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No Work and All Play makes Paul a Tired Guy

So the dual shot of approximately 45 inches of snow since the last broadcast has both drained my energy reserves from shoveling it and charged my batteries. The past couple of winters in good old Philadelphia have been lackluster warm and rainy events. I love snow and i love the cold so i’v been in a very tired heaven this year. This is also not the officially snowiest winter in Philadelphia history with over 60 inches of snowfall since December. Wow!

I played around with some new crufted together camera gear for a dog cam, linked on ustream, and played with some other settings on ustream to spice up the show. Norbert and I even tried to work on a cohosting thing yesterday to no avail. it will all work out in the end no worries.

Tonights bit of snowy awesomeness covers robots, design principles, retro game cakes and coffee best practices, and new wave building materials.

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

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Geek Cruft:

• Reusable paper / printer system breaks the bank
• GRRRReat Modern Gramophone
• Hack yourself a CNC painter
• Transparent aluminum it isn’t but spray on glass is pretty neat
• Screw in Coffin, Bore yourself after death
• Cupid’s Arrow message for VDay
• Beware MECHA Mario
• Robot Symbiont, oddball robot story of the week
• Be it ever so humble there’s no place like
• Dress your wii for success
• Keyboard Brush
• Solar Tech in backpacks
• Google Fibre Network!
• Gizmos sneeze themself clean
• Bowlingual, What’s that fido? Timmy’s down a well?
• Leash with light, and no batteries
• Dog-E-Minder

Food and Caffeinated Bits:

• What is Slimming Coffee?
  • All coffee is slimming its the crap you put in there that messes it up
  • Black Coffee FTW
• Pac Man Arcade Cabinet Cake
• How does your office do coffee? Free or otherwise?
• Interlocking Mugs
• Stir with your finger mug
• Coco in Cheetos

What you may have missed this week

• <3 for your Sw33ty. Valentines Card Printables
• To mac or not to Mac, in Planned Obsolescence
• Shroomy News and  Smurfy Houses

Thanks and Stay Caffeinated People!
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Tags: Cake, cheetos, Coffee, Cupid, gramophone, green tech, Ink, Mario, mug, pac-man, Pacman, printer, valentines day, Vday

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Today’s Show:  Web Design, Fear Mongering, Linux, Electricity, Green Tech, AP, Legos, and Cookies everyone likes cookies

Tons of content, but not much energy. Having a down cycle with caffeine right now but i will bring the news and fun to you just as quick, but maybe not so loud. The news was wide reaching this half of the week with interesting tech coming out of unlikely marriages, GM and Segway? We answer the question, Do 3D desktops make sense? AP is biting the hand that feeds them and Linux starts an interesting ad campaign.

All these stories and more. We’re continuing our Adopt a NewB Day celebration with More blog design guides and quick tips for blogging, living digitally and managing your online presence.

Happy Passover to all who are Celebrating!

Enjoy the show and Stay Caffeinated!

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Quick Hits

• Blog Design Guide: Focus & Writing Copy
• Simple Tool Rule, building a foundation
  
• Design Websites? Check Browser compatibility quickly
• Part Fear mongering, Part real. Electric Bugaboo
• Green tech is out-employing old guard, what does it mean?
• Boards still won’t work on water
• We Are Linux: My Favorite Vid

Geek Cruft:

• AP think we steal their content, and return no value
• They even sued their own affiliates, for using the Corporate YouTube Channel
• GM and Segway, everyone is talking
• Wii Weights? Come on
• 3D Desktop Concept released, but resources are precious
• Lego Archaeology
• Lego Jewelry
• Old but good Lego Fashion Show
• Totally Cool link Legos, Form a Mini theater that works!
• Street Fighter Shirt, is unbelievable
• Nostalgia is a Warm Phaser, set to awesome
• Altoids tins reborn, awesome collection of projects
• Star Trek Surprise is the right way to do fan service
• Creepy Robot child of the day award

Consumable & Caffeinated Bits

• Lego, Tetris and more in Ice
• Second Pitcher of mudslides take a bit longer to make
• Fun Wine Rack
• Worst Soap Idea ever, but looks the most delicious
• Twisted Mug
• Caffeine Workout Rundown Thanks Jaap!

