A friend of mine recently published her professional website after months of preparation. One of her premier posts shared 30 things she would like to do this year in honor of turning 30. It’s not a milestone birthday year for me, but the idea made sense. In an effort to set reasonable goals instead of unattainable […]
Continue ReadingA few months ago, I spotted a blurb in the Wired print magazine about @McGarrysGhost, the Twitter alias of the late Leo Thomas McGarry, former fictional White House Chief of Staff on the TV show The West Wing. I enjoyed …
Continue ReadingWoe be unto the enemy of the Geek Nation who strikes out at a fellow citizen. It’s only been a short time since we last experienced Geek Wrath, but the Geek Nation quickly returned to DefCon 5. We all knew that …
Continue ReadingThere have been a whole range of geekified holiday season images and ideas running through my Twitter stream and other various feeds, but I wanted to highlight these two as my standouts for 2011. First, over at Archie McPhee’s Endless …
Continue ReadingWatching The Lord of the Rings trilogy has become a holiday tradition in our home, so we spent part of Thanksgiving weekend enjoying The Fellowship of the Ring. Writer and geeky dad John Scalzi went a bit further, immersing himself …
Continue ReadingIf you are like me, you probably have at least a few friends that you only know on the internet. I’ve been on the internet for 15 years now, since my sophomore year in college. I’ve been a member of many forums and made many friends that I only know through the internet. Some of […]
Continue ReadingGoogle Reader unveiled big changes this week, and the internet recoiled. Some folks (I’m one of them) loathe the new design: the excessive use of white space at the top of the screen, the heavy black-and-gray palette, the black-underlined links …
Continue ReadingInternet memes and social media websites have become so popular that people take to dressing up like them for Halloween. Having a teenager and an almost-teenager in my household, it probably comes as no surprise that my oldest son dressed up as Facebook for school yesterday, and my youngest dressed up as Nyan Cat. When […]
Continue ReadingHere on Geekdad, we like to share with you all the geeky places we take our families to, be they Science Museums, Woodland adventures or even good old fashioned Theme parks, but there’s obviously so much to do that we …
Continue ReadingI can give you no reason, but until this week I was not on twitter. Call it a last ditch effort to slow down in this fast paced world, call it reticence from a reluctant facebook junkie, call it laziness. This week I caved, this week I joined twitter. Wanting my first tweet to be […]
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 […]
Continue ReadingWhile everyone else is busy comparing Google+ to Facebook, I have been checking out a different cool social media application called Strawberryj.am. Strawberryj.am is a free online application that connects to your Twitter stream and harvests the most popular links being shared by those you follow on Twitter. Therefore, it removes the “chatter” from your […]
Continue ReadingSam Calagione is a regular guy; he’s married, has two kids and loves beer. The catch, though, is that unlike many beer-loving dads, Sam actually gets to make and drink beer for a living. As the Founder and President of …
Continue ReadingI’ve been a fan of Wil Wheaton‘s since he was in Star Trek:TNG. I wonder sometimes if I was the only person who didn’t hate Wesley Crusher. In fact, since he was about the same age as I was when TNG was airing, I had a huge crush on both the character and the actor. […]
Continue ReadingSome people run races to raise money for charity; some walk; some even grow beards. Scott West is not one of those people: He tweets for thirty-six straight hours, once a year. West is the man behind the excellent geeky …
Continue ReadingAs I watched my 19-month-old daughter masterfully navigate my iPhone, I couldn’t help but wonder how far technology will innovate in her lifetime. I am seriously in awe: She unlocked the phone, found Yo Gabba Gabba on my iTunes, and …
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As I watched my 19-month-old daughter masterfully navigate my iPhone, I couldn’t help but wonder how far technology will innovate in her lifetime. I am seriously in awe: She unlocked the phone, found Yo Gabba Gabba on my iTunes, and played the video. She figured it out faster than I first did. That is the […]
Continue ReadingHow many phone numbers can you dial without looking them up in your cell phone? David Harper, co-founder and architect of Go800, found that his cell phone battery had died after a day spent at a convention. He was on …
Continue ReadingIt’s time to vote for Shorty Awards, a partly-judged, partly-crowdsourced system to recognize the most popular Twitter-users in a variety of categories. Usually we would just vote for a few people we like and wait for the results to come …
Continue ReadingDo you have a coffee pot in your cubicle at work, set to go off at a certain time each morning? And do the vagaries of your commute often mean you arrive to either old, or not-ready coffee? Well, this …
Continue ReadingOne of our many responsibilities as parents is keeping our kids healthy. And as mothers, it seems we make the majority of doctor appointments and are usually the ones who take them, too. However, moving into a new area can be a challenge. When we moved back to Oklahoma in 2005, we had to choose a pediatrician […]
Continue ReadingWe at GeekDad are huge fans of kids, of reading and of pretty much any initiative that encourages kids to read. If you’re a regular reader, you may recall the articles we’ve had about the Kids Need to Read (KNTR) …
Continue ReadingAre you ready to celebrate the Summer of Multiplayer with a whole new twist on Magic? Wizards of the Coast is excited to announce a new way to experience Magic – TweetMTG! On July 31-August 1, log in for a …
Continue ReadingIf you read Twitter on a regular or semi-regular basis, you’ve surely happened upon a tweet or two that, like the one above, fairly cried out for someone with artistic talent to give it visual expression. Those cries have been …
Continue ReadingIf a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to blog about it, does it make a sound? If you’re anything like me, you spend a good deal of time every day online, and at least part …
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Continue ReadingImage via Wikipedia William Shatner is slated to be involved with the twitter-stream-turned-TV-show, “[Deleted Expletive] My Dad Says,” according to an article in The Hollywood Reporter today. From the report: Twitter sensation [Deleted Expletive] My Dad Says is becoming a …
Continue ReadingTwo weeks ago, we published a list of 150 people that we thought anyone interested in geeky media of all sorts ought to be following on Twitter. The list was well-received, but, as with all such lists, mistakes were made. …
Continue ReadingWe on GeekDad aren’t subtle about our love for MythBusters. We, or at least most of us, follow the show’s official Twitter feed, in addition to those of several of its stars. If you don’t follow them yet, there’s no …
Continue ReadingNOTE: An updated list has been published. The list contained in this article is now out-of-date. Whether you’ve been using Twitter since 2006, are determined never to use it unless dragged kicking and screaming, or are somewhere in between, you …
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