Procrastination Destination: Fruitcake
Fruitcake! Have you even tried it? Take a few minutes to peruse the lore and lure of the fruitcake–with music!
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Tag: Funny
Procrastination Destination: Pumpkin Spice Edition
Take a break and explore the history, culture, and silliness of pumpkin spice!
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Procrastination Destination: Pure Escape
It’s not Fall yet! Don’t look ahead to September and planning; take a break with this month’s Procrastination Destination.
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‘Welcome to Night Vale’ An Entertaining Night
The cast kept us laughing during the live performance of ‘Welcome to Night Vale.’ Check out the review!
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‘Welcome to Night Vale’ Near You
‘Welcome To Night Vale’ is a podcast that’s creepy and funny, and the live show is coming near you!
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Pirate vs. Ninja Christmas
My son is a ninja fan, and I am most certainly Pro-Pirate. How does this play out at Christmas?
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The Stratford Zoo Midnight Review Presents Macbeth
With artwork that bounds off the page, The Stratford Zoo Midnight Revue Present: Macbeth is a clear but very silly take on one of the Bard’s most famous plays.
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GeekMom Video Playlist
New season of Korra! Silly animals! Marbles! And Ninjas!
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GeekMom Video Playlist
Kid stories acted out by parents, Minecraft and Lego animation, and making fun of One Direction—all in this installment of the GeekMom Video Playlist!
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GeekMom Video Playlist
LOTS of entertainment to help you procrastinate! From that crazy German supermarket commercial, to the physics of ice-skates, to zombie romance, to Tom Hiddleson winning a dance battle.
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GeekMom Video Playlist
GeekMom playlist has the 2013 rewind, random videos, and holiday fun! Check out what you missed, and what to share!
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Nothing Can Possibly Go Wrong
I have to admit, when I was sent a review copy of Nothing Can Possibly Go Wrong, a YA graphic novel by Prudence Shen and illustrated by Faith Erin Hicks, I wasn’t as excited as I could be. In Nothing Can Possibly Go Wrong Hicks was only doing the art.
But I should have trusted that Hicks wouldn’t collaborate on something unless it was worth her mad skills. I, and my two teens, very much enjoyed it. Amusing dialogue, great art (duh), and characters that have fun with their stereotypes, tossing or flaunting them at a whim.
Make Me Laugh!
SOMEONE MAKE ME LAUGH, DAMMIT! Ah-hem. Yeah, so to keep me from ripping my children’s heads off for no particular reason other than they seem to be there all the time, I’ve found some web channels that lighten the mood. Sometimes I even watch them with my kids. The channels have multiple funny videos; here are my favorites. Hope you enjoy them too!
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 […]
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