Global Spin

[from my GeekDad post] I have a confession to make. Compared to most GeekDads, I’m kind of a Luddite. I don’t have a video game console, or a TV to plug it into. I play games with cards and boards, not on the computer. My pets are biological, not robotic. Heck, I don’t even have [...]

Posted by Chris in Culture, Geekdad, Technology on August 22nd, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Things have been quiet at Global Spin lately, but not because I have nothing to talk about. I’ve just been doing my writing elsewhere, like these two stories about my recent trip to iPhoneDevCamp. From GeekDad: I had a great time at iPhoneDevCamp 2 in San Francisco last weekend. Lots of geekdads and their kids [...]

Posted by Chris in Geekdad, Technology, Writing on August 7th, 2008 | Comments Off

[from my Geekdad post] As members of the local Mars Society and NSS chapters, my family was invited to a “friends and family” preview of Star Trek: The Exhibition at the San Diego Air & Space Museum. It’s an exhibit we had intended to see anyway, but seeing it on opening day with a bunch [...]

Posted by Chris in Fun, Geekdad, Science fiction on June 27th, 2008 | Comments Off

[from Geekdad] In the spirit of the awesome maverick science-fair project[1], I give you Daniel Burd and his amazing plastic-eating microbes. “Almost every week I have to do chores and when I open the closet door, I have this avalanche of plastic bags falling on top of me,” he said. “One day, I got tired [...]

Posted by Chris in Geekdad, News, Science on May 29th, 2008 | Comments Off

[I'm going to start posting some of my GeekDad articles over here, so you'll know when new ones are available. Let me know if this is unnecessary duplication.] I had the pleasure of meeting Loretta Hidalgo Whitesides at a SEDS UCSD talk the other day. It quickly became obvious that she’s one of Our People, [...]

Posted by Chris in Geekdad, Space on May 23rd, 2008 | Comments Off