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So while this episode is released I’ll hopefully be relaxing on some sandy beach drink in hand enjoying my son terrorizing the local seagull population. You however have the distinct pleasure of enjoying a fresh cup of CaffiNation, pre recorded and lovingly steeped for your enjoyment.

This time on TPNW I’ll be doing a short informative session on Podcasting Setups and Coffee Basics. Nice short and to the point.

The CaffiNation is also very proud to take part in the Summer of Podcasts Contest Make sure you check in on August 10th to see the winners!

Enjoy the show and Stay Caffeinated!

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Geek Cruft

• If Twitter was 100 People, flawed but pretty graphic
• Twitter Is a Threat to the N.F.L.
• U.S. Marine Corps Bans Social Networking Sites
• Wall-E USB Drive
• Steampunk beauty 5-foot RC Nautilus sub
  • Bob’s RC Subs, amazing website
• Ferrari: its good to be the king
• Inline Skater, 2,800-Foot Roller Coaster, 60 Seconds
• Switching from Mac OS X to Ubuntu, interesting story i might need to try
• Xbox 360 Netflix update is crippled
• Trailing Tracks, beat feet on the beach

Food and Caffeinated Bits:

• Styrofoam Coffee Cup + Sharpie = Art | Serious Eats
• Caffeine Works Better for Men
• Bicycle cup holder, prolly not a good idea
• Boy scouts win this round Common Sense Prevails
• Michael Jordan Gatorade street art
• Mona Lisa Made of 3,604 Cups of Coffee
• Coffee Bean Matrix
• Coffee Mill Gun?

Thanks and Stay Caffeinated People!

Tags: boy scouts, da vinci, marines, mona lisa, Netflix, NFL, Steampunk, styrofoam, twitter, Wall-E, Xbox

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Sore throat, but awesome topics

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We’re having a nice simple week leading up to the forth of July holiday here in the Caffination Lair. Hopefully the weekend will have plenty of grilling and fun with friends and family. On top of all that I’m very excited to start roasting coffee in my house very shortly! Well technically outside or at the very least in the garage, but still I’ve been hungry to get into this field for a while and I’m hoping to have some fun with this in the very near future, details to follow when the green coffee and the popper arrive!

Other than the antici… pation of Roasting is been a relatively smooth week here. So the show has a great feel with lots of nostalgic fun, Legos, Arcade games, a C64 laptop, and so many more fun things have been dug up. Want to try Chunky coffee? I’ll have to explain that.

The CaffiNation is also very proud to take part in the Summer of Podcasts Contest Head on over and check out the shows rocking the codeword this week.

Enjoy the show and Stay Caffeinated!

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Geek Cruft

• I hosted TPN Weekly on Monday. Check in for some fun
• Via Nik’s Tiwtter FriendFace Video
• Arcade Games via Stop Motion Lego. Nostalgic Awesome Fun
• Clock needs flesh of the living to run
• Real Life grappling hook, not a baterang
• Linux for children? sounds like a neat concept
• Crazy Visual illusions
• Challenging Modernity, Walkman Artifact found and used
  • Body Ritual among the Nacirema, Anthro Reference Material
• How bored do you need to be to build a bulldozer? out of a fiat
• Robot hunts for bodies… this can’t end well
• Commodore 64 Laptop?
• Aging Superheroes
• Vacuum Tube sound card
  
• Twitter has issues with Tweet
  
• Clip on battery charger! awesome idea

Food & Caffeinated Bits

Today’s Coffee is Tea

• All the can opening fun without the beer reward
• Shortly going to Roast! Ordered from here
• How to roast with a popcorn popper, by MAS
• Beverage adapter for biking
• Kitchen is more than meets the eye
• Chunky Coffee, and other oddities
• Some play with their food, this family goes to war

Thanks and Stay Caffeinated People!

