It looks like late October is a pretty good time for iconic geek entertainers to be born. We mentioned Carrie Fisher’s birthday yesterday, and coming up before the end of the month are the birthdays of modern-day geek icon Grant Imahara, the awesomely funny John Cleese, and tech billionaire philanthropist ...

It was July 3rd and I was returning home from a business trip. My flight was late getting in and I was beyond ready to be done with the traveling. I left the Kansas City Airport parking lot to begin my lo-o-ong drive home. But almost as soon as I ...

Independence Day is secretly a great geek holiday. Underneath all that grilling and baseball and apple pie is a holiday dedicated to those inventors and makers who dedicated themselves to the proposition that all men are created equal.  So while you’re at the beach, or the stadium, or while flying ...

Happy 4th of July Weekend! The Cast of Dads got together before the weekend to share our post Father’s Day adventures and we had a blast sharing some of our own stories of fireworks and other explosive topics.  We also announced the winner of our Father’s Day Dell Inspiron Duo ...

Tomorrow is, of course, Independence Day in the United States of America, so it’s time to show your patriotic side. There’s no reason, though, why you have to hide your geeky side — why not celebrate both at the same time? To help you plan your family’s celebration of the Fourth, ...

Tomorrow is Independence Day and that means Barbecues, family get-togethers, sunshine and perhaps the beach. It also means fireworks. Tons and tons of fireworks. Ranging from hand-held sparklers to homemade explosives bordering on illegal or actually being illegal. Here at GeekDad, we know all about the D.I.Y. mindset that is ...

Like a large percentage of Americans, my family and I went to see fireworks for Independence Day. I love the fireworks, and every year that I go I try to take pictures of them with my decent point-and-shoot Canon. And every year I’m disappointed even by the best pictures, mostly ...

After several weeks of tasting bacon-flavored food items, but eating no actual from-a-pig bacon, I decided I needed to change things up a bit. From now until the end of my Great Bacon Odyssey — whether the end comes because I run out of new ideas/products to try or because ...

Ahh, July 4th – you can’t think about America’s Independence Day without thinking of the Freemasons – after all, George Washington was a Freemason. And whether or not you believe the whole controlling-the-world thing, the Freemasons contributed to America’s victory over the British. Thanks to Washington’s association with the Masons, ...

This Sunday is, of course, Independence Day in the United States of America, so it’s time to show your patriotic side. There’s no reason, though, why you have to hide your geeky side — why not celebrate both at the same time? Especially since today, July 2, really should be Independence ...