GeekDad Puzzle of the Week: Coffee Conundrum
This week’s puzzle is more of an interpretive challenge — and as such I will prioritize filmed dances describing your answer. If not a dance, please describe your answer to the following question,...
View ArticleExperts Explain How to Choose a School by the Numbers
Last week I wrote a somewhat half-baked post describing simple numbers that parents can use to pick an elementary school (the first and second were solid!). This week, I called around to get experts’...
View ArticleGeekDad Puzzle of the Week Solution: Coffee Conundrum
Lo and behold: GeekDad puzzle central is alight this morning with fairly spectacular speculations to this week’s puzzle. And so instead of Oz-like, all-powerful puzzle dictator (if only!), I think this...
View ArticleThe World’s Greatest Mathematical Card Trick
Amaze your friends (and even yourself) with this clever trick.
View ArticleShould 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 ...
View ArticleGeekDad Puzzle of the Week: A Highbrow Mathematics Puzzle
I have two dogs and two kids and all four of them fart. (My wife and I, of course, do not.) On a weekend morning, all four farters can frequently be found lounging in a small room with the door ...
View ArticleGeekDad Puzzle of the Week Solution: A Highbrow Mathematics Puzzle
In our months and years of puzzling, we’ve written about Christmas lights and coffee, zombies and presidents, but never have I seen the response generated by a puzzle about farting. Thank you, GeekDad...
View ArticleEnjoy Sapient Strategies, Trivia, and Tidbits in Brain Trust
Garth Sundem is a guy whose geek cred should never be called into question. Among his accomplishments, Sundem represented the geek class when he participated in the “Hotties vs. Nerds” episode of the...
View ArticleGeekDad Puzzle of the Week: Costa Concordia Conundrum
For a year after college I worked as a cruise ship musician, playing saxophone, flute and clarinet for Carnival and Royal Caribbean cruise lines. And I remember those first couple months, bunking below...
View ArticleStanford Offers Free Game Theory Course
The Prisoner’s Dilemma; Colonel Blotto; the Diner’s Dilemma; the Pirate Game — these are the astoundingly cool and frequently counterintuitive puzzles that have perplexed mankind’s silly little...
View ArticleHow to Be Happy, Married With Children
After marriage your well-being dips and after divorce it rises; after childbirth, relationship satisfaction is permanently below its pre-birth level -– so says a meta-analysis of 2,159 studies,...
View ArticleGeekDad Puzzle of the Week Answer: Concordia Conundrum
Kimberly Johnson said, “Never ruin an apology with an excuse.” I’m not quite sure who Kimberly Johnson is or was, but she’s included at QuoteGarden, so she must be wise beyond reckoning and I’ll take...
View ArticleA Scrabble Champ’s Primer on Crushing Words With Friends
One tile-master's tips to help casual players elevate their game.
View ArticleRPS Rumble Makes Me Want to Kick Puppies (In a Good Way)
I don’t usually review apps, but I make an exception for RPS Rumble, my current diversion and addiction. Dude, it’s rock, paper, scissors — how hard can it be? Thus went my thinking fifteen days ago....
View ArticleThe 7 Commandments of a Civil Easter Egg Hunt
This year, there will be no Easter egg hunt in Colorado Spring's historic Bancroft Park, reports USA Today. The cancellation is due to what the newspaper calls "helicopter parents" jumping last year's...
View ArticleGeekDad Puzzle of the Week: Easter Attack
As you may have noticed, yesterday was Easter. Our egg hunt was understated: we hid a couple dozen eggs in the field behind our house and set loose the kids...and hounds. And for whatever reason, the...
View ArticleHow to Fold a World-Record Paper Airplane
Earning a world record allows paper-plane designers to own football teams and marry Russian oil heiresses. And according to aerospace engineer and record holder Ken Blackburn, you need master only...
View ArticleGeekDad Puzzle of the Week Solution: Easter Wars
Despite the cerebrally-challenged wünderhund, we all survived Easter and even the week after. For those of you who missed it, last week’s puzzle was the following: Not once, but twice during our Easter...
View ArticleGeekDad Puzzle of the Week: Sleepless Camping
Kristi and I recently crossed a line that as parents we swore we’d never cross: we purchased a very used, tow-behind pop-top camper. Its inaugural run was this past weekend in Santa Fe, where Kristi...
View ArticleShould 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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