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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

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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Tags: Cool Art, Hot Mug, mug, Pacman, Retro, Space invaders, Temperatuire

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Drop dead tired, but still feeling the love

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Right now my cowboy hat has a fish in it… Where did everything go wrong? It started with playing ball in the house, but thats a story for another time. We’re rapidly approaching crunch time here at the Lair and the clock is winding down quite quickly. This pre-prepped episode is what i planned to do for the show if it works out then long term i’ll be more free to produce the type of show’s i like without having to worry about staying up till all hours.

The push for Podcamp Philly is on. We’re really excited to bring the event back to Temple University on October 3rd and 4th. Hopefully I’ll see you there! Are you wondering why you should go to a Podcamp?

Enjoy the show!

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• Where else can you find me? www.paulrjmuller.com

News in brief

• DITH This Day in Tech History
• Two Person Snuggie Warning unholy abomination in the link
• Maori legend of man-eating bird is true
• Gecko Tails Have a Mind of Their Own, but how much can it save you on car insurance?

Geek Cruft

• Mummies and Vampires Checkers
• Search Engines accused en mass of breaking and entering
• AT&T says proper ‘broadband’ excludes online gaming, who should decide what traffic goes
• Google Data Liberation Group
• Uh Oh, Microsoft Says No TCP/IP Patches For XP
• A fun peek into the Large Hadron Collider
• Zune HD gaming and app downloads, I really want to review one of these
• Runaway Drone Shot Out of Sky, this is unsettling
• Your Pooch’s virtual buddy, lets hope this doesn’t go rouge
• Pacman Lamps How Awesome is that
• Haunted toilet paper roll, scare people to death on the potty
• Steampunk Nixie Clock

Food and Caffeinated Bits:

• Electric Wine Opener
• Bud Light’s ‘Grooler’ is Real
• Liftmatic Oven
• R2-D2 Cookies
• Bow Tie Corkscrew, nifty but a bit much
• Energy Drink Side Effects

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!

Tags: beer, Bud Light, DITH, drones, Energy Drinks, Geekazine, Grooler, Net Nuetrality, Oven, Pacman, Robots, Snuggie, Steampunk, wine

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So this week is going to be crazy. Its a short week for me in work and out. Listen in to get a general idea of whats going to happen to the show over the next week or so. Things are going to be a bit up in the air so we’re trying to keep the episodes short and sweet. Hence the title, not only did i not want to take the time to spell out the whole word but its also a perl function/library, which makes it geeky too!

Today’s show comes with Homework. I’m always surprised when I speak with people who don’t know what TED is. So today’s show has two of the most stunning presentations I’ve seen from TED, you are required to watch them… no excuses, there will be a test.

Enjoy the show and Stay Caffeinated!

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Geek Cruft

• Quirky name, awesome stuff, WolframAlpha Deploys
  • TED: Tim Bernards-Lee, Give us the Data
• Glasses for the 3rd world, More data, and simply stunning
• Its a great big universe and we’re all really puny, Nasa and Tiny little specs
• Skulls have always fascinated me, now you can own a cyborg skull
  • TED: Obsessions are a way of learning, Adam Savage from mythbusters
• Pac-man mural impresses
• Two unbelievable paper-crafts, Chocobo or Bob-omb
• Classic Lego video game scenes
• TSA really won’t like this, firestarting knife wielding laser pointing credit card
• Algae powered transformer?
• Recycled USB drive
• Light brite cubed
• Mario cart proves you can’t txt and drive

Food & Caffeinated Bits

• Today’s fantastic coffee was purchase from the House of Coffee in Lahaska PA
• Tweet and cook at the same time
• Floating cooler and coozy
• Dirty rotten trick, swiss army chocolate

Thanks and Stay Caffeinated People!

Tags: Algae, chocolate, Coffee, cooler, credit card, house of coffee pa, houseofcoffee, Lego, litebrite, pac-man, Pacman, recycled, Skulls, TSA, USB, wolframalpha

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Today’s Show is dedicated to the Moms of the world

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First off happy Mother’s Day to everyone out there responsible for bringing life into this world. Today’s show is special because i shared it with my mother. We set up a time and sat down and recorded the whole thing this past week. If you listen closely you can also hear a the background noise that is my son playing in the studio.

I’ve never had a co-host on the show before so this was a learning experiance. The mobile lair for the caffination needs a little tweaking before the sound quality is as good as the episodes produced regularly but I look forward to trying more on the spot recordings. I’d like to thank my mom for taking time out to spend discussing geeky things and trying to embarrass me.

Shared with my mom, and delivered to you, here is episode 333 packed with stories and laughs

Enjoy the show and Stay Caffeinated!

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Geek Cruft:

• The Amazon Kindle, Problems and solutions.
  • Patent given as well
• A new type of dumpster diving
• Pool or disco you decide
• NYPD Green? PR stunt or real commitment
• Are blogs weapons? Weapons of mass distraction maybe. Slippery slope
• Self healing concrete. Time heals all wounds and now so does rain
  
• LED grow light, turn your basement into a disco
  
• USB Necklaces? What do the ladies think

Raising Geek

• Stories about raising a geek

Caffeinated Bits

• Play with your food, or print on your eggs
• Finger food, or how to poke your eye out while eating cheese
  
• Spices per page, a new way of cooking?
• More chemicals in your beverage sir?
• Power pellets, why did this candy not come out a while ago
• Swords and cooking, how could this not work
• Artsy glass for your wine, confusing to drink from
• A flavor infusion pitcher. neat idea

Thanks and Stay Caffeinated People!

