Posts Tagged Little Geek
Geek Blog – Halloween Fun
It seems we have a little bit of a Mario fetish at our house. Decals on the walls and shower curtains. Some of this has bled over into our Halloween fever. The GeekWife is an awesome tailor and always comes through with the best costumes for us (Halloween or not). This year is no different. More pics after the jump, including one of the little geek as a 900 year-old green guru.
Geek Blog – Mega Wall
8-bit art FTW! My Mega Man wall has finally come to fruition. From the moment we moved into our new house, I wanted to add some geek zest to a few rooms. I’ve already posted the beginnings of the Mario Bathroom (which will bleed over into the little geek’s room). For this project, I used an awkward wall in our office to post the 8×10 glossy prints of the Mega Man stage select screen. Mega Man 2 is my test case. Eventually, I’d love to move to digital picture frames, so I can cycle the bosses (or even turn some squares to empty) on a timer, by season, month, whatever.
More pictures after the jump.
Geek Blog: Hardcore 8-bit Rap
Parental Advisory: Strong language ahead: these aren’t your Little Geek’s NES games!
From Pac-Man, to Punch Out, Mega Man and Final Fantasy, Duane and BrandO lay down relevant rhymes to the games they showcase. More after the break!
Mega Man, Punch Out and Final Fantasy below. Check the link for more!
Geek Blog – TMBG New Music Video
BoingBoing debuted yesterday a new educational music video by my favorite band in the whole world, They Might Be Giants. Titled “Meet the Elements”, the video is a tribute the the periodic table and how elements combine to make everyday items, elephants and us!
TMBG have been orienting their music around educational topics for as long as I can remember. Hits that top my favorites list are (with video after the break):
Why does the sun shine? (The sun is a mass of incandescent gas, a gigantic nuclear furnace…)
Mammal
James K. Polk (Our 11th president!)
Dinner Bell
There’s Only One Everything (there’s only 1)
and many others!
Geek Blog – Things Your Kids May Never Know
The GeekDad authors at Wired have posted an interesting article relating to older technologies that we may be familiar with now as adults, but our children will never get exposure from. Some items were humorous, others, a little frightening. I’ve picked my favorite 10, but encourage you to read the article.
17) That there was a time before ‘reality TV.’ (I can’t believe there was such a thing!)
30) Blowing the dust out of a NES cartridge in the hopes that it’ll load this time. (I’m guilty of this)
33) Having to delete something to make room on your hard drive.
37) Finding out information from an encyclopedia. (You can find information in books??)
38) Using a road atlas to get from A to B.
62) Getting lost. With GPS coming to more and more phones, your location is only a click away.
75) LEGO just being square blocks of various sizes, with the odd wheel, window or door.
81) Han shoots first. (I can’t stress this one enough)
82) “Obi-Wan never told you what happened to your father.” But they’ve already seen episode III, so it’s no big surprise. (*sigh*)
86) Finding books in a card catalog at the library. (You mean that place where we go to get free wifi?)
Bonus:
100) When a ‘geek’ and a ‘nerd’ were one and the same. (I’m actually kind of glad this one changed)
-SnowytheGeek via [Wired]
**EDIT: Fixed Hyperlink (thanks Drew!)**
Geek Blog – Rock Band Hero
The little geek in my life is starting to take an active interest in whatever Papa is doing. It just so happened that after we got our Ion Rock Band drum set hooked up that we wanted to play. By “we”, I mean, us three. The little guy wouldn’t sit by and watch, he wanted to be in on the action!!
My wife took this cute photo. Too good not to share.
–SnowytheGeek
Geek Blog – Geeky influences
It’s been about a month now that I’ve had this site up and running and so far, not much geekiness has transpired. Heck, I haven’t even written the “About” page yet. So, to kickstart things, I’m going to document some of the geekifications I’m doing to our new house. Below is our son’s bathroom; an “off-the-wall” application of the vinyl decals you can get at Thinkgeek.
The rest of the decals will go in his bedroom, after we paint it “Magic Merlin” blue, which seems to be a perfect match for Super Mario Bros. sky.
More to come as the home ‘improvement’ projects continue.
-SnowytheGeek

