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All The Craic and none of the problems

So a belated Happy St Patty’s Day to all of you who either are, wish to be, or are willing to pretend for a day to Be Irish. Its been a fun day so far with lots of good Craic to follow the tons of cruft we usually do. Now For Truely good Craic you need to see a CraicHead, Jimmy CraicHeadTV would be the place to get it. I borrowed the title from Jimmy for this show, You should check out the original, He’s a Philly based video blogger who loves dogs, sailing and of course good craic.

All craics aside, today’s show is full of crazy awesome tech, and slowed by a crazy twitter / internet outage. So the live show might end up not being live at all. Technology goofs aside you’re going  to learn about Zelda triforce Rugs, amazing beer steins, Mario in art. In short a few of my favorite things.

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Geek Cruft:

• Adopt A Newb, The Project Begins
• NYT weighs in on Geolocation and gives an interesting rundown
• Windows Mobile 7 details emerge
• Picture upload dilemma solved?
• Care to throw down a little Roshambo with a computer?
• Know your SciFi. Period Table helps you study
• Triforce Rug, For Steve
• Lamenting Mario in Art
• Messaging from beyond at 1000 words or less
• Left Handed Mouse, for my Dad
• Doodle track is AWESOME
• Build a Better Needle
• 90 percent less water in a washing machine
• Rubics Cube for the blind
• Scary thought of the day, Humans used to transmit high speed data.

Food and Caffeinated Bits:

• Facts about one of my Favorite beers. Guinness
• CoffeeNate rocks out a good video on how to decode coffee lables
• Stein of Science!
• Death Star Watermelon!
• Black Blood of the Earth

Thanks and Stay Caffeinated People!

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Tags: bbote, beer, geolocation, human data network, Mario, needle, pixel pipes, rubic cube, science, stein, triforce, want!, watermelon, windows 7 phone edition, windows mobile 7, zelda

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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.

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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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It’s not easy, nothing is ever that easy

So the spring semester came in with a bang just now, i’m up to my eyeballs in work to do for the department and the only positive at this point is that i’m  making headway on a couple of huge problems. Learning is fun!

Tonight i decided to break out the shoehorn and figure just how many angles could fit on the head of a microphone. In short we have a ton of stuff to talk about and only one person to do the talking. So get ready for some fast paced action.

Tonight’s show has everything the well heeled geek needs, star wars, LEGO, coffee, weapons, Mario, Atari, Halo, cupcakes, charity and compassion. It’s all part of a balanced information diet!

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Geek Cruft:

• Its all in the MIX, Process of doing a show
• Gamers Unite! Bungie sponsors game night for Haitian Relief donations
• Charity has pitfalls, Navigate them
• Bill Gates… Hello World, he’s all a-twitter, get the jokes out now folks
• First Person Tetris, you’re welcome
• GraphJam, because charts can be awesome
• Weapon Kills with sounds, Pew Pew
• REAL Laser weapon, Phaser set to awesome. Pew Pew
• Sarcasm Mark Punctuates your disdain, but not unique
• Insane charges live on in filesharing case
• HP to do 3d Printing on the cheap?
• But not MAKERBOT Cheap
• Music Box shaped like a violin, but you pay through your nose
• Digital Guitar? this has promise, a ton of promise
• LEGO NXT to keep seamonkeys warm
• Guerrilla LEGO project patches wounds of World Wars
• Who doesn’t need 4 ft Deathstar wall art

Food and Caffeinated Bits:

• CoffeeKids picks SweetMaria’s as a featured doner. I love Sweet Maria’s!
• How can Coffee help in Haiti? Mike has the answers for you
• Pint of Atari style awesome
• In a disposable culture how long before disposable cups have separate disposable handles?
  • Why not shift the handles to reusable?
• Bask in the glory of a Mario Cake
• If a tastybake oven and a Foreman grill had an illicit weekend
• Minifrothers from space!
• Slow down there big fella. Hoagie races a thing of the past

Thanks and Stay Caffeinated People!

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Tags: 3d printing, Atari, bungie, Charity, Coffee, compassion, Cupcakes, haiti, Halo, laser, Lego, Mario, red cross, sarcasm, Star Trek, Star Wars

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All good zombies would like a Juicy Brain in their stocking.

Tonights live show was rather fun, and went off with a small hitch in the start of it, but overall it went smooth. i think we can keep this up on Wednesdays!

Tis the season for Zombies, I guess. for some reason they are on the tips of everyone’s brain this past week, so i figured we’d put together a nice retrospective and feast upon the gory details. Top that off with a load of lovely crazy links then you have todays show. From Crossbows to Chewing gum, Tetris to Ninjas we cover anything and everything in the geek landscape.

