We don’t make a secret of our appreciation for Wil Wheaton here on GeekDad. Speaking for myself, I’ve been a great fan of his writing since I started reading his blog about ten years ago, and I’m among those who think he’s a much better actor than the way the ...

When I first picked up I picked up Stephen King’s Different Seasons from the grocery store, it might not have been the summer of 1959, but it meant something just as important. The film, and the novella, spoke to me in a way that very few things have since. I developed ...

The 2009 Star Trek movie reboot was, despite more enormous plot holes and incidents of scientific nonsense than there were tribbles on Deep Space Station K-7, a heck of a lot of fun. Since it also made nearly $400 million worldwide, and because there’s always room for more Star Trek ...

Have you ever been so sick of low rolls, you destroyed your dice in a ritual execution? Do you have an addiction to buying new dice? Have you ever let out a sigh after rolling a 20 (when you only needed a 12) and thought “Well, I just wasted a ...

Leverage is returning with two more episodes to finish out Season 3: This Sunday, December 12 (9pm on TNT), is “The Ho Ho Ho Job,” which finds the team taking on a shady mall owner (played by Dave Foley) and the return of the hacker “Chaos” (played by Wil Wheaton). ...

Ever since Steve Jobs mentioned “one more thing” nearly four years ago, we’ve reviewed hundreds of gigabytes worth of iPhone and iPad apps. But one of our favorites has been a fun little game called Slideamajig that allows users to create countless funny creatures by swapping out body parts. Slideamajig ...

You may remember back in June, when the first known painting of a unicorn pegasus kitten was revealed to the world in all its glory. If you do, you probably recall that the two geek icons (and geek dads both) pictured therein — John Scalzi and Wil Wheaton — announced a ...

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Perry White has his “Great Caesar’s ghost!” Doc Brown has his “Great Scott!” Fallout Boy has “Jiminy jillikers!” And the characters in the Harry Potter stories are fond of “Merlin’s beard!” Yes, a good, solid swear phrase is always good to have ready for those times when you feel the ...

If you follow friend-of-GeekDad and all around most excellent geek Wil Wheaton on Twitter, you’ll know that earlier this week he was bemoaning the fact that he would be turning 38 today. He tweeted “…it feels much, much older than 37.” Especially because his age was no longer a prime ...