I think the young fellers got bored with Norm and all the various home remodelers, but they have to be interested in something. Lots of backyard metalworkers out there in the landscape these days.
You can build all that, and you still can’t operate a Flip camera.
(Thanks to that smooth operator Gerard, at American Digest, for sending that one along)
Robots are cool, period. Now, robots are much cooler when they’re forty storeys high, burping out laser beams and farting nerve gas and desolating the landscape, but you can’t have everything. A LEGO robot is still cool. Even if its preferred medium is floral foam.
OK, I admit a LEGO floral foam robot isn’t bitchin’, but it’s still cool. That’s as far as I’ll go.
BRRRRPPPPT. Wrong.
It’s male human beings sick to death of being sent outside in bubble wrap to play in ADA compliant playgrounds with the monkey bars set so low your knees would touch the ground –if the ground wasn’t covered with a rubber cushion. It’s little boys weary of wearing helmets to ride a tricycle. It’s the human spirit, unleashed, where it’s always unleashed — the last place you’d expect.
Go pass another anti-bullying rule while obsessing over the gruel you serve in the cafeteria, just before letting the kids go outside in a pen to watch the girls text each other while sitting on the swings. We’re playing here.