Category Archives: Party Decorations

Image from VEX Robotics. T minus one day and counting. Today starts my first full day at the 2011 VEX Robotics World Championship. I’ll be helping to set up the field controllers and tournament manager computers, and tying down any … Continue reading →

Image: Ballantine Books What lingering effect did the 1980s have on our society and culture today? David Sirota tries to answer that question in his new book, Back to Our Future: How the 1980s Explain the World We Live in … Continue reading →

Chee choo chee choo chook. That’s the sound of an Incredible Change-Bot transforming from its robot form into, say, a microwave oven. Of course, that’s also the sound we remember from the old Transformers cartoons — the sound that was … Continue reading →