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If the weather decides to be kind, GeekDad Core Contributor Natania Barron and I will be speaking at The Writer’s House at Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, PA tonight at 8:00 p.m. (est). The talk is all about writing and editing in the “new media,” and if we can make the technology work, we’ll […] Continue reading →

I think space is awesome, and so does the Geeklet. There are plenty of geeks who agree, so we’re putting on a space conference this weekend. We call it SpaceUp.
[This post sent to us by GeekDad alumnus Chris Radcliff]
SpaceUp takes the tech-community unconference format and brings it to space geeks. That means any kind of […] Continue reading →

Read all the Dork Towers that have run on GeekDad.
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[Two years ago, I got to go to my first Wondercon as a member of the “media elite.” With Wondercon 2010 just a few weeks away – April 2-4 – I thought we’d show off a few pix from those nostalgic days of yore.]
Talk about Geeky! Yours truly took his family to Wondercon, the […] 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 →

Godrick the adventurer had decided it was time to explore and plunder the riches of “The Cavern of No Return”. The cavern was located in the middle of “The Forest Of Infinite Peril”, so Godrick was going to need a good party to join him. Godrick sent his assistant to the guilds to […] Continue reading →

If you ever find yourself in Africa surrounded by elephants, you should speak English to them. Oh, not because they’ll understand you better, but because at least then they’ll consider you non-threatening. Or you could try Swahili–that apparently doesn’t bother them too much either. Just don’t speak Maa, the language of the Maasai, because that […] Continue reading →

Poor Bob. While he was in the army becoming a national hero, his childhood friend John became a criminal. Eventually John set Bob up and got him kicked out of the army in disgrace. Vowing revenge, Bob found out where John and his troops were holed up and sabotaged the army’s plan to nuke the […] Continue reading →

Now you to can try and make the Kessel Run in less than 12 Parsecs with Hasbro’s latest release. For the first time ever the iconic Millennium Falcon will be available as a flying R/C vehicle. The controls are simple and the blades are on the inside which will keep them from getting […] Continue reading →

Image via Wikipedia Tonight on the Discover channel (8pm ET/PT), a mystery three millennia old is solved by researchers who bring a little CSI: Ankara to the question of who King Tut’s parent were. Because of the turbulence surrounding the throne at the time, his own short reign and, well, the passage of three thousand years, […] Continue reading →