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 [...]
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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 [...] DONATE TO HAITI RELIEF THROUGH THE GEEKDAD GIVING PAGE! 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. 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 [...] 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 [...] 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. 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 [...] 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 [...] |
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