Tags: arcade, Coffee, commodore 64, commodore 64 laptop, grappling hooks, Lego, Linux, potato gaitlin gun, roasting coffee, Superheroes, Techpodcasts, TPN, twitter, vacuum tube, water

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Today’s show was the first guest recording in the Lair. The mother’s day show was the first co-hosted show ever. I have awesome parents

Father’s day Mayhem with Paul and Scott

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I’d Like to thank and welcome my Father to the show, the first programmer I ever knew and one of the primary reasons I’m as curious about the world around me that I am. today’s show we cover a couple new territories and makes some jokes along the way. There are a ton of great stories that show up in between the hyperlink so i hope you enjoy.

We cover ground from Beer to BBQ, for Babies to bombs and everything in between. My Father and I have a similar sense of humor and this show worked really well as a whole I’m exceedingly happy as to how it worked. Hopefully you’ll enjoy it as well.

I’m getting the cohost bug i might start inviting people to share the Caffination with me. Its turned out to be fun so far what do you think?

Enjoy the show and Stay Caffeinated!

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Geek Cruft

• This candle is the bomb
• A little throwback for my dad. Commodore 64 twitter client
• Pill alarm
• Cyclops baby ride? Children are only afraid of what you let them be
• Baby cloths tell you of fever
• Bladed nursery furniture
• Regular medieval furniture
• Man den alert, Sofa-Billards
• Deathtrap of a chair
• Play No hands Mario. Via theremin
• make a coil gun in woodshop
• Tactical grade flashlight

Food & Caffeinated Bits

Today’s Coffee:

• What would a father’s day be without a Steampunk Grill
• Perhaps a grill more traditional yet innovative, and overpriced
  
• Sword b que
• Craftsman grill tools
• Ninja Spices, does this count as hidden salt?
• Perhaps a little more frugal with Microwave potato chips?
• Concept or not take out the trash
• Discussing some coffee recommendations for Father’s Day…
• Coffee Bar at a wedding? lets make things more complicated… and expensive
• How to simple coffee illustrations for a home barista

Rundown Tasting: Prelude to a review

• Flying Fish Imperial Espresso Porter
• It would be nice to compare the three olives espresso vodka… but alas we can’t find it anywhere locally
• Pinnacle Le Double Espresso Vodka

Thanks and Stay Caffeinated People!

Tags: baby, beer, blades, C64, Coffee, coil gun, craftsman grill tools, father's day, ninja spices, ninjas candles, sofa billards, Steampunk, swords, twitter, Vodka

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Today’s Show is brought to you by the letter C, and the Number 5

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Lots of things happening on today’s show, and this is the second show I’m recording today the mother’s Day episode recorded with my Mom will air this coming Sunday morning be sure not to miss it. But for this show we have a ton of great news cobbled together for your listening enjoyment. There is a lot of talk about movies, Goats, video games, corporate mergers, the At symbol and tons of news about coffee.

In other news the weather is starting to effect everyone around here, from the weathermen who aren’t quite as happy about rain events as the used to be to the arks being built on hills all around us. At this point we can hope for sun, or even just a dry day.

Enjoy the show and Stay Caffeinated!

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Quick Hits

• Google Mowing with Goats
• Decorative soaps for the geek in all of us
• Even Wolverine needed some technical augmentation, this just seems overboard
• Wolverine Claw Toys, sold separately? And not even sharp?
• Apple, Twitter? Apple, EA Games? I hope Neither

Geek Cruft:

• Styrofoam as fuel?
• 3d Printing and the Aloha State
• Amphora is 473 years old
• Office Sync brings Google Docs and MS Office in line
• If Dick Tracey hated fish, Wristwatch finds your prey
• Tape so tough you can use it as a fan belt
• DIY Turntable

Caffeinated Bits

• Sterile cutting board with the power of light
• Bottle Cheese Plate, My dad makes these
• Beer Shampoo? Frat guys never grow up
• Nacho Wallet? Bad joke, incorrect food, funny non the less
• Bar B Que’s best friend
• Nows the time for Noodle Luge
• Nuke testing helps identify fake whiskey
• Coffee and twitter

Thanks and Stay Caffeinated People!

