{"id":11287,"date":"2010-03-08T20:00:34","date_gmt":"2010-03-08T20:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/am-i-a-geek-dad-bad-astronomy\/"},"modified":"2010-03-08T20:00:34","modified_gmt":"2010-03-08T20:00:34","slug":"am-i-a-geek-dad-bad-astronomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/am-i-a-geek-dad-bad-astronomy.php","title":{"rendered":"Am I a Geek Dad? | Bad Astronomy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Am I a Geek Dad? Well, I&rsquo;m a geek, and a dad. <\/p><p>But in this case, I&rsquo;m talking about the cool website Geek Dad. To celebrate their third anniversary <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/geekdad\/2010\/03\/geekdad-awards-voting\/\">they&rsquo;re opening up voting for their Geek Dad Awards<\/a>, with categories like Best Actor\/Actress, Best Gadget, and so on.<\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/geekdad\/2010\/03\/geekdad-awards-voting\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/4cbe4_geekdad.jpg\" alt=\"Geekdad banner\" width=\"256\" height=\"54\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-5101\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a>Of particular interest to me are the categories of <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/geekdad\/2010\/03\/geekdad-awards-voting\/9\/\">Best Social Media Star<\/a> and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/geekdad\/2010\/03\/geekdad-awards-voting\/16\/\">Best Geek Celebrity (overall)<\/a>. That&rsquo;s because, for some reason, they put me on those lists.<\/p><p>Now, I love Geek Dad, don&rsquo;t get me wrong! But I&rsquo;m up against folks like My Close Personal Friend Adam Savage&trade; and My Not Quite As Close But Still A Friend Felicia Day, so my odds of winning are smaller than the gap between the time a tribble is born and when it gets pregnant.<\/p><p>See what I did there? Yeah, I deserve to win a geek award, but I&rsquo;m guessing it won&rsquo;t be this one given the competition. And worse, Fwhil Fwheaton is in <em>both<\/em> categories, and I can&rsquo;t in good conscience ask you to vote for me thousands of times at the expense of my mancrush. No-names like Neil Gaimon and J. J. Abrams, sure. But Wil?<\/p><p>So if you care to, go to Geek Dad and vote your own conscience. And I won&rsquo;t ask the couple of folks I know at GD to send me the lists of IP addresses of the voters so that I can exact my revenge as necessary. Seriously. I won&rsquo;t. At all.<\/p><p>But hurry! <strong>Voting ends at 8:00 p.m. EST on March 14th. <\/strong> If I win, I&rsquo;ll give everyone who voted for me a unicorn<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/pipes.yahoo.com\/pipes\/pipe.info?_id=b1f7827b1dfe342d3c7cc9be64d477ac#unicornfootnote\"><sup>*<\/sup><\/a>.<\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" name=\"unicornfootnote\"><\/a><\/p><hr width=\"30%\" align=\"left\"><sup>*<\/sup>But not really.<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/935da6BSiaJd_Rhtwdfxq50TeqY\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/4cbe4_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><br><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/935da6BSiaJd_Rhtwdfxq50TeqY\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/4cbe4_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/4cbe4_GiYnzSPsZUw\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/4cbe4_dbPMaFBF4xE\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Am I a Geek Dad? Well, I&rsquo;m a geek, and a dad. But in this case, I&rsquo;m talking about the cool website Geek Dad. To celebrate their third anniversary they&rsquo;re opening up voting for their Geek Dad Awards, with categories &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/am-i-a-geek-dad-bad-astronomy.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11287"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11287\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}