Tag Archives: Places
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 […] Continue reading
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Tagged Action Figure, Alberta, Canada, Hacking the Holidays, Ontario, Places, Royal Ontario Museum, Saskatchewan, Star Wars, Toronto
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Please Join GeekDad at PAX East 2010!
If you enjoy gaming, or the webcomic Penny Arcade, or (if you’re like most of us at GeekDad) both, you’ve probably heard of their annual PAX festival. PAX, short for “Penny Arcade Expo,” has been held every summer since 2004 in Washington state, and it’s become a much-celebrated geek event. This year, for the first […] Continue reading
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Tagged PAX East, Penny Arcade, Penny Arcade Expo, People, Places
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GeekDad Fundraising Drive for Haiti Relief – $2,500 And Counting!
DONATE TO HAITI RELIEF THROUGH THE GEEKDAD GIVING PAGE!
We all know what has happened, and how desperate the need for medical resources is right now in Haiti. There are plenty of good avenues for charitable donations out there, and by no means to we mean to replace any of them, but all of us at […] Continue reading
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Tagged Donation, Haiti, MerlinUSA, People, Places, Projects and Activities, The Internet
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Island Living the GeekDad Way
Spreading the family tech projects to other parts, GeekDad has been going in the UK for a few months now. There you will find more of the same GeekDad goodness, but with a UK bent.
It’s not all umberellas, weather-talk and gardening though, there is plenty of family life meets gadget writing. Recently we have been […] Continue reading
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Tagged Everything Else, Places, The Internet
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Open Letter to Retail Customer Service: Get it Together
This is an open letter to the retail customer service representatives who appear to have lost all sense of what it means to provide competent service at walk-in retail stores. Continue reading
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Tagged customer service, Electronics, Everything Else, Open Letter, Places, Rant, Retail
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Why Kids Like Modern Art
We dropped in to our local art museum the other day, and I was reminded of why taking kids to see art – especially contemporary art – is such a serendipitous experience. Just past the coat room is a space that is sometimes used for educational programs and special exhibits. But this time it was […] Continue reading
Take A Guided Tour Of The Universe In New York City
The First Tuesday of every month The Museum of Natural History hosts The Known Universe:A Grand Tour at the Hayden Planetarium. Guests are taken from earth to the edge of the known Universe with an astrophysicist as the tour guide.
Tuesday January 5th at 6:30 P.M. you can join astrophysicist Brian Abbott on the biggest […] Continue reading
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Tagged AMNH, Astronomy, NYC, Places, Planetarium, Science and Education
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Open Letter to the Hotel Industry: Time to Get Your Game On
Hello there, Hotel Industry Person, I am one of your customers. In fact, I’m a pretty good customer. I and my family have stayed in some of your hotels for weeks of total time in the last year on various vacations and business-related trips. I have helped you weather the current economic downturn, and have […] Continue reading
A Visit to the Patee House Museum
The Patee House Museum is a cornucopia of all things St. Joseph, Missouri (city slogan: “Where the Pony Express began and Jesse James ended.”) Patee House is St. Joseph’s only National Historic Landmark. Built in 1858 as a luxury hotel, the Patee House served as headquarters for the Pony Express from 1860 to 1861. Around […] Continue reading
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Tagged Bruce White, carousel, Jesse James, merry-go-round, Missouri, Places, Pony Express, St. Joseph, Trains
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