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SO apparently the snow and housework has taken a huge toll on my available energy. So the show has also had its worst month of episodic breaks in quite some time. I’ll make sure that this is the end of such shenanigans.

Any podcaster worth his salt or his shovel would have dug out and continued on. But apparently being stuck in the house for long periods of time with not much to do struck a cord in our family and we started a project. Hanging our new TV on the Wall, including cabling the beast behind the wall. If i felt comfortable that i Did it the right way I would have written it up as a wonderful how too, I still might. But this house is such that no good intended project goes unpunished.  So we’ll give you a rundown on that was well.

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Geek Cruft:

• Go National Pride, Online
• Adobe Flash and writing on the wall
• It ain’t easy being Squid
• Pixar and Legos. Gotta love it
• Google and Pricacy 10 helpful settings
• Mud Volcano, man made problem. Centrailia all over again
• Antibiotics, the problem
• Kindle gets 65,000 book injection of classics
• A shotgun, revolver * Live Version Only
• Beat the lamp till its useful
• X wings can’t be too far off
• Tetris on the brain
• Are you a tech or a salesman. you need to be both
• Droid

Food and Caffeinated Bits:

• Caffeine test strips going the wrong route
• Seasonality of coffee? What say You
• Poorly executed Opulent Teacup
• Take 2 on BODY Coffee
• 22 Carat Vodka
• Rocketfuel
• Putting Things in Coffee, thanks MAS
• Thanks Gina, BK to sell SBUX?

Thanks and Stay Caffeinated People!
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Tags: bacteria, books, burger king, centrailia, droid, Kindle, LAMP, Lego, live, mud volcano, sbux, shotgun, tetris

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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!

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

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Getting hard to see through all this mental fog

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Tonight we’re running on one engine and trying to bring the plane down safely this metaphor might not land at the right airport or even the correct city but by golly we’re gonna try. So I suffer from migraines from time to time. I’ve been through most medical treatments out there some work, others not so much. Mostly a ton of the latter and not to many of the former. They tend to come on stronger when I’m under stress, not saying things are stressful but just making conversation.Tonight’s show is overshadowed by one such migraine and my standard fix just isn’t working.

Despite working under a cloud, or fog as the case may be we managed to find some rather awesome and tasty links to share with the group. From Food tech to Lego Letter, Adobe and Apple to Hulu and the Wii, lots of tech, some fun flavors and as always great caffeinated links.

Enjoy the show!

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News in brief

• Wikipedia Changes Editing Policy
• Microsoft ad agency goofs up, but people focus elsewhere
• Snow leopard to dominate the news for the rest of the month strap in

Geek Cruft

• Adobe and Apple Cs3, CS4 the kerfuffle begins
• Apple, Antivirus?
• Lego Spaceships Spell Out the Alphabet
• Create a fake life
• Sony’s E-Reader v Kindle, neat features coming
• Tetris, yes… haircut no
• Stream video from Hulu to your Wii
• RiP! A Remix Manifesto: Open mind good points but a little one sided

Food and Caffeinated Bits:

• Gizmodo has a tasty run going on
• The perfect coffee cup
• Japanese do Pizza up right
• Alton Brown is my Homeboy
• Getting Lit takes on a whole new meaning
• Not unlike a ship in a bottle this glass is just for looks
• Astronaut works on Zero G coffee Cup Concept
• How is coffee affected by the climate?
• A short tale from the dark side
  • Chocolate Cookies Recipe
  • Royal Icing Recipe
  • The Results
  • Coffee Cat Approves
• What does the future hold? and how can coffee help me figure it out

Next time we’ll look over this and so much more

• As a Coffee Guy… this article has good and bad points… Consider the source

Thanks and Stay Caffeinated People!

Tags: Adobe, Alton Brown, Antitrust, apple, astronaut, Coffee, cs3, CS4, hulu, Japan, Lego, Microsoft, migraine, RiP!, tetris, Wii

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Today’s Show is grateful, and lucky

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After taking some time off to start the recovery process we’re back in the saddle with a ton of fun stories gleaned from over the past week of waiting. Surgery went well, nothing but good news, now all that is left is to heal from the process. I’m not allowed to lift anything heavier than a gallon of milk, so this episode is dedicated to my wife who is literally carrying the family right now.

Enjoy the show and Stay Caffeinated!

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Geek Cruft

• 52 inch Hi Def Etch a Sketch
• Frank Llyod wright, legos? thanks Bob
• Watch that auto-login, Toddlers love trucks
• Stunning Steampunk PC
• Shouldn’t this be done already? Ethical guidelines for robots, 3 laws anyone?
• Terminators in waiting
• Terminator eyes? Or Spy Flys?
• Bury your treasures on the beach
• Controller wars, for those who like to spin
• DIY Katamari Controller. Beautiful design
• Tetris planters
• Batteries for emergency use… icky
• FYI 10 words you don’t know
• SMURF Chess!

Food & Caffeinated Bits

• Beware the Culacino
• Bacteria lives in hairspray, Natural Decaf coffee, say it ain’t so
• 3d Ice cube jewels
• Walking on Eggshells? or just listening to them. Insert Tweeter joke
• Wine / Beer pump
• Coffee Machine Maintenance

Thanks and Stay Caffeinated People!

