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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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Its an HTTP Error Silly

This week has been one long error. From the moment I step foot in the door at work until my head hits the pillow at night I’ve been beset by projects and delays. One fantastic thing did happen, we heard the heartbeat of CaffiNation 2.0 Rev 2 on Tuesday, so no week can be entirely bad with that happening.

I have to-do lists nested inside my to-do lists both at work and home, so its really no surprise that I’ve been living off coffee something fierce. Fearing a recursion mistake or a syntax error I’ve been hitting the java hard, and often. I can see time right now. Just had to share.

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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If you’re not reading the blog you’ve missed

• Water Blocks Stacking Color
• Cult of Hype Rant
• Auction Art
• Drink Caddy for Golfers

Geek Cruft:

• iPad, It can’t be avoided. I’ll try not to rant. But rather predict
• And here is why, iPad to have Apple Processor
• Geeks teaching people how to spell
• Let me Google That for you,  learn to help yourself
• Sleep Talking Man Blogs
• What if your ink never ran out?
• Wife already said no. Pacman Bookshelf
• Pacman blanket is pretty nifty too
• 3D, probably stands for Dollars Star wars cashing in Chess
• Mars Rover up on blocks, parked in a bad neighborhood
• Worst idea for a remote control EVER. Bomb shaped Helicopter

Food and Caffeinated Bits:

• What should I Eat. Snack Flow Chart
• Espresso Death toll rises
• Best Coffee beers ranked,
  • Triumph brewery’s Coffee and Cream Stout not there but should be
• Friends come and go but Mugs Accumulate (Favorite Mugs)
• Swoop there it is
• Different variations abound but Knitted cup Cup Coozies are in
  • These are beautiful
• How many of you roast your own?
• Even Coffee fears the end times
• Beep Mug, Barcode fun
• Caffeine prevents brain cancer… possibly

Thanks and Stay Caffeinated People!

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Tags: apple, beer, Chess, chess set, Coffee, cruft, Espresso, fans, geek, Ink, inkjet printer, ipad, laptop, Star Wars

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Under way and under foot going forward

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So the chaos that is the start of the semester is slowly working its was clear as it always does. I’ve been able to focus on writing more than in the past couple of months and as a result you get a new recipe that I’ve been enjoying these past couple weeks as well as a host of off the wall content as per usual. The Food and the Caffeinated bits is particularly off its hinges tonight.

This show is the second time shifted episode I’m trying out. I need more feedback on what you think of putting the show out on Monday and Thursday afternoons.  Do you like the change, should I shift it to Sunday and Wednesday Afternoon or put it back the old way?

Today we’ll be enjoying a bit of Caffeinated Jerky, Some Veggie Chili a ton of news and interesting little bits floating about.

Enjoy the show!

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

News in brief

• Marvel gets bought by Disney… it hurts to even type it
• Good thing is that  we are the X Men
• BlackBlaze opens up on how to build massive storage on the cheap

Geek Cruft

• Photo’s released of James May’s Lego House
• Possible Lego movie
• Lego Sets never made. Dune
• Physicists to use Lego to simulate on nano particles
  • Cosmology gets in the way
• Video Series has Gritty vision of the Mushroom Kingdom,
  • Rated R for Radical
• Font’s Missing and bad tattoos
• Google’s new Engine codename Caffeine, their dirty secret
• EA on the other side of a licensing dispute. Dillinger Style
• I was right! Nintendo free’s the internet Channel for the Wii
• Ink System good to the last drop, not really new
• pay for your web time with a little sweat equity
• I want this Duck Hunter print in the worst way. Fine art meets 8 Bit
• Japanese firm to build solar power array in space
  • next up how to build a extension cord

Food and Caffeinated Bits:

• Alton loves Jerky
• Hey Jerky, here’s my card, Meatcards… tell your friends
• Caffeinated Jerky? now you have my undivided attention
• Quick Veggie Chili, a good base is all you need
• Hotel with Coffee Done Right
• Inverted Office Plants

Thanks and Stay Caffeinated People!

Tags: blackblaze, brawl, caffeine, Chili, cloud, Coffee, Ink, inkjet, Jerky, Lego, Office Plants, solar power, therewillbebrawl

Today’s Form over function is a first. A wallpaper dedicated to a machine. At Temple University we recently got rid of our oldest and most well worn Plotter, 4 foot wide printer, the machines was 7 years old, I have personally rebuilt many of its internal workings and have brought it back from the dead many times. They are only designed to last 4-5 years. Its strange to feel a sense of loss for a machine, but this machine has produced a good portion of the work for every student who has passed through this department in the past 7 years. For 4 of those years it was the sole method of printing documents this large. With an Impressive body of work to her credit Old Hickory (we name all machines after food we also have BBQ, Mesquite, and Cayenne ) had to be surplused for parts at the end of May.

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Tags: Caffination, FoF Friday, form over function friday, hickory, injection point, Ink, memorial, plotter, technology, Wallpaper

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On Today’s Show: Robots, Toast, Geeks, Legos, Ink, Inkjets, Printers, Asteroids

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Notes:

• What do Geeks Like? Find out at the Techpodcast Xmas Round Table

Tech Cruft

• Printer Ink costs a ton of cash. but the comparison is flawed
• Tunguska: asteroid, its what the aliens want you to think…
• What is this 1950? In home Nukes are a bad idea
• Turbine Toast. How to deafen breakfast
• Inkjets giving back to the world through song
• Lego unboxing, Millennium Falcon
• Winter Approaches, get thee armed
• I need one of these. Teeth Brushing Robot. hal iTosis?
• Because i can. The Bubble video

Caffeine & Food

• Candy Cane Shots?
• Spiffy Tea Pot
• Robo Coffee Roaster
• Island Coffee wonder
• Coffee as a reward
• DIY coffee maker

Season of Giving

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

Thanks and Stay Caffeinated People!

Musical Intervention: Courtesy of the PMN:

• The Hot Rods: Hey Little Drummer Boy
  • Artist’s Site
• Rockosaurus Rex: Up on the rooftop
  • Artist’s Site

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Tags: Asteroids, caffeine, Coffee, gadgets, Geeks, Ink, Inkjets, Legos, Printers, Robots, tech news, technology, Toast