Tag Archives: Everything Else
FIRST Announces The 2010 Game: Breakaway
Modeled loosely on Soccer, Breakaway brings a few challenges to the 2010 FRC Competition.
The game will be played on a 27′ x’ 54′ with each of three alliances standing outside their end-zone. Goals are located in the corners of the fields and there are two obstacles splitting the field into 3 sections. Robots score by […] Continue reading
Congratulations to the Winner of the Gunnar Optiks Giveaway!
Thank you to everyone who entered GeekDad’s giveaway of a pair of Gunnar Optiks glasses! 257 comments were left before the deadline. Congratulations to Lee Engelhardt, whose comment under the handle KazuyaDarklight was randomly selected.
If you haven’t yet, please read our review of Gunnar’s glasses that accompanied the giveaway.
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Fun With Fourier’s Law in the Cold Weather
Where I live, temperatures have been jumping back & forth across the zero mark all week. As a result, we’ve been spending almost all of our time indoors, trying to stay warm and busy. But cabin fever got the better of us this morning and we decided to put an experiment involving the law of […] Continue reading
Okay, It’s 2010. Is the Future Here Yet?
It’s 2010. Is the future here yet? Where are my flying skateboards and food replicators? I take a look back to 1950 to see if the vision of the future has been realized or not. Continue reading
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Tagged Dick Tracy, Everything Else, future, Invention, Popular Mechanics, Science Fiction
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Chrononauts v. 1.4 Plus The Gore Years Expansion
What would you do with your very own time machine? Go back and forth in time, collect a few artifacts, make some changes to history that will result in a better present for you … same as everyone, right? But then, what if there are several other people with time machines, zipping around and fiddling […] Continue reading
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Tagged Board Games, card games, Everything Else, Fluxx, Looney Labs, review, Time Travel
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10 (More) Geeky New Year’s Resolutions
Repeat after me: “I hereby resolve that in the new year I…”
1. Will faithfully read every new xkcd, Penny Arcade and of course Dork Tower strip as it appears. If the joke in a strip is too esoteric for me, I will of course promptly Google it and subsequently pretend that I understood it immediately.
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Tagged Everything Else, Hacking the Holidays, iPhone, New Year, Penny Arcade, Top 10
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Stop Overscheduling Your Children!
Kids naturally need unstructured time to play, to discover their own interests, to goof around, to try things out. Some kids in our society have almost no time left to themselves, often because their parents are overscheduled themselves. Or their parents are so concerned about their kids’ achievement that the kids are constantly doing some […] Continue reading
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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Tagged Dork Tower, Everything Else, John Kovalic, Munchkin
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Not Such a Wonderful Life: Watching a Holiday Classic with The Next Generation
Sometime between Christmas Eve and New Year’s Day each year, I pop in a copy of Frank Capra’s holiday classic, It’s a Wonderful Life, and swim in the sentimentality of community. This season, my 9-year-old son jumped into the pool with me. Continue reading
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Tagged christmas, Everything Else, Frank Capra, generations, Hacking the Holidays, Holiday, It's a Wonderful Life, Movies, New Years, sentimental, viewing
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12 Geeky New Year’s Resolutions
Every year people make the same ridiculous New Years resolutions that they know darn well they won’t keep. Here are 12 geeky New Years resolutions that for the most part, I actually plan on keeping. Continue reading
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Tagged Arduino, DIY, Everything Else, green, Hacking the Holidays, Lego, Megacon, nerdapalooza, Star Wars
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