us. At this point we can hope for sun, or even just a dry day.

Enjoy the show and Stay Caffeinated!

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Quick Hits

• Google Mowing with Goats
• Decorative soaps for the geek in all of us
• Even Wolverine needed some technical augmentation, this just seems overboard
• Wolverine Claw Toys, sold separately? And not even sharp?
• Apple, Twitter? Apple, EA Games? I hope Neither

Geek Cruft:

• Styrofoam as fuel?
• 3d Printing and the Aloha State
• Amphora is 473 years old
• Office Sync brings Google Docs and MS Office in line
• If Dick Tracey hated fish, Wristwatch finds your prey
• Tape so tough you can use it as a fan belt
• DIY Turntable

Caffeinated Bits

• Sterile cutting board with the power of light
• Bottle Cheese Plate, My dad makes these
• Beer Shampoo? Frat guys never grow up
• Nacho Wallet? Bad joke, incorrect food, funny non the less
• Bar B Que’s best friend
• Nows the time for Noodle Luge
• Nuke testing helps identify fake whiskey
• Coffee and twitter

Thanks and Stay Caffeinated People!

Tags: Amphora, apple, beer, cheese plate, Coffee, ea games, Goats, Google, Microsoft, Noodles, turntables, twitter, wolverine

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Today’s Show:  Pokey Stick, usb drives, lego art, techcrunch, google, gloves, and boy scouts

Not only is today the day that just wouldn’t end but this sickness has me gripped up and is looking for lunch money. For the 3rd show in a row i am forced to apologize up front on how i sound, because if you heard how I sound inside my own head you’d understand.

But with all that aside this week has proven to be quite fertile grounds for news and cruft in general. We  cover some of the more heady topics floating about on the internet, discuss the Challenger disaster and  give a quick review of the coffee media stories from the past year. We also get into some of the ways Google is changing their services and offering new features.

All in all sickness aside i have a great feeling about this show and I hope you can say the same after listening.

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Tags: boy scouts, caffeine, Coffee, gloves, Google, lego art, Pokey Stick, techcrunch, usb drives

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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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Wordpress, the software which runs this site… borked the Episode,
and a few other things. Should be better now

Today’s Show: Google, Starbucks, lego, Netflix, Xbox, weddings, photoshop

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• Tumblr for the back channel links has been awesome thus far
• Intro Music thoughts

Today’s extended show we discuss the best in tech news and caffeinated tid bits explained for everyone. No heavy handed tech just plain old fashion silly news and fun links today. I got some funny reactions to the last show so Apparently i’m either a “riot” or there was going to be one if I really switched over to an all Spanish show

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Tags: bass, Google, iran, Lego, mower, nes, Netflix, nintendo, photoshop, rss, Starbucks, tumblr, weddings, Wii, Xbox