Tag Archives: Armchair Geek
GeekDad Talks with Donovan Patton of the New Nickelodeon Show Team Umizoomi
Team Umizoomi is a new kid’s show, geared toward the preschool set, premiering this week on Nickelodeon. Why are the GeekDads really excited about this? Well, for one thing, the show’s focus is on teaching preschoolers the basics of math. Yes, a math-based show, at last! I’ve watched the pilot of Team Umizoomi, and it’s […] Continue reading
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Tagged Armchair Geek, donovan patton, Math, People, preschool, Science and Education, team umizoomi, Television
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Geek Dad Puzzle Of The Week: Ferengi Kindergarten
This weeks puzzle is so easy a child could do it. At least a Ferengi child should have no problem. This little puzzle is part of the entrance to Ferengi Business Kindergarten. Give it a shot and you may just win a $50.00 gift certificate from Thinkgeek.
Remember the 74th rule of acquisition “Knowledge is […] Continue reading
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Mr. Lopart and Spongebob Stop By: A Chat With Voiceover Legend Tom Kenny
This Monday, January 25th, Playhouse Disney are rolling out a new series of shorts based around the ever popular preschooler’s show, ‘Handy Manny’ called ‘Handy Manny’s School for Tools.’ The three-minute episodes feature 11 new tools, and to introduce us to the series, GeekDad was fortunate enough to get to talk to animation voiceover legend […] Continue reading
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Tagged Armchair Geek, Everything Else, Handy Manny, People, SpongeBob Squarepants, Tom Kenny
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GeekDad Exclusive WorldWake Spoiler
Worldwake is the second set of the Zendikar block of Magic: The Gathering.
Many brave explorers search for treasures in Zendikar’s ancient ruins. But only the strongest survive in the untamed wilderness. Like other planes of the Multiverse, the land contains mana that spellcasters use to power their spells. But in Zendikar, the mana is infused […] Continue reading
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Geekly Reader: When You Reach Me Wins Newbery
Congratulations to Rebecca Stead, this year’s winner of the Newbery Medal for her book When You Reach Me. I’d read WYRM (convenient acronym, yes?) back in October and kept meaning to tell you all about it, but now it’s official: it’s a great book.
Sixth-grader Miranda is a latchkey kid in New York City, and […] Continue reading
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Tagged Armchair Geek, book reviews, Grace Lin, kid lit, Neil Gaiman, Newbery Award, People, Rebecca Stead, sci-fi
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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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Tagged Armchair Geek, Dork Tower, John Kovalic, Munchkin
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Looking Back at Stephen Spielberg’s A.I.
My favorite film blog, Cinematical, had a list of the ten best sci-fi films of this past decade and number one on the list was Stephen Spielberg’s A.I. Artificial Intelligence. I had only seen it once in the theaters when it first came out and was curious to see how the film stood up with […] Continue reading
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How to Get Your Kids to Like Literature
My kids are probably among the last whose family gets a daily newspaper with substantial, if somewhat dated, funny pages. (As I learned by reading his Twitter feed today, the 14-year-old gets a particular kick out of the absurdity of Mark Trail.) And of course, having access to their dad’s comic book collection, they’re familiar […] Continue reading
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Dueling Star Wars LEGO Chess Sets
Great minds really do think alike. Here are several awesome Star Wars-themed chess sets built out of LEGO bricks:
icgetaway’s “Star Wars: A New Hope Lego Chess Set” (seen on MetaFilter by Matt) (also photographed by this user, as well as this one, and this one, and several others)
Levork’s “Lego Star Wars Chess Set,” which […] Continue reading
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Tagged Armchair Geek, Chess, Lego, Star Wars, the higher geekery
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Call for Artists for a Sorta-Secret GeekDad Project
We’re putting the call out again for artists – graphics people, photographers and the like – for our sorta-secret geeky music video project. If you have the inclination to find out, check out the Flickr pool we have set up for it:
http://www.flickr.com/groups/1276628@N22/
And ask to be added, if you’re interested. We need 36 more images for […] Continue reading
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Tagged Armchair Geek, illustration, Music, Music Video, Photography
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