Spend an entire day saying only positive things about people. Buy a stranger a cup of coffee. Share a joke. Pick up litter and throw it away. Wish someone a happy half birthday. Ask someone to join you for lunch. …
Continue ReadingHave you ever watched a movie where a character figures out the answer to a complicated puzzle before you do, or makes some logical connection that you didn’t see until it was pointed out? I’ll bet it made you a …
Continue ReadingRead all the Dork Towers that have run on GeekDad. Find the Dork Tower webcomic archives, DT printed collections, more cool comics, awesome games and a whole lot more at the Dork Tower Website.
Continue ReadingAnother guest post from GeekTeen John: At first glance, Sam & Max looks like one of those generic Nick Jr. shows about cute animal detectives solving crimes just in time for dinner. Going a little bit deeper, one can find …
Continue ReadingWhen I was a kid, we played outside with the other kids in the neighborhood with most of our free time. We also made the most of recess at school. We kept ourselves quite occupied without any of today’s modern …
Continue ReadingWhen I reviewed How to Train Your Dragon for the Nintendo DS last month, I came away with a fairly favorable impression. While it’s not exactly the kind of title to single-handedly turn the tide of horrible movie license games, …
Continue ReadingThere was a time when even the best computer graphics available were lousy. In this ancient time, called “the Eighties,” graphics were cool for computer games to have, but really much less important than a good story and interesting puzzles …
Continue ReadingGenesis 11 tells the story of an ambitious people. Armed with a common language and purpose, they decided to build a tower that would reach to the very heavens. But, as the familiar story goes, God decided to confuse them …
Continue ReadingHere’s a geek history parallel for you: Hungarian inventor Ernő Rubik’s “Magic Cube” first hit Budapest toy shop shelves in 1977 — the year Star Wars was released. Three years later — around the same time The Empire Strikes Back …
Continue ReadingA few months back, I was asked to provide input in the planning phases for a global survey on the play patterns of kids, funded by the folks at Swedish retailer Ikea. To an extent, Ikea sanctioned the report as …
Continue ReadingThis past weekend a bunch of us from GeekDad attended the Bay Area Maker Faire. It was my first time, and I had a great time. I thought it would be a good place to demonstrate my Etch-a-Sketch art (particularly …
Continue ReadingThis subject was so obvious I missed it. But I was reminded how much my kids love The Simpsons comics last week, when I took my youngest son into a local comic shop. My son wanted three comics. The first …
Continue ReadingWe’ve posted the fun (and often Star Wars-themed) t-shirts of Reece Ward a few times, including my personal favorite, R2-D3: the Missing Manual. Well, Reece has gone and gotten himself picked up by the source of all things SW – …
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Continue ReadingLots of us here at GeekDad are fans of Stan Sakai’s brilliant long-running comic book series Usagi Yojimbo. So, when Dark Horse Comics approached us about premiering a short story in the series, it was a complete no-brainer. Here, then, …
Continue ReadingWe just got back Monday night from this year’s Maker Faire. This was my second year helping to run the GeekDad booth there. Last year was quite a lot of fun as we gave out little things to people and …
Continue ReadingAs many of you will know, GeekDad style fun is usually much better when it’s shared. I started a Remote Control car club last year with a few friends, and I have found fresh enthusiasm for the project by all …
Continue ReadingTracing the growth and development of the music of geek culture is, in itself, a strange journey. As music-making is a particularly scholarly pursuit, it has attracted the more studious among us since early man first realized the power inherent …
Continue ReadingAh, behold the joys of Twitter. It makes our job even easier at Ask GeekDad when we get quick questions via our Twitter account (that’s @AskGeekDad of course!). Today’s queries run the gamut from questions about music and kids’ interests …
Continue ReadingBatter up! Atari, one of the world’s most recognized videogame publishers, hits a home run with the all-new Backyard Sports: Sandlot Sluggers videogame for the Xbox 360, Wii, Nintendo DS and a downloadable Windows PC version shipping out May 25, …
Continue ReadingWelcome to the GeekDad Space Report for the week of May 24, 2010! We had a busy launch schedule last week with four launches on the schedule but only two of those made it off the pad. The launch of …
Continue ReadingI had the awesome opportunity to step into Arc Attack’s Faraday cage at Maker Faire 2010 this year and see what it’s like to sit in the middle of two Tesla Coils running wild. It was, in a word, AWESOME!
Continue ReadingRead all the Dork Towers that have run on GeekDad. Find the Dork Tower webcomic archives, DT printed collections, more cool comics, awesome games and a whole lot more at the Dork Tower Website.
Continue ReadingAs mentioned last Monday, I spent a few days at the INplay 2010 conference in Toronto, including representing GeekDad on a panel that spoke about the role of parent bloggers as gatekeepers. It was a great experience. I had the …
Continue ReadingDear GeekDad Puzzlers, I’m sorry to say I’ve been shirking my puzzle responsibilities this week, kicking it with a bunch of the other GeekDads and having fun at Maker Faire this past weekend. You could say I kinda mailed this …
Continue ReadingThere’s a central fallacy at the heart of the Great PC vs. Mac debate, which is that you can definitely prove one is better than the other. They both have assets and flaws and choosing one over the other depends mostly on what …
Continue ReadingMy favorite new section to have created on Game People this year is most likely our Soundtrack reviews. It made me appreciate what else is going on while I’m ploughing through the latest game. Not only that but it gave …
Continue ReadingRead all the Dork Towers that have run on GeekDad. Find the Dork Tower webcomic archives, DT printed collections, more cool comics, awesome games and a whole lot more at the Dork Tower Website.
Continue ReadingAs the Gulf of Mexico oil leak disaster enters its second month, ideas for ways to stop it are starting to get more and more extreme. This is perhaps unsurprising, desperate times calling for desperate measures, but some of the …
Continue ReadingLet’s be honest: At 30 years old, it’s been ages since The Empire Strikes Back has gotten carded while buying drinks in the Mos Eisley cantina. And yet it remains generally acknowledged that on May 21, 1980 – that’s four …
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