Tag Archives: Armchair Geek
How Do We Stop Hollowing Out the Middle of America?
Hollowing Out the Middle: The Rural Brain Drain and What It Means for America by Patrick Carr & Maria Kefalas
I’m going to go out on a limb here and guess that the majority of our readership doesn’t live in a rural area. I mean, the majority of America’s population doesn’t live in a rural area—that’s […] Continue reading
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Tagged Armchair Geek, Books, brain drain, community development, Education, Midwest, reviews, rural, Science and Education, small town, youth
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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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Hobbit Cake Book Report
My older son (he’s 11) is a fan of Duff Goldman and Ace of Cakes. You might remember a couple years ago when he (my son, not Duff) built his 4th grade California Mission project as a cake. Well, he got it in his head to repeat the experience, but this time for something much […] Continue reading
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Tagged Ace of Cakes, Armchair Geek, Cakes, Duff Goldman, J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit
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Top Black Characters in Science Fiction
The future. Whether 20 years or 200 years from now, the sci-fi genre is all about new possibilities and new ideas. Change. Often, sci-fi TV shows, movies and books give us the perfect opportunity to envision a time when skin color has stopped being a factor in human-to-human relationships. You know, the novel concept of […] Continue reading
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Singletasking: Just One Thing at a … Oooh, Shiny!
Are you a human being or a human doing? What matters more to you: who you are or what you do? Or let me phrase that another way: when you introduce yourself, how often do you start with your job and hobbies? And is there another way to define who we are separate from what […] Continue reading
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Tagged Armchair Geek, broadband, distractions, internet, multitasking, singletasking, wasting time
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Review: Crush the Castle for the iPhone Is a Smashing Good Time
The beauty of many, if not most, video games lies in their ability to distance players from the real world by taking them into a fantastical alternative reality. So imagine, if you will, that you live in a world covered with elaborate castles made from wood, iron, and stone, but that are held together without […] Continue reading
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Tagged Armchair Geek, armor games, crush the castle, iPhone, review, Video game
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Dork Tower Friday
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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D&D Encounters, Coming to a Game Store Near You
D&D publisher Wizards of the Coast has introduced a new game-playing program called D&D Encounters, located at neighborhood game stores.
Getting involved in D&D Encounters opens the door for players to mingle with other local gamers and participate in exclusive contests to earn prizes and swag to enhance their game store experience. It’s also a chance […] Continue reading
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Geekdad Puzzle Of The Week: Ferengi Kindergarten Solution
Greetings Ferengi Business Kindergarten applicants. After reviewing millions – well, hundreds, but who’s counting besides me – of applications and using the latest in random number generator technology, the wired monkeys with dice again. The winner of the $50.00 ThinkGeek gift certificate is Lawrence Walton who used our friend algebra to […] Continue reading
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Re-opening The X-Files
Fox Mulder’s government contact once told him, “They’ve been here a very long time.” He was talking about aliens. I’m talking about my almost ten-year-old X-Files Season One DVD set, which I’ve been waiting to dust off and share with my daughter.
Honestly, I thought it would have happened before now. She’s almost 13 and a […] Continue reading
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