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Category Archives: All News

Fukushima Exclusion Zone Preview & Announcements

Much like my trip to Kiev-Pripyat-Chernobyl in 2016, I took a lot of pictures (Robyn took more and much better pictures), and I learned a lot which I now need to sort out in my head and do a whooooole lot of follow up. I think I may have just signed myself up for an […]

Posted byPhil BOctober 12, 2018November 30, 2018Posted inAdventure & Radiation, All News, Coffee News

Meet Herr Direktor: DEFCON & National Atomic Testing Museum

First, the business matters. Because DEFCON makes things tricky, production of this window is now closed and the production slots for the window ending August 18th are now up for order on the website. At DEFCON proper, the BBotE Ambassador of Flagstaff (Dan Nowak) and the former ambassador of Chicago (Bill Weiss) will be there […]

Posted byPhil BAugust 2, 2018December 22, 2018Posted inAdventure & Radiation, All News

The Lost Cybernetics Safety Chapter

If you weren’t already aware, one of my many roles in life is as the science/history/weirdness consultant for the comic Atomic Robo. My reward for this is that my alter-ego, known as Action Phil, appears in the comic as Atomic Robo’s “heart” specialist, radiation safety officer, and government liaison. (really, my reward is that I get […]

Posted byPhil BJuly 1, 2018December 14, 2020Posted inAll News, Fiction, Reference Rants

Do I Look Like I Have A Plan?

Sometimes you make something you’re proud of and need to keep it handy. via GIPHY  

Posted byPhil BMay 17, 2018July 31, 2018Posted inAll News

Philippines Barako BBotE Now Available

Reposting the relevant half of a previous post as it is now reality as I have just received a large quantity of Barako. Additionally, BBotE Ambassador service to Brisbane (Australia) is restored, so feel free to drop Dom a line. There is a new BBotE selection now available in the store. This is a continued […]

Posted byPhil BApril 27, 2018February 14, 2019Posted inAll News, Coffee News

Twitter Invisibility – A Customer Service Tale

I will start with the dispassionate assessment: for a period of no less than 8 days, my @funranium twitter account was functioning in a very limited visibility status and then it returned to full functionality. I have no idea why it happened or why it stopped. To roll it back to the larger picture, this […]

Posted byPhil BMarch 17, 2018July 31, 2018Posted inAll News, Reference Rants

Funranium Service Announcements – Steins, Coffees, and Tombs

First off, to confirm what many have already noticed and emailed me about with some panic, except for one 1000ml rugged style, there are no FMJ style steins left in the store. The last one went to the very welcoming hands of Steinweilder Morton in Wellington, New Zealand two weeks ago. Until I can get […]

Posted byPhil BFebruary 19, 2018February 19, 2018Posted inAll News, Coffee News

Money Rant: Colonies, Coinage, and Gold

In my continuing efforts to share my odd view of American history through the medium of our money, it’s time to talk colonies and gold. Since the Lydians first introduced the concept of coinage to the world ~3000 years ago and the first larger nation-states organized, there has been bickering about who is allowed to have […]

Posted byPhil BDecember 19, 2017August 26, 2018Posted inAll News, Reference Rants

The Last Minute, 2017 Edition

Apologies if you came here looking for some information on the blog side of the house here at Funranium Labs this week; there was a bit of a server crisis and had to spend a while reconstructing things. Still putting some older stuff back together, but I’ve got most of my bullshitting back up again. […]

Posted byJasonDecember 16, 2017December 16, 2017Posted inAll News, Coffee News, Stein News

The Decembering 2017 Update

Okay, the BBotE pre-order slots for the window ending December 2nd are now up and it’s time to roll out the PROTIPS for holiday shopping. As a bonus, not only is it that time again but I have excellent news for you: Ipsento Panama Natural is back in the line up and you should see […]

Posted byPhil BNovember 17, 2017November 17, 2017Posted inAll News, Coffee News, Stein News

The Tale of the Schrempeltraps

Once upon a time, I worked at a company where the lead scientist/CTO for one of the divisions had some compulsive behaviors. He was a German PhD electrical engineer of the small, wizened tinker gnome persuasion. Whatever Grimm’s fairy tale mental picture you have of a watch/clockmaker is pretty much spot on, though put him […]

Posted byPhil BSeptember 29, 2017September 29, 2017Posted inAdventure & Radiation, All News

Puerto Rican BBotE Update

I just wanted to take a moment to field a question I’ve gotten from a few folks about the BBotE I do made with beans from Puerto Rico. So the quick blurbs are: GOOD NEWS: I laid in a decent supply of the beans from my roaster of choice in Puerto Rico so I have […]

Posted byPhil BSeptember 26, 2017September 26, 2017Posted inAll News, Coffee News

Laser Products I Hate

I’m going to ask you all to bear with me here. I tried to find a way to divide this into a couple of posts but, well, it’s so intertwined and problematic that I couldn’t figure out a way to do it. This is gonna be a long one, but I hope educational. TL;DR version: […]

Posted byPhil BAugust 23, 2017December 17, 2020Posted inAdventure & Radiation, All News, Reference Rants

The 2017 Atomic Heritage Roadtrip, Part 3: Trinity & Titan

As it is July 16th, the anniversary of the dawn of the Atomic Age, I suppose it’s time to get to the third and final part of the Atomic Holiday. The whole genesis of this trip was the fact that we could go visit the Trinity Test Site on April Fools Day, along with all […]

Posted byPhil BJuly 15, 2017September 11, 2017Posted inAdventure & Radiation, All News

BBotE Line Up Changes & Vacation Alert, Summer 2017

For those of you that pay exquisite attention to the length of the BBotE production windows, you may have noticed they tend to be two weeks long and end on Saturdays. The slots that have just gone up are for a slightly shorter window than normal as I’ll be heading up to Alaska for a […]

Posted byPhil BJuly 7, 2017July 17, 2017Posted inAll News, Coffee News

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