When my wife is gone for the evening I will turn off the lights, light some candles, and pretend there’s been an earthquake or some other catastrophe. Not only does this lead to entertaining apocalypse conversations with the kids, but this means that we get to eat spam and freeze dried stuff.
Continue ReadingThis weekend the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (OMSI) opened a new exhibit, Nature Unleashed. It’s all about natural disasters — what causes them, how we measure them and try to predict them, what sort of damage they can …
Continue ReadingSome of my favorite Star Wars collectibles are the ones I snapped up in Tokyo (like this banner shown above) So, it’s no big surprise to see the Japanese celebrating the release of the films on Blu-Ray by making the subway handrails look like light sabers… By the way, Japan can still use help. If […]
Continue ReadingWith the August 23, 2011 earthquake on the East coast of the United States, the internet has been a-buzz. We had quite the interesting discussions, behind closed doors, here at GeekMom. GeekMoms Patricia Vollmer and ChaosMandy started the discussion on the site. As someone who lives in the Pacific Ring and an area that has […]
Continue ReadingI have now experienced two earthquakes in my life, the first on July 16, 2010, the same morning my son was born, and again yesterday, August 23, 2011. I never thought that living on the East Coast that I’d ever …
Continue ReadingI have now experienced two earthquakes in my life, the first on July 16, 2010, the same morning my son was born, and again yesterday, August 23, 2011. I never thought that living on the East Coast that I’d ever rock the way that I did today. My two-year-old thought that he was on a […]
Continue ReadingI’m a little embarrassed to say that I get most of my news from the internet. And not from a reputable news source. Most of the news I read about comes from Facebook and Twitter. This afternoon, I got up from taking a nap with my toddler to find my Facebook and Twitter feeds covered […]
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