By Doug on March 10, 2010
When picking up The Daughter, I was horrified to see a montage of the solar system on the wall of an adjacent classroom with nine planets.
NINE PLANETS?!?! That’s so 2005.
It’s not that I have anything against Pluto. The problem is that it was mislabeled as a planet when it was discovered because of some [...]
Posted in GeekDad, Publish To KM Space | Tagged astronomy, Pluto
By Doug on March 1, 2010
The schedule for Pax East has been released. What is PAX East?
PAX East is a three-day game festival for tabletop, videogame, and PC gamers. We call it a festival because in addition to dedicated tournaments and freeplay areas we’ve got nerdcore concerts, panel discussions, and an exhibitor hall filled with booths displaying the latest from [...]
Posted in GeekDad, Publish To KM Space | Tagged PAX East
By Doug on February 27, 2010
The Son has been highly interested in the LEGO Atlantis collection. Yesterday, when he got the LEGO Atlantis Neptune Carrier, I decided to film him assembling the kit. This is our second attempt at this experiment. The first was assembling the LEGO Atlantis Turbo Typhoon Sub
You can see more in my latest post on GeekDad: [...]
Posted in GeekDad | Tagged Atlantis, Lego
By Doug on February 25, 2010
Being a real estate guy, I have a big interest in maps and the visualization of the land around us. Google Earth has provided a treasure trove of information. That system provides has some great images of weird, cool and geeky things as viewed from space.
I picked 20 of the geekiest images I could [...]
Posted in GeekDad | Tagged Google Earth
By Doug on February 19, 2010
The Son has been highly interested in the LEGO Atlantis collection. Yesterday, when he got the LEGO Atlantis Turbo Typhoon Sub, I decided to film him assembling the kit.
You can see more in my latest post on GeekDad: Assembling the LEGO Atlantis Turbo Typhoon Sub.
Some of my recent posts on GeekDad:
Own Your World With Location-Based [...]
Posted in GeekDad | Tagged Atlantis, Lego, video
By Doug on February 14, 2010
I finally got The Son to listen to chapter books for bedtime reading. I had no success with the Harry Potter books. His babysitter recommended the Percy Jackson books.
The premise of the Percy Jackson stories is that Greek mythology is true. Zeus, Poseidon, Hades and the rest of the gods are still with us. Percy’s [...]
Posted in GeekDad | Tagged Movies, Percy Jackson, The Lightning Thief
By Doug on February 12, 2010
Location-based games and location-based social networking sites have exploded along with the proliferation of GPS enabled phones.
I’ve tried my hand at BrightKite, FourSquare, and Gowalla.
When I heard the developer of Own This World describe his game as a combination of Risk and FourSquare I jumped at the chance to try it out.
You can read more [...]
Posted in GeekDad, Publish To KM Space, Web 2.0 | Tagged Big Nerds in Disguise, BrightKite, FourSquare, Gowalla, Own This World
By Doug on February 2, 2010
Several GeekDad writers will host a panel at PAX East. The panel, titled “Bringing Up the Next Generation of Geeks,” will include Dave Banks, Natania Barron, Matt Blum, John Booth, Doug Cornelius (that’s me), Michael Harrison, and Corrina Lawson. We described the session as:
How young is too young for The Hobbit? What should my kids’ [...]
Posted in GeekDad | Tagged PAX East, Penny Arcade, Penny Arcade Expo
By Doug on February 1, 2010
A few weeks ago I started comparing LibraryThing, GoodReads and Shelfari to see which one was the best for tracking books online: Tracking Your Books and Library Online. Since I want to read more books this year, I thought it would be good to check out these sites.
I’ve been using LibraryThing for two years and [...]
Posted in GeekDad, Publish To KM Space | Tagged GoodReads, LibraryThing, Shelfari
By Doug on January 28, 2010
What is missing from your coffee drinking experience?
Does it have enough geek?
Does it have enough dad?
Probably not.
But how can you fix that?
How about a brand new GeekDad mug!
You can even personalize it.
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