Scott Robinson
The Foreshadow
Lindy. She was brainy and beautiful and blonde and thoughtful and introspective and funny and principled and unlike any woman I’d ever...
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Scott Robinson
Jul 25, 20213 min read
Fanboys, Fangirls, Brainiacs, and Nerds
The new school at which I arrived in the fall of 1976 – Franklin County High in Frankfort, Kentucky – was a completely different...
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Scott Robinson
Jul 25, 20213 min read
On the Picket Line
In October of 1977, I got my first real job. Taking a cue from school friends I bowled with on Saturday mornings, I became a bag boy at...
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Scott Robinson
Jul 25, 20212 min read
Doppelganger
While all of this is going on, through the late Sixties and early Seventies, another kid exactly the same age as me is having exactly the...
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Scott Robinson
Jul 25, 20217 min read
Northern Kentucky Genes
ANY PERSONAL STORY about living with Attention Deficit & Hyperactivity Disorder – ADHD – necessarily begins in the genes. This is because...
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Scott Robinson
Jul 25, 20213 min read
The Demon Jeff Bezos
Two very significant things happened during these few years at IUS. One was Dr. D, as described above. The second thing is that my home...
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Scott Robinson
Jul 25, 20213 min read
The Lovely Miss Johnny Depp
During all of my new school fun and engineering adventures – to say nothing of the excitement of parenting two teenagers and a...
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Scott Robinson
Jun 7, 20215 min read
Does the Star Trek Transporter Kill You?
Surprisingly, our first revisitation of a popular fanboy debate focuses on a question that really wasn’t asked much back in the first...
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Scott Robinson
Jun 6, 20215 min read
Can a Human Brain Be Downloaded into an Android?
I'll confess something here: when the Trek Fanboy Nation rose up as one in the spring of 2020, after the Picard Season One finale (in...
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Scott Robinson
Jun 3, 20214 min read
Enterprise vs. Galactica: Who Would Win?
One very popular long-standing fanboy debate – made all the more popular when Battlestar Galactica rebooted in 2004 – is whether the...
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Scott Robinson
May 14, 20216 min read
That Tribble Guy
It would be hard to overstate the impact of Star Trek’s David Gerrold on my writing career. If you’re reading this book at all, you’re...
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Scott Robinson
May 2, 202118 min read
The Wire
I He wasn’t alone. At first this realization, triggered by a muffled sneeze in the locker behind him, brought more relief than fear; and...
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Scott Robinson
Mar 20, 20215 min read
Space: $19.99
It’s hard to convey to Millennials, let alone Zoomers, just what it was like growing up in a world where Star Trek was just a single TV...
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Scott Robinson
Mar 13, 20215 min read
Fake Beatles in Space
Two high school friends informed this next great nerd discovery, one that merged my two great lifetime loves: science fiction and the...
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Scott Robinson
Mar 13, 20213 min read
Major Matt Mason
It was 1968, I think. I’d have been seven years old. Kennedy’s quest for the moon was well underway, and as young as I was, it somehow...
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Scott Robinson
Feb 10, 20216 min read
Story Time
By Scott Robinson Eager footsteps and loud giggles pushed against the cold, gray stillness that hovered like fog in front of him, and it...
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Scott Robinson
Feb 9, 20212 min read
21st Century Grown-Ass Housekeeping
And now, young son, your Uncle Scott is going to guide you across the hazardous terrain of housekeeping. You’re already familiar with the...
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Scott Robinson
Jan 23, 202110 min read
How to Build Your Own Belief!
If you’re in the market for beliefs, there is of course no shortage. They’re everywhere! You can’t turn around without tripping over one,...
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Scott Robinson
Dec 6, 20205 min read
Strange Loops, Pets, and Conscious Planets
Oft have we pondered the mystery of strange loops – those bits and pieces of thought, emotion, memory and experience that pass between us...
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Scott Robinson
Dec 1, 20208 min read
My Sweet George
George was the first Beatle to post up a #1 single as a solo artist. And a magnificent first #1 it was, becoming the biggest selling...
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