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Puzzle me this! | GeekDad Puzzle of the Week Answer: Guinea Pig, Labrador, Kale
By far the best solution to this week's puzzle was to let the Labradors eat the guinea pig bedding and Templeton (said guinea pig) eat the kale, and then simply buy new kale or admit that kale is...
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Puzzle me this! | GeekDad Puzzle of the Week: How to Bullseye a Womp Rat
The Death Star has been all the rage lately, from the White House petition to the recent Kickstarter. So I thought it would be worth taking a look at the fate of the DS-1 Orbital Battle Station....
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Puzzle me this! | GeekDad Puzzle of the Week Answer: How to Bullseye a Womp Rat
First Luke had to survive the surface run. Then he had to survive long enough in the trench with Vader on his tail to get off a clean shot. Then he had to pull the trigger within the very short ...
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Page Turners | Interview With Eric Adreon, Author of A Dance With Shadows
Adreon opens A Dance With Shadows by describing a Seattle shooting gallery where a 14-year-old girl asks him to pass the rig. He writes that his "lingering morality pressed hard against the person I...
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Wayback Machine | Should You and Yours Multitask in a Multi-Screen World?
I don't multitask. Or, I do it so badly that I end up dropping everything in a massive tangle of badness with me standing baffled at its center. This frustrates my wife to no end. She can balance on a ...
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Puzzle me this! | GeekDad Puzzle of the Week: Rock Climb Like Brooke Raboutou
On Saturday night, the strongest competitors at the American Boulder Series National Championships fell off less physical climbs because they hadn't solved the complex sequence of moves need to smush...
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Puzzle me this! | GeekDad Puzzle of the Week Answer: Rock Climb Like Brooke...
It's not too late to livestream Brooke Raboutou this weekend at the American Bouldering Series Youth National Championships! This week's puzzle asked you to help Brooke get to the top of an indoor wall...
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Kids With Low Self-Esteem: The Parental Praise Paradox
Praise is all the rage. It used to be a good thing -- the praised child builds self-esteem! Now, as all of us enlightened GeekDad parents know, it's a bad thing -- the praised child loses the drive to...
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Puzzle me this! | GeekDad Puzzle of the Week: Roller Coaster Thought Experiment
As Leif and I were sling-shot toward our demise on Ghostrider, here were my thoughts in no particular order: 1) "I'm going to die in an immediate and bloody fashion," 2) "If I survive, Kristi will kill...
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Puzzle me this! | GeekDad Puzzle of the Week Answer: Roller Coaster Thought...
This week's thought experiment proved much more problematic than I thought. I have to admit: I thought it was a fun question and didn't really pre-plan the answer ahead of time.
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Puzzle me this! | GeekDad Puzzle of the Week: Old Maid
There are games that are fairly basic like chess, Othello and mahjong. And then there's Old Maid. At my house, we've been playing some serious Maid and when I play, I play to win. Which is why I need...
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