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Holiday Cruft

• Child’s Play Charity underway
• Water your Tree, reminder app
• House of Mouse geeky tree decor
• Gamer Christmas Decor
• When does it stop being a Christmas tree and start being a tree with junk on it?
• Xmas Truck
• White Christmas… But Why

Geek Cruft:

• What’s on your mind?
• Facebook changes your privacy
• Google Chrome for the Mac
• Zombie Disney Princesses
• Creepy Android Heads
• Zombie Star Wars Posters, so much awesome it hurts
• Take that pesky Zombies! Fully Automatic Crossbow
• TV Armor, great idea long overdue
• Mario one handed piano version
• Tetris God scoffs at your struggle
• Don’t roll your eyes at me
• 100 mph lawnmower, insert quick work joke
• Did you have your 34 gigs today?
• Pacman Rings
• One of our Dinosaurs is missing!
• Ninja toothbrush sanitizer

Food and Caffeinated Bits:

• Zombie Gingerbread
• Hot Cocoa Maker
• Duel or Steak
• Exploding gum is no joke

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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The press pot died today… or was it yesterday

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Some days you just can’t do it. you can’t pull your scattered thoughts into a seemingly sensible format for a talk show. Today is one of those days but I have an excuse, you see my coffee pot broke this morning… Now don’t start wailing and nashing your teeth yet i have plenty of coffee creation methods at hand but my recent love of the Press Pot coffee had me in a very foul humor after the glass broke.

So that nonsense aside and a wonderful weekend with the family behind me i turn now to the task at hand giving you some semblance of an episode to entertain you on your travels about thew front half of the week. An Existential masterpiece of an episode from a producer who just doesn’t feel all there right now.

A belated congrats to Jeffery Powers of the Geekazine Podcast for hitting show number 100 this past week! Keep up the good work!

Enjoy the show and Stay Caffeinated!

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News in brief

• Facebook Buys Friendfeed… Limited scope for this deal
• PS3 Price Drop, Xbox 360 Price Drop

Geek Cruft

• Steampunk Skull Mouse, you’re all sheep now
• Move from Steampunk towards a new name
• Low hanging fruit and scoreboards
• Best Mario Bros Wall art EVER
• Space invaders light
• Solar UFO, Float towards a cleaner Moat
• My toothpaste doesn’t need to look at me
• Teach a robot to lie they said… this can’t end well for us

Food and Caffeinated Bits:

• Schools coming back you might need a new thermos
• French Press… I hardly knew ye
• Benefits of different brewing methods
• In the end its all coffee

Thanks and Stay Caffeinated People!

Tags: Albert Camus, cowboys, facebook, friendfeed, Mario, mario brothers, PS3, robot, Steampunk, The Stranger, ufo, Xbox 360

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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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• 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:  St Patrick, Green Beer, Irish Coffee, ecology, recipes, Mario, Steampunk, Roomba, lemmings, Nintendo, Remix Culture, Coffee, Alarms

Green isn’t only about being ecologically minded these days, its also about celebrating  St Patrick’s Day, Celebrating to coming of Spring in the northern hemisphere and hopefully trying to save some cash while you’re doing all of the above. I have a list of awesome website with hilarious and intriguing content we’re going to go over.

What would a Caffination pre St Patty’s day episode be without an Irish Coffee Recipe and explanation. I’ll be putting my own derivation of the Irish coffee recipe out later later this week. Not too much different but I found it tastes a bit better. To top it off we have a metric ton of other content to fill your ears and spice up your dreams. No one i know can afford half of the outlandish gadgets and gizmos i see online, buts its always free to point, laugh or dream isn’t it?

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• Coming soon Blog Design Guide: Content Writing
• The Right Way to…
• Coming up, New Recipes, Caffeinated Product Review and So much more

Geek Cruft

• Mario Kart from Office Supplies
• Handy Guide to Laptop definition, with saucy language
  • Buzzword Frustration is running rampant these days
• A pogo stick for the damaged, expensive, dangerous
• Bring me the severed head of a Care Bear, for my phone?
• Impressive editing, 20+ musicians gathered into a new song. * video link
• Remix Culture
• Scare your pets with this roomba cover
• NES Controller, worlds most awesome soap
• One day software will defend the Net, proactively, Nueromancer lives
  
• Lemmings! loved the game, now see the knitting
• Steampunk Eyepod does it up right!
• Best Customer Service Sign Ever

Consumable & Caffeinated Bits

• Energy drink compound might increase estrogen levels
• Coffee Mind Tricks
• Supergrill, to compensate for not being able to cook on a real one
• Best alarm clock concept ever!
• Green Beer? Is that the best they can do?
• Stateside Irish Coffee, Wiki concerning
• Mr Food’s Recipe* video link

