Scott Robinson
The Best Nickelback Jokes Ever
Without apology... Fire alarms should just play Nickelback. I left some Nickelback tickets on my dashboard. When I got back to my car,...
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Scott Robinson
Jul 30, 20227 min read
In the Mind of the Nerd
So, we’ve looked at how nerds are defined and seen by others. But what, in the mind of the nerds themselves, are the distinctions? How do...
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Scott Robinson
Jul 30, 20229 min read
The Elder Statesman
He is first-generation grunge, from the trio that defined the genre. He was born in the Sixties, an age he still inhabits daily in his...
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Scott Robinson
Jun 18, 20226 min read
Piano Men
I came of age in the Seventies – and given my family background, there could not have been a more perfect time for it, where my musical...
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Scott Robinson
Jul 25, 20212 min read
Star Trek: The Next Reunion
Star Trek had played huge in my ADHD youth, as detailed above. My first ADHD tribe, the guys at Franklin County High, had all been Trek...
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Scott Robinson
Jul 25, 20213 min read
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 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
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, 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
Nov 23, 20203 min read
On the Nature of a Book
A few moments ago, I found myself trying to read from a book with one hand and type with the other. This posture is non-optimal for...
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Scott Robinson
Nov 23, 20203 min read
Libraries
It is a September Saturday morning, and my daughter has resumed her weekend dance class – and I, once again, have the happy duty of being...
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Scott Robinson
Nov 4, 20203 min read
The Pieces of a Life
We like to think our lives are defined by the Big Things that inhabit it. Our faith. Our convictions. Our politics. Our values. That’s an...
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