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Category: Videos

When I’m Bored I Pretend to Be a Geeky YouTube Star

Posted on 10/14/2012 by Backpacking Dad

I don’t think I’ve made a secret of the various geeky enterprises I enjoy supporting with my social media capital (and occasionally with actual capital). In case you haven’t been paying attention, though, let me introduce you to some wonderfully geeky monkeys on my back. The Nerdist, Chris Hardwick. This is just what he does….

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Freerunning for Five-Year Olds: Trading Patty-cake for Parkour

Posted on 09/23/2012 by Backpacking Dad

Erin is a born daredevil. When she was a baby, she would commando-crawl to the edge of her play spaces, finding doors and staircases leading to new worlds. She was so fast as a commando she never really bothered crawling upright. She passed quickly from crawling to running, and then the world was her oyster….

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I said a hip, hop, the hippie, the hippie to the hip hip hop.

Posted on 09/07/2012 by Backpacking Dad

I bought my first music album in 1988. I was eleven years old. I’d never had a reason to buy music before. Music was either on the radio, or scattered on tapes throughout family cars. I remember sitting in my parents’ car listening to their Queen and Huey Lewis & The News tapes over and…

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