Author Archives: Ken

About Ken

Ken is a husband and father from the San Francisco Bay Area, where he works as a civil engineer. He also wrote the NYT bestselling book "Geek Dad: Awesomely Geeky Projects for Dads and Kids to Share." Follow @fitzwillie on Twitter.

Growing Up RIGHT: Father Spends 150+ Hours Painting Zelda Wind Waker/Spirit Tracks Nursery For Future Son

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Would You Like to Write for GeekDad?

The GeekDad Community We get quite a few people asking if they can write for GeekDad. I think they assume it’s some fancy, high-paying gig, with masseuses and a nice dining room, like Google. It isn’t. GeekDad is a bunch … Continue reading

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768 Planets and Counting

Image by Randall Munroe As is his wont, Randall Munroe has once again produced an amazing visual representation of some bit of science or nature that puts things into awesome perspective. This time, it’s a rather beautiful graphic showing the … Continue reading

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A Google-a-Day Puzzle for June 21

Our good friends at Google run a daily puzzle challenge and asked us to help get them out to the geeky masses. Each day’s puzzle will task your googling skills a little more, leading you to Google mastery. Each morning … Continue reading

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Knitted Borg Ski Mask

http://www.neatorama.com/2012/06/20/knitted-borg-ski-mask/

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All 786 Known Planets to Scale [Visualization]

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Dork Tower Wednesday

Dork Tower #1083 by John Kovalic Read all the Dork Towers that have run on GeekDad. Find the Dork Tower webcomic archives, DT printed collections, more cool comics, awesome games and a whole lot more at the Dork Tower Website.

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The GeekDads Episode #116: Tom Lehrer Karaoke

Ken, Matt, and Jonathan look back at GeekDad Day, the WWDC announcements, and upcoming geeky summer movies. Enjoy! GeekDad.com is the parenting blog at Wired.com, edited by Ken Denmead, Matt Blum, Jonathan Liu, Z and Chris Anderson. It is a … Continue reading

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A Google-a-Day Puzzle for June 20

Our good friends at Google run a daily puzzle challenge and asked us to help get them out to the geeky masses. Each day’s puzzle will task your googling skills a little more, leading you to Google mastery. Each morning … Continue reading

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The GeekDads Live

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