Tags: amazon, blogs, books, co-host, concrete, eggs, green tech. dumpsters, Kindle, LED, Mothers Day, NYPD, Pacman, pools, Spices, swords, USB, weapons, wine

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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:  Java, Coffee, Legos, Steampunk, Fuel Cells, Pacman, Sheep, Beer, soap, and Copycats

There is just so much awesome news to spread around, times like these make you wish you could pause the internet to even the content out over the course of a year. Not only is the Back Channel of the CaffiNation full of new and fun content, but we had to bring back the Quick Hits Section. What is that? Well we have previously had a section dedicated to short rapid fire news blips that I felt needed to be shared but not dwelt upon. Seriously if I gave every story the time and respect they all deserve we could be here a while… And no one really wants that this show is all about a ton of content crammed into a sardine can of a space. Every show you get a 5 pound cat delivered in a 3 pound box.

On tonight’s show we have an update with a better source from last show’s robo fish story, now it actually makes sense! We also have a couple reminders on what software needs upgrading on your home pc, a great new tech show to listen in on and a ton of crazy content all over. Along with crazy tales of how The land speed record might be broken by steam punks, things to scare your children and friends, a Mammoth lego story and Coffee news and tidbits bringing up the rear. Packed show, which is why its called the Crammed Edition, the Ijustcan’tfitanythingelse edition was a bit overkill. As always Enjoy the show and Stay Caffeinated!

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• Congrats to Jimmy and Cathy!
• New Show from awesome people  Tech Vets

Follow Along with us as we talk about…

Quick Hits:

• Update your Java install
• Your network is now policing you, RIAA has AT&T on its side
• Your Smartphone is safe for now
• Update on the Robo-Fish, better article more information
• Tune-able glasses: 3rd World Eyecare made easy
• 3rd World Prothesis as well?
• Just for fun my old Archaeology prof is in the news

Geek Cruft

• Blog Design Guide: Design for the Visual Impaired
• How awesome is your Paper Airplane?
• Model T never looked so good
• Let your music give you wings
• Steampunk Thumbdrive
• The ultimate steam, not so punk
• The potty can scare your children
• Androids might dream of electric sheep, but did they look like this?
• Does pacman dream of pellets? now you can
• Pacman saves your table from unsightly rings
• Have extra 3.5 floppies laying about?
• Mammoth lego sculpture, literally
• Scanners have built with Legos, now the 3d scanner is made from them
• Legal Tender in geekdom

Consumable & Caffeinated Bits

• Interesting Review of Starbucks Ready Brew
• Soap made from beer?
• Want a lolly? hows about a diagnosis
• Herb Chopper
• Copycat Recipe for a starbucks drink
• Coffee Stool, interesting

Thanks and Stay Caffeinated People

Tags: beer, Coffee, Copycats, Fuel Cells, Java, Legos, Pacman, Sheep, soap, Steampunk

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Today’s Show:  robots, gardens, NES, Pacman, Dragon, turntables, GE, Math, Pi, Coffee, Scanwhiches, Sushi, review, TP

Tonight’s episode was almost labeled The Wasteful because of the huge number of leftovers after this show was created. I simply could not cram any more awesome into the time slotted. While the podcast could theoretically go on forever we had to draw the line somewhere, and that line was here.

Instead I decided to break it down into the two most represented categories R and R is Retro and Robots, a metric ton of awesome in each subcat. Caffeinated all the way in today’s show we speak of coffee as fuel for your car, fuel for your mind, and robots which tend gardens. We discuss the finery of Pacman, the majesty of Zork and the horror of modern advertising which is so cool you can’t avert your eyes.

This Episode also could have been called the Birthday Super Throwdown Edition.

Happy birthday to My father in Law, My Father and My Sister!

So Please Enjoy the show and Stay Caffeinated!

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Follow Along with us as we talk about…

• Blog Design Guide: Layout
• Review: Manga Guide for Databases
• Quick Tip for Recovering from a Crash
  • Best Defense is a good offense backup article coming soon
• Adopt a Newb Day 2009 is coming! 4th Annual

Geek Cruft

• Hummers or TP, pick your poison
• Crazy GE viral ad, do it yourself breaking the 4th wall
• 8 sided Wheel of the future
• Robots:
  • Tend our gardens, it must be a trap
  • Rescue Dragon? or pull us out of frying pan into the fire?
  • Trash Robot,Wall-E ancestor Thank Norbert
• Retro:
  • Ultimate retro game: Zork? Is that you?
  • Retro wristwatch, modern style Digital Cuckoo
  • NES key Hideaway
  • Beautiful Turntables, Audiowood
  • Pacman Earings
  • Pacman Ghost and Cookies
• Video: Zombie Jamboree, Brazilian Do Wop with Zombies… yeah about that

Consumable & Caffeinated Bits

• Antique Coffee Machine Pool
• Food pron: Scanwiches
  
• Math is now cool, Pi day approaches
• Coffee to fuel my car? Please and thank you
• Eerie presidential Sushi, style not politics
• nasty but intriguing, Pizza and burger of massive proportions
• Coffee tongue needs insurance

Thanks and Stay Caffeinated People

Tags: Coffee, Dragon, gardens, GE, Math, nes, Pacman, Pi, Review, Robots, Scanwhiches, Sushi, TP, turntables, Zombies