Its been a long year. Much more so than the 365.25 days normally would. I’ve been through a lot personally from highs to lows and All the while kept talking and producing new shows week after week. Through broken bones, cancer scares, surgeries, various sicknesses and tiny joys this year has been trying to say the least. But we’re ending on a high note with the news that a new baby is coming in July, that gives me 7 more months to set everything up for the podcast newb!

It has been a great ride and I can only  hope that you’ll stick around to see where we go in the future. I have a lot of ideas for what might be, and what hopefully will happen.

Thanks everyone who listened, read and joined in on the discussion for this past calendar year.

Stay Caffeinated and Safe for the new year.

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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.

CaffiNation Live on Wednesday Nights at 11pm Eastern

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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

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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Tags: Christmas, chrome, Disney, geek, iphone, Mario, ninja, Podcast, tetris, tumblr, Zombie

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On Today’s Show: Upgrades, Hacking, Wind Up Cars, Caffeine and Superheroes

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Podsafe Music & Announcements

• Maria Daines: House of the Rising Sun
  • Folklore House of the rising sun

• Wordpress 2.5 is now out, So when will I upgrade? Problem with free software
• The weekend begs of Spring, Trout Season Opened, Baseball Opening Day is tomorrow

Real News Bytes

• Lower than Low, Message board for epileptics attacked
• Day 1: Nothing. The error is obviously Human
• Day 2 Hacking the Gibson… Macbook Air Falls in under two minutes
• Day 3: Windows Vista SP1 laptop fall on final day. After some installs
• Ubuntu Stand alone at the end
• Comcast Degrading Signal? So thats why Lost has looked bad lately

Tech Cruft

• Drive a small car? Need a boost?
• Concept Art, PC on a Pallet. Needs a little tweaking
• Photoshop goes online, and free. But not without issues
• After the last show we talked about small and useful, this fits the bill in spades

Caffeine & Food

• Safe Driving, Caffeine tip
• Twitter is my new source for awesome links
• Snapple’s New “Water”, Give me beer
• Starbucks buys Clover, mass data collection
• This is stupid. But I like the scale

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Tags: caffeine, Coffee, hacking, Mac, Podcast, Superheroes, tech news, ubuntu, Upgrades, Wind Up Cars, Windows, Wordpress

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On Today’s Show: Recuperation, Healing, Macbook, Humor, Dentures, Junk food, Superbowl

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General Info

• Philadelphia Social Media Breakfast with @Jeffpulver
• Lego & the Smurfs both hit 50
• Techpodcast Network Member: PreviewCast

Tech Cruft

• Verizon Data Rant
• Aboriginal Archives, An Anthropological view
• SuperBowl in HD, Show us the way
• Have Fun with Apple’s new products. Macbook Humor abounds
• Ergonomic to a whole new Level.
• Think outside the Box. Car Seat
• For the greater good. iLimb is more than awesome

Caffeine & Food

• Play with your food, and answer the call
• Beer in a state of reuse. Awesome Idea. Ask My Dad
• Freaky Cool
• Because Junk food needs MORE preservatives
• Snickers gets in on the Act

Music Interludes:

• Matthew Ebel: Downtown
  • www.MatthewEbel.com

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Tags: caffeine, Dentures, Healing, Humor, Junk food, Lego, Macbook, Podcast, Recuperation, smurf, Superbowl

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Knowing… Is half the Battle

On Today’s Show: Coffee, Wii, Robots, Gears of War, Lancer, Chainsaws, Nerf

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General Info

• A Fine TechPodcast: A Couple of Admins
• Promotion by request: A Tweet in Time
• Testing the waters: Cooking Show?
• Coffee and a Sore Throat

Tech Cruft

• Wii Hacking Lord: Head Tracking, Jaw Dropping
• Return of LawnBott, and this time he’s miffed
• Sigh Worthy
  • Web Developers need to see this. IE8 Misbehaves
  • Much ado about a Flash Game
  • Apple slides one into a recent update: Video Mavens beware
• There is no potential for abuse here, only a promise with Wrong Number
• The Craft involved astounds me, Nerf Lancer
• FTU: Why didn’t I think of this. Ipod Earbud Speakers
• MPAA botches survey data from College age kids

Caffeine & Food

• Game or Eat? Hows about Both Pacman Style
• Don’t spill the salt
• Chicago Kids rock the coffee scene

Music Interludes: PMN

• Cage 9 : A Last Lullabye
  • www.cage9.com

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Tags: Chainsaws, Coffee, Gears of War, Lancer, Nerf, Podcast, Robots, tech news, technology news, Wii

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On Today’s Show: CES, TPN, News, Apple, Macworld, Halo, Speed Racer, Espresso, Gizmodogate

