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Crufty Claus is Coming to town bringing lego sets and coffee for all

The Holiday season marches on. This weekend was a catch your breath session complete with a lovely visit to Longwood Gardens, and the first snowfall fo the year. Lucky for me that did not include shoveling the first snowfall as rain took care of that for us.

Tonights show is a fun mess, we have holiday blips, real news and general cruft all thrown into the same show. From the fruit to booze, coffee to sledding we have you covered for the holidays.

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• 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
• Not your Dad’s Sled, Dual fork Speedster, boo global warming
• Christmas vacation flashback, Butt Sled
• Yeti Xmas Oremant, Crypto Museum Ornament

Geek Cruft:

• Comcast Buys NBC, Hulu to remain free!
• Via MAS, Bad Code Offsets, its like Indulgences for the 21st century
• Via Norbert, Coutdown to Green
• Via Norbert, Magazine junk to now include thumbdrives
• Lego Mouse a bit rough on the hands, but soooo pretty on the eyes
• Elegant Lego Lighting, no longer a non sequitur
• Friiboard, fixes the wii balance board design limitation
• USB Outlets the wave of the future?
• Gmail Shortcut board, should be all google services

Food and Caffeinated Bits:

• Adult Immersion Mario gives you booze
• Cranking out cool beer
• They’re playing our song, Whiskey bottle responds to music
• How about a bottle of scotch that responds to my mood?
• Foil Flask, i like my flask just fine thank you
• Tap your fruit?
• Flat Pack Punch Out bamboo cutlery

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: bad code, code, Coffee, comcast, cruft, Crufty Claus, cryptozoology, cyrptid, drinks, flask, fruit punch, hulu, Lego, nbc, USB, usb outlets, Utensils, yanko design

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Today’s Show is awake, yet tired

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The weather has taken a turn for the awesome and I’m starting to feel much better so Its time for the yearly dedicated show to outdoor geekery and good manly grilling, errr… Alright so i never announced it before but each year I usually throw a show out there with a preponderance of grilling and outdoorsy type news into the mix, so this would be that Show.

I am however still in a heavy mental fog, i can’t rationalize what i want to do with what I can do at this point. Which is why the episode is some hours late and more than a bit disjointed. Apologies all around and I hope you enjoy the Daylight version of the CaffiNation. Yellow Face… it burns us* Bonus points if you know the reference

Enjoy the show and Stay Caffeinated!

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Geek Cruft

• Bing! Microsoft’s new search enterprise goes live, CaffiNation is there
• Call before you dig, but what happens if its Black Fibre?
  • Twould be an awesome name for a band Dark Fibre!
• Its 10 am do you know where your kid is? She has hers on a leash
• Locks are easy to pick, Security is relative to motivation
• Electric jet Ski, awesome idea, now try for snowmobiles and quads
• I need this in a very real way,Mosquito Bite itch stopper
• You child need to level up
• Not my usual fare but an Awesome iphone case
• Nervous habits burn calories

Food & Caffeinated Bits

• Wine accessories in a bottle
• Nintendo Cart wine charms
• Geeky Grill
• Geeky Grilling Tips and links
• The latest cause, Trace shows of Cocaine in Red bull cola… sigh
• Cocaine is not in Coke, anymore
• But some blow is on your Cash money
  • aren’t we hip…
• Neat gadget to grill me some Wings
• beer butt chicken, I love this stuff
• Grill a ham and cheese in your toaster?
• Croc Tongs, need to be metal for the grill, crocs eat meat!
• iGrill? USB  Forman grill!
• Soylent green is people. Hey Coppertop, EATR wants YOU

Thanks and Stay Caffeinated People!

