{"id":251,"date":"2013-10-28T08:44:04","date_gmt":"2013-10-28T08:44:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dave0.nfshost.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2013\/10\/28\/column-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-the-roboroach\/"},"modified":"2013-10-28T08:44:04","modified_gmt":"2013-10-28T08:44:04","slug":"column-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-the-roboroach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2013\/10\/column-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-the-roboroach\/","title":{"rendered":"Column: &#8220;How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the RoboRoach&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I continue to write a monthly column for the <i>Ann Arbor Chronicle<\/i>.  In this latest installment we meditate upon <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/#q=roboroach\">the instantly controversial RoboRoach<\/a> from Backyard Brains:<br \/>\n<a title=\"The Ann Arbor Chronicle | In it for the Money: Cockroach Thanksgiving\" href=\"http:\/\/annarborchronicle.com\/2013\/10\/23\/in-it-for-the-money-cockroach-thanksgiving\/\">The Ann Arbor Chronicle | In it for the Money: Cockroach Thanksgiving<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=blkq>\nCome November, Ann Arbor\u2019s own Backyard Brains will be shipping their educational RoboRoach kits. In just a few E-Z steps you (yes, you!) will upgrade a standard issue Blaberus discoidalis cockroach into your very own iPhone-controlled insectoid robo-slave \u2013 and just in time for the Non-Denominational Gift Giving Holiday Season!<br \/>\nI know, I know, you have questions \u2013 and almost certainly some objections \u2013 when it comes to icing a live cockroach, mutilating its antennae, drilling a hole in its back, and taking control of its brain \u2013 with a goddamn phone.<br \/>\nReaders, I share your moral panic. But I have walked in the Valley of Death, have been prodded with the SpikerBox, have bought coffee and a cookie for the lead roach-roboticisizer, have met their techno-insectoid minions, and here, on the far side of the vale, I want to tell you this:<br \/>\nI am not worried about the kids who unwrap a Backyard Brains RoboRoach kit sometime between Thanksgiving and the end of the year; I\u2019m worried about the kids who don\u2019t.<br \/>\n. . .\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I continue to write a monthly column for the Ann Arbor Chronicle. In this latest installment we meditate upon the instantly controversial RoboRoach from Backyard Brains: The Ann Arbor Chronicle | In it for the Money: Cockroach Thanksgiving Come November, Ann Arbor\u2019s own Backyard Brains will be shipping their educational RoboRoach kits. In just a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2013\/10\/column-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-the-roboroach\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Column: &#8220;How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the RoboRoach&#8221;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_share_on_mastodon":"1"},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}