You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...

[Koko Ed]

When you are startled awake by an anxiety driven dream where you feel like you are at a regional as lead que and your sleeping on the job and your team has to take up your slack for your lazy butt so you wake up and can't get back to sleep.

[fuzzwaz]

- When you head to your 3rd hour class in room number 217 and people think your crazy because you start randomly start talking about chickens....It happens....
-Oh, and when you suddenly notice that your team signs say 50- cause a certain team keep taking your "3"s...I love them bees :D

[Norman J]

-Oh, and when you suddenly notice that your team signs say 50- cause a certain team keep taking your "3"s...I love them bees :D

How else are we supposed to cheer for Team 3333? We need to appropriate other people's threes. Duh.

[Kimmeh]

How else are we supposed to cheer for Team 3333? We need to appropriate other people's threes. Duh.

This was made even better as you currently have 33 posts...
I sincerely wish Team 3333 was in Southeast Michigan. :D



When you clean your room and find enough screws and washers for a decent sized robot...:rolleyes:

[Norman J]

Didn't even notice that! Awesome!

[ohhiitskelly1o3]

-when you see someone wearing all denim and dont judge them because dean wears that
-you cant hang out with anyone else for 6 weeks straight and your excuse is "sorry i have (insert team name here)"
-you see mailboxes and try to name the team faster then your other robotics friends.

[vic burg]

....when you have come up with a new meaning for IDK.... I'm Dean Kamen.
....you base your college choice on which team is near which college.

[exprg:melonhead]

... you realize that you only have so many years left of this fun. after that, it's considered work

[Ty Tremblay]

When you're walking to class at WPI, see Dean Kamen talking on the phone in the lobby of Fuller Labs, and text EVERYONE you know.

[Samheartsrobots]

...you are proud of the rubber chicken hanging on your keychain (thanks, 217!)
...you start singing Cotton Eyed Joe in the hallway randomly.
...you wish you could go to Atlanta this year, and can't wait for next kickoff already so you can win a regional next year!
...you are thinking of volunteer/fundraising projects so you won't have to last-minute fundraise to go to Atlanta like last year.

[Andrew Schreiber]

When a discussion about a potential off season project involving multiple sensors and microprocessors turns into a discussion of doing it with spare parts laying around your basement. (Yes, my buddy and I scrounged enough parts out of our respective parts bins to build a 5 axis IMU)

When your friend updates facebook with, "I just found a pic24 in my laundry..."

Oh the joys of being a college student.

[Captain Slacker]

When you spend your entire summer on doing robotics things so that the build season will have more time on building and less on your ever wondrous spirit.

Or when at a sleep over you come up with robotics cheers and uniform designs instead of what normal people do at sleepovers.:p

We have fairly frequent sleepovers at which we make up cheers all night long. The best cheers come @ 3am :)

[vic burg]

.... when you can dance to Cotton-Eyed Joe, Chicken Dance, Cha Cha Slide, and Macarena straight in a row at another non-FIRST event and everyone is amazed you are still somehow moving by the last song (no matter HOW exhausted you are!)

[Thing2_1723]

.... when you can dance to Cotton-Eyed Joe, Chicken Dance, Cha Cha Slide, and Macarena straight in a row at another non-FIRST event and everyone is amazed you are still somehow moving by the last song (no matter HOW exhausted you are!)

after this happens, your older-non-FIRST sister is between anger because the attention isn't on her and embarrassment because everyone is staring at you going -->:eek:

[meeranair11]

You know you have overdosed on FIRST when you and a teammate wear only FIRST team paraphernalia for twin day.

[delsaner]

-When you go from saying thats hot instead of thats cool, to thats 67 instead of thats hot, you might be a FIRSTer.

[vic burg]

....when you see a finals sign on campus that says "Crunch Time" and you AUTOMATICALLY scream in your brain "THAT'S SPELLED WRONG IT SHOULD BE KRUNCH TIME!" And then start to mutter "What time is it? Krunch Time!" to yourself. (I just did this today. I *almost* felt ashamed.)

[MagiChau]

When New Years for you is kick-off day

[Abra Cadabra IV]

When you hear people at school talking about how last night's basketball game was really close and the first thing you think of is "Good, that means more ranking points for them!"

