The 6 Best Toys Then, Now, and Forever
Most of us can’t afford everything we’d like to buy for holiday presents, so here’s a list of toys that might make getting your shopping next year done a bit easier to achieve.
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Category: Hacking the Holidays
Visit the Ghosts of Christmases Past With Retro ’80s Commercials
Sure, Christmas shouldn’t be about consumerism, but heck, I grew up in the ’80s, when our entire Saturday mornings were nothing but continuous sets of commercials!
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2015: The Year We Survived the Great Christmas Tree Disaster
2015 almost became the year of The Great Christmas Tree Disaster, but with a little luck and hard work, family prevailed.
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GeekDad and AT&T #SpreadTheCheer and Donate $1,000 to Local Orgs
‘Tis the season for family, fun, and getting one or two of those toys we’ve really wanted all year long. It’s also the time to do a little giving back, which is why, when we at GeekDad were approached by AT&T to be part of their Spread the Cheer campaign, we decided to jump in with both feet.
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Paper: It’s Time to Take Santa Workplace Safety Seriously
As a society, we systematically fail to take into account issues of workplace safety that affect or have the potential to affect Santa Claus and his ungulate co-workers every Christmas Eve. A commentary by University of Alberta medical researcher Sebastian Straube hopes to change that.
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Baking for Geeks #4: Freak Bike Gongs
With only a week until Christmas, here I am with one last great baking recipe hack that’ll get you an amazing treat to serve your guests without too much work.
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2015 Holiday Gift Guide #7: DIY and Makers
Artist, maker, electronics geek, DIY enthusiast, and builder are just some of the names we call ourselves, but, whatever your moniker, we all share a love for creating, building, and the warm sense of accomplishment. Recent advances in technology, and price of the technology, have been a boon to the maker and DIY movement. Below we list the tools, technologies, supplies, and projects that inspired us this year.
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AppLights Projection Spotlight: Inexpensive, App-Controlled Christmas Lighting
It’s holiday decorating season and as I do every year, I was keeping my eye out for interesting outdoor lights. I’ve been quite happy with connected lights like the Philips Hue series and when we saw the AppLights Projection Spotlight at Home Depot, we thought we’d give it a try to supplement our usual assortment of LED Christmas lights. Here’s how it’s worked out.
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Give (or Get) the Gift of Netflix!
Here’s a gift that’s sure to be appreciated: Netflix! One lucky reader will get a free 6-month subscription.
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Does Religion Protect Against Holiday Blues?
Study finds that “the Christmas period is related to a decrease in life satisfaction and emotional well-being.” But not among the very religious…
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Ugly Holiday Sweaters, Refurbed Kindles, Green Toys, Anime, and Harmony Remotes – DEALS DEALS DEALS!
The holiday shopping season must be close to peaking, because Amazon is throwing everything but the kitchen sink (and they do sell kitchen sinks) at their daily deals. Here’s the list of Amazon Daily Deals we at GeekDad think might be pertinent to your interests.
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My Top 11 Holiday Cookies*
One of my family’s holiday traditions is to make seasonal cookies. From my mom’s early days of parenting to my ex-boyfriend’s mother’s marathon creations to our own favorites and traditions, a holiday plethora of cookies (and the like) seem to show up in our house every year. What are our favorite must haves? Here they are, in no particular order.
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Ladders, Bikes for all Sizes, and the Cutest Snail Ever Are Today’s Amazon Deals
Practical, sporty, and fun – these are the kinds of gifts included in Amazon’s Daily Deals today!
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Ride-On Toys, Marvel Phase 1 Movies, and Marvel Clothes Are the Deals Today!
Everyone in the family can have a Marvel-ous time with these deals today! (sorry/not-sorry).
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Holiday Baking for Geeks #1: Igor Bars (The Minty Modification)
I love cooking and baking, but I seem to only find the time and wherewithal to get to it around the holidays. That’s okay; everyone knows holiday calories don’t count.
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10 Geeky Things to Be Thankful For, 2015 Edition
Ten geeky things we at GeekDad are thankful for today. Happy Thanksgiving!
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Bose Solo 15 TV Sound, Preschool Toys, Black + Decker Matrix, and More Great Deals Today
Really, it’s as if Black Friday and Cyber Monday have already happened as far as many of the retailers are concerned. Amazon is really ramping up their daily deals, and today has a whole batch of products that will make great gifts for the kids and kids-at-heart on your shopping list.
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Warpo Is Back: Don’t Cuddle the Krampus!
Warpo, the company that brought us the Legends of Cthulhu action figures, is back with another Kickstarter campaign! Now you can get a plush Krampus, complete with three naughty kids and a sack to carry them.
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2015 Holiday Gift Guide: #2 Books
As GeekDads we have spent countless hours reading for ourselves and our kids, and sometimes we like a book well enough to recommend it to our readers. Read on as we feature some of our favorite books that we’ve discovered this year. Many of these have been, or soon will be, reviewed on GeekDad or GeekMom.
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Man Found on Moon
A lonely old man sitting on the moon. It can mean only one thing, and that’s err… Christmas?
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Holiday Gift Guide #1: Toys
Halloween is over, and it is once again time to turn our full attention to that which we call the Holiday Season! First up is a list of toys that we’ve played with, geeked out on, and raved about to our friends. Read on to see what we liked, why we liked it, and where you can pick one up!
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Halloween Costume Round-up 2015
For many of us here at GeekDad, Halloween is a great time of year to show off and share our favorite geeky pursuits through costuming. Here is the Halloween round-up of some of our costumes from this year for you to enjoy.
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Top 10 #Halloween Movies With More Laughter, Less Slaughter
Finding horror movies for a Halloween marathon is easy — there’s the occasional good one, and the rest are usually somewhere in the bad to so-bad-it’s-good range. What if you’re a parent of a pre-teen, though, and don’t want to risk a month of nightmares? Finding something good to watch that still feels properly Halloween-y can be tough.
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The Halloween Costume Deadline
Have you procrastinated? Halloween is two days away and you do not have a costume yet? What about the kids? Are they set up?
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Science Finally Proves Superiority of Geek Brain
Studies show that “cultural dysfluency” — Halloween plates on Labor Day, a purple wedding tux, a “good riddance” obituary — jolts brains from complacency and makes people perform better on cognitive tests. This, my friends, is why the geek brain thinks while the mainstream brain coasts.
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Stack Overflow: Spooky Reads for Halloween
I have to admit: I’m not much of one for horror. I like my zombie pop culture but I tend to stick to things that are at least halfway humorous and not out-and-out terrifying. Since Halloween is approaching, I figured today I’ll focus on a few of the titles from my stacks that fit the season, though maybe not quite THAT scary.
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Why Halloween Is Good for Your Kids
Let’s talk about Halloween. It’s creeping up on us again, as it should, and sadly, while its popularity among adults continues to grow, trick-or-treating continues to decline. For many parents, the notion of letting their children participate in this tradition is practically unthinkable. If you know some of these people, I encourage you to share this post with them.
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Halloween Costumes and BSG On Sale at Amazon Today!
Two nice daily deals at Amazon today. First, in a rather timely manner, they have a bunch of Halloween costumes on sale today, for kids and grown-ups. Second, they have special deals on the complete series DVD and Blu-Ray sets of Battlestar Galactica (both the modern series AND the classic!).
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A Very Geeky Sukkot (Su-what?)
On Sunday, what may be the geekiest, or at least most maker-oriented, Jewish holiday begins. Find out more about Sukkot.
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Today Is National Kids Day
Today we celebrate National Kids Day. This unofficial holiday encourages parents and other caregivers to spend a little additional quality time with the children in their lives.
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