For New Year’s this year we rented a house in the Catskills with our good friends and their son. He and my daughter have been best friends since birth, and they’re now six years old. Our plans for the weekend were simple: eat delicious food, drink delicious drinks, and introduce ...

There’s a thing about New Year’s resolutions: we don’t keep them. We make lists of empty promises to ourselves but usually the complexity of them doesn’t help them come to fruition. Back in 2010 I wrote a list of resolutions that I didn’t keep. Last year I wrote a list ...

A year ago I shared with you my geeky resolution: to start writing in the margins of my books. I really thought I’d be able to do it, no problem. I wanted to leave a trail of bread crumbs behind in my own personal library, something that would let future ...

If you’re a regular reader of GeekDad, you know that we love ThinkGeek. Their selection of geeky products is second to none, their customer service is friendly and helpful, and they’ve gone out of their way to support geeky artists and musicians. And we knew they were generous people, but ...

With the holiday season drawing to a close, we at GeekDad wanted to take a moment to recognize all of those that made the 12 Days of Geekmas, our own homegrown holiday, such a success this year. Thanks of course to Philips, makers of the Wireless HDMI Net Connect, for ...

The Beeb has released the prequel to the upcoming Doctor Who Christmas special, and, as you’d expect, it leaves more questions than it answers: How did The Doctor come to have his finger on the dangerously big red button? Why does The Doctor try to call Amy for help when ...

We don’t know exactly who it was who made this tree, but it truly is a work of geeky Christmas genius. Added: Since this article’s initial publication, I’ve heard from Jason Roberts and Ryan Kelly, two of the people responsible for making the tree. I’ve added a photo sent by ...

Europe is getting a new toy for Christmas — a big one, actually: a 100 foot tall, 274,000 pound rocket named Vega. Vega, or “Vettore Europeo di Generazione Avanzata,” is a new-generation rocket dedicated to launching small satellites from 600 to 4,000 lbs into Low Earth Orbit and Sun Synchronous Orbit. ...

I’d like to take this moment to wish all our readers the happiest of holidays from the team here at GeekDad. While I have the joy of being the chief GeekDad, I am not THE GeekDad. Everyone you see on the contributor list there on the right side of the ...

There have been a whole range of geekified holiday season images and ideas running through my Twitter stream and other various feeds, but I wanted to highlight these two as my standouts for 2011. First, over at Archie McPhee’s Endless Geyser of Awesome the geek tradition of adding a bit of ...