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Happy Family Day, Ontario (And Everyone Else)

Happy Family Day to all my peeps in Ontario (Canada)!  First celebrated in 2008, Family Day takes place on the third Monday of every February and is intended to give working parents a day dedicated to spending quality time with their families. Today marks the third annual Family Day in Ontario (Alberta and Saskatchewan also [...]

Wish Your Geek Mate a Happy Valentine’s Day

While some may argue that Valentine’s Day is nothing more than an excuse to support the greeting card and floral industries, I really thing it’s a great idea to have a day set aside for making sure you take a breath from the day-to-day routine and acknowledge the feelings that made you a geek parent [...]

LEGO Rings: The Most Romantic Geeky Valentine’s Gift Ever?

So, there are only two days left until Valentine’s Day, and you’re stuck for something really romantic to get for your significant other. Or maybe you have some ideas, but find yourself frustrated with the difficulty of finding something that meets your (and your significant other’s) geeky sensibilities as well as your romantic ones.
Well, you [...]

Five Great Geeky Chick Flicks for Valentine’s Day

In a year when the top chick flicks involve vampires, it’s hard to say what makes a geeky chick flicks stand out from the rest of the genre. But it’s safe to say geek women are drawn to films with intelligent dialogue, an interesting premise, a strong female lead and a leading man who’s quirky [...]

10 (More) Geeky New Year’s Resolutions

Repeat after me: “I hereby resolve that in the new year I…”
1. Will faithfully read every new xkcd, Penny Arcade and of course Dork Tower strip as it appears. If the joke in a strip is too esoteric for me, I will of course promptly Google it and subsequently pretend that I understood it immediately.
2. [...]

New Year’s Ball Drop X 11,000

Roanoke Ball Drop
The Science Museum of Western Virginia in Roanoke, Va., is located on the fourth and fifth floors of a downtown building with an atrium. For New Year’s they encouraged kids and adults to line the stairs and balcony walls and drop balls to ring in the new year. To make it more kid-friendly, [...]

Happy New Year From GeekDad!

From the entire GeekDad family, here’s hoping 2010 (Y2kda? MMX?) is better in every unit of measurement you can think of! Here are a few things we’re looking forwards to this year as well:

GeekDad 2.0: Hopefully will roll out in the 1st quarter sometime. New community features, with the chance for members to submit their [...]

Not Such a Wonderful Life: Watching a Holiday Classic with The Next Generation

Sometime between Christmas Eve and New Year’s Day each year, I pop in a copy of Frank Capra’s holiday classic, It’s a Wonderful Life, and swim in the sentimentality of community. This season, my 9-year-old son jumped into the pool with [...]

12 Geeky New Year’s Resolutions

Every year people make the same ridiculous New Years resolutions that they know darn well they won’t keep. Here are 12 geeky New Years resolutions that for the most part, I actually plan on [...]

Merry Christmas From GeekDad

Here’s hoping you and your kids gave and received many wonderful, geeky gifts that you can share with one another for the the next year and the rest of your lives. [...]