The Stumptown Comics Fest was held in Portland, Oregon, this past weekend. I was only able to attend briefly on Saturday, but I had fun exploring the aisles and chatting with a few people before I had to rush home to take my kids to a birthday party. But after ...

Last weekend, and the week preceding it, my daughter and I attended the 2012 VEX Robotics World Championships at the Anaheim Convention Center. This is my fourth and her second year working at the event and it was the most rewarding yet. I was very happy with the venue this ...

I bought my first house a few months ago. It was scary and exciting, but the best part was getting to decorate the new house! Thanks to Pinterest, I was able to browse and save my home decor inspirations. ThinkGeek frequently showed up on my credit card bill. Etsy proved ...

If you're a fan of IMAX movies and you live in Portland, Oregon, here's a pretty cool opportunity coming up. Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (OMSI) will be having an IMAX film festival from May 8 through July 1. They'll be screening 28 films, both old and new, with ...

I make a habit of visiting science museums wherever I travel. I've been to the Museum of Science in Boston several times, I've visited the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History in Washington D.C. and aquariums in Atlanta, Boston, and Mystic, Connecticut. But so far I've missed out on The Field Museum ...

The Upper Thames River Conservation Authority (UTRCA) constructed an artificial hibernaculum for the local snake population. The hibernaculum is basically a big pit, full of cinder blocks, bricks, and perforated pipe. The pit extends deep enough that it lies below the frost line in winter, and is so loosely-packed that ...

What makes one person sacrifice everything to become a Jedi Knight, and another embrace the Dark Side? What goes into creating the unique personality of every person, alien, or droid in the galaxy -- or even galaxies far, far away? Those questions are at the heart of Star Wars Identities, ...

See the video of the "Raising the Next Generation of Geeks" panel from PAX East, featuring writers from GeekDad and GeekMom.

At last, the galaxy far, far away has come to Legoland Windsor. Just over a year after the Star Wars Miniland opened in Legoland California (read Dave Banks' excellent write up of that one here) the Lego master builders have recreated all the same models again and brought them to ...

Recently I was given the rare privilege of visiting Pixar as part of the promotional campaign for their new film Brave, which opens June 22. In addition to preview screenings of the Oscar-nominated short film La Luna and DisneyNature's Chimpanzee (opening April 20), I got to see the first 30 ...