[J93Wagner]

When you see on your odometer 282.6 and immediately wish Wave Robotics had made it to Atlanta this year... :(

:sigh to self:

[Wildcat]

When you use your team's 2009 moon-rock shooting robot to get revenge on your ex XD

[MagiChau]

When you blame the programmer when someone burnt the food.

[Jeffy]

You know you've overdosed on FIRST when:
While watching the NFL Draft you expect the players to either say: "Sam Bradford regretfully rejects" OR "Sam Bradford Graciously Accepts"

[demosthenes2k8]

...when you still have the Afterparty band on your arm, but the one from getting into the pits got too scratchy and the one from roboprom fell apart in water.
...when you're excited when someone else has their band on, too

[O'Sancheski]

When you're in Atlanta, staying up till 2 in the morning, knowing you have to get up at 5 (to get the shower first) texting your friend back home about championships

[Basel A]

You know you've overdosed on FIRST when:
While watching the NFL Draft you expect the players to either say: "Sam Bradford regretfully rejects" OR "Sam Bradford Graciously Accepts"

("Sam Bradford Graciously Accepts?" was actually my facebook status that evening. I also tweeted "Watching the NFL Draft. It's kinda like Alliance Selections, but not as exciting")

[vance]

When your spring break trip to Florida is much less appealing than a weekend in Atlanta for the Championships.

When you keep side shields in your wallet.

When you are debating which team to pick at an offseason event - two weeks before it happens.

When you you now know you can sprint 3/4 of a mile in three minutes, carrying the last black polo from the FIRST store, two cameras, and a tripod, to the game field and still capture the whole match on tape and take pictures.

When your greatest fear in Atlanta was not losing your wallet containing $200, but losing your all-access pass to the event.

[216Robochick288]

When your family knows your not faking sick because they said "you'll miss robots" and you said "I know".

...When even though you are sick and its Saturday you still try to get up and get dressed to go to practice saying, "I will be fine mom..."

.. and when you're devastated you can't go...

[Karibou]

-You're in Toronto for the band trip, and see "W Simcoe St." on a sign, and immediately think "1114!? Oh, no, wait, they're in St. Catherines..."

[kjolana1124]

When you blame the programmer when someone burnt the food.

When anything happens during school, and you instantly start looking for the nearest programmer to blame.

[MagiChau]

Whenever something doesn't go you say the watchdog wasn't fed.

[MishraArtificer]

Whenever something doesn't go you say the watchdog wasn't fed.Explain? I don't get this one. (Being an alumni, I didn't get to spend much time at meetings...****it...)

[kjolana1124]

If you don't feed the watchdog he poops bytes :D

[MagiChau]

Explain? I don't get this one. (Being an alumni, I didn't get to spend much time at meetings...****it...)

The watchdog is basically a safety program you run so if something goes wrong it kills your program. It needs to be fed data from other processes. If it isn't fed data well it says Watchdog not fed :D When it is not fed your program is not allowed to boot.

[KarenH]

When as soon as you get home from Atlanta you begin researching travel arrangements to St. Louis.

By the way, does anyone have an antidote for a FIRST overdose??

[viperred396]

By the way, does anyone have an antidote for a FIRST overdose??

More FIRST of course!

[ExTexan]

By the way, does anyone have an antidote for a FIRST overdose??

I wasn't aware that there was a market for an antidote. Isn't our goal to overdose? :)

[The Megan 2207]

By the way, does anyone have an antidote for a FIRST overdose??

I believe the only cure... is more cowbell? :D

[jutayo23]

We feed Thor (yes, we named the watchdog) Kibbles and Bytes! :)

[Karibou]

You have a brainteaser problem for physics about Issac Newton, and at the end of your work, you write "ISSAC-"

[Hadar]

At the minute the season ended you started brainstorming on next year's challenge.

you see a known combination of team number in random places you get excited.

Chief Delphi is your second most visited page on the internet.

[GaryVoshol]

You send off a player in soccer for Denying an Obvious Goal Scoring Opportunity, and then think, "Did I report that as DOGSO or DOGMA?"

[kjolana1124]

You have so many ideas at meetings, paper just isn't fast enough. As a result, you will probably get ink poising from all the stuff you have written on your hands and arms.

...and your team is starting to accept this as common place.

[Dancin103]

You're watching a hockey game and do oh well if they win, their seeding points will be 5+4*2+5, which would be 18. That's not bad, oh wait never mind that means nothing here. lol

Cass

[Wildcat]

when you get so caught up thinking about robots that you take a wrong turn on your way to your next class about a mile away on the other side of your high school campus

[Leeebowitz]

This one's from a friend.

