This is a post I wrote on my own blog a few months back. I thought it would fit nicely here with the dadomatic community. If you have children and you let them play on social media websites, or are wondering what to do because your child is asking for ...

The gift-giving season may be well behind us, but don’t let that stop you from buying yourself a little something. After all, clothing is a basic human necessity! Or at least that’s what I tell myself as I am filling out the checkout forms. If you need an extra push ...

A few months ago, I spotted a blurb in the Wired print magazine about @McGarrysGhost, the Twitter alias of the late Leo Thomas McGarry, former fictional White House Chief of Staff on the TV show The West Wing. I enjoyed the show not only for the cast and the great ...

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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 ...

If you asked me about the key figures of 2011, Justin Bieber and Charlie Sheen would be the last names to come out of my mouth. And yet, according to the 75% of us who use social media, these two … Continue reading →

Dear Mr. Dad: We’ve always taught our kids to say “please,” “thank you,” “excuse me,” and the other basics. But where are the rules about texting and using cell phones and all those other things that didn’t even exist when our parents w...

Woe be unto the enemy of the Geek Nation who strikes out at a fellow citizen. It’s only been a short time since we last experienced Geek Wrath, but the Geek Nation quickly returned to DefCon 5. We all knew that the quiet wouldn’t last. Geeks are a quiet, peaceful lot ...

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 ...

In the holiday spirit of giving, this is a quick update to my post about Ultrabooks.  I mentioned that my Cast of Dads cohort, Michael Sheehan (@HighTechDad) and I would be presenting a chance for one of you to get an Ultrabook, courtesy of Intel, the driving force behind the Ultrabook platform.   Here ...