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Dork Tower Monday
Read all the Dork Towers that have run on GeekDad.
Find the Dork Tower archives, DT printed collections, more cool comics, awesome games and a whole lot more at the Dork Tower Website.
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Lessons From the Funny Pages: How I Became Calvin’s Dad
Like many others of my generation, I grew up reading Calvin and Hobbes in the newspaper, and it quickly became one of my favorites. In hindsight, I was much more like Susie (bit of a nerd, teacher’s pet, overachiever) than Calvin, but I loved his imagination and thought he was tremendously funny. And, of course, […] Continue reading
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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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10 Things Parents Should Know about Sherlock Holmes
When Sherlock Holmes was first announced, I had mixed feelings: Guy Ritchie? Seriously? More reassuring was news of Robert Downey Jr.’s casting as Holmes, especially after Iron Man showed that he could pull off a genuinely fun action movie in a way that too many stars have forgotten. But the movie is […] Continue reading
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Why the Emperor Had to Ban Facebook
To brighten your holiday season, College Humor imagines what would happen if the Star Wars universe had Facebook:
As with Facebook here on Earth, some of the language is a bit saucy, so use judgment before passing it along to your family. It’s worth 2 minutes, though: the appearances of Grand Moff Tarkin and C-3PO are […] Continue reading
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Dork Tower Friday
You can find the Dork Tower archives, DT printed collections, more cool comics, awesome games and a whole lot more at the Dork Tower Website.
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There’s Even A Sherlock Ninja!
One of the earliest signs that I was a true geek was in seventh grade and I picked up The Hound of the Baskervilles.
I promptly fell in love with Arthur Conan Doyle’s stories.
In short order, I graduated from the paperback editions in the school library to what is still one of my most prized possessions: […] Continue reading
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R/C Gran Turismo Mashup
My childhood joys revolved around Radio Controlled cars and Video Games. It was with some excitement then that I unpacked the Gran Turismo-designed HPI Ford E10 radio controlled car (kindly provided for review by Eclipse Hobbies). Not only was this a car from high-end R/C manufacturor HPI, but it had all the detail and shine […] Continue reading
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Carcassonne 101
It wasn’t until last year that I was introduced to the Carcassonne board game. Once I had been though, I wish I’d discovered it years ago. Our family simply fell in love with the game and couldn’t stop playing it.
But although it’s a great game to play it’s a little more difficult to describe. So […] Continue reading
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Dork Tower Wednesday
You can find the Dork Tower archives, DT printed collections, more cool comics, awesome games and a whole lot more at the Dork Tower Website.
Correction: Monday’s post identified the strip as #761. It should have been #760. THIS is #761. Dagnabbit.
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