...when you're walking in the halls of your high school and you realize you're walking in crab mode!

[kjolana1124]

- Your friends have learned to listen to every other word you say because you only talk about FIRST
- A major factor in what schools you're looking at is what teams you can mentor
- Decisions involving FIRST are the hardest in your life, but the most rewarding
- Anytime the word "engineer" is mentioned in your APUSH class, you get a little happier inside

[MagiChau]

When you think of summer break as great, more time for FIRST.

[AKaul]

When your teacher tell you the homwork is on page 191... and you yell the X-CATS!

When your teacher is talking about rationals and keeps saying division by zero... and you keep the thinking in your head... TEAM 229!




PS it happened to me:)

[GaryVoshol]

When you're standing in line to sell back textbooks at the end of the semester, and notice a tie-dye shirt behind you and think, "Wildstang". And then notice that it's not a Wildstang shirt, but is being worn by an alum of Team 226 and he gets the joke.

[ratdude747]

when you try to program a universal remote using labview...

[kjolana1124]

When you literally just wished a friend:

Have a Happy [(Second Law Enforcers-Vikings)/(MORT-Juggernauts)]th birthday! =D

[kjolana1124]

When you literally just wished a friend:

Have a Happy [(Second Law Enforcers-Vikings)/(MORT-Juggernauts)]th birthday! =D

- You had no shame in looking up teams on TBA to try to find working numbers
- You would've just looked for 17, but seeing as said friend was on 178, you wanted a personal touch
- While typing this, you get sad because you realize how hard it would be for someone to do this for you with your own team number :(

[darkangel]

When you distinguish between friends with the same name by team number.

[Phoenix Spud]

When you are have already been to the USA 2 times this year (within 6 weeks) because of your robotics team.

You are already looking at hotels for next year's Championship.

[xxjgdancexx]

-"when your buttons weigh more than you do" (as quoted by my friend Pyrite)
-"Hey Pyrite, when you die can i have your robo buttons?" "no, they're MINE ALL MINE." (as quoted by Convy and Pyrite)
-when you cheer more for robotics team than for sports teams

[Stealthguardian]

-you believe you can put omni wheels on anything
-when you design a new system that doesnt make sense for school

[Andrew Schreiber]

When you actually total up the amount of money you spend taking your significant other out over the course of the year and offer to spend that same amount (rounded up) to put their name on a robot as a sponsor... and consider it a romantic gift. (This is a true story, they contemplated it until they realized their other alternative was to eat my cooking.)

[Karibou]

-You wear your team shirt to work, and are entirely shocked when a customer asks where your FIRST team is from. Turns out, he's an old 503 mentor.
-You know that he was with 503 as soon as he mentioned that he used to work for Magna.
-You spend half a hour building towers...out of oversized nuts and bolts.
-You try to apply aspects of your robot (release mechanisms from this year's kicker) to your physics projects.
-Building said physics project was harder than building a robot...because you didn't have the right tools. And couldn't make it out of metal.

[Emily3204]

Everytime you hear the word Australia, the phrase "AUSSIE AUSSIE AUSSIE! OY OY OY!" comes to mind

[kjolana1124]

You just told a friend "If you need anything just 175 me" ...

[i_am_Doug]

You've returned to Chief Delphi to check up on things after a few years.

[Phoenix Spud]

Everytime you hear the word Australia, the phrase "AUSSIE AUSSIE AUSSIE! OY OY OY!" comes to mind

Glad to know we made an impression! (If you want to follow our team, join our FB group!!! http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=39768528042&v=info#!/group.php?gid=191967304908&ref=ts )

When you put "Aussie, Aussie, Aussie!" as you FB status, and 5 min later, someone puts down OI, OI, OI!!!

When you are shocked it took so long for the above to happen...

[buildmaster5000]

When you get in trouble in AP Computer science for trying to figure out how to program a swerve drive in java, and not participating in the AP review

when the only reason you take AP computer science is so you can program the robot

[Radical Pi]

When you use the robot's code to skip ahead to AP computer science. (We have 1 year of "learn java" class before we are normally allowed to enter AP)

[Bethie42]

...when you do your math homework, and write ideas for robotics next year, and make packing lists for Championships, and jot notes about editing the videos from Champs when you get home....all on the backs of used pages of scouting data from Regionals :D

....when you're the most enthused member of one team: get back from Regionals and get yourself onto another local team as official videographer at Championships

...when you go to meeting for one team, and that evening go to a science fair with the other team, then come home and make plans for the off-season events

....when you STILL can't bear to discard any of the outdated robotics documents on your computer: robotics stuff makes up most of the 1s and 0s on my comp AND both external hard drives.

