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This is a fun episode we hit up firesheep again, but quickly descend in a my little pony soldering iron induced haze. We touch on the hot topics of math and parenting while keeping it real with some coffee cake love. From Offline filesharing to flavor hacking your coffee equipment we touch on so many different topics in this show its kind-of a shame it has to end.

Tags: art hacking, Coffee, coffee cupping, coffee for the troops, dead drops, donkey kong, flavor hacking, French Press, garth sundam, haloween, jimseven, Math, my little pony, nintendo, NYC, self repair manifesto, Sickness, soldering iron, twitter, veteran's day

A short little post about how coffee affects me when I’m sick. I keep mentioning the issue on the show so I figured I’d give a quick rundown on what happens, why I avoid it and my recent find.

Usually when I get sick my throat / voice is the first thing to go. Now for a person whose hobby is quite voice centric this isn’t a very good thing. But beyond that I drink black coffee, which is an acidic beverage and tend to tear my throat up when I drink it. Coffee, and caffeine by extension is a mild diuretic as well. Vocal folds work on moisture, you do the math. I’m not sure if it just plays havok with the mucus membranes or not, but I end up feeling worse for wear after a cup. tea on the other hand doesn’t do this, despite the caffeine.

The recent find was a suggestion by MAS of Coffeehero to give a shot of espresso a try, and you know what it worked! No ill effects on the throat, after I let the shot cool off a bit.Perhaps its the smaller serving size, refined extraction or richer beverage. I don’t know But i know I’ll but hacking up a lung and well caffeinated at the same time from now on.

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