The FIRST Devil's Dictionary

[GreyingJay]

Day 1 of a Regional (n)- The time that you are supposed to be practicing. See also Debugging.

Schrödinger's Cat (n)- The method for determining whether the NavX will return values between -180 and 180 or between 0 and 360.

PID Tuning (v)- The period of time in which the robot spins around until the Space Bar is pressed. This mythical creature has driven many sailors programmers insane.

Space Bar (n)- 1. The button that requires the robot to be turned off and on again. Seriously? You couldn't have just disabled it? 2. The result of programming on the same computer that runs the driver station.

You've been spying on my team?? :ahh:

[EricH]

Don't we all do that???
SSSSHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!

And... No. I just happen to take vacation around the time of events. (Actually, that's only true for one event, that I wasn't planning on attending in the first place but ended up going to with no warning.)

Denial (n.): State that many FRC folks are in with respect to the fact that they can't quit easily, and with respect to how much time they actually spend doing this.

[Citrus Dad]

I think that rewrite applies to MN as well. Let's get this thread back on track though.

Derail a CD thread (v): To mention one or all of the topics: districts vs regionals, 2 champs, student vs mentor drive coaches, student vs mentor-built robots, robot in 3 days or equivalents, proliferation of COTS parts, bag day, east-coast bias, cheesecake, corndogs, mecanum wheels vs any other drive train, validitiy of OPR, referees, sandbagging into #1 pick, validity of CD polls, meaning of gracious professionalism, shouting robot, importance of safety glasses, strategic breaking of rules, referee/judge/inspector/MC bias, java/c++ versus labview, 2 champs, rivets vs bolts, field fault, low bar flaps, minibots, Lunacy, canburglars, robots tipping over, add ones I am missing here, video replay, lying in Chairman's submissions, powerhouse teams, coopertition, FMS, field connection issues, dangerous auto modes, swerve vs tank drive, etc...

Don't forget 2 champs...

[TheBoulderite]

Next person who posts gets to post the 254th post. You're welcome.

[ATannahill]

Next person who posts gets to post the 254th post. You're welcome.
You mean the 254th reply. You took the 254th post.

Also, isn't that a bit off topic for this thread?

[pabeekm]

Also, isn't that a bit off topic for this thread?

Off-topic (adj.): a state eventually reached by all CD threads. See Water Game Jokes. See Godwin's Law.

[EricH]

Off-topic (adj.): a state eventually reached by all CD threads. See Water Game Jokes. See Godwin's Law.
Ya know, I don't think we've had to invoke Godwin's Law yet. And hopefully we don't have to.

Parkinson's Law, on the other hand...

[GaryVoshol]

Exit strategy (n): Something which does not exist for FIRST.

[GreyingJay]

Exit strategy (n): Something which does not exist for FIRST.

Exit strategy (n): See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=me6U_NBAf6g

[TheBoulderite]

Einstein Finals 3 (n.): The longest, most intense, and most high-energy two and a half minutes of your year.

[thatprogrammer]

Einstein Finals 3 (n.): The longest, most intense, and most high-energy two and a half minutes of your year.
This is an old publication. Here is the corrected version: The longest, most intense, and most high-energy tie breaker of your year.