[Wildcat]

when you get excited when you find out you have relatives on other FRC teams (1684 and 67!)

[kgzak]

When you have been obsessed with designing stuff for off season projects and every day on of the other programers always says "What do you have for me today" every seventh hour.

[KarenH]

You've returned to Chief Delphi to check up on things after a few years.
Oh, darn! And I thought that being away for a few years would cure the overdose! :(

[Karibou]

-You're 16, and a mother of 3. Robots, that is. (and you conclude that you also should get flowers, even if your children are gutted and locked in a dark cage this weekend)

[BrendanB]

When you are really mad at yourself that you explained to your mom everything about Battlecry and how your team did since she is away for the weekend before telling her happy Mother's Day! :( :( :( :( Such a bad kid.... :( Now to make a cake.

[kjolana1124]

- You have dreams about FIRST cakes
- You collect many things, but your proudest collection is your collection of FIRST shirts
- You chose a project topic in Spanish just so you can incorporate FIRST into it

[Karibou]

-Your friend is reading an exchange paper in journalism, and when she says "hey, they have a robotics team!," you grab the paper out of her hands saying "AHHH WHAT TEAM??" and read the article.

...and this has happened twice. 1504 and 167.

[Kelsey Draus]

...when, instead of counting sheep before you go to bed, you try to name as many teams as you can, and then put them in numerical order :)

[Emily3204]

When you get back from Atlanta and are walking around in a fog because your eyes are so used to safety glasses.

When you realize you are writing this wearing your team shirt to bed, because you miss robotics

[demosthenes2k8]

...when it takes you a month to take off your afterparty band, and then a friend says that he met someone while getting his prom tux who still had hers on. (Mysterious girl from 1073, I salute you!)

...when you see the fifth generation starter pokemon, and post a status about getting the fire type and naming it 1902, and it takes less than five minutes for a friend in another state to get the joke and "like" it.

EDIT:
...when it takes that same friend only four minutes to see this post.

[Karibou]

...when you see the fifth generation starter pokemon, and post a status about getting the fire type and naming it 1902, and it takes less than five minutes for a friend in another state to get the joke and "like" it.
.

FIRE PIG! My thoughts exactly when I saw it. When I get the game when it comes out, I'm SO naming it 1902.

-All of the Pokemon in your SoulSilver game have team numbers for names...and each one is named for a team for a specific reason.

[Rion Atkinson]

When your freaking out because you have run out of things to CAD, and no one you typically ask for ideas is on facebook! :eek:

[MagiChau]

When you notice the amount of replies on the "You Know you've overdosed on FIRST when..." thread corresponds to a team number.

[KarenH]

When your freaking out because you have run out of things to CAD, and no one you typically ask for ideas is on facebook! :eek:
CAD a waterfall?
Better--CAD your human team members. Or have you already done that?

[Chris is me]

When your freaking out because you have run out of things to CAD, and no one you typically ask for ideas is on facebook! :eek:

I'm on AIM pretty much all the time man, hit me up. :)

[Rion Atkinson]

CAD a waterfall?
Better--CAD your human team members. Or have you already done that?

Is it even possible to CAD a waterfall?

Look under my name, you'll see a problem with the second half. :P

I'm on AIM pretty much all the time man, hit me up. :)

You'll probably hear from me in he next few hours...

[buildmaster5000]

When your freaking out because you have run out of things to CAD, and no one you typically ask for ideas is on facebook! :eek:

my idea: try to CAD a swerve modul...

[Kyler386]

You know you overdosed when you're spending your summer building a robot, to carry a robot, at a robotics competition.

[Rion Atkinson]

my idea: try to CAD a swerve modul...

Yeah. I'll be doing that one for sure. But my design buddy is busy... :/

[lil'est lavery]

When you walk down the stairs and everyone in the room is wearing a robotics shirt.

[MagiChau]

When you walk down the stairs and everyone in the room is wearing a robotics shirt.

When you wear your robotics shirt as normal attire.

[Rion Atkinson]

When you wear your robotics shirt as normal attire.

