Having children changes your life overnight. For the better. As a childless geek you get used to having hours available for rolling MMORPG characters, console games, code and other pointless but fun activities. Enter kids and that time dries up. Partly because you now have real responsibilities and also because hanging out with the kids is just more fun. Here are the telltale signs that you have a ‘geek dad’ in your midst:

1. Their gaming console is used primarily as a DVD player and their media drive is packed with Little Einsteins and animated films.
2. That thing in their house that looks like a NASA Mars Exploration Rover control terminal is really just a baby monitor.
3. Their last Twitter update was at 6:30 that morning.
4. They have wireless headphones connected to their flat-panel.
5. “Soz I gotta AFK again. Can the druid tank this boss?”
6. The back of their car has more tech in it than the front.
7. And you thought raiding made you tired? Ha!
8. They removed Gentoo and installed Ubuntu. Or just bought a Mac.
9. They know the words to the Gummy Bears theme song backwards (and God bless Disney for re-releasing the entire series on DVD).
10. Desktop backgrounds are a dead giveaway

And I should know, because I have two