DONATE TO HAITI RELIEF THROUGH THE GEEKDAD GIVING PAGE! We all know what has happened, and how desperate the need for medical resources is right now in Haiti. There are plenty of good avenues for charitable donations out there, and …
Continue ReadingI have a huge bookcase. It’s stacked with trinkets and framed photos, Photoshop reference books and tons of O’Reilly guides. There are books I’ve read and ones I’m planning on getting to … one day. But the bulk of my …
Continue ReadingThe year is 3042, which of course means that there are death match tournaments. Fighters across the world strap blasters to their arms and shoot it out for fame and glory—or at least a high score on the Facebook Leaderboards. …
Continue ReadingA dream come true! A four foot tall calendar made of bubble wrap! Pop a bubble every day to mark the passage of time. Just don’t pop them too fast or you’ll screw up the space-time continuum. To avoid the …
Continue ReadingSpreading the family tech projects to other parts, GeekDad has been going in the UK for a few months now. There you will find more of the same GeekDad goodness, but with a UK bent. It’s not all umberellas, weather-talk …
Continue ReadingAre you a human being or a human doing? What matters more to you: who you are or what you do? Or let me phrase that another way: when you introduce yourself, how often do you start with your job …
Continue ReadingThe beauty of many, if not most, video games lies in their ability to distance players from the real world by taking them into a fantastical alternative reality. So imagine, if you will, that you live in a world covered …
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Continue ReadingTwo weeks ago, we published a list of 150 people that we thought anyone interested in geeky media of all sorts ought to be following on Twitter. The list was well-received, but, as with all such lists, mistakes were made. …
Continue ReadingD&D publisher Wizards of the Coast has introduced a new game-playing program called D&D Encounters, located at neighborhood game stores. Getting involved in D&D Encounters opens the door for players to mingle with other local gamers and participate in exclusive …
Continue ReadingThe OLLO Action kit is a pretty impressive beginner robot system. It’s got a powerful gearbox motor, an adaptable on/off switch and a plastic rivet system that goes together quickly and stays together. For a $30 set there’s a lot …
Continue ReadingFox Mulder’s government contact once told him, “They’ve been here a very long time.” He was talking about aliens. I’m talking about my almost ten-year-old X-Files Season One DVD set, which I’ve been waiting to dust off and share with …
Continue ReadingWalking out of Lowe’s this past weekend, I noticed a sign posted on the door that was promoting “Build And Grow Clinics” for kids. Since my children – and my son especially – are always interested in helping me make …
Continue ReadingHappy Comic Release Day! I’ve been looking over my previous columns and realize that I tend to use the word “fun” when describing projects and also that I’ve focused on a lot of DC and Marvel work. This is likely …
Continue ReadingOur world is full of many different types of ecosystems. We tend to be very familiar with the ones in which we live, and with the ones where we spend a great deal of time. But we’re often unfamiliar with …
Continue ReadingThere has been much speculation about what Apple will be announcing today. Will it be a glorified book reader? An iPod Touch/iPhone on steroids? We will find out very quickly here, and then we can all envision how we could …
Continue ReadingOn this day in 1967 three brave astronauts lost their lives when a fire started inside their Apollo command module during a test on the launchpad. Tomorrow marks the anniversary of the 1986 Challenger disaster where seven more astronauts lost …
Continue ReadingI was reminiscing with a friend recently about our misspent youth with Radio Controlled cars. We enthused for hours about saving up for a real hobbyist vehicle and then waiting for it to arrive in the post. Then there were …
Continue ReadingRead all the Dork Towers that have run on GeekDad. Find the Dork Tower archives, DT printed collections, more cool comics, awesome games and a whole lot more at the Dork Tower Website.
Continue ReadingIt’s been a good month for female superheroes, first with the announcement of the Birds of Prey relaunch by DC and now with Marvel announcing a new comic featuring teen superheroines. There’s one problem with the new Marvel project. The …
Continue ReadingAs a kid, I loved reading Encyclopedia Brown books, even when I was old enough that the mysteries were really simple to solve and I realized how absurd it was that Chief Brown needed his son’s help to solve cases. …
Continue ReadingThe team of students attempting to turn a Microsoft Surface table into a platform for Dungeons & Dragons campaigns made a lot of progress since GeekDad highlighted the project last fall. An updated video released in December shows an adventure …
Continue ReadingThere has been, and surely will continue to be, a lot of speculation in these weeks leading up to the expected announcement of Apple’s tablet computer on January 27. This is the normal state of things, it seems, ever since …
Continue ReadingRight around the time I started writing for GeekDad, I embarked on an adventure of learning about chemistry at home with my kids. Since I’m the type to obey any warning about using things only as directed, this was a …
Continue ReadingWant a taste of the award-winning D&D magazine that has the gnomes scowling? Between now and the end of January 2010, you can go to the KQ Store and use the coupon code KQ10Free to score a free copy of …
Continue ReadingLots of people sell off stuff that used to belong to their parents after their parents pass away. Some of those people, surely, donate the money they raise to worthy charities. But it’s safe to say that you haven’t ever …
Continue ReadingWhich would you rather have fall on your kid: a 36 inch screen, 236 pound Trinitron tube TV or a 40 inch screen, 43 pound Bravia LCD TV? The correct answer, of course, is neither. Unfortunately, it seems that many …
Continue ReadingRead all the Dork Towers that have run on GeekDad. Find the Dork Tower archives, DT printed collections, more cool comics, awesome games and a whole lot more at the Dork Tower Website.
Continue ReadingWhile pop culture itself is full of colloquialisms, catch phrases, social niceties and even a fair share of vulgarities, it seems that many of us repeat, verbatim, the things that we heard our parents say. Many of these are still …
Continue ReadingTeam Umizoomi is a new kid’s show, geared toward the preschool set, premiering this week on Nickelodeon. Why are the GeekDads really excited about this? Well, for one thing, the show’s focus is on teaching preschoolers the basics of math. …
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