{"id":404648,"date":"2010-03-08T15:00:34","date_gmt":"2010-03-08T20:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/?p=12675"},"modified":"2010-03-08T15:00:34","modified_gmt":"2010-03-08T20:00:34","slug":"am-i-a-geek-dad-bad-astronomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/404648","title":{"rendered":"Am I a Geek Dad? | Bad Astronomy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Am I a Geek Dad? Well, I&#8217;m a geek, and a dad. <\/p>\n<p>But in this case, I&#8217;m talking about the cool website Geek Dad. To celebrate their third anniversary <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/geekdad\/2010\/03\/geekdad-awards-voting\/\">they&#8217;re opening up voting for their Geek Dad Awards<\/a>, with categories like Best Actor\/Actress, Best Gadget, and so on.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/geekdad\/2010\/03\/geekdad-awards-voting\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/files\/2009\/09\/geekdad.jpg\" alt=\"Geekdad banner\" title=\"Geekdad banner\" width=\"256\" height=\"54\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-5101\"\/><\/a>Of particular interest to me are the categories of <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/geekdad\/2010\/03\/geekdad-awards-voting\/9\/\">Best Social Media Star<\/a> and <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/geekdad\/2010\/03\/geekdad-awards-voting\/16\/\">Best Geek Celebrity (overall)<\/a>. That&#8217;s because, for some reason, they put me on those lists.<\/p>\n<p>Now, I love Geek Dad, don&#8217;t get me wrong! But I&#8217;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>\n<p>See what I did there? Yeah, I deserve to win a geek award, but I&#8217;m guessing it won&#8217;t be this one given the competition. And worse, Fwhil Fwheaton is in <em>both<\/em> categories, and I can&#8217;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>\n<p>So if you care to, go to Geek Dad and vote your own conscience. And I won&#8217;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&#8217;t. At all.<\/p>\n<p>But hurry! <strong>Voting ends at 8:00 p.m. EST on March 14th. <\/strong> If I win, I&#8217;ll give everyone who voted for me a unicorn<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/DiscoverMag\/~3\/dbPMaFBF4xE\/#unicornfootnote\"><sup>*<\/sup><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><br clear=\"all\"><br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" name=\"unicornfootnote\"><\/a><\/p>\n<hr width=\"30%\" align=\"left\">\n<sup>*<\/sup>But not really.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/935da6BSiaJd_Rhtwdfxq50TeqY\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/935da6BSiaJd_Rhtwdfxq50TeqY\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap><\/a><br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/935da6BSiaJd_Rhtwdfxq50TeqY\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/935da6BSiaJd_Rhtwdfxq50TeqY\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/BadAstronomyBlog\/~4\/GiYnzSPsZUw\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/DiscoverMag\/~4\/dbPMaFBF4xE\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Am I a Geek Dad? Well, I&#8217;m a geek, and a dad. But in this case, I&#8217;m talking about the cool website Geek Dad. To celebrate their third anniversary they&#8217;re opening up voting for their Geek Dad Awards, with categories like Best Actor\/Actress, Best Gadget, and so on. Of particular interest to me are the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":641,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-404648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/641"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=404648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404648\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}