For Ed@HomeDad on His Birthday: My Hot ListToday is Edgar’s birthday and in honor of a wonderful father and husband, I wanted to share just a few of the many things that make him so great: He’s a Super Heroes, Sports and Science ConnoisseurEdgar ...

Cody’s Sixth Birthday: 2004 Max’s Third Birthday: 2004 To recap: I make birthday cards for each year my boys. Lucas (2), Max (11), Cody (13). As they got older, I started designing them around what seemed ...

 My contribution. –Andy Hey Guys, Nice to see you again! Our site had been down for almost two days until we finally got back up on our feet just now. Yikes. Andy was raging. Big time. If we were cyber terrorists, let’s just say electronic horse heads would be stuffed ...

Dear “Wordless Wednesday” or whatever you bloggers call it, Kiss my baby-soft butt. Today is my son’s 2nd birthday. He’s 63,072,000 seconds old. Words are going to be said. As a tribute to his radness, please leave a comment below with a birthday wish, advice, a funny story, or anything ...

I make it a habit to check for birthdays of geek celebrities of all sorts. For this I typically browse through Wikipedia’s page for the day in question, scrolling through it and noting names that I recognize. Most times nothing much leaps out at me; some days I see one ...

It has been a long while since I have posted on this blog! So much has happened since my last post that I have no idea where to start… How about I start on the morning of Feb 26th. Our family looked something like this… …and at the end of ...

If you plan to raise a glass in toast to the famous folks whose birthday it is today, we at GeekDad cannot be held responsible for how snockered you get. It’s not our fault, after all, that three major stars were born on this day. All three of them are ...

Why I prefer simple kids parties at home

  Max’s Third and Cody’s Fifth Birthday: 2003 I know what you’re all thinking. And you’re right. There is no spoon. Oh, that’s not what you were thinking? Maybe you were thinking, “WTF? Andy, you let your 5- and 3-year-old watch the Matrix movies!?!” No. But they were so taken ...

One hundred years ago today, three companies merged to become the Computing Tabulating Recording (CTR) Corporation. At the time, the business manufactured and sold a number of different machines, ranging from time recorders to food slicers. Thirteen years later, CTR had hired a new leader and adopted a new moniker, ...