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GeekDad Puzzle Of The Week: A Very Shifty Situation Solution
As I’ve heard, it’s always nice to have a distraction. And, judging by the number of answers this week, quite a few of you enjoyed this cryptogram. A big thanks to everyone who turned in an answer to this week’s puzzle, my first as co-puzzle master. As quite a few of you pointed out, there was […] Continue reading
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New LEGOLAND Coming to Central Florida
News was leaked Wednesday afternoon that the former home of Cypress Gardens Adventure Park in Winter Haven, Florida has been purchased and will soon undergo restructuring to become the second LEGOLAND in the United States and just the fifth in the world. An official announcement is expected Thursday. Winter Haven is located about an hour […] Continue reading
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Tagged Cypress Gardens, Legoland, Orlando Florida, Theme Park, Toys and Technology
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Hokey Religions And Ancient Weapons Are No Substitute For A Good Snowball Blaster At Your Side
While Han Solo might have had a need for a good snowball blaster at his side (especially during those boring downtimes on Hoth), the Wham-O Snowball Blaster wouldn’t have cut the mustard with the Corellian smuggler. The Snowball Blaster is a product that fills an altogether unnecessary need – it molds snowballs and launches them, […] Continue reading
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Tagged Everything Else, Snow, Snowball, Toys and Technology, Wham-O
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GeekDad Puzzle Of The Week: A Very Shifty Situation
Nearing the end of a marathon gaming session, Dan was feeling pretty tired. With each roll, he began to notice a pattern — he began to think the dice were talking to him. So Dan began keeping track of his rolls and, sure enough, there was a message hidden in the dice. After a bit […] Continue reading
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F = m(dot) ve + ( pe – pa ) Ae – tinsel
Driving home the other day, I saw an enormous pile of Christmas trees at the park. City workers take the old trees and drop them in local lakes to form a habitat for fish. I thought to myself, driving past this mountain of fir and spruce, there has to be a better use for old […] Continue reading
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Scramble Some iPhone Fun With Slide-A-Ma-Jig
The apps I have on my iPhone mostly fall into one of two categories, apps that my kids like to play and apps that I use. There’s not much overlap. But there is one game that consistently gets giggles from both me and my children. Slide-A-Ma-Jig is a fun little game from Lucky Radish Studio’s […] Continue reading
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Fun With Fourier’s Law in the Cold Weather
Where I live, temperatures have been jumping back & forth across the zero mark all week. As a result, we’ve been spending almost all of our time indoors, trying to stay warm and busy. But cabin fever got the better of us this morning and we decided to put an experiment involving the law of […] Continue reading
The One Time When Bricking Your iPhone Is A Good Thing
There’s a great little app that’s just made its way to the iTunes store. It’s called LEGO Photo (links to iTunes), and it allows you to take any photo from your camera lens or your existing library and turn the pixels into LEGO bricks. It’s simple to use – just take or pick out a […] Continue reading
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Any Woodworking Geeks Out There?
Over the years, I’ve built a lot of things in my basement workshop, including shelving for the garage, a replacement cabinet for the kitchen and a stepstool for my kids so they could wash their hands more easily. It seems that with each project, I learned something new. Whether it’s a better way to use […] Continue reading
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MIT’s SENSEable City Lab Brings Formula One Technology to Bicycles
During the climate conference in Copenhagen on Tuesday, MIT’s SENSEable City Laboratory announced a new project for bicycles that uses an energy recovery technology similar to a program used in Formula One racing.
The project, called the Copenhagen Wheel, is a regenerative brake that captures kinetic energy created under braking and stores the power in batteries […] Continue reading
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Tagged Armchair Geek, Bicycle, Copenhagen Wheel, Electronic Geek, energy, Kinetic energy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Regenerative brake, United Nations Climate Change Conference 2009
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