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Tag: Top 10

What Are Your Top 10 Sci-fi TV Shows?

December 10, 2012December 16, 2017Jason CranfordTeague

Nominate the sci-fi TV shows you think we should include in our list by adding a comment below. You don’t have to nominate 10 shows, nominate as many as you want, but please give a brief description as to why …

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Top 10 Bad Messages From Good Movies

November 16, 2012Matt Blum

Sometimes it can be hard to see the messages a movie teaches, especially if they’re unintentional. The best way to see a movie’s messages, the bad ones in particular, is to be a parent watching the movie with your kids. …

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Top 10 Reasons It Sucks (Get It?) to Be a Vampire

October 20, 2012Matt Blum

We’ve done the top ten reasons it sucks to be a zombie. Here, then, are the top ten reasons it sucks (pun very much intended) to be a vampire.

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Top 10 Halloween Movies for Younger Kids

October 13, 2012Matt Blum

It’s easy to find a list of horror movies to watch for Halloween. They run the gamut from good to bad to so-bad-it’s-good to funny. But for parents of pre-teens, it can be hard to find something to watch that’s …

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10 Geeky Movies to Raise Your Kids On

August 14, 2012Ken Denmead

In our never-ending quest to provide you the tools and knowledge to raise your kids in your own geeky image, we present you with a list of 10 geeky movies to raise your kids with. This is a starter …

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Top 20 Ways to Provoke a Geek Argument (GeekDad Wayback Machine)

May 19, 2012Matt Blum

Geeks, as a general rule, are pretty easy-going. We like to think things through, so passionate confrontations aren’t commonplace for us. When we get well and properly provoked, though, watch out! We won’t stop talking until every last point that …

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Top 10 Mothers in Science Fiction and Fantasy (GeekDad Wayback Machine)

May 13, 2012Matt Blum

It used to be difficult to find genuinely good female characters in science fiction and fantasy. And even today, with plenty of excellent female characters to pick from, there still aren’t that many that are also mothers. In honor of …

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Top 10 Evil Geeks in the Movies (GeekDad Wayback Machine)

April 18, 2012John Baichtal

Around here, we’re always talking up the positives of geeks. It’s a natural thing because that’s who we are. And while we always want to root for the geek heroes in books and movies, we have to acknowledge there are …

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10 Great Irish Geeks For St. Patrick’s Day (GeekDad Wayback Machine)

March 17, 2012Admin

Lá Fhéile Pádraig Shona Dhaoibh!* Today’s the day when Irish people around the world celebrate our heritage and indulge a few national stereotypes. The self-respecting among us will be shying away from the green beer (the writer Flann O’Brien said …

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10 Ways to Future-Proof Your Child

March 15, 2012James Floyd Kelly

A few simple suggestions for how to make sure your offspring are ready for a rapidly changing future, online and off.

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My Most Anticipated Video Games of 2012

December 31, 2011Admin

Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Future Soldier Ubisoft Paris brings back the latest in the Tom Clancy Ghost Recon tactical shooter series, Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Future Soldier. I am looking forward to doing team-based missions in multi-player and “optical camouflage,” …

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Top 10 Geeky Christmas Decorations (GeekDad Wayback Machine)

December 10, 2011Matt Blum

We’ve all seen the ornaments Hallmark comes out with every year, and to be fair, some of them are excellent. There are a few Star Trek ones each year, and Star Wars ones, and other somewhat geeky ones, but they’re …

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10 Geeky Things to Be Thankful For, 2011 Edition

November 24, 2011Matt Blum

Just the fact that you’re reading this means that, if we’re serious about it, you have things to be thankful for — to whatever higher power you believe in or simply to the universe in general. But you probably didn’t …

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10 Phrases for a Geekier Thanksgiving (GeekDad Wayback Machine)

November 24, 2011Matt Blum

Just because today is Thanksgiving in the U.S., when family and food dominate our focus, doesn’t mean we need to stop being geeks. With a little effort, we can work our geekiness into the holiday. To that end, we at …

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Top 10 Bad Messages From Good Movies (GeekDad Wayback Machine)

November 15, 2011Matt Blum

Sometimes it can be hard to see the messages a movie teaches, especially if they’re unintentional. The best way to see a movie’s messages, the bad ones in particular, is to be a parent watching the movie with your kids. …

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Top 10 Reasons It Sucks to Be a Vampire (Pun Intended)

October 31, 2011Matt Blum

It ain’t easy for a vamp out there, and here’s 10 reasons why.

