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Yes, I was one of “them” this past Saturday morning. I got up a bit earlier than I might usually do on a weekend morning and drove out to the nearest Apple store where I’d reserved an iPad for pick-up (32gb wi-fi hit the sweet spot for capacity, functionality and price for me).
So obviously I […] Continue reading →

Last week, the venerable media tome Entertainment Weekly published a list titled 20 All-Time Coolest Heroes in Pop Culture [Editor’s Note: This post originally ran in April 2009]. As with any list of this kind, everyone with an opinion and a keyboard will take issue with some item or another, and we at GeekDad are […] Continue reading →

I had the pleasure of talking to David Blue this week. David plays the geeky everyman Eli Wallace on Stargate Universe, the third television incarnation of the Stargate franchise, which starts the second half of its exciting first season tonight on Syfy (check your local listings). David is a true geek, and has been acting […] Continue reading →

Read all the Dork Towers that have run on GeekDad.
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We could not let this pass without comment. Obviously all our previous exhortations about the geeky nature of our President are again confirmed, as Mr. Obama was actually photographed purchasing a Star Wars pop-up book for one or both of his girls. Of course, does that mean he’s raising them in his own geeky image? […] Continue reading →

The GeekDads talk about PAX East and the Disney Dream. Enjoy!
GeekDad.com is the parenting blog at Wired.com, edited by Ken Denmead, Matt Blum and Chris Anderson. It is a community of like-minded geeky parents writing about our experiences raising our kids in the digital age, and about our obsessions with technology, family-friendly projects, […] Continue reading →

There seems to be a particular affection for most things Disney within the geek community. Maybe because we know that behind the princesses and pirates at the parks there’s amazingly engineered technology. And there’s something cool and geeky about technology that’s been designed and implemented to make people happy.
So it was with great excitement this […] Continue reading →

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. Continue reading →