‘Ninja Bunny’: It’s Dangerous to Go Alone!
A review of the new children’s book, Ninja Bunny, which teaches lessons about determination and working with others using humor and uniquely adorable illustrations.
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Tag: ninjas
Pirate vs. Ninja Christmas
My son is a ninja fan, and I am most certainly Pro-Pirate. How does this play out at Christmas?
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Ninja Dolls, Zombie Plants, and Gloom
Custom-made Halloween peg dolls, a plant that dies and comes back to life, and a game where you kill off your family to win!
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Build Your Own Ninja Weapons With Items Found in Your Junk Drawer
The latest book in the “Mini Weapons of Mass Destruction” series offers recipes for building blowguns, shuriken, and all the tools of the trade that any budding ninja needs.
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Wrapping Up Asian-Pacific American Heritage Month
Did you know that May is Asian-Pacific American Heritage Month? I didn’t until about halfway through the month, but, hey, now that it’s almost over here are a couple fun ways to celebrate with your kids.
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How to Be a Productivity Ninja
How to Be a Productivity Ninja by Graham Allcott aims to help us maximise our productivity by training us in new ways to actually get stuff done.
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Silently Assassinate and Guard Targets in Shinobi Clans
Shinobi Clans, an upcoming ninja-themed card drafting game will have you thinking — and overthinking — every card you play.
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Smash Up Expansion: Awesome Level 9000
You may have seen Wil Wheaton & Co. playing Smash Up on TableTop last month. The first stand-alone expansion, Awesome Level 9000, adds four more fun factions to the mix.
Continue ReadingImportant Uses for Duct Tape #47: Defeating Ninja Robbers
A fun video about the importance of duct tape in a dramatic situation. It also gets bonus point for having been filmed in out home town hardware store, and the fact that the one person who dies has worked on …
Continue ReadingBoard Game Review: Ninja: Legend of the Scorpion Clan
Game Turn Each turn consists of the following four phases. Alert Phase: All previously played guard cards are reshuffled into the deck, and then the guard player draws cards based on the current alert level (between 0 and 3 cards). …
Continue ReadingBoard Game Snapshots: Nuns. Superheroes. Ninjas. Little Plastic Pyramids.
I’ve gotten way behind on my board game reviews — I’m blaming it on the fact that I spent most of the summer preparing for a move, and then couldn’t unpack my board games for a while when our basement …
Continue ReadingNerdapalooza 2011: What You Missed – Part One (GeekDad Weekly Rewind)
The fifth annual Nerdapalooza music festival just wrapped up a couple days ago down in Orlando, FL. Held at the Orlando Marriott hotel, the festival broke all previous years attendance records and was an ear-blasting good time. I’m pretty sure …
Continue ReadingA New Place To Get Your Geeky Cooking On
A new little shop has just opened which combines my love for all things geek and my love for baking. The site is called I’m With Cupcake and it has some super geeky cooking items. While perusing their online offerings I came up with a few of my favorite things: I used to spend hours […]
Continue ReadingReligious Ninja Seeks Girl in Distress THE MOVIE
When I go to a movie, I expect to be entertained and not be subjected to a social commentary of today’s society. If I want deeper meaning, I’ll watch a documentary. That being said, I was excited to see Priest after reading a couple of reviews that promised me such an experience. The story is […]
Continue ReadingTen More Things My Geek-Brain Makes Me Do
After such an enthusiastic response from my initial article on the dumb, weird, and baffling things my geek brain makes me do, I’ve collected a few more and garnered the courage to put them out there. These are, after all, the secret crazy things I normally keep to myself. After years of being the weird […]
Continue ReadingZombie Ninja Pirates! (And Don’t Forget the Mad Scientists)
Overview: Zombie Ninja Pirates is a bizarre little card game in which you try to become zombies, ninjas, pirates and mad scientists while collecting objects that will award you points. It’s published by Gozer Games, a small game company that …
Continue ReadingFruit Ninja: Slice & Dice on the iPhone
Everyone knows that all ninja hate fruit. At least that’s what Halfbrick Studios claims with the release of Fruit Ninja, their second game for the iPhone. (Wikipedia is oddly silent on the subject.) Regardless, whether you’re a ninja yourself or …
Continue ReadingNinja Versus OMG! Pirates! on the iPhone
“Ha! Foolish Ninja! Behold the power of rum-powered technology!” So says one of the pirate bosses in Mika Mobile’s newest game for the iPhone (and iPod touch). OMG! Pirates! is a heaping serving of awesome. Unless, of course, you side …
Continue ReadingFive Geeky Facts About Ninja Assassin
Ninja fans take heart! There’s a new movie out there, creatively titled Ninja Assassin, featuring everyone’s favorite hooded shuriken-flingers. But more than just an action movie, NA actually features some fascinating geeky tidbits: 1. The movie’s title character is played …
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