Science

...ahead, before my son was even born, I ran out and bought a breadboard, resistors, capacitors, LEDs, diodes and triodes.

I was such a dork, but Radio Shack, it was a mystical heaven for me in my adolescence and teen years, five decades ago.

(My first son rejected his father's idiotic science push and became an artist; my revenge was that he built circuits as a young artist for his art work.)

It turns out that at Radio Shack they don't sell gamma energy generators, cyclotrons or other accelerators, or any cool stuff for the transmutation of mercury into gold.

It's sad, I know.

Perhaps in the future...