10 Geeky Movies to Raise Your Kids On | Geekdad

Brian and I fall squarely in the geek category, we are both scientists and we met 17 years ago at a science fiction convention. One of our first relationship conflicts after moving in together was what to do with the roughly 100 science fiction novels that we had duplicate copies of. Neither one of us wanted to give up a treasured book, but they were taking up so much room.

We’ve actually had conversations about how to steer our son down the geek road a bit. He loves space and planets now and has pictures of the solar system around his room. We tried to watch the first Harry Potter film with him once when he was 4 years old, however, he thought it was scary. Recently we tried to take him to see the animated Star Wars: The Clone Wars flick that’s out now, and again it was too scary and we left the theater early.

Here is a list of 10 geeky movies from Geekdad blog. I hadn’t thought about showing him The Dark Crystal, I think he might like that one.

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Gay, Green and Geek

I’ve mentioned before that both my partner and I are scientists, but did I also tell you we were big science fiction fans? Not only that, we first met just over 17 years ago at a science fiction convention for GLBT fans called Gaylaxicon. Gay, Green and Geek or GGG as Dan Savage would say.

This past Saturday we went to a meeting of The Alternate Universe. This is our local club for gay fans of SF. My friend Joe and I started this group in 1987, I was 27 years old at the time. There is a core group of about 12 people, many of them have been around for much of that time.

The meeting on Saturday was an annual pool party that we have at one members house. Here are a couple photos taken with my phone at the meeting. Darius is sitting off by himself in the grass for a “timeout”. Stuff happens!