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General Info

• Techpodcasts: CES Coverage
• Episode 200 Giveaway Details. 2 in 2

Tech Cruft

• Cthulhu Does Politics
• Much Ado about Giz
• 8 trends in CES. With awesome Graphic
• This is serious, be thankful for your freedom
• Lighten the Mood and Geek Out in Detroit, Mach 5 Style
• Lamp Straight out of Halo, very organic style
• SimCity, now called Micropolis, and open source!
• Office Multitool
  
• Painless Meds
• Do you Hate productivity? 3D Tetris…

Caffeine & Food

• Stupid LOtD: What type of coffee are you
• Handpresso? This looks sweet
• In the still of the Night, a Coffee drinker’s horror tale

Music Interludes: PMN

• Jake Lear: Ruth’s Boogie
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Tags: apple, CES, Coffee, Espresso, Gizmodogate, Halo, Macworld, News, Podcast, Speed Racer, technology news, TPN

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On Today’s Show: CES, TPN, News, Voicemail, Airlines, Guinness, fish, Beer Pong

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General Info

• Techpodcasts: CES Coverage
  • If you’ve got the Ink thanks for the help getting the videos working correctly
• Episode 200 Giveaway Details. 2 in 2
• Voicemail now Locked in

Tech Cruft

• Historic. Bill Gates CES Final Keynote Play by Play
  • Check out Presentation Zen for this discussion
  • Direct Comparison of Presentation Styles Steve V Bill
• PSP & Skype
• Testing Missle Defense with Commercial Airlines
• Queen Loves the Wii, and who wouldn’t
• Home Theater System, Video Game Consoles Included
• Guinness BoWR for video games
• Pipeline Fish tank.

Caffeine & Food

• Your Gonna need some coffee to keep up with all this stuff
  • Grinding?
• World Championship of Beer Pong? You need ID to get ping pong balls around here
• Everyone needs more money even Starbucks

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Tags: Airlines, Beer Pong, caffeine, CES, Coffee, Fish, grinding, Guinness, News, Podcast, TPN, Voicemail

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On Today’s Show: Mistakes, Buildings, Storm Troopers, Mummers, Halo, Warnings, Coffee, Babies

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General Info

• Episode 200 Give-A-Way Details within
• Back to the Grind, refreshed
• Explaining a Philly Thing
• Mummers
  • Example 1, Example 2, Example 3

Tech Cruft

• Storm Troopers Mummers. 501st FTW
  • Notice the umbrellas
  • Want to Watch the performances? 2007 but you’ll get the idea
  • Wiki
• Human Stop Motion Video Games
  • Pong
  • Space Invaders
  • Tetris
• Sim City here we come. Arcologies in the works
• Warning labels that finally make sense
• Mini V12, not too eco friendly. But Awesome
• Troops Salute Halo

Caffeine & Food

• You think you drink a lot of coffee? How do you stack up?
• Awesome Article on Kids and Coffee
• Fine mess I’m in. Home made coffee filter

Thanks and Stay Caffeinated People!

Musical Intervention: Courtesy of the PMN:

• Munk: Dirty Work: Waxboy Records

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Tags: 501st, Babies, Buildings, Coffee, Halo, Mistakes, Mummers, New Year, Podcast, Star Wars, Storm Troopers, Warnings

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On Today’s Show: Beer, Coffee, Caffeine, Cheer, Trees, Cookies and Skulls

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Notes:

• What do Geeks Like? Find out at the Techpodcast Xmas Special Round Table
• I had a great time presenting and listening in, thanks to all who showed up and please enjoy the video

Musical Intervention: Courtesy of the PMN:

Two per show for the holidays

• Admiral Twin:
  • God Rest ye Merry Gentlemen
  • Carol of the Bells
  • Direct to Artist Website

Caffeine & Food

• Buyer Beware Starbucks Coffee Fighting back
• It slices it dices it smooths your thighs?
• More sweet Coffee Art
• Sent 6 times, by family and friends alike. Beer Tree
• Beer tree needs replacements? Beer Buggy

Tech Cruft

• Just Google it… Internet Meme of the week (IMotW)
• Zombie Aibo, he’s back and he’s hungry
• Robot Soldiers, what happens when theres a storm?
• So you really want a wii? 15k
• All in One, ecosphere
• This cop is a real grinch
• Skull Snow globe, Nieman Marcus?
• Xmas Specs Redux

Season of Giving

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

Thanks and Stay Caffeinated People!

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Tags: beer, beer buggy, beer tree, caffeine, Childs Play, Coffee, Coffee art, Coffee Kids, Podcast

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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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Tags: caffeine, Coffee, Eyelashes, green tech, Manholes, Mugs, Ozone, Plants, Podcast, tech news, technology, Tesla Coils