Tag Archives: Armchair Geek
All About Hayabusa (The Spacecraft, Not The Halo Armor)
I know my kids get tired of me tilting my head out from behind my laptop screen and proclaiming the next great achievement from the space realms: “Hey kids, Hayabusa is on its way back!”. This time however, their little faces actually turned toward me and smiled: “Hayabusa? Are you talking about Halo?”.
No!
Hayabusa is also […] Continue reading
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Tagged Armchair Geek, asteroid, Hayabusa, Ion Engine, Itokawa, JAXA, Science and Education
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Last Man On The Moon, For Now
Thirty-seven years ago today, December 18, 1972, Eugene Cernan stepped into Apollo 17’s Challenger lunar module and became the last man to set foot on the moon. With Charlie Bolden, Lori Garver, and the Obama administration weighing the options for the future of America’s role in human spaceflight (unless Congress decides for them first) it […] Continue reading
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Tagged Apollo, Armchair Geek, Gene Cernan, Human Space Flight, LEO, Moon, NASA, Sally Ride, Science and Education, women
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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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Final Fantasy XIII Gets Social
With the release of Final Fantasy XIII looming on the horizon, our family are getting ready to set aside some substantial leisure time. Well, make that me and my wife – the kids are more excited about Mario Galaxy 2 I think. But with 80 hours of gameplay FFXIII is going to be a substantial […] Continue reading
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Tagged adventure, Armchair Geek, JRPG, videogame
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Rescue the Scientists from The Isle of Doctor Necreaux
The diabolical Doctor Necreaux is up to his old shenanigans: he captured the world’s top scientists and forced them to build a doomsday device on his secluded hideaway (a volcano, naturally). When he demanded that the world bow to him, however, a small team of specialists was sent in to plant a bomb deep in […] Continue reading
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Tagged Armchair Geek, Board Games, card games, cooperative, Dice, sci-fi, supervillain
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Comic Spotlight on the New Teen Titans
Happy New Comic Day!
This week, I’m looking at a series that is part of the reason I fell in love with comics:
The New Teen Titans by Marv Wolfman and George Perez.
I collected this on first run starting in 1980, though I lost track of it when DC decided to shift the new stories to […] Continue reading
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Tagged Armchair Geek, Comics, Electronic Geek
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Paul and Storm Channel TMBG in “It Might Be Christmas”
As Christmas approaches, and every store is filled with seasonal music, you’ve probably asked yourself the same question as all other geeks: When are They Might Be Giants going to come out with an album of Christmas music? Well, wonder no longer, my fellow geek, for such an album is in the works… with a […] Continue reading
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Tagged Armchair Geek, christmas, Christmas music, Hacking the Holidays, Music, paul and storm, They Might Be Giants, TMBG
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Collect All 21! Memoirs of a Star Wars GeekDad
The book for the Star Wars inspired child in all of us, Collect All 21! is the consummate memoir for growing up Star Wars. Continue reading
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Tagged Armchair Geek, book review, Collect All 21, Darth Vader, Star Wars
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Candor is Stepford for Kids- But Is That So Bad?
There’s disagreement in the Ceceri household over Candor. The GeekTeen, who is always happy to test-drive YA novels that are sent for review, was ultimately unimpressed. I found it an engaging read that raises some interesting issues. The difference, I suspect, is gender-based. Because Candor is speculative fiction with a lot of kissing in it.
First-time […] Continue reading
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Tagged Armchair Geek, speculative fiction, young adult books
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Puzzle of the Week: Who Ate the Most Fudge? — Solution
Last week we had you work your logic muscles to solve the conundrum of who ate the most fudge during a friendly game of D&D. Congratulations to Scott for having his correct answer randomly chosen. He’ll receive a $50 gift certificate from ThinkGeek!
Puzzle
This week, we have a group of geeks playing D&D and eating fudge. […] Continue reading
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Tagged Armchair Geek, Everything Else, Fudge, Games, Puzzle, Puzzle of the Week
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