Category Archives: GeekDad

Image via Wikipedia We watched Ferris Bueller’s Day Off with the kids Friday night. It had been a long, long time since my wife and I had watched it, and all our fond memories of the movie put us in a mind to share it with the boys, because we knew a lot of the physical […] Continue reading →

Every now and then, GeekDad gets a nice e-mail from a reader who has done something really cool. And this is really cool!
Mark Anderson is a Chicago cartoonist who spent two years designing and building a Lego spaceship for each letter of the alphabet (inspired, of course, by the X-Wing Fighter).
He says on his Andertoons […] Continue reading →

If you weren’t lucky enough to catch Paul at SXSW last weekend or at Graumann’s Chinese Theatre Monday, then you can catch this sci-fi-comedy in a cinema near you starting Friday. Here are the 10 things you should know about it.
(To see the trailer and find out more, head on over to the (fully Flashed-up) […] Continue reading →

Ken, Matt, John, Michael and Russ chat about PAX East, Japan, and the 4-year anniversary of the blog. Enjoy!
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GeekDad.com is the parenting blog at Wired.com, edited by Ken Denmead, Matt Blum, Jonathan Liu and Chris Anderson. It is a community of like-minded […] Continue reading →

These are not all the possible signs — not by a long shot. But here are ten that can be telltale indicators (and perhaps badges of honor as well): You named your children any of the following: Luke, Leia, Han, Lando, Aragorn, Arwen, Bilbo, Frodo, Starbuck, Ash, Buckaroo, or Dent Arthur Dent.
You haven’t vacuumed the living […] Continue reading →

These are not all the possible signs — not by a long shot. But here are ten that can be telltale indicators (and perhaps badges of honor as well): You named your children any of the following: Luke, Leia, Han, Lando, Aragorn, Arwen, Bilbo, Frodo, Starbuck, Ash, Buckaroo, or Dent Arthur Dent.
You haven’t vacuumed the living […] Continue reading →

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. Continue reading →

Everyone has annoying habits, and a sizable part of every successful marriage is learning to live with those things each other does that annoy you. I think it’s safe to say, too, that geeks have some habits that we think are awesome, but that non-geeks find a little…less awesome.
Now my wife is a geek, but […] Continue reading →

Everyone always dreams of getting super powers and using them in the eternal fight for good (or, in some cases, fame and fortune). But what if it wasn’t about the BIG issues? What if you could just use a super power to help in day-to-day life?
Now, everyone will jump to powers such as being bullet-proof […] Continue reading →