Thanks and Stay Caffeinated People

Tags: AP, Archaeology, Cookies, Electricity, Fear Mongering, GM, green tech, Legos, Linux, Segway, Street Fighter, Video Games, web design, Wii

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Today’s Show:  Joy, Lego, Mario, Carbon Fibre, Carbon Footprint, Gold, Green Tech, Gardens, Helicopters, Pools, Peeps, LEDs, Linux, Pacman, Japan

Before I get down into the show I wanted to again mention how happy I am for my good friends Jimmy and Cathy. As they start their life together I wish them nothing but the best the world has to offer, but know that they already found that in each other.

Today’s show is all about things that make me happy, not really a few of my favorite things but definitely a stream of consciousness show pulled together from stories which struck my fancy, and intrigued me to know more. Sometimes its simply a headline, other times the whole concept spoke to me on some level. I really enjoy putting shows together like this so hopefully that comes through in the final take.

So I ask you to come with me on this fun little adventure as we stroll through he gardens of tech jokes and the glades of  caffeinated dreams. A bit flowery of a description but hey its springtime.

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• Back Channel: All the Cruft, non of the Chaff
  
• Web Presence Index www.paulrjmuller.com
• Congrats to Jimmy and Cathy! Again, and Thank you

Quick Hits:

• April 1 is a big day for virus’ Patch your machine
• Countdown to Lawsuit, Lawn Darts return
• Heat your food for camping, but try and pass this by the TSA
• Let it Shine, LED Headlamp theater
• Phantom limbs, and further study
• Collection of Tesla Coil Geek Anthems

Geek Cruft

• Linux Error, Did you mean windows?
• Telecommuting is down, but who could afford and Office Pod?
• Gold bars from Recycled jewlery, for green gold
  
• Physics gone wrogn with Pacman? Almost a great game
• Twitter me from the road, via OnStar?
• Banjo Hero
• Timelapse Garden Camera
• Economy of Space, projector screen is hidden
• A Helicopter Hotel? 5 years of work  lifts off  June 26th
• Bean bags in the pool? Genius!
• I might need this shirt, Rubic’s revealed
• Carbon Fibre is the new Platinum
• See the Music, audio tape as an art medium
• Super mario Coffee Table
• Visit Japan, before the Space  Squids do her in

Consumable & Caffeinated Bits

• CaffiNation Reviews Foosh Energy Mints
• Largest Lego birthday Cake Ever. Legoland celebrates 10 years
• Birth of a Demon, The peeps are coming
• USb Cup warmer, clock, they just don’t work well people
• R2D2 pepper mill? what can’t he do
• Take a shot out of anything
• Friend Foe or Fuel, you decide

Thanks and Stay Caffeinated People

Tags: Carbon Fibre, Carbon Footprint, gardens, Gold, green tech, Helicopters, Japan, LEDs, Lego, Linux, Mario, Pacman, Peeps, pools

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Today’s Show: Holidays, Weakness, Apology, Delay, Computers, Caffeine, Papercraft, Green Tech, LED, LCD, Coffee

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I hope everyone is having a great season so far, the hectic days are starting to catch up with our household here. The CaffiNation Lair has lain dark and mostly unoccupied as we visit the four corners of the city. Things are beginning to calm down once more but there is always the next big challenge on the horizon. I have compiled a list of fun stories which may or may not make sense to0 anyone other than myself. Thanks so much for your patience trust me if this had been done yesterday it would have been ugly.

An interesting little discussion at the end concerning Names, please stick around for it. And Thank you for any comments you send our way.

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Tags: caffeine, Coffee, Computers, delay, green tech, Holidays, LCD, LED, papercraft

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Today’s Show: Sports, Baseball, Twitter,Lego, Green Tech, Costumes, Coffee, April Fools

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I Don’t even know where to begin! I was 13 the last time the Phillies Made It! I’d like to let a huge apology ut to my followers on Twitter, If you’re not a sports fa this might have been a bad week for you. I think i’ve been averaging about 40 – 50 tweets per game. Twitter is an unbelievable tool to let fans interact and share something as special as this has been. Listen up for more.

