Parental Geekery

Parental Geekery


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Parental Geekery episode 23 - out of date already
June 18, 2013

Welcome back to another episode of Parental Geekery, which is out of date before it's even published. More about that later... John talks about his "Dad bloggers" evening out with Harman - you can read more about this on Ruth's blog. We got a preview of

Parental Geekery episode 22 - The Thinking Digital special edition
June 04, 2013

This episode of Parental Geekery is completely devoted to John talking about his experiences at the Thinking Digital conference. We take a tour through the schedule, covering the following: Sugata Mitra and his TED video Mike Bracken and his work on the

Parental Geekery episode 21 - held together with gaffer tape
May 20, 2013

We open the show with the magnificent Chris Hadfield and his cover version of Space Oddity. We run through the recent Google announcements from Google I/O, whilst coping with the technical challenge of John breaking Ruth's microphone and fixing it again

Parental Geekery episode 20 - singing, dancing and orphaned works
May 01, 2013

Catherine opens the show with her very special version of the lion sleeps tonight and we talk about how the recording came into existence  This leads on to an explanation of the game invented by the inimitable Sally Whittle named "I can only hear you wh

Parental Geekery episode 19 - steal someone’s chair
April 05, 2013

We open our show this week with an extract from the film The Hunt for Red October Catherine is off school for the Easter holidays, and Ruth has two weeks off work to look after her and wants to know where she gets her boundless energy from?! We talk abo

Parental Geekery Episode 18 - is this a kissing book?
March 20, 2013

Welcome back to another episode of Parental Geekery. We open the show with some quotes from one of our all-time favourite movies - The Princess Bride. We share an update on John's facial hair, which we haven't talked about since Movember. you can find ou

Parental Geekery episode 17 - Tech things parents should know
March 09, 2013

We open with a classic Blackadder moment, for no reason other than we like it and wanted to share. In our show today we work through the Sunday Times' list of 14 tech things that parents should know. We're working off the list published over on Bernie Go

Parental Geekery episode 16 - geekus interruptus
February 28, 2013

It's Her Royal Highness' Matched Luggage. A quote from one of our favourite films. Find out what Catherine did this week that made that quote come to mind. Junk modelling - love it or hate it? Ruth makes her feelings known on the subject. David seems to

Parental Geekery episode 15 - spam, spam, spam
February 17, 2013

We open our show this week with some Monty Python, and John then points out a similarity between that and  a certain John Williams theme. We give our take on the current horse meat scandal that has rocked Europe this week. We talk about things we've tri

Parental Geekery episode 14 - Parental Nookery
February 03, 2013

Happy New Year! It's our first show of 2013, and we talk about what we've been doing since our last show. We open with a slightly embarrassing revelation about Ruth's music taste, and the revelations continue with new of Catherine's first boyfriend! As