Author Archives: Brad-Moon
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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Review: Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
After the surprise success of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Seth Grahame-Smith is following up his New York Times best-seller with the history/vampire mashup, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. Graham-Smith’s publisher sent a galley copy of the book (due for release on March 2, 2010) and we’re pleased to bring you the GeekDad take on this […] Continue reading
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Tagged Abraham Lincoln, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, Armchair Geek, Civil War, Everything Else, New York Times, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Classic Regency Romance - Now with Ultraviolent Zombie Mayhem!, Seth Grahame-Smith, Stephen King, United States
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An Alternate Take On Avatar: Better Get A Bucket
If you Google “Avatar” and “sick,” you can expect to see somewhere around 21 million hits. Make that 21 million and one after this. Not being a fan of lining up and then being subjected to a battle of wills with the person beside me over who owns rights to the shared arm rest between […] Continue reading
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Tagged Armchair Geek, Avatar, Everything Else, Film, Google, Hollywood Los Angeles California, James Cameron, Monty Python, Monty Python's The Meaning of Life, Movie theater
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A Wall Mounted TV Is A Safe TV
Which would you rather have fall on your kid: a 36 inch screen, 236 pound Trinitron tube TV or a 40 inch screen, 43 pound Bravia LCD TV? The correct answer, of course, is neither. Unfortunately, it seems that many people have inadvertently opted for the second choice, with the number of children injured by […] Continue reading
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Tagged Armchair Geek, Cathode ray tube, Consumer electronics, Displays, Electronic Geek, LCD television, Projects and Activities, Shopping, Television, Trinitron, Video
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Girl Guides of Canada Launches 100th Anniversary Celebrations
The Girl Guides of Canada launched their centennial celebration over the past weekend, recognizing the 1910 foundation of the organization in Canada, with the first troop established in St. Catharines, Ontario.
Across Canada, various government organizations are gearing up to help the Girl Guides of Canada (GGC) celebrate this milestone in 2010. Among the notable events […] Continue reading
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Tagged Everything Else, Girl Guide, Girl Guides of Canada, Girl Guiding and Girl Scouting, Member of Parliament, Ontario, Projects and Activities, Scouting, St. Catharines
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Would You Track Your Kid by GPS?
Question: if you had the ability to track your child’s every movement during the day, would you do so? Or is this an example of helicopter parenting taken to extremes? How about tucking a portable GPS unit in her backpack?
Partaking in my Saturday morning ritual of coffee accompanied by a laptop to scan through the […] Continue reading
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Tagged Add new tag, Electronic Geek, Entourage, Global Positioning System, Handhelds, iPhone, Smartphones, Television, Toronto Star, Video camera
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World of Zoo Is A World Of Fun
At first glance, it would be easy to mistake World of Zoo for a cuter version of Zoo Tycoon, but once you start playing the game, the different approach between the two zoo sims becomes obvious. While the Zoo Tycoon series tended to focus on the planning and management aspect, World of Zoo is more […] Continue reading
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Tagged christmas, Electronic Geek, National Geographic, National Geographic Society, Nintendo DS, Personal computer, Toys and Technology, wii, World of Zoo, Zoo Tycoon
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All I Wanted For Christmas Was An AppleTV
In my experience, when it comes to home media centers, there are two main camps and an outlier. In the main camps are the uber-geeks who want to build everything from the ground up and those who go with a gaming console or one of a myriad of inexpensive devices that plugs in to a […] Continue reading
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Tagged Apple, Apple TV, Armchair Geek, Blu-ray Disc, DivX, Electronic Geek, ITunes, ITunes Store, Steve Jobs, Television
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Professor and Comic Book Guy Rocks
Seeing stories like this warms the cockles of my heart. Or, as Denis Leary would say, ” maybe the sub-cockle area.” A former professor is donating his comic book and graphic novel collection, worth as much as $100,000 (Canadian), to The University of Western Ontario.
Eddy Smet was a professor at UWO’s Huron college for 30 […] Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Moore, Arts, Comic book, Comics, Denis Leary, People, Science and Education, Swamp Thing: Love and Death, University of Western Ontario, Watchmen
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Jonas Brothers and A Christmas Carol: Two Disney DS Games Both Earn A “Meh”
As we work through the last of the 2009 game review pile, my kids gave a pair of Disney Interactive DS titles a whirl: A Christmas Carol and JONAS. Both are based on Disney properties, one the recently released Disney adaptation of a classic Christmas movie and the other a Disney Channel show. Neither offers […] Continue reading
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Tagged christmas, christmas carol, Disney Channel, Electronic Geek, Everything Else, Hannah Montana, Holiday, Jonas Brother, Nintendo DS, rock band, Toys and Technology
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