Thanks and Stay Caffeinated People

Tags: Alarms, Coffee, Ecology, Green Beer, Irish Coffee, lemmings, Mario, nintendo, Recipes, Remix Culture, roomba, St Patrick, Steampunk

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Today’s Show:  Lego, Design, Color Theory, Adopt a Newb Day, Jobs, robots, photoshop, Mario, nesting dolls, energy drinks, sugar

Tonight’s show is shortened because I’m pretty sure everyone was outside enjoying the weekend. At least were the CaffiNation makes its lair, in Sunny Philadelphia. The family unplugged as a whole and took the city by storm, so everyone here is just plain plumb tuckered out. Tonight’s show takes only the best content and the funniest links from my travels the past couple of days online.

Consider this a small sampling of the awesomeness available. But we do have a ton of great little design tips and applications. We are taking this opportunity to announce Adopt a Newb Day 2009, a day dedicated to the idea of giving a little tech love to those less all knowing than you.  More to come in the next couple of days about this holiday and as always check back for some interesting articles on tap this week as well.

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Follow Along with us as we talk about…

• Blog Design Guide: Part 1 the Colors
• Adopt a Newb Day 2009 is coming! 4th Annual
• Last years Adopt a Newb was quite fun
• LaidOff Camp? Interesting Idea, not one in Philly yet

Geek Cruft

• I ain’t afraid of no Retro, T shirt
• Old School looking Robot, flash drive
• Robot Stacking Toy, is awesome fun
• Robots to teach our young? and they can get freaky angry
• Legos build Themselves a Millennium Falcon
• Incredibly expensive Photoshop and Illustrator menu Magnets
• Free and Awesome Periodic Table of Shortcuts CS3, found via
• Mario Nesting Dolls

Consumable & Caffeinated Bits

• Pepsi throwback, sugar is back
• DIY Booze Creation, possibly
• Anti Energy Drink?  Sounds pretty interesting
• My take on energy drinks, revisited

Thanks and Stay Caffeinated People

Tags: adopt a newb day, color theory, cs3, Design, Energy Drinks, illustrator, Jobs, Lego, Mario, nesting dolls, photoshop, robot, robot teacher, robot toys, sugar

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Today’s Show:  8-Bit, Lego, Tiles, Mario, Steampunk, Retro mod, NES, Coffee, Pixels, Castles, Kids, Fossils, Marketing

The DIY (Do It Yourself) culture runs strong though this episode as i hope you can see. From Coffee controlled by electronics to crafty ways to decorate your bathroom we have a ton of wonderful content to share with you. Geeks of any stripe are often called upon to make due with less than ideal conditions, and in this economy thats a fantastic skill to have, hopefully this episode will start off the Tech in Tough Times article series correctly. Its the appetizer to a wonderful set of upcoming articles.

Its been a great weekend here at the Lair, hopefully today’s high energy episode will start your week off on the right ear. We hit topics all over the spectrum but still manage to somehow stay true to the DIY spirit throughout.

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• Tech in Tough Times: Starts this week

Geek Cruft

• Netflix to try and appease streaming only crowd
• Decapitate and Save
• 8 bit tile bathroom, my wife would kill me
• Magic Mushroom Stained Glass
• Steampunk Computer Mod, flickr set
• Now this is an upgrade, Apple Disk drive to mac mini
• What a job! Lego artist. Thanks Jeff
• Cram an old machine into some legos, Thanks Norbert
• Lego castle and story
• Twitter story, prepare for Shaq
• Cache of Ice age fossils found in LA
• Can you Google Atlantis and find ti?

Consumable & Caffeinated Bits

• Do you have a coffee Clock? FOF Friday
• Pixel Coasters, Star power
• Starbucks, don’t call us instant Marketing push
• Coffee heading back up in price? Time to plant
• NES Controller Controlled Coffee Maker

Thanks and Stay Caffeinated People

Tags: 8-Bit, Caffination, Castles, Coffee, Fossils, Kids, Lego, Mario, Marketing, nes, Pixels, Retro mod, Steampunk, Tiles

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Today’s Show: Mario, Legos, Cupcakes, Video Games, Art, and Amps

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Every Fall i get the same problem afflicting my vocal cords. The true problem is that coffee, my lifeline, my love makes the problem worse. So I end up being cranky and undercaffeinated. Tea is all well and good but its missing something for me, perhaps its just not viscus enough?

On to the news! A huge set of data to cull through for today’s show but I think that we came up with the best of the best to share with you today.

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Tags: and Amps, art, Cupcakes, Legos, Mario, Video Games