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Must have new beverages

March 22, 2009
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Must have new beverages

Starting sometime in June, a new beverage from Pepsi is coming out.  I can hardly wait to wrap my lips around the bottle and take by first big gulp of “Mountain Dew Game Fuel Horde Red.”  While I’m sure it won’t pack the punch of of one of my Brew Nerd Swirlys or Bawls,...
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Free Coffee for Smart People Tuesday (Wednesday) – 2009.03.18

March 18, 2009
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Free Coffee for Smart People Tuesday (Wednesday) – 2009.03.18

Sorry for the late post…I had lots of log files from my last wardriving effort I had to parse. Name this famous person: Hints: loves to get data out of text files, 1987 Come in with the answer and we’ll whip up a 450mL beverage of your choice. Tweet
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The ultimate iPhone interface

March 12, 2009
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Andrew Aitken has created an amazingly nerdy interface/skin for his iPhone.  It looks like the Star Trek TNG LCARS interface.  Check out the video below for some awesome nerdiness: Tweet
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Forget brick breaker/breakout, I want SMB!

March 10, 2009
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Forget brick breaker/breakout, I want SMB!

Soon enough, I WILL find time to stop all of the World of Goo playing I’ve been doing and take the time to load up Super Mario Brothers on my old TI calculator from high school.  If they could see me in the back of Mrs. Coe’s class now! Tweet
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Biofuel from Coffee?

March 8, 2009
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In my pre-bedtime coffee news reading, I came across this article that discusses harnessing the power of coffee grounds to make biofuel. Start saving your grounds! Check out the article on the economist here. Bonus word of the day from the article: transesterification Tweet
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free coffee for smart people tuesday

February 17, 2009
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free coffee for smart people tuesday

First, the answer from last week: i+ in the first line should have been i++ Now, on to the question for this week.  In case you’re new here, if you can answer the following question at one of our locations, you receive a 450mL beverage (medium size for the rest of you) of your...
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have a heart 5k run and 1.5 mile dog walk

February 13, 2009
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Tomorrow morning we will be a sponsor at the “Have a Heart” run and dog walk.  It benefits Crisis Control Ministry and the Forsyth Humane Society.  Registration (along with free coffee and bagels) runs from 9:00am to 10:30am.  Aside from the help this event will give the two community services it benefits, I’m also...
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happy 1234567890 day*

February 13, 2009
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Today (February 13th, 2009), at 6:31:30PM Unix time will equal ’1234567890′. I will probably be celebrating with some of my friends and a Brew Nerds drink. Probably a swirly of some sort. *if you have no idea what “Unix time” is: It is the number of seconds (not counting leap seconds) that have elapsed...
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Something you need to try

February 1, 2009
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We have a relatively new drink at the store.  The “Salted Caramel Latte.”  I know that it might sound a little strange, but the salt really rounds out the drink.  If you’re like me and you can barely finish a regular Caramel Latte because of the sweetness (or if you like to dip french...
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computer friends

January 8, 2009
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I made this post for everyone, since everyone fits in one of the following groups.  Hopefully you are in the first group: Those who have seen the video, downloaded the song to support this type of hiarlity and need to see it again because they haven’t played it today yet. Those who have been...
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