Lois and I did our usual morning routine of dropping Lana off at school, and then return home.  We have two different ways of going home – today we took the highway.  As we neared our exit, we hit some morning rush hour traffic.  It wasn’t much, just enough to slow things down a bit.  [...]

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OK, this is more for the geek parents than for the geeklings, but Comcast recently had the whole trilogy On Demand and American Movie Classics was running them, so I’m still rockin’ to Johnny B. Goode. This letter was posted at The Nerdist. I was pointed to it by uber Geekling Rancher Wil Wheaton. An [...]

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Apparently if you have a grand and a Fry’s and a desert nearby, not to mention an old RV, you get to do things like this. Sadly, I’m only 1 for 4. This is what happens when you let your babies grow up to be geekboys. The video is impressive enough, but if you go [...]

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As much as I hate the idea of reposting GeekDad content, I think this is so damn funny as a geek that it bears sharing. We have all seen the Star Wars movies innumberable times, and we just assume that the story has permeated every facet of our culture, but there are, in fact, people [...]

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An interesting and cute little animation about the history of the internet. The internet celebrated it’s 50th birthday 2 years ago, and we all missed it. Didn’t even throw a party! This gives some perspective on how far we’ve come and gives the basic concept on the underpinnings of the internet. You’re not going to [...]

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It started out harmlessly enough. My newly-toddling son liked to watch Cubs games with his old man–or, at least whatever he processed them to be. At first, it was because he liked to sing the simple chorus to Steve Goodman’s “Go Cubs Go” at the end of every home win. Then as he watched more [...]

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