Classic Video Game Dioramas

How do you make a diorama of a text adventure? | Continue reading


@ironicsans.beehiiv.com | 7 days ago

Media Roundup #2

More of what I’ve been watching, reading, playing | Continue reading


@ironicsans.beehiiv.com | 21 days ago

A Nobel Prize Winner And Chocolate

What one has to do with the other | Continue reading


@ironicsans.beehiiv.com | 1 month ago

How To Photograph The Solar System

We’re gonna need a bigger lens | Continue reading


@ironicsans.beehiiv.com | 1 month ago

Researching An Old Sitcom With AI

Plus: The “Til Death” viewing guide | Continue reading


@ironicsans.beehiiv.com | 2 months ago

The Life and Death of the Bulbdial Clock

Ironic Sans shows how publishing your ideas, even in half-baked form, can lead to surprising results # | Continue reading


@ironicsans.beehiiv.com | 2 months ago

The U.S. Census Is Wrong on Purpose

They literally doubled one town’s population | Continue reading


@ironicsans.beehiiv.com | 3 months ago

The Man Who Made The Cell Phone

And why it’s not the ideal communication device | Continue reading


@ironicsans.beehiiv.com | 3 months ago

A Font Confession

I’ve known this is wrong for 15 years | Continue reading


@ironicsans.beehiiv.com | 3 months ago

Spider-Man, Robots, Endings, And Zero Nazis!

Because nobody wants nazis. You’d think. | Continue reading


@ironicsans.beehiiv.com | 4 months ago

How Are You? Just Give Me Your Stock Answer.

No, really. I want to know your stock answer. | Continue reading


@ironicsans.beehiiv.com | 5 months ago

Gift Guide For Fictional Characters

What to buy your favorite imaginary person for the holidays | Continue reading


@ironicsans.beehiiv.com | 5 months ago

Have You Heard About Montana?!

In which I pander to Montana | Continue reading


@ironicsans.beehiiv.com | 6 months ago

A Celebrity in Every Taxi

An oral history of NYC’s talking taxi program | Continue reading


@ironicsans.beehiiv.com | 6 months ago

Why I’m Still Not Sick of ChatGPT

(But maybe you are) | Continue reading


@ironicsans.beehiiv.com | 7 months ago

I Can’t Believe The Navy Gave Me So Much Access

How a simple ask opened the Navy’s doors | Continue reading


@ironicsans.beehiiv.com | 7 months ago

Where “Matrix Ping Pong” Came From

Japan’s Meme-Making TV Show | Continue reading


@ironicsans.beehiiv.com | 7 months ago

I have such a migraine

I can’t even see what I’m typing | Continue reading


@ironicsans.beehiiv.com | 8 months ago

The Great Emu War

Based on True Events | Continue reading


@ironicsans.beehiiv.com | 8 months ago

The Magician, The Artist & The Mathematician

Spoiler: They’re all the same person | Continue reading


@ironicsans.beehiiv.com | 9 months ago

New Evidence in 100-Year-Old Claim of Amateurs Accomplishing What Experts Couldn’t

Did four Average Guys who claimed to climb Denali really do it? | Continue reading


@ironicsans.beehiiv.com | 9 months ago

3D Gaming Before VR

And how classic games are coming to headsets | Continue reading


@ironicsans.beehiiv.com | 10 months ago

The Story of The First Software Patent

It’s the opposite of what you expect | Continue reading


@ironicsans.beehiiv.com | 10 months ago

The Segway Inventor and His Comic Book Father

A tale of two Kamens | Continue reading


@ironicsans.beehiiv.com | 11 months ago

The Logic of Baseball

Introducing a new kind of puzzle | Continue reading


@ironicsans.beehiiv.com | 11 months ago