Level Up Your Walk With ‘Step Buy Step: A Pedometer Adventure’
Why not enjoy stretching your legs and enjoying the outside while collecting animals? Or bugs, if that is your choice.
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Paneling at PAX
From chickens to education to splitting on bricks, Rebecca Angel learned (?) a lot about gaming at various panels at PAX East this year.
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Onward, Geek Journey!
Sending a kid to college can be tough on a parent, so Rebecca Angel spent an entire weekend reinforcing geeky ideals to her son.
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ConnectiCon Decade
Rebecca Angel has been attending ConnectiCon, a multi-genre convention, for a decade. As a musical guest, to playing games with her children, it has always been a memorable weekend of fandom and fun.
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Why Munn’s CNET Interview and Bleszinski’s Tweet Matter
Apparently, if there isn’t a misogynistic Internet dustup started on Twitter, the day doesn’t end in “y.”
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Clever Entrepreneurs Create Havens for Creative Geeks & Gamers
While the internet offers opportunities to connect remotely with empathetic fans of games of all sorts, a growing group of shrewd entrepreneurs has begun to launch wildly popular brick-and-mortar establishments where nerds of all stripes can gather to hang out in person with their tribes and let their creative impulses soar.
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A Cosplay Primer for Parents
Introducing your family to cosplay can be daunting! In this series, learn the basics about cosplay, including resources, tutorials, and tips to help turn your child into a confident and skilled costume extraordinaire!
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My Geek Epiphany
My husband always stumbles into these conversations, innocent in his observations. Surely he meant no harm. One comment that, for the first time in a long time, had me questioning myself, my history, and my own reality.
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We’re Adorkable: Geeky Ways To Keep The Romance Alive
In our very special adorkable way, we share our geekiness with one another and that keeps us constantly engaging with each other outside the daily grind.
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6 Extreme Father’s Day Gifts You (Probably) Won’t Be Getting This Year
The extreme edition of the GeekDad Father’s Day Gift Guide: for dads who deserve something over-the-top this year, or because you used his Babe Ruth-signed baseball to play a pick-up game.
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Geeky Gardening: Welcome to My Gardens!
Welcome to the first installment of what GeekMom Mel hopes will be a fun series of posts involving…you guessed it! Geeky gardening.
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GeekDad: The Formative Years III
Continuing in our ongoing series in which the GeekDads reveal the influences that transformed them into geeks, here are the Secret Origins of Jim MacQuarrie and Roger Mullins. I get to go first because I’m older.
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GeekDad: The Formative Years II
Enjoy the second part in our series–a tribute to the people, places, things, and ideas that made us the geeky adults we are today.
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GeekDad: The Formative Years
A tribute to the people, places, things, and ideas that made us the geeky adults we are today.
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Geek Party: 10 Quick Upgrades
Last minute prep: Geek out your house for your holiday party!
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Fund This! Geek Illustrated Cookbooks, Inked Geek Shirts, and Interstitial Art!
GeekMom finds a geek cookbook, geek ink shirts, and art that pushes the boundaries in this edition of Fund This!
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The Geek’s Dilemma: Breadth vs. Depth of Interests
About five years ago I wrote about my own “omnivore’s dilemma,” one shared by many of us in today’s rich world of experiences: how do you pick your interests? Our time is limited. Even the most efficient among us only 168 hours a week.
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We have expanded the term “geek” to encompass anything that you are overly excited/obsessed/people-think-you’re-weird about. This is how Rebecca is with tea.
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"Geek" Is the Word of the Year
This is cool, and a huge bit of validation for those of us who self-identify as geeks.
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Captain Kyso: Great Shirts, Great Prices
Captain Kyso offers geeky shirts with cool designs and great quality. Fans of Schrödinger or his cat will enjoy today’s design, and unlike many other shirt sites, this one keeps all the past designs up for sale.
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Assert Your Geek Trivia Dominance With Geek Out!
If you’re a trivia minded person or someone who thinks he knows a lot about geek culture, Geek Out! might be the game for you. This challenging game of making lists will entertain and frustrate you as you try to quickly remember a wide-ranging field of trivia.
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Geek the Library Asks “What Do You Geek?”
Geek the Library is a growing national program to get people excited about making connections between their personal passions and libraries, plus the synergy that brews when enthusiastic geeks and treasure troves of knowledge intersect.
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Planning My Geeky-Queer Wedding: The Location
We had the wedding and reception at a beautiful Tutor-style mansion bed and breakfast called The Quamichan Inn.
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Happy Birthday, Felicia Day!
Today marks the 34th anniversary of the birth of the incredibly talented geek and latter-day geek icon known as Felicia Day.
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Planning My Geeky-Queer Wedding: Last Names and Culture
There are many differences between marriages in the United States and Canada. I explored some of these differences in an earlier post about the ceremony. The change of last name after marriage is another one of those differences.
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Integrating a New Geek Into Your Family
The past several months have been an interesting and very rewarding experience. The kids and I have managed to integrate a new geek into our home and our family. Rory moved in last December. It was an easy transition for me, since I’m the one who wanted him there. It was a bigger challenge for the kids, since they’d had a much harder time with the divorce than I did. Plus, Rory was now in a role that, while not replacing their dad to the kids, filled the partner role in my life. But, we found that with shared interests, both those that had already been established and those that were newly acquired, everyone bonded more closely.
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Confessions of a Lonely Geek
Most of my life I’ve been the only geek among those I see everyday. As a child, I was usually the only girl in boy-dominated courses and as an adult I’m the only female in my department. I’m also the only geek at my workplace. All of this can make for some lonely days.
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Becoming a Geek
Hi there. Rory here, stepdad and geek extraordinaire! I’m one of the five (yes five!) new writers for GeekDad. I have walked many paths in my life. I have saved lives, been a model, a photographer, and an activist. And all throughout that time, I’ve never considered myself a part of the “In Crowd” or the “Geek Crowd.” I’ve simply been myself. It wasn’t until a short time ago that I discovered that I’m a capital “G” Geek. How is it that it took so long for me to become a geek? The answer is simple.
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What It Means to Be Geeky
Being geeky isn’t a question of subject matter, it’s a question of how involved you are with your passions. The Geekmoms reveal their many and varied passions today!
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Planning My Geeky-Queer Wedding Reintroduction
With just over three months until the big day, and with GeekMom moving to a new home, I thought now would be an excellent time to reintroduce my geeky-queer wedding planning series to existing GeekMom readers, while giving new readers an opportunity to easily catch-up with the series.
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