The 2015 VW Golf GTI: The Hot Little Car That’s Big Fun
When I got behind the wheel of the new 2015 VW Golf GTI I was reminded of why everyone should learn how to drive a stick. The answer is one word and that word is fun.
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Cosplay, Conformity, and Funky Tights
Am I too old to cosplay? But we’re all cosplaying in our everyday lives, so what’s the big deal?
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Small Cons vs Big Cons
Big cons have the big names, but small cons have perks too. I’ve had good and bad experiences at both. You?
Continue ReadingRussian Caravan Fantasy
My nephew is an adult, and one of my favorite people to hang out with. One day, the smell of smokey tea took us to another dimension.
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Geeky Fun with 100 Ghosts: A Gallery of Harmless Haunts
Ghosts are the easiest Halloween costume out there and this year, I was inspired to get creative with 100 Ghosts: A Gallery of Harmless Haunts, by Doogie Horner.
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Learning Statistics With Tea
Have fun learning statistics with your kids by polling friends and family about their drinking habits: drinking tea!
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Goblins Drool, Fairies Rule!
Goblins Drool, Fairies Rule is a card game with delightful images, silly names, and rhyming fun. It’s been played about a dozen times in my household; a new popular past time. This is interesting to me because I think the game has a kink to work out, yet the kids in my house won’t stop playing it, figuring out their own rules to get around any issues.
Continue ReadingThe Weekly, Geekly Rewind – October 23, 2012
Links from near and far in the geekosphere. Perfect for that afternoon break.
Continue ReadingNerf Lazer Tag – GeekMom Tested. Bounty Hunter Approved
Hasbro has reinvented laser tag for the new generation; the apple generation that is. I first learned about the system earlier this year and it looked promising. I’m happy to say that the fleshed out product is just as much fun as it was originally advertised. Compatible with the iPhone (3GS and up) and iPod (4th generation and up), this new laser tag is a ton of fun for the entire family.
Continue ReadingGeek Celebrates Hanukkah With Science: Day Eight
It’s been another wonderful science-driven holiday season! We’ve experimented with balloons that blast-off, nearly unsinkable dinghies, delicious math candies, stackable liquids, desiccated dancers, split light, and put a minature Jaques Cousteau in a bottle. Tonight we’re going to give Hanukkah a fine send-off with another trick of the light. I got the idea for […]
Continue ReadingGeek Celebrates Hanukkah With Science: Day Seven
Of all the science experiments we’ve done for Hanukkah this year, and last year, this one is probably the easiest to set up and demonstrate. It also turns into a very satisfying toy. The Cartesian Diver (named after René Descartes) is not only easy to build and fun to play with, it also opens the […]
Continue ReadingGeek Celebrates Hanukkah With Science: Day Six
It’s the most wonderful time of the year – for science! If you haven’t been following along with my family this Hanukkah, you’ve got some catching up to do. We’ve already launched a rocket, sank a few boats, transformed math into a form of dessert, poured some stripes in a jar, and danced with the […]
Continue ReadingGeek Celebrates Hanukkah With Science: Day Five
It’s Hanukkah, and in my house that means it’s time to celebrate with science! Tonight, we poured some bubbly and drowned our…raisins. Well, we tried to drown them, but raisins are surprisingly good swimmers. In the video above, my five-year-old explains how “The Raisin Lifting Experiment” works, but even after the experiment was finished and […]
Continue ReadingGeek Celebrates Hanukkah With Science: Day Four
This year, as in years past, my family is celebrating Hanukkah with a series of science experiments. We launched under pressure on the first night of Hanukkah. On the second night, we triumphed over buoyancy. Last night, we ate mathematics for dessert. Tonight, we’re hosting a mixer. Or not. The Layered Liquids experiment has more […]
Continue ReadingGeek Celebrates Hanukkah With Science: Day Three
Unconventional holiday traditions are fun for the whole family! So far this year, my family has celebrated Hanukkah by launching rockets indoors and constructing small boats in order to sink them. Today we’re delving deeper, into the very language of science. That’s right; it’s math time. Roger Bacon said, “Mathematics is the gate and key […]
Continue ReadingGeek Celebrates Hanukkah With Science: Day Two
Hanukkah is the festival of lights, and in my family, we celebrate with illuminating science experiments. Yesterday, we launched a balloon rocket, and today we’re sinking ships. Well, tin foil boats, actually, but this small experiment holds greater drama than you might expect. We thought it would be a simple to float and then sink […]
Continue ReadingGeek Celebrates Hanukkah With Science: Day One
Every year, my family celebrates the eight days of Hanukkah with eight fun experiments. We’re at it again this year, starting with a balloon rocket experiment. It’s an easy, playful way to demonstrate Newton’s third law of motion. It’s also a good bridge to talking about air pressure, thrust, velocity, and a gateway to a […]
Continue ReadingIndoor Camping: An Oxymoron
As summer revs up into full swing, many of us are taking family vacations. Lots of families chose to go camping. Tents, smores, pine trees swaying in the breeze, ghost stories around the campfire… what’s not to love? Well, apparently a lot. A new business venture recently caught my eye and I was more than a […]
Continue ReadingLEGO Bricks Replace Crumbling Architecture
Some kids idolize athletes, others idolize screen stars. Mine idolizes people like Jan Vormann, who goes nowhere without his bag of LEGO bricks. Vormann has traveled to cities like Tel Aviv, Barcelona, and New York where he uses LEGO bricks to fill in crumbling architecture as part of his dispatchwork project. Some of his […]
Continue ReadingGeek Equals Math Plus Art
“Mathematics is the gate and key of the sciences. …Neglect of mathematics works injury to all knowledge, since he who is ignorant of it cannot know the other sciences or the things of this world.” –Roger Bacon Math is one of those quintessentially geeky things that are often taught so badly that even some of […]
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