Wait... Everybody doesn't do this? ;)

When you finally found something to CAD and you had to tell everyone! ^_^

[musicspeaks]

When your freaking out because you have run out of things to CAD, and no one you typically ask for ideas is on facebook! :eek:

CAD a collection of pokemon.
That's what we do! :D

[Radical Pi]

You know you overdosed when you're spending your summer building a robot, to carry a robot, at a robotics competition.

...I'm somewhat doing this...(finished most of it during build season, couldn't use it in competition though)

[pSYeNCe]

Wait... Everybody doesn't do this? ;)
^_^
Hey, I thought everyone did :p

Also, when the thing you're most excited about this summer is having time off to design a new team website!

[delsaner]

-When you tear for a good 20 minutes straight at the Championship after-party, because you realize the (Jan-Apr) portion of the season is over. (no joke)

-When you and a team-mater (myself and Ryan Simpson) go back and forth naming teams and their team numbers for a half-hour.

[apalrd]

-When you tear for a good 20 minutes straight at the Championship after-party, because you realize the season is over. (no joke)

The season is never over. There's always the off-season and things like IRI.

[wendymom]

When you are teaching Vacation Bible school, the theme is Glalactic blast and you find a way to bring the robots in for "discovery" time.

When each day is a different color and you vow to wear a robotics shirt each day.........and you can, in fact you have a few choices

Monday-green-Moe/Thunderchickens
Tues - Red- Robocats/Xcats/ambassador shirt
Wed - Blue - Krunch/AndyMark/HotShot state champ
Thurs - Yellow or Orange - Exploding Bacon/IRI Crew/Mission Mayhem
Fri - Purple - New Orleans Regional Shirt.

[Radical Pi]

When you are teaching Vacation Bible school, the theme is Glalactic blast and you find a way to bring the robots in for "discovery" time.

Last year I was co-teaching the Discovery Center and the theme was robots. I build a lego robot for each day :D

[Rion Atkinson]

When you are certain that the number of posts in this theard is bold for everyone on the forums.

[DinerKid]

When you are certain that the number of posts in this theard is bold for everyone on the forums.

Not me... doe

This is an awesome thread, so relate-able. I guess FIRST is a good think to overdose on.

My friend and I enjoy yelling out team names in Math class when the answer coordinate to a team.

Teacher: Jimmy do you know the answer to number 16
Jimmy: Is it 254?
Teacher: That is (interrupted)
Me and My Friend Together: The Cheesy Poofs
Teacher: correct

~DK

[EricH]

Wait, so the Cheesy Poofs are the answer to the Bomb Squad? :p

[Karibou]

-You have 6 pairs of Converse shoes, and buy another pair because they're 217/365 Green.
-You find another bright green pair of Converse for less than half the price, and buy them, because they're only $11.
-You keep both pairs of shoes. Because one is slightly darker than the other.
-One of those pairs goes right on top of the pair of bright pink Converse in your closet. 233 and 217/365 are finally sitting on top of each other!

Please never allow me to have a credit card. Ever. I might end up with more stuff than I will ever need, simply because it's the same color as a team's shirts.

[ThaineP]

When your addicted to chiefdelphi and you seriously consider making a book out of this thread and every thread like it.

That's actually a good idea...considering they make print archives of webcomics like ctrl+alt+del. Do that for a fundraiser at regionals. Of course, after you printer's funeral... :D



I got this one from a friend:

-When that IS what she said.


Thaine

[rick.oliver]

Your NEMO wife uses wire ties to securely hang a dish towel.

[princessnatalie]

...you watch the live feed from Atlanta during lunch time and you
check the rankings between classes, because your team didnt
make it, but you are friends with members of the team that beat
you.
...everytime you check your phone during class you have pictures
and messages from said friend, all about how awesome Atlanta is.
...you dress in said teams colors for support, across the country.

[musicgurl1329]

every story you tell in any class starts with "So, this one time at robotics..."

you take up half a class period to explain this year's game to people not on the team.

when you randomly find some duct tape in your back pack and don't remember putting it their

^also with safety glasses and other shop items

when someone asks you if your sad you tell them "I miss my robot"

one day you realize someone's (or your own) license plate has "bot" in it.

your parents sometimes wish they could switch their red bumpers for blue ones.

you can't wait to read this thread every time it is updated.

[Karibou]

Your mom is trying to figure out