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Top 10 Reasons It Sucks to Be a Zombie (GeekDad Wayback Machine)

October 19, 2011Matt Blum

With the popularity of zombies approaching bacon-like proportions, and with Halloween upon us, we at GeekDad were concerned that some folks might be considering actually becoming zombies. Hey, in a world where Justin Bieber has over 14 million Facebook fans, …

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Top 10 Halloween Movies for Younger Kids (GeekDad Re-Animator)

October 1, 2011Matt Blum

It’s easy to find a list of horror movies to watch for Halloween. They run the gamut from good to bad to so-bad-it’s-good to funny. But for parents of pre-teens, it can be hard to find something to watch that’s …

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The Top 10 Geek Axioms

September 7, 2011Matt Blum

Geeks love to argue, particularly with other geeks. We don’t just argue about whether Kirk or Picard is the better captain because we have deeply-held opinions on the subject — though some of us certainly do — but because, well, …

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Top 10 Punishments for Geeks (GeekDad Weekly Rewind)

July 23, 2011Admin

Evil overlords have a tough time when it comes to punishing geeks. We’re so good at retreating into our imaginations and replaying scenes from our favorite movies and TV shows in our heads that we can often weather physical punishments …

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Top 10 Punishments for Geeks

July 19, 2011Matt Blum

Evil overlords have a tough time when it comes to punishing geeks. We’re so good at retreating into our imaginations and replaying scenes from our favorite movies and TV shows in our heads that we can often weather physical punishments …

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Top 11 Things to Watch for a Geeky Independence Day (GeekDad Wayback Machine)

July 3, 2011Matt Blum

Tomorrow is, of course, Independence Day in the United States of America, so it’s time to show your patriotic side. There’s no reason, though, why you have to hide your geeky side — why not celebrate both at the same …

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Top 10 Dads in Science Fiction and Fantasy (GeekDad Wayback Machine)

June 19, 2011Matt Blum

It really is kind of amazing how few good dads there are in geek fiction. In so many stories fathers are absent for one reason or another (death being fairly common), and in so many others the fathers are so …

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Top 10 Mothers in Science Fiction and Fantasy (GeekDad Wayback Machine)

May 8, 2011Matt Blum

It used to be difficult to find genuinely good female characters in science fiction and fantasy. And even today, with plenty of excellent female characters to pick from, there still aren’t that many that are also mothers. In honor of …

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10 Geeky Ways to Celebrate Earth Day (GeekDad Wayback Machine)

April 22, 2011Matt Blum

We geeks like to do a lot of the same things non-geeks do, just with a bit of a geeky spin to them. Lots of people like to put stickers for the college(s) they attended on their cars — geeks …

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Top 10 Geeky ’80s Movies That Still Need a Sequel

April 8, 2011Matt Blum

Whether or not you’ve seen Tron: Legacy, and whether or not you liked it if you have, you have to admit that it’s pretty darned cool that a seriously geeky movie from the 1980s got a sequel 29.5 years after …

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10 Great Irish Geeks For St. Patrick’s Day

March 17, 2011Admin

Lá Fhéile Pádraig Shona Dhaoibh!* Today’s the day when Irish people around the world celebrate our heritage and indulge a few national stereotypes. The self-respecting among us will be shying away from the green beer (the writer Flann O’Brien said …

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10 Signs You’re a GeekDad (GeekDad Weekly Rewind)

March 13, 2011Ken Denmead

These are not all the possible signs — not by a long shot. But here are ten that can be telltale indicators (and perhaps badges of honor as well): You named your children any of the following: Luke, Leia, Han, …

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10 Signs You’re a GeekDad

March 11, 2011December 14, 2017Ken Denmead

These are not all the possible signs — not by a long shot. But here are ten that can be telltale indicators (and perhaps badges of honor as well): You named your children any of the following: Luke, Leia, Han, …

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The 10 Geekiest Ways to Hide Your Age (GeekDad Wayback Machine)

February 20, 2011Matt Blum

Unless you’re Benjamin Button or T.H. White’s Merlin, you’re not getting any younger. While getting older may be better than the alternative, there’s no reason why you have to be completely upfront about your age. And, of course, as long …

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