Tags: Amphora, apple, beer, cheese plate, Coffee, ea games, Goats, Google, Microsoft, Noodles, turntables, twitter, wolverine

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Today’s Show: Reviews, Caffeine, Christmas, The Pope, Hanukkah, Toasters, Coffee, Linux, Collaboration, Twitter, Apple

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This is the time of year when busy people go crazy, and crazy people go just a bit further, I have collected a great deal of news to tide all the busy folks over with information until they can stop to catch their breath while still leaving something to the imagination. We have a ton of great stories from serious to funny, from hoaxes to product reviews. As always its an eclectic show to say the least join us for our very own holiday rush edition. Remember if you’re still shopping to be kind to your fellow man, and if you’re done shopping to get out of the way of the crazy people who still may be.

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Tags: apple, caffeine, Christmas, Coffee, Collaboration, Hanukkah, Linux, Macworld, Reviews, solar power, The Pope, Toasters, twitter

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Today’s Show: Writing, Twitter, Logo, Politics, Cthulu, Dinosaurs, Cloning, Robots, Pong, Coffee

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A lot of things have happened here in the last week, from elections to news stories to interesting projects at work. The news must have been holding off until after the election because we have a ton of great content that just didn’t make it into the show. Tonight’s episode is truly some of the best and I think most interesting links and topics of the day.

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• NaNoWriMo continues

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Tags: Christmas, Cloning, Coffee, Cthulu, Dinosaurs, logo, mammoths, nanowrimo, patent, Politics, Pong, potato, Robots, tomato, twitter, Writing

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Today’s Show: Superstition, Voting, Diebold, Fishy, twitter, NASA, robots

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Tonight’s episode is hopefully the last show I need to pull this late in the night for a while.

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• Latest Read / Audiobook. Seth Godin’s Tribes, still listening
• Superstition

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Tags: Diebold, fishy, Nasa, Robots, Superstition, twitter, Voting

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Today’s Show: Sports, Baseball, Twitter,Lego, Green Tech, Costumes, Coffee, April Fools

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I Don’t even know where to begin! I was 13 the last time the Phillies Made It! I’d like to let a huge apology ut to my followers on Twitter, If you’re not a sports fa this might have been a bad week for you. I think i’ve been averaging about 40 – 50 tweets per game. Twitter is an unbelievable tool to let fans interact and share something as special as this has been. Listen up for more.

A Lot of serious topics flying around the tubes, The CaffiNation provides a little levity and a little knowledge.

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Tags: april fools, Baseball, Coffee, Costumes, green tech, Lego, Sports, twitter

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Today’s Show: Solar power, robots, twitter, Ships, gadgets, words, Webster, bananas, boiling water

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Today’s Episode is full of the high points and the low points of technology as a hobby and the way we live in general. Not meant to be too overbearing and heavy handed of a show we also included plenty of goofy gadgets and silly caffeinated drinks to round out your experience.

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Tags: banana, boiling water, Coffee, gadgets, nano tubes, ring, robot, Ships, Solar, twitter, webster, words

Here we go with a quick rundown of each of the social networks I’m currently a part of and what is wrong and right with each one. Why bother beating about the bush here, we have needs they need to be fulfilled. There are problems and they need to be dealt with, shape up or close down.

Believe it or not most SocNet’s are simply extensions of USENET, don’t believe me stay tuned to find out. Don’t know what USENET is? I just died a little when you said yes… You should probably consult the oracle and reflect on your crime, By the By… You owe the oracle one cup of strong black coffee, and a bagel.

Just view them in this light. I’ve also begun to refer to each post i see about a new social network as YASN posts. Yet Another Social Network… you know its getting pretty thick in here, we need to start culling the herd. Weed out the sick and infirm and run with the strongest of the pack.

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Tags: britekite, identi.ca, jaiku, Plurk, pownce, social networks, socnet, twitter, Voltron