A Lot of serious topics flying around the tubes, The CaffiNation provides a little levity and a little knowledge.

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Tags: april fools, Baseball, Coffee, Costumes, green tech, Lego, Sports, twitter

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On Today’s Show: Cigarettes, Tea, Coffee, Robots, Bugs, Biodegradable things

• Apologies and a scare

Real News Bytes

• CaffiNation Greens it Up Earth Day Style
• 7 Eco friendly links for web services
• Part of a grand larger plan, but the power source is awesome
• Fire Hydrant means no parking with a twist
  • Open Wheeled Electric car looks old timey and fun

Tech Cruft

• Happy 18th Hubble
• Steampunk Victorian workstation
• Ashes to Ashes, biodegradable coffins
• Robot Buddies, Fire fighting bugs
• A real page turner, Book scanner unmasked
  • Just a little FYI, Laptops are fully searchable by Customs now… # Bonus Link

Caffeine & Food

• Do we need Caffeinated Chips?
• Tragedy and Red Bull. Its not a sports drink moderation is the key
• Edible Dishes! no more soap, Biodegradable, edible and washable!
• Cigarette Tea?
• Combined they form MicroToaster
• Burgeoning Beer Guide

PodSafe Music:

• The Beat Assassins:Going Crazy

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Thanks and Stay Caffeinated People!

Tags: Biodegradable, Biodegradable things, bugs, Cigarettes, Coffee, Ecology, edible dishes, green tech, Robots, Tea, tech, tech news

Another Earth Day rolls around on the calendar to find that being green is getting easier. Adoption of CFL’s as alternatives to Edisonian Incandescents are taking off. Al Gore has throw down with a new presentation that is getting some notice. And very worth your time to watch. I’ve talked about it before but sometimes things are more than buzzwords. Green carries so much more weight than just its pigment nowadays, and its making it easier and cheaper to do things the right way. Recycling is just the start we need to move beyond blue buckets at the curb and into the houses themselves.

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Tags: caffeinated, dell, earth day 2008, fair trade coffee, green coffee, green tech, hastags, twemes, twitter

Money is green, and frankly so is everything else lately. But money is also king, if it costs too much then green is bad, and just won’t work. If it being green causes people with lots of money to loose some of it or make less of it then green is still bad and will get crushed. However green, lately, is saving consumers lots of Money. And the court of public opinion has decreed that green is good. So like a casino giving out a gambling hotline number, Big business wants you to be green, through clenched teeth.

In case you hadn’t guessed Green is the new buzzword for everything from clothing to furniture of late. Green living, green cars, green tech. But what does it mean? Does it mean on one hand reducing conspicuous consumption of goods and tech leaving behind a wakes of debris in your path? Does it mean reducing the oft mentioned footprint that each one of us has? Or is it something about recycle buckets, carbon, and hippies? Quite frankly it could be all of them but don’t let buzzwords and stereotypes lead you to believe that this will all wash over, and that none of it really means anything.

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Tags: green culture, green ghost hunters, green living, green tech, hints, technology, tips, wired

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On Today’s Show: Mugs, Tesla Coils, Manholes, Eyelashes, Plants and the Ozone

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Notes:

• Saturday the 8th Live! At Techpodcast Round Table

Tech

• Cool Tesla Coil Pattern, colors are aftermarket
• Feedback: Phone Update Via listener comments
• We don’t do this, But an Update on a Review Crisis
• Baking soda could save your skin
  
• Clean air and Art all-in-one
• Resistance to time is now measurable. Ohm’s Law Clock
• All in marketing, but a great Idea. Mom Spit
• Bored? Call a meeting
• Urban functional art
• re gifting in a whole new way
• Go big or go Home, Eyelashes

Caffeine & Food

• On or Off Coffee Mug.
  • Should have been Speak or Shhhh
• Coffee or Tea Anywhere now

Season of Giving

• Penny-Arcade Child’s Play
• Coffee Kids – Via Coffee Geek

Thanks and Stay Caffeinated People!

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