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geekdad

@geekdad@twit.social

Ken Denmead from GeekDad.com and the GeekDad Books. Publishes toots from our blog and more geeky interactions as the cool kids migrate here from that other site. Day job as a civil engineer on a major transit project in the SF Bay Area. Husband, dad, sleep deprived.

We write about #boardgames, #comics, #audio, #parenting, #gadgets, #startrek and #starwars, and much more!

Check out our partner account and blog: https://twit.social/@geekmom.

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geekdad, to books
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'Medusa’s Sisters' is the debut novel of Boston author Lauren J. A. Bear, and follows the lesser known sisters of Medusa from birth and past the death of their beloved sister.

https://geekmom.com/2024/02/even-monsters-have-families-medusas-sisters-by-lauren-bear/

geekdad, to books
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'The Fights That Make Us:' A Book Review
'The Fights That Make Us:' A multigenerational story of the struggle for LGBTQ+ rights. Beautifully told with an impressive emotional heft.

https://geekdad.com/2024/02/the-fights-that-make-us-a-book-review/

GottaLaff, to random
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Via emptywheel:

Good thing blew equivalent of >3% of that amount in London suing Christopher Steele after the statutes of limitation had expired,huh?

Hugo Lowell:

Wow — Republican National Committee has only $8m cash in hand, per year-end FEC filing. That’s the lowest fundraising year since 2013

geekdad,
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@GottaLaff Wonder what that is, adjusted for inflation? ;)

geekdad, to random
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Awesome holiday card from the one and only @muskrat_john

Same to you and yours, sir!

geekdad, to boardgames
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Announcing the 2023 GeekDad Game of the Year
We played through all ten of our finalists in one weekend. Which game took home the prize?

https://geekdad.com/2023/12/announcing-the-2023-geekdad-game-of-the-year/

geekdad, to books
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'The Lost Cause' by Cory Doctorow: A Book Review
'The Lost Cause' is Cory Doctorow's latest technothriller that pits young free thinkers against an older generation set in its ways. @pluralistic

https://geekdad.com/?p=415139

atomicker, to art
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Title: Agatsuma Gorge (1943)

Artist: Hasui Kawase

https://www.visit-gunma.jp/en/spots/agatsumakyo-gorge/

geekdad,
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@atomicker @futurebird lovely!

Makes me want to research more from our collection.

geekdad,
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@atomicker @futurebird thank you! We have a few that are so special to us. Such an amazing art form.

geekdad,
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@atomicker @futurebird do you know anything about Takehiko Hironaga? We have three of his prints from the 80s that are beautiful.

geekdad, to boardgames
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'Turing Machine' Passes the Test
'Turing Machine' is a logic puzzle game disguised as a punchcard computer, or perhaps the other way around.

https://geekdad.com/2023/10/turing-machine-passes-the-test/

Teri_Kanefield, to random

Has anyone tried the new Activity Pub plugin for Wordpress?

It’s out of beta now.

I have a Wordpress site (which I need as an author) and a Mastodon instance (which I need because I am a control freak).

If Activity Pub works as it should, I won’t need both — but we can’t get Activity Pub to work on a Wordpress site.

Has anyone tried this?

I will trade legal analysis for technical help. (Fediverse economics)

geekdad,
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@Teri_Kanefield I have it turned on for GeekDad.com. It lets every one of our members have an account on our domain and everything they publish goes out as a Mastodon post under their name. With the Friends co-plugin, responses become comments too. Really neat!

feliciaday, to random
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I have a newsletter I've started to update monthly again. Check it out! (also I just completely lost it on Twitter so I might be hanging here more lol)
https://felicitations.substack.com

geekdad,
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@feliciaday absolutely hand out here more! 👍

rolle, (edited ) to random
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Do you consider yourself a nerd? (Definition: a person who is extremely enthusiastic and knowledgeable about a particular subject, especially one of specialist or niche interest)

In this context I’m talking about the word in its positive meaning, it can be tech, board games, movies, etc. It’s usually if you are a problem solver, a thinker, a techie.

