I’m sorry I wasn’t able to contribute to this article in time for deadline. I founded io9 because there was nothing else out there like it, and I wanted a place where I could find all the science and science fiction news that I craved. So I built io9 basically for my own personal needs. But then I discovered there… Read more

Well, Robbie, this is the most mind-wrenching puzzle that you’ve yet thrown our way. THE PIECES WON’T FIT PROPERLY ANYMORE ROBBIE, THE PIECES WON’T FIT!!!

Best of luck with your further internet travels, work and life generally. May you pass through these blogged halls once again in the future.

Sincerely,
A fellow nomad

God luck. We will miss you. Read more

Thank you Robbie for all the great reads and dialog. You will be greatly missed. Congrats on your new job! I hope it is everything you wish for and more.

So say we all.

First Meredith and now you too? WORST YEAR EVER.

Sad, but good luck at Wired! :) Read more

Good luck on your new gig! You’ll be missed here. Hard to remember a time you weren’t writing articles here.

Fair winds and following seas Robbie, you will be missed.

Sad to see you go, but good luck!

This was delightful. I want an AeroPress.

Oh my god, my dad must have bought us a dozen Aerobies over the years. We’d lose them to the roof or trees so he’d just bring home a new one. I loved that thing.

I find it tremendously amusing that both my favourite frisbee and my favourite means of making coffee at home were invented by the same person.

Now to make Settlers of Catan cupcakes!

Steak cake? Hmm.