GeekDad’s 2017 Mother’s Day Gift Guide
Celebrate your beloved mother with a great gift. Read on for our gift picks for Mom in 2017.
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GeekMom Holiday Gift Guide #7: Last Minute Ideas
Next up in this year’s holiday gift guides: Last Minute Ideas! Act now for holiday delivery!
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2016 Holiday Gift Guide: Last Minute Shopping
Here we are, less than a week from Christmas but it’s not too late to finish your shopping. Here we give a few items that should arrive in time for the holiday.
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GeekMom Holiday Gift Guide #6: The Well-Dressed Geek
Next up in this year’s holiday gift guides: The Well-Dressed Geek!
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2016 Holiday Gift Guide – Music
Geek Culture is a many faceted thing with the term meaning different things to most geeks. This category highlights a few of the things related to music that we feel define us as geeks.
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Polk Boom Bit Is the Bomb
The Polk Boom Bit is small and convenient, and it offers good quality sound.
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GeekMom Holiday Gift Guide #1: Toys
Welcome to the start of this year’s holiday gift guides! The GeekMom guides will run each week on Tuesday mornings. We start it off this year with Toys, with a few of the GeekMom writers’ favorites.
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National Coming Out Day—The 10 Things You Must Know
Today is National Coming Out Day, a day of joy, terror, acceptance, and bravery. Here are 10 things you must know about today.
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11 Far Out Things About the Orkney Islands
Rugged coastlines, empty beaches, rolling countryside, remote location. If you want to get away from it all, pretty much literally, the Orkney Islands should be on your list.
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My Top 10 Chocolate Products for Mother’s Day
Let’s face it; most moms like chocolate. And, since chocolate is one of the traditional Mother’s Day gifts, I have listed ten of my favorite chocolate treats for Mother’s Day week. If you’re too busy to make something chocolate from scratch, give these a go.
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DC All Access: The Next Holiday Classic From ‘Teen Titans Go!’
DC All Access gives us a sneak peek at what is sure to be the next holiday classic from ‘Teen Titans Go!,’ as well as a look behind the scenes at how the show’s producers come up with some of their ideas.
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Happy Gorilla Suit Day!
As longtime readers of GeekDad are aware, National Gorilla Suit Day is one of the many annual events we celebrate here. Okay, the truth is, I celebrate it and GeekDad indulges me. So here we go….
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2015 Holiday Gift Guide #10: Gift Card Liquidation
We all know that Black Friday is the name of the most frenzied shopping day of the year, but is there a name for the day everyone returns their gifts to exchange for something they actually wanted? As a family we’ve scaled way back on how much we spend for Christmas so there are no gifts for us to return, but we did end up with some cash and gift cards to liquidate. Read on for our suggestions of things that you most likely did not receive for the holidays, but may make your 2016 a little geekier than 2015.
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Trans-Siberian Orchestra Winter Tour Review and Interview With Tour Manager Elliot Saltzman
The Trans-Siberian Orchestra is currently touring their brand new show, The Ghosts of Christmas Eve, featuring the best of the past and the latest of the present. I’ve seen a couple of Trans-Siberian Orchestra’s shows in the past and this year, I was thrilled to share my love of TSO’s amazing theatrics with my husband and son for the first time.
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2015 Holiday Gift Guide #9: Wait, What?
Amazon Prime can help, but this close to Christmas the warehouses and carriers are swamped so you may not get the package until late. Read on for a few suggestions below that might help you out of a last minute jam.
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The 10 Hottest Tech Toys of 2015
Toys that talk, tablets that “grow up” with your kid, and robots you build (and then order around)– yep, this holiday is shaping up to be the techiest ever for kids.
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‘Twas the Night Before Star Wars
‘Twas the night before Star Wars
And all through the ‘Net
All the rumors were stirring
Making me fret
2015 Holiday Gift Guide #8: The Well-Dressed Geek
As a geek I’m often most comfortable in jeans and a t-shirt, but occasionally I choose to dress up. Read on to see some of the apparel and hygiene products that we are partial to.
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Twas the Night Before Christmas, ICE Style!
Dakster gives us the icy cool details on Gaylord Palms ICE! experience this year.
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Gifts From Google Project Fi
Google is sending out presents to Google Project Fi users. Read on to see what they sent, and what I think of Project Fi. (hint: It rocks.)
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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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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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DIY Gifts of Tea
Chances are there is someone on your gift list this holiday season that geeks out about tea. So here are some ideas to make them squeal like a tea kettle in delight.
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Top 10 Reasons to Visit SeaWorld During the Holidays
Take a stroll through Dakster’s top 10 reasons to visit SeaWorld’s Christmas Celebration, which includes far more than Orca shows.
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Holiday Gift Guide #6: Gadgets Part 3
We ended up with a few more gadgets than planned, so here’s a short list of the stragglers. Once again, here are some of our favorite gadgets of the year in no particular order. Next week’s gift guide will be DIY Projects and Tools; look for it Thursday morning.
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Geeky Coffee Cozies to Knit and Crochet
Most of the time these sleeves end up in the trash instead of recycled. Why use a boring paper sleeve when you can rock a piece of geeky art work instead?
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Holiday Gift Guide #6: Gadgets Part 2
If I had a dollar for every gadget I’ve bought since Part 1 was published yesterday, I could buy four more gadgets! I’m almost done though. As we’ve grown GeekDad, so has the number of authors and the number of gadgets we collectively love. Here’s the next dozen gadgets we love, in no particular order. I’ll have a few stragglers to post tomorrow, so stay tuned.
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Holiday Gift Guide #6: Gadgets Part 1
If I had a dollar for every gadget I’ve bought, I could buy more gadgets! As geeks, we have a special place in our hearts for elegant, useful, or just plain cool gadgets. In fact, we love our gadgets so much this year that we will have to split this guide into two parts. Read on for the first dozen gadgets that we have grown to love and treasure this year.
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Sights and Sounds of Yesteryear, Winter-style
The winter season is full of traditions, many of which go back hundreds of years or more and are often from other countries. Trees, poems, decorations, songs, lights, music, and food all contribute to the festivity of the season. Here are a few things from yesteryear that will help get us in the mood.
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Black Friday Deals
Hear ye, hear ye, the holiday season is upon us and shoppers everywhere are limbering up and staking out the best deals of the century. But are they really the best deals? Watch the fine print carefully for words that limit the quantity or duration of the deals. That amazingly cheap loss-leader TV might be limited to 5 or 10 per store, leaving your unsatisfied hunger for a new TV to chomp at a normally priced TV. Beware also of the trampling hordes and angry shoppers. Every year Black Friday inches closer and closer to in appearance to the running of the bulls.
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