Giveaway: Life After People Season 2: Buildings Blowin’ Up Real Good!
The History Channel sent review copies of season 2 of its series, Life After People, which I spent several loud evenings watching. If you like scenes of apocalyptic destruction, you’re going to love...
View ArticleSome Buildings Are Built to Last
Image: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt They really don’t build things like they used to. Huge sums of money held by kings, the church and other entities used to fund large, quality buildings that really...
View ArticleFree PDF Download: The Third Bear Carnival
The Third Bear by Jeff VanderMeer One of our favorite and more prolific authors and editors of the weird and fantastic, Jeff VanderMeer had a pretty good year in 2010. High among his achievements this...
View ArticleEnjoy the Architecture of Rome in Rome Antics
Image: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Pen and ink. Black and white. Cross-hatching. These are definitely not lost arts. At least not in David Macaulay’s hands. This beautifully drawn, carefully written...
View ArticleTurn Artwork Mistakes into a Beautiful Oops!
Image: Workman Publishing All parents experience this. When kids reach a certain age, they often become very upset when they make mistakes on a piece of artwork. My daughter, in particular, would get...
View ArticleOh Noes: Justin Bieber as Captain Canuck?
Captain Canuck (image copyright Comely Comix) A few disclaimers up front. I am Canadian; Stratford, Ontario (the same city that spawned Justin Bieber) is my home town; I have stacks of comic books...
View ArticleGraphic Novels for Kids Make Comic Books Accessible to All
Photo: Jenny Williams Reading comic books is fairly intimidating if you don’t get into it until later in life. There is this huge mythos surrounding it all. So many people are “in the know” about all...
View Article10 Annoying Habits of a Geeky Spouse (GeekDad Wayback Machine)
Everyone has annoying habits, and a sizable part of every successful marriage is learning to live with those things each other does that annoy you. I think it’s safe to say, too, that geeks have some...
View ArticleGraphic Novels for Kids Make Comic Books Accessible to All (GeekDad Weekly...
Photo: Jenny Williams Reading comic books is fairly intimidating if you don’t get into it until later in life. There is this huge mythos surrounding it all. So many people are “in the know” about all...
View ArticleGeeked About the Greeks
Pandora's Box By Lilianna Maxwell Every summer I run a History through the Creative Arts camp for homeschoolers in my area. It started as a way to do history with my own children that was based on...
View ArticleThe Journals of Doctor Mormeck: Jeff VanderMeer’s Serialized Fiction Experiment
Jeff VanderMeer is no stranger to GeekDad readers —see here for James Floyd Kelly’s take on his Steampunk Bible anthology or here for an interview I did with Jeff and his wife Ann Vandermeer a few...
View ArticleWelcome to GeekMom’s Music Week!
Hello. My name is Cathé, and I’m a music geek. I admit to studying all sorts of instruments including (but not limited to!) piano, flute, bagpipes, and trombone. Three years as a music education major...
View ArticleMusic Week at GeekMom: Getting Your Music Heard: Making Use Of New Marketing...
Some rights reserved by tim geers If you are a musician, or any type of creative for that matter, you want to have your product consumed. In the digital age, an age where people can consume media for...
View ArticleTime Running Out for GeekMom Video Challenge Entries
Bundesarchiv, CC-BY-SA You’ve got a little over a week to get your entry in for the GeekMom Video Challenge! The deadline is April 21. Simply create a video accompanying GeekMom Rebecca Angel’s gently...
View ArticleE-Reader, Tablet or Paper: How Are Your Kids Reading These Days?
The many ways we read… Photo by Brad Moon The primary questions around kids and reading used to be: What do they read? And how much? These days — stuck in some sort of netherworld between competing...
View ArticleCalling All Makers: Be a Part of the Denver Mini Maker Faire
Fire up your soldering irons and sharpen up your scissors. The 2015 Mini Maker Faire is returning to the Denver Museum of Nature and Science June 13-14, and they want you. Inventors, tinkerers,...
View ArticleJeff VanderMeer Nominated For Nebula Award
Author Jeff VanderMeer, who has a long relationship with GeekDad, is up for a Nebula award! VanderMeer's Finch, has been nominated for 2009 Novel of the Year. The awesome start to 2010 for the...
View Article10 Annoying Habits of a Geeky Spouse (GeekDad Wayback Machine)
Everyone has annoying habits, and a sizable part of every successful marriage is learning to live with those things each other does that annoy you. I think it's safe to say, too, that geeks have some...
View ArticleTop 10 Endearing Habits of a Geeky Spouse (GeekDad Wayback Machine)
What is it about us geeks that makes us such great catches for non-geeks? It's easy to see how geeks would find partners within the world of geekdom, provided they had compatible geek interests. But...
View Article5-Minute Marvels Encourages Kids & Parents To Draw A Little Every Day
Like many GeekDads, Tim Miner has loved comics and superheroes since he was a kid. When he became a father, he had hopes that his children would share his love, but it wasn't until his girls saw Super...
View Article50 Awesome Papercraft Robots
Botropolis has been busy collecting papercraft robots! They have collected fifty, yes 50, links to some very cool paper robots. I assembled the Super Robot Dog today. He is an optical illusion with the...
View ArticleINplay 2010 Conference: GeekDad Sits on a Panel
As mentioned last Monday, I spent a few days at the INplay 2010 conference in Toronto, including representing GeekDad on a panel that spoke about the role of parent bloggers as gatekeepers. It was a...
View ArticleGeeks of Note: Mary Robinette Kowal
You may not have heard of her, but you've probably seen her work. Mary Robinette Kowal is a puppeteer. She has been working in the puppetry arts since 1989, but since then has also voiced audiobooks...
View ArticleReview: Do You Have The Music Instinct?
I'll admit it, I'm no musician. But I have an appreciation for music, and come from a very musical family. I may be the only person in my extended family who hasn't been trained to sing or play an...
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