They say Mastodon is a niche platform for nerds so I just want to see the numbers. Don’t let this influence your decision. If you think you’re even a slightest bit nerdy, it’s a yes. Otherwise no. Boosts appreciated.

geekdad,
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@rolle we used geek, but birds of a feather!

geekdad, to Games
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The Video Games of ‘Ready Player One’ Revisited
This is an update to an article I wrote 5 years ago on where you can play the games that were key to the plot of the 'Ready Player One' novel.

https://geekdad.com/2023/10/the-video-games-of-ready-player-one-revisited/

badastro, to random
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So you're carrying a ball of anti-matter across Engineering, and you trip. What happens?

I mean before the catastrophic explosion that vaporizes you and everything around you.

Does the anti-matter ball fall down... or up?

https://badastronomy.substack.com/p/if-you-trip-on-the-way-to-the-warp

geekdad,
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@badastro To be the geek, if you were carrying that ball of anti-batter across engineering, it'd have to be in magnetic containment already, so if you drop the bottle (which had better be designed robustly enough to survive such a fall intact), the anti-matter would fall with the bottle. Unless you, per standard safety protocols, were using a bottle with anti-gravity repulsers to effectively let the bottle float above the deck, in which case, no fall whatsoever (at least relative to the deck).

geekdad, to iPhone
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Tried the new FaceTime features on TvOS and iOS last night to chat with family and it was pretty darned neat! Set my iPhone up against the base of our living room TV with the camera facing towards the sofa, opened the app in the Apple, connected the phon, and it just worked. The focus tracking was excellent and we had a great experience. It's really a game-changer for video chat. So much better than doing with screen-sharing from the phone before.

noellemitchell, to wordpress
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    geekdad,
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    @noellemitchell definitely testing this. @geekdad in now working and will carry all published posts from the blog. My bigger concern is that with my user about, I could publish to my blog from a Mastodon client, which could be dangerous ;)

    Teri_Kanefield, to random

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    geekdad,
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    @Teri_Kanefield @GottaLaff try up the hill in A-town or Paso?

    badastro, to random
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    I am so, so, SO done with Twitter.

    https://badastronomy.substack.com/p/goodbye-twitter

    geekdad,
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    @badastro Great to see you here, Phil!

    geekdad, to random
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    I’ve been going to Dragon Con and other conventions in costume for more than 20 years. I’ve worn Star Wars, Mass Effect, and Ghostbusters costumes, all of which have ongoing communities of cosplayers and meetups. But never have I seen the kind of instant community that happened at this year’s Dragon Con thanks to the color pink.

    We all know about the record-breaking popularity of the Barbie movie. But I was unprepared for the record-breaking populari

    https://geekmom.com/2023/09/hi-barbie/

    geekdad, to random
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    Kickstarter Tabletop Alert: Haul All Your RPG Loot in the Bag of Holding From Rollacrit
    Thanks to Rollacrit, the Bag of Holding triumphantly returns.

    https://geekdad.com/?p=411789

    geekdad, to random
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    Long ago back when both social media and listicles were bold new ideas, I wrote a couple posts on Geeks You Should Be Following on Twitter. I want to find as many of those folks here as I can, plus add new ones. For now, folks I know @docpop, @dianeduane, @mc_frontalot, @scalzi, @neilhimself, @gruber, @muskrat_john, @frauenfelder, @billamend, @leo, @ihnatko, @veronica, @stephenfry, @bonniegrrl, @montecook, @davidihewlett, @davidbrin, @annaleen, @snipe, @lenperalta, @scottjohnson

    alessa_ed, (edited ) to science
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    I created a free interactive quiz for to discover which Order a Mammal belongs to. If you'd like to beta test it and let me know if you find glitches, I'd appreciate it. I've stared at the screen for too long and am no longer seeing the branching questions objectively. The plugin limits me to a max of 25 categories, so I had to get creative. TIA for the feedback.
    https://handinhandhomeschool.com/teaching/science/mammal-quiz/ ‎

    geekdad,
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    @alessa_ed iPhone. I got past wombats, and said no to continually growing beaver teeth, it that’s helps. :)

    geekdad,
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    @alessa_ed okay, that time i got rabbits. But here’s the thing- I answered no to nursing young in a pouch, but still got the marsupial question afterwards.

    geekdad,
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    @alessa_ed agreed :)

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