Are You in Lockdown? Celebrate Your Community by Putting Your Holiday Lights Back Up! #CoronaLights
We want to start a new tradition; in these darkening times let’s put our holiday lights back up and celebrate each other.
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Category: Hacking the Holidays
Stack Overflow: Celebrating Women’s History Month
March is Women’s History Month here in the United States, so today’s column is a collection of books about women!
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Stack Overflow: Black History Month
Today’s stack is mostly picture books (plus a handful of others) that are great reading for Black History Month—from the Queen of Soul to the First Lady, from a little kid to the oldest student, these are stories worth sharing.
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How Geeky Was Your Holiday Haul?
Did you get any particularly geeky presents? Share your geekiest gifts with us in the comments, or on social media!
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The Best Drinks for Holiday Parties and Family Festivities
Special brews, bottles, and old family drink recipes are a staple of the holidays. What are your favorites?
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2019 Holiday Gift Guide: Books
Books have been very popular with our writers and readers this year. Here is a list of 22 of the books we have bought or recommend to our friends and family.
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2019 Gift Guide: ‘Dungeons & Dragons’
Looking for some excellent ‘Dungeons & Dragons’ gifts? Look no further, GeekDad has collated 10 of the best ‘D&D’ gifts to suit all sizes.
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Stack Overflow: 17 Thrills and Chills for Halloween
If you wait all year for October to roll around so you can break out the skulls and cobwebs and jack-o’-lanterns, this Stack Overflow is for you! Here’s a mix of picture books, comic books, and fiction with a gamut of monsters, witches, and other spooky subjects.
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What Are You Doing for the 4th of July?
It’s always fun to go do a little reading at Wikipedia and other resources to learn just how relative the facts of history are. But what are you doing to celebrate the 4th?
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Bad Dad: Celebrating Our Nation by Breaking the Law
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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Father’s Day Is Coming: Have You Got Your GeekDad Books Yet?
It’s that time of year again – when geeky dads everywhere get ‘Star Wars’ ties, LEGO coffee mugs, or their first Arduino kits. But most important, they need to be reminded that they ARE geeky dads. They need to be reminded they’re GeekDads. They need the GeekDad books!
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Celebrate International Women’s Day with ‘She-Ra’!
Today is International Women’s Day, and the team behind ‘She-Ra and the Princesses of Power’ have a message for you!
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Kids Imagine Nation Rocks the Halls for Christmas
Power pop trio Kids Imagine Nation bring the jingle for their holiday music CD.
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Deck Your Halls With Hallmark Star Wars and Transformers Keepsake Ornaments
The Star Wars Storyteller series continues, plus the latest Transformers Keepsake.
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Stack Overflow: Get Into the Holiday Spirit With These 7 Picture Books
Now that we’re into December, I figured it’s finally time that I can share some books about Hanukkah and Christmas!
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Spooktacular Halloween Treats—LEGO Mode
This year, up your Halloween game by decorating with LEGO, or even giving LEGO treats out.
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Stack Overflow: 11 Creepy Comics
Following up with last week’s column about scary-but-not-too-scary stories, today I’ve got creepy (but maybe not too creepy) comic books, for younger kids up to adults.
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Review: Fog + Bubbles = Fobbles and Fobbles Means Fun
Fobbles is a new machine that lets you add fog-filled bubbles to your party or holiday display for tons of fun!
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Father’s Day Is Coming: Have You Got Your GeekDad Books Yet?
It’s that time of year again – when geeky dads everywhere get ‘Star Wars’ ties, LEGO coffee mugs, or their first Arduino kits. But most important, they need to be reminded that they ARE geeky dads. They need to be reminded they’re GeekDads. They need the GeekDad books!
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Celebrate Pi Day with NASA JPL Education Activities
Celebrate Pi Day with fun educational activities from NASA JPL while your Pi Day pie bakes (or gets laser etched). Then upload your math geekery to share with the world!
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Bee Mine! A LEGO Valentine’s Day Tale
This Valentine’s Day, tell someone you love them with a heart made of LEGO.
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Stack Overflow: 2018 Reading Resolutions
Happy New Year! What are you hoping or planning to read this year? Here are some of our own reading resolutions (or non-resolutions) for 2018.
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My January 2018 Geek Dad Challenge: 20 Days of Boardgames
Here’s the plan: I will introduce my boys to 20 new boardgames in January.
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Track Santa on the Way Back From Grandmother’s House With Chevy and OnStar
Starting on Christmas Eve, you can use OnStar in your Chevrolet vehicle to get up-to-the-minute updates on where Santa is right now.
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Christmas Wrapping Paper Life-Hack
Want a cheap way to buy a great deal of wrapping paper that is useful year round? Look no further–kraft paper is your friend!
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Stack Overflow: 10 Picture Books for Winter
Winter approaches, with snow for some and thoughts of holiday traditions. These picture books celebrate the changing of the seasons and have some fun with St. Nick.
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Making a Portable ‘Stranger Things’ Ouija Wall
Learn how to make and control your own ‘Stranger Things’ Ouija wall with LED Christmas lights, some circuitry, and a Raspberry Pi microcontroller.
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Share Your Care—Care Bears Parties and Costumes
Set up your own Care Bear party with some tips from the author, inspired by Fun.com’s Halloween costumes.
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Here’s an extra-big stack of titles for Halloween that put the “boo!” in books!
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GeekDad Review: Digital Halloween Decoration With AtmosFX
Halloween is just around the corner, and that means time to start thinking about decorations. In a perfect bit of timing, AtmosFX sent me a digital decorating kit to try out. The $199 package includes a projector with tripod, window projection material, and 14 scenes (eight of which are Halloween-themed). Is the all-in-one digital decoration kit worth it?
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