Tags: beer, bing, camping, chicken, Coffee, dark fibre, Food, gps, Grilling, jet ski, mosquito, Robots, USB, 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:  Holiday, Microphone Techniques, Audacity Crashes, Grills, Wine, Beer, tech, Coffee, GPS, USB, CDC, EGG, Twitter Virii and  Caffeinated Cramming

When you have a fun filled holiday weekend on your schedule, that weekend goes by in the blink of an eye. Today’s show is Over-caffeinated to compensate for a busy day. I caught my second wind rather late in the day and I’m riding that wave to the finish line!  We’re going to give a primer on the Adopt a NewB Day Celebration for This coming Wednesday April 15th. We’re also going to hit on some highlights of previous articles that have come out here to get you started.  Besides that we have a rather diverse selection of news some hitting hard, others are meant to lighten your day. We deal with Ethiopian Economic issues and Zombie killing flash drives, Censorship and Beer. All of that in the same show.

So when you delay a show, you over caffeinated the host and you have a ton of content to wade through what do you get? Check in and see!

Happy Passover & Easter to all who are Celebrating!

Enjoy the show and Stay Caffeinated!

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• Congratulations to Fabrice on his new Daughter!

Past Tips and Articles

• Audacity Crashed… Now What?
• Fix your Microphone technique for better sound
• Security Tools Rundown
• How to make Coffee Infused Vodka
• Guide to Caffeinated Cramming

Quick Hits

• Twitter be wary, Worms hit Microblogging Sphere
• Awesome Chainsaw USB Drive Debut
• Amazon Censors book Search.
• GPS in your inhaler?
• Gamer Coffee Table

Geek Cruft:

• Ipod charged via Steam
• Space Flight in 1918, as technology grows so do our imaginations
• Cracked up Egg Shaped Gadgets, most not cooked all the way
• For Fun, The Easter Bunny Hates you! vid link
  

Consumable & Caffeinated Bits

• Cadbury Creme haunted candy vid link
  
• DIY Home Smoker, some people don’t get DIY
• O-Grill B Que, Awesome design for a portable grill, next gen camp stove design
• “Green” wine tasting station
• Space invades Cupcakes
• No Work Cocktail “Shaker”
• Green tea, beer…
• Design the cup, save the coffee
• Coffee Terminology Primer
• Ethiopian Farmer Market Problems

Thanks and Stay Caffeinated People

Tags: Audacity Crashes, beer, Caffeinated Cramming, CDC, Coffee, EGG, gps, Grills, Holiday, Microphone Techniques, tech, Twitter Virii, USB, wine

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On Today’s Show: Pi, Bonsai, Aesthetic, Burritos, Candy, Twitter

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Podsafe Music & Anouncements

• Jonathan Coulton: My Monkey

• Mike Rohde Interview to air on Wednesday
• April 15th is Adopt a Newb Day.
  • I’ve started Early, so has Geoff Manning. How About you?

Real News Bytes

• Global Geek Find: Twitter Explained.
• Its not your safety anymore, starting mooing cash cows. Red Light Camera Funding
• Why people use Linux: Correct indeed.
• My New install of choice. Ubuntu Lamp

Tech Cruft

• A Different kind of Gas: 53 MPB (Miles per Burrito)
• Bonsai Clock, neat idea, poor implementation of aesthetic
• This is a nicely designed USB drive
• Try and get this USB drive on a plane
• We need office warfare stuff like this for real

Caffeine & Food

• Math Geeks love food too, Candy implementation of Pi Day
• Pickle Pops
• Sardine Survival Kit
• Efficiency at its best.

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Thanks and Stay Caffeinated People!

Tags: Aesthetic, Bonsai, Burritos, Candy, Coffee, interview, Pi, twitter, USB, warefare

Here again is a list of stories which just couldn’t fit into tonights festivities. But before we get to the list urge you to take a look at some of the stories we have covered over the past week.

1. Form over Function Friday : New Wallpaper Inspired by some great podsafe music
2. We can rebuild him… SteamPunk art : Tasteful art in a macabre light
3. Coffee Wars : A Low down on what shot have been fired and my take on Starbucks
4. Digital Tatoos : A Novel concept of under the skin connectivity laced ink

DMTC Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: Coffee, DMTC, EU, Steampunk, Tatoo, tengu, USB, Wallpaper, Wonders, zelda