Tag Archives: Armchair Geek
You Let Our Child Watch What?!? Buffy – Season 2 [GeekDad Wayback Machine]
When my little slayer was a bit older, about 10 years, I allowed her to watch Buffy Season Two with me. I kept my hand on the skip button. To my surprise I found little reason to do so, though I can understand those of you who would. Season Two was, in many opinions the […] Continue reading
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Sockarangs, Pretzel Heads and Uni-Babies – A Glimpse Inside The World Of Axe Cop
You may have heard of Axe Cop, a new webcomic that’s been growing in Internet popularity these last couple of weeks. It’s difficult to describe what the comic’s about because … it’s about a lot. There’s a cop who has an axe. And another cop with a flute (but he becomes a dinosaur soldier). Then […] Continue reading
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This Week in The Clone Wars: Obi-Wan’s Got a Past
Star Wars: The Clone Wars has long suggested that Anakin Skywalker is not the only Jedi to struggle with attachment. The relationship between a Padawan and master can produce attachments that must be overcome, as Ahsoka has been learning. The series has also occasionally hinted that Obi-Wan might not be wholly unsympathetic to […] Continue reading
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The 10 Most Useful Gadgets From Science Fiction and Comics
Every geek occasionally suffers from gadget envy. Even if you’re such an early adopter that you’re already waiting in line to get an iPad, your personal collection of gadgetry is limited by that pesky thing we call “reality.” Go ahead, tell me you haven’t, while watching Star Trek, thought about how handy it would be […] Continue reading
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Neil Gaiman and Ten More Reasons Arthur is a Geeklet Icon
Three people live in our household, none under the age of 12, yet we still record several episodes per week of PBS’ Arthur.
And lest you doubt the geek credentials of Marc Brown’s bookworm aardvark-who-doesn’t-look-anything-like-an-aardvark, I point only to this: Neil Gaiman is making a guest appearance (fifth item down at the link), which he recorded […] Continue reading
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The Future of Board Games … Or Not?
What does the future of board games look like? Ten years from now, will we still be playing with silly cardboard hexagons and wooden meeples? Or will it look more like something out of science fiction?
Science Daily reported last week about an experiment predicting the future of board games by associate professor Roel Vertegaal, from […] Continue reading
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Tagged Armchair Geek, Board Games, electronic games, Electronic Geek, Queen's University, Roel Vertegaal, video games
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Dork Tower Wednesday
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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Comics Spotlight On: The Road To God Knows
I know. One week after I spoke of my love for adventure and genre comics of all sorts, I pick an independent comic that’s a complete change of pace.
But The Road to God Knows by Von Allen definitely deserves the spotlight.
Summary:
Marie is a teenage girl trying to cope with her mother’s schizophrenia. Not only must […] Continue reading
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Retro Japanese Toy Posters Show Us What We Were Missing
When I was a kid, I remember visiting Japantown in San Francisco and drooling over all the cool toys in the shops there. Well, our friend Frankie just posted a great set of scans of classic Japanese toy posters that brought that feeling back again, including the wicked cool-looking videogame above (hey, it has English […] Continue reading
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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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