Tags: Chess, Coffee, coffee machine cleaning, egs, etch a sketch, Ice, ice cubes, katamari, Legos, Robots, smurfs, sp, Steampunk, terminator, tetris, treasure, tweeter, wine

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Today’s Show:  NewB, Tech Questions, Reviews, Teeth, Fruit Snacks, fungus, archiving, Baseball, tetris, furniture, bandaids, legos, ice cream, coffee

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Today was supposed to be a live show with some new concepts being put forth. I’m still toying with the idea of doing video, I’m just not sure how to incorporate it into the stream around here. Its never good when the IT Guy, the Computer Guru has to spend hours trying to fix his own machines. So this podcast was the fallback position after the live show didn’t pan out.

There are a ton of great stories and blurbs that made it into tonight’s show, and I’m thinking that we are going to reschedule the other special events after I have had some dry runs with the technology involved.

That being said the Adopt a NewB day still needs some tweaking. I have Ideas and it might extend beyond a holiday, but I’m asking all of you. What do you think of the concept?

Enjoy the show and Stay Caffeinated!

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• Philadelphia Lost its Voice This past week. RIP Harry Kalas

Quick Hits

• The problems of Digital Archiving. Format matters
• Fungus Amungus, and its warm
• Touch Panel Dashboard, seems like a bad idea
• Jack Thompson is in the news again, as a spammer

Geek Cruft:

• Spellbinder, Awesome Guitar Hack
• Grass beneath your feet is more mobile now
• Possible relief for Broadband cap causalities
• Amazon says its a glitch, I have ideas
• Pacman Bandaids? why not
• Reboot your couch
• Tetris and Furniture
• Truth in Bedclothes
• Lego Boombox

Caffeinated Bits

• Lego Fruit Snacks
• Colgate Wisps
• Beauty in Coffee
• Three flavors no waiting
• Bacon gun, disturbing
• Senseo recall
• Indoor herb garden with thought put into it

Thanks and Stay Caffeinated People!

Tags: archiving, bandaids, Baseball, Coffee, Fruit Snacks, fungus, furniture, ice cream, Legos, Newb, Reviews, Tech Questions, Teeth, tetris

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Today’s Show: Sports, Politics, Opinion, and Freedom, Apple, Firewire, Steampunk, Tetris

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The entire city is holding its collective breath right now… So I had to put off doing the show until after the exhale. One tired podcaster with a belly full of coffee gives you an earful of content. I hope you enjoy.

• Back Channel Links Tumblr Blog Grinds
• The Everything Feed: Friendfeed
• The RSS Feed for this Podcast
• Totally Cool Tech. 1 year Anniversary Last Chance to join in!
• Latest Read / Audiobook. Seth Godin’s Tribes, Read about it on Garr Renyolds Blog

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Tags: apple, Firewire, Freedom, Opinion, Politics, Sports, Steampunk, tetris

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On Today’s Show: Espresso, Newbs, Storm Troopers, Nasa, Smithsonian, Tetris, Coffee

• Know-To: Photo Printing Help
• AND 2008 how it went down
  • IT Bully? This is what we want to avoid

Real News Bytes

• Why I love Philly, Storm Troopers invade a Phillies Game
• 5th grader lays the smack down on the Smithsonian
• Nasa might want to check their facts again says 13 yr old
• 96 year old Mystery Solved, Titanic mistake
  • When throwing an infringement claim down… beware the educated response Bonus Link
    

Tech Cruft

• This is a hardcore geek. Makes the Watch bend to his will
• This watch works on thin air
• Not to be outdone, a Bike gets the same treatment. Air Powered Cycle
• Devilishly Awesome USB drive
• Kids today have awesome toys, RC boat races
• I mean seriously lots of fun. Tetris Arm wrestling

Caffeine & Food

• Walk in Coffee Experience: Are you experienced?
• Thus Far: there is danger in perfection. 6 shots?
• Misspeak concerning Espresso

Want to Contact Me?

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Podsafe Music Return:

Doug MacLeod: Dubbs Talkin’ Politician Blues

Thanks and Stay Caffeinated People!

Tags: arm wrestling, Coffee, Espresso, Nasa, Newbs, Smithsonian, Storm Troopers, tetris, titanic, tresling

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On Today’s Show: Traffic, headaches, robots, bugs, music, controllers, plotters

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Podsafe Music & Announcements

• Ryan Shupe and The Rubber Band: Simplify

• How I spend my time now. The Problem Crack. What they are doing.
• Short Update concerning the web site, a little feedback
• April 15th is Adopt a Newb Day.

Real News Bytes

• What ever happened to the first one is free. Internet Addict
• A great Idea, 1 handed Controller Modular setup Access,
• How to get it. Direct to Ben Heck
• Beer, Science and Publish or Perish. It doesn’t get any better than this.

Tech Cruft

• Nintendo Ds Guitar Hero
• Robot Love
• Robot Crab
• Cyborg Bug
• Spidey Stick. Oh how I would abuse this!
• Tetris Wall Art

Caffeine & Food

• Caffeine and Tinnitus
• Weight loss without caffeine? But what if I like caffeine
• Common Sense needs explaining in energy Drink Dosage
• Moo Mixer? this is awesome enough to get right now
• Coffee Plotter. I have plotters, I love coffee. Thank you so much

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Thanks and Stay Caffeinated People!

Tags: AND 2008, beer, bugs, controllers, cyborg, headaches, Music, Newb, plotters, Robots, tetris, Tinnitus, Traffic