At last the festivities are over, the decorations have been put away, the cards and tree have been recycled, and I can finally play with one of my presents to myself – a home cinema kit. That’s not what this …
Continue ReadingThough 2010 is already a few weeks in, it’s never too late to come up with some good New Year’s Resolutions. While “I will go to the gym” and “I will stop smoking” seem to be at the top of …
Continue ReadingThank you to everyone who entered GeekDad’s giveaway of a pair of Gunnar Optiks glasses! 257 comments were left before the deadline. Congratulations to Lee Engelhardt, whose comment under the handle KazuyaDarklight was randomly selected. If you haven’t yet, please …
Continue ReadingI enjoy Wizards of the Coast’s Star Wars miniatures game. It’s kind of like a roleplaying game with just the fights. Now, I like playing a character as much as the next person, but there’s something compelling about reducing the …
Continue ReadingOnline ad company Permuto put up this nifty graphic on their company blog, showing a timeline of consumer technology from Pong forwards. Obviously we GeekDad could have added a few dozen suggestions to the list, but how many of the …
Continue ReadingLess than a week into 2010, I’ve already plowed through a pair of good science fiction reads and tagged a third on this year’s “can’t wait” list. And the best thing is, I get to blame my kid. I started …
Continue ReadingAuthor Ethan Gilsdorf, Globe Pequot Press and Froobi.com have teamed up to offer a special opportunity to win one of 10 free autographed copies of Gilsdorf’s critically-acclaimed book Fantasy Freaks and Gaming Geeks: An Epic Quest for Reality Among Role …
Continue ReadingThe odds are that, if you don’t already have one, you could use a set of Gunnar Optiks glasses right now. If, like most geeks, you spend some significant portion of your day in front of a computer monitor — …
Continue ReadingWe were digging through the storage shed to find just the right box of Christmas decorations, when I should chance across the dusty stack of old Dungeons & Dragons modules I’ve had with me for… well, for a very long …
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 ReadingHe was 18 months old the first time he touched a Matchbox car. On that day, in the early spring of 2008, my son wrapped his chubby little fingers around the cool metal of a paint-chipped 1970 Impala, and his …
Continue ReadingWhere I live, temperatures have been jumping back & forth across the zero mark all week. As a result, we’ve been spending almost all of our time indoors, trying to stay warm and busy. But cabin fever got the better …
Continue ReadingWe’ve posted about cool cake art on GeekDad before, and about cupcakes, and of course about games. But we’ve never posted about all three topics at once, until now. A graphic design and jewelry artist named Robin Dahlberg and several …
Continue ReadingMC Frontalot is, by his own admission, “the arch criminal for some reason not / sought by authorities, though [he’s] been running wild for days.” This (intentionally humorous) characterization, however, quickly fades upon meeting the man himself. Front – real …
Continue ReadingPublished in 1982 and put to film in 1984, Arthur C. Clarke’s 2010: Odyssey Two tells the story of a joint U.S. and Russian investigation into the events surrounding Dave Bowman, HAL, Discovery One and the Jupiter monolith mission from …
Continue ReadingDon’t you ever wish you could combine the head of a Triceratops, the body of a Tyrannosaurus Rex, and the spiky tail of a Stegosaurus? (No? Okay, maybe it’s just me.) Now you can, without all the cutting and stitching …
Continue ReadingHappy Comic Release Day! I decided to venture into the world of manga this week on the theory that there might be parents who want to introduce their children to comics but desire a wider range of stories than superheroes. …
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 ReadingThe Family Gamer Awards are very different to the ESRB and PEGI ratings. Rather than trying to keep people away from the wrong games, they look to connect people with the games they will enjoy. The awards suggest the best …
Continue ReadingEver since I started homeschooling my kids, I’ve been searching for a fun, age-appropriate Spanish program that doesn’t cost a lot of money. I didn’t start learning Spanish until the 5th grade, so I wasn’t sure where to start with …
Continue ReadingLast Saturday night, I sat down with my husband and my eldest son (14) to watch the second half of Dr Who: The End of Time on BBC America. About three-quarters of the way through, my son exclaims: “Mom! This …
Continue ReadingOne thing that every geek can do is quote their favorite geek-culture media, whether it’s movies, books, television, theater or music. The GeekDads have tried to compile a list of such quotes for your enjoyment. This list is certainly not …
Continue ReadingWhat would you do with your very own time machine? Go back and forth in time, collect a few artifacts, make some changes to history that will result in a better present for you … same as everyone, right? But …
Continue ReadingThere’s a great little app that’s just made its way to the iTunes store. It’s called LEGO Photo (links to iTunes), and it allows you to take any photo from your camera lens or your existing library and turn the …
Continue ReadingToday is Sir Isaac Newton’s birthday, as you know if you’ve been on Google’s homepage. In addition to laying out the Laws of Motion, he also did innovative work on the properties of light, as can be seen in this …
Continue ReadingThis Winter break was a time to catch up on many things for me and my family. One of the items we caught up on was a DVD of A Dog’s Breakfast, encased in the little red Netflix envelope that …
Continue ReadingContrary to yesterday’s post, we’re still posting previous DT content this week, as an important family matter has forced John to delay the start-up. We hope you enjoy it nonetheless, and stay tuned for the new stuff next week! Read …
Continue ReadingAt first glance, it would be easy to mistake World of Zoo for a cuter version of Zoo Tycoon, but once you start playing the game, the different approach between the two zoo sims becomes obvious. While the Zoo Tycoon …
Continue ReadingThe kids and I have been looking into modern physics lately – you know, relativity, quantum mechanics, string theory, that sort of thing. I’ll be blogging about some of the cool stuff we’ve been learning in the near future. But …
Continue ReadingJust letting you know the puzzles are on hiatus for a couple weeks while we re-charge our quizzing power modules. Thanks for your patience!
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