We know many people have been upset by an article that was published on GeekDad several months ago regarding the Dreamworks show She-Ra and the Princesses of Power. The article was published in good faith based on sources that the author believed were trustworthy; however, much of the information presented in it has since turned […]
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It was July 3rd and I was returning home from a business trip. My flight was late getting in and I was beyond ready to be done with the traveling. I left the Kansas City Airport parking lot to begin …
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Unaccompanied immigrant children are being lost in the foster care system. The government is pledging to take immigrant children away from their parents. This has to stop.
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Gizmos and gadgets make great gifts, but there’s nothing like sinking into a good book to escape the holiday madness.
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If you’re searching for a game to teach basic strategy at any age, check out ‘Circular Reasoning’.
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Boomtown Bandits from Squirmy Beast brings wild west thievery to the kitchen table.
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Bet on camels in this fast-paced 2014 German Game of the Year winner.
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Build a railroad empire and learn your geography during your next family game night!
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In Forbidden Island you work as a group to collect four treasures and escape the island before it sinks.
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An easy-to-learn, hard-to-master strategy game that will appeal to all ages.
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Loopin’ Chewie is a fun, agility-based game for up to 3 players ages 4 and up.
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Diamonsters is a charming bluffing and deduction card game suitable for the whole family.
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‘Gloom’ is a great storytelling card game where the object is to make your family the most miserable.
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Qwirkle is the game that I break out when we all want to play something together that doesn’t involve slaying something or defeating supervillains.
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A fun game of card drafting that plays out in 30 minutes no matter how many players you have.
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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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Once again, the GeekDads have gathered a group of gadgets, games, and gear guaranteed to delight your own GeekDad.
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We asked a few of the GeekDads what gadgets and must-haves make up their everyday carry essentials. Click the link and see if your favorites made our lists.
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The object of Beastie Bash! is simple: pair the highest scoring head and body cards to create the most powerful “Beastie” and collect your opponent’s cards. [Sponsored]
Continue ReadingAs someone who teaches art to kids, what I like about the thumb doodle books is that they encourage them to combine unlikely elements, and to look for inspiration in random marks.
Continue ReadingHappy St. Patrick’s Day! Tradition dictates that all those of us in Ireland go watch a parade and/or get appallingly drunk on Guinness (or Murphys, Smithwicks, Bulmers, O’Hara’s, Jameson…), but as I’m neither a big drinker nor a big parade …
Continue ReadingHappy Pi Day! Michael John Blake, an Austin-based musician and one half of the band Quebec Antique has put together this cool little piece of music based on Pi to 31 decimal places. I can’t decide if it’s really clever, …
Continue ReadingWhat the book adds to the classic American cuisine is seemingly endless experimentation to determine the best way to carry out each recipe.
Continue ReadingLegend, the first book in a YA dystopian epic about two teens — Day, a plucky street fighter and working class hero, and June, an elite warrior-in-training who is sent undercover to capture him. They meet in the rough lower-class …
Continue ReadingAs movie fanatics we love museum exhibits that show you the behind-the-scenes of it all. And the new exhibit on the technology behind James Cameron’s ground-breaking 2009 film Avatar at the Liberty Science Center in Jersey City, NJ, looks like …
Continue ReadingThere are two sorts of geeky fonts. First there are the ones that appeal to typography nerds because of their creator, history, mathematical beauty or whatnot.
Then there are fonts that appeal to geeks because they play on our geeky nostalgia, …
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The Eye-Fi memory card can send photos from your camera to a desktop, laptop, mobile device, or online sharing service. ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmonopqrstuvwxyz 1234567890
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Dreamworks announced Tuesday that they will produce, Turbo F.A.S.T., Netflix’s first original series for kids. The show, premiering in December, will be the continuing adventures of the racing snails in Dreamworks upcoming Turbo film, which will be released on July.
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When you hear “Emily Dickinson,” you probably think of descriptions like prolific, eccentric, poetic, and reclusive. But “laugh-out-loud funny” probably isn’t high on the list. Paul Legault is here to remedy that with The Emily Dickinson Reader: An English-to-English Translation,
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Heavy snows and cold temperatures leave little minds bored and searching for something to do. So on a recent weekend, we tackled Lego’s newest large-sized architectural model, the Tower Bridge. This London icon was reproduced with just over 4,200 bricks.
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