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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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I know I’ve put a moratorium on new mugs in the house, but i might have to either break the moratorium or snap a couple of mugs. These new offerings from Thinkgeek are pretty dang awesome. Take the power of retro and the cool factor of the temperature sensitive paint and you get one spiffy mug. Space Invaders or Pacman flavors are available, for $7.99 each. I’m definitely a PacMan guy myself so this mug might end up in  Sop now i just need to find out which one of the current soldiers is getting retired.

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Off the wall links, stories and hijinks pop up for October

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A lot of fun and spooky things happen around the lair this week, first of all the Phillies are in the World Series, for the second year in a row if that doesn’t scare people I don’t know what will. Other than that we’ve been trying to be as productive as possible reading the ton of content flowing out of the net to cull only the most awesome stories for our show.

I have to tell you being that Halloween is one of my all time favorite holidays it has been killing me these past couple of years to not put good effort into costume or decor, Next year that needs to change.

There is a new contest from Jeffery Powers over at Podcast Madness, Enter the code blogsimple for a chance to win a year-long subscription to Mozy, a web backup solution. Listen to the show for a second chance to enter. Lots of shows are involved and each one of us has a different code so be sure to head over to Podcastmadness.com to see the rest of the gang. Hurray time is running out you only have till October 31st! Last Chance!

Enjoy the show!

• Back Channel: All the Cruft, non of the Chaff now with more fluff
• Where else can you find me? www.paulrjmuller.com
• Techpodcasts Network Weekly With Bwana this week

Geek Cruft

• Norbert is awesome, check out his podcast!
• How Secure is your Router?
• New meaning for Hot on the trail
• Rock out Air Guitar Style without the Air
• 50 years of Spacey Goodness
• Not your standard bird food
• Lego Building Transforms!
• Robot walks like us, the end is nigh
• Halloween Approaches
  • Ghostbusters with Lasers
  • Gravity Don’t scare me
  • Ouija for teh internets
  • Dress up your furniture You too can appear to be homeless
  • Scary, Freaky or just plain odd. h/t Mas
  • Ways to scar your children with costume
  • Build your own Spirit Radio
• Classic Toys, Trusted brands or simpler times
• Star Wars Fans retake the series

Food and Caffeinated Bits:

• Sweet Potatoes is there anything they can’t do?
• Edible Severed Hand
• Make your own brain cake
• Magic Brownies, Magically Caffeinated that is
• Totally Tubular 80’s Cake, Scary Awesome?
• Dead Tauntaun Wedding Cake

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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