Sure there are countless websites out there for comic fans, but how many are geared towards the younger fanboy or fangirl? I’m talking about those kids who aren’t in their teens yet. Even ones that are just out of the …
Continue ReadingWith all the excitement over the iPhone and iPod Touch games it’s easy to forget that the original iPod can also play an impressive array of games. While I was waiting for my shiney new iPod Touch to arrive I …
Continue ReadingIn case you’ve managed to avoid its constant mentions in our HipTrax podcasts over the previous months, Nerdapalooza is set to go down this very weekend. Yes, Nerdapalooza, the annual music and culture festival that attracts geeks of all stripes …
Continue ReadingThey call it Kidwords, and it is supposed to be a kids game, but I’m having too much fun to share it for long. With word lengths from 3 to 6 characters and three difficulty settings, Kidwords ends up being …
Continue ReadingThis is a really neat list to be on, especially since it has to do with education. The Online College Blog (a site for finding information about, you guessed it, online college education) named us to the technology section of …
Continue ReadingMy family and I spent last weekend in a small village in northwest Ireland with my goddaughter and her family while we marked her second birthday. It was a kid-filled affair, as you’d expect, as well as a few expectant …
Continue ReadingJust to show you another bit of evidence that even geeks can do crafts (and even crafty sorts are geeky), Flickr’s scrumptiousdelight made a plush Saarlac pitlow. You know, from Return of the Jedi. It speaks for itself.
Continue ReadingIt’s well known that George Lucas used Joseph Campbell’s writings as the basis for Luke Skywalker’s heroic journey in Star Wars. But to the people of Mythopoeic Society, Campbell is just a short paragraph in a long-running book of how …
Continue ReadingThe first installment of Telltale Games’s new five-episode series called Tales of Monkey Island comes out today. Part one is called Monkey Island: Launch of the Screaming Narwhal. (Telltale Games is the same company that recently brought us Wallace and …
Continue ReadingThere can be little doubt that comic book geeks have been picking over film and television depictions of Batman for as long as they’ve existed. The first Batman film hit the screen in 1943—a mere four years after the character …
Continue ReadingThere’s a delicate balance required when attempting to instill in our children a passion for the things we ourselves love. If we push too hard, they’ll react negatively. If we do too little, maybe they won’t even notice. This is …
Continue ReadingA recent family outing to an old, but operating, water-powered grist mill made for a great Geek outing. Geekery didn’t start with computers or even electricity. You can find proof of that inside these old mills, which have got enough gears, belts …
Continue ReadingHigh over the Connecticut River sits an estate that is probably the closest anyone in the continental United States will get to 221B Baker Street. It’s the former estate of William Gillette, a Hartford, Connecticut native, who became famous for …
Continue ReadingGeekDad compiles another round of RPG blogs for you to read over your lunchtime. As we mentioned last time there are literally thousands of RPG blogs out there so it can be hard to find any that don’t suck. Everyone …
Continue ReadingLooney Labs (founded by Andy and Kristin Looney—their real names) is the company responsible for a couple of my favorite non-traditional games: Treehouse consists of little plastic pyramids which have spawned a variety of different games (maybe I’ll dedicate a …
Continue ReadingLooking for ways to cut costs? How about the money you spend on Amazon and Netflix, when you could be getting books and movies from your local library instead, for free? Oh, but you say, it’s only free if you …
Continue ReadingThis week, we needed your help in figuring out how to circumnavigate the globe in an airplane burning a new type of jet fuel. Boy did we get help! We had more than 60 responses with more than 30 correct …
Continue ReadingOne Fourth of July tradition we never miss in my house is Fireworks Ice Cream. (We rarely miss anything that involves ice cream, but I digress.) This amazing concoction has a base of vanilla ice cream and cherry swirl. But …
Continue ReadingA few weeks ago, the reality show addicted parts of my family and they had me sit through an episode of MTV’s True Life. In this ep, an uber Star Wars GeekDad asks his son to accompany him to Star …
Continue ReadingThe success of LEGO Batman, LEGO Indy and LEGO Star Wars has been something of a two-edged sword for the Family Gaming site I run. The problem is that they got it too right. Trying to wean readers off the …
Continue ReadingWhenever I see posts on GeekDad (or elsewhere) about “gamers,” it typically refers to either videogames or RPGs. But I’m a different sort of gamer, one who might use 6-sided dice, or none at all. That’s right, I’m a board …
Continue ReadingImage via Wikipedia Travel is an integral part of Alan Dean Foster’s life. He doesn’t just talk about it, he lives it. He has been all around the world and continues to travel regularly. He gets the most that he …
Continue ReadingWhen Magic: The Gathering was introduced in 1993, it was full of classic fantasy tropes like fireball spells, giants, goblins and elves. Naturally, as subsequent sets were released, publisher Wizards of the Coast introduced more original spells and characters, and …
Continue ReadingThe other day, doing some house-watching for an out-of-town friend, I pulled up to the mailbox so my daughter could reach out from the passenger seat and pick up the mail. The letters had scooted all the way to the …
Continue ReadingMy twins just started watching Wolverine and The X-Men on Nicktoons Network. I didn’t want to watch because I liked it when the X-Men were about more than just Wolverine but they were interested, so I relented. It’s not just …
Continue ReadingImage by marceatsworld via Flickr If you joined us yesterday for Part I of my interview with Alan Dean Foster, you learned about his writing schedule and method. Today, learn about Foster’s experience writing the novelization for the most recent …
Continue ReadingSome of my best friends as a kid wore capes. No, I’m not talking about my neighborhood pals Eddie, Gary or Ethan. Well, sure, we all dressed up as superheroes at some point I’m sure. But what I’m referring to …
Continue ReadingA year ago, I received a box of mysterious junk. Code-named Quito, it was one of the original eight TGIMBOEJ boxes. Wait, what’s a TGIMBOEJ? The acronym stands for The Great Internet Migratory Box of Electronics Junk, one of the …
Continue ReadingI recently came across this page in the GeekDad archives and while I agree that most webcomics are made with an adult audience in mind, I thought it would be good to point out a few of them that kids …
Continue ReadingProbably made most famous by the the lamenting of New Yorkers in the Big Apple, alternate side parking has long been the bane of narrow street dwellers. Throw on a robe at 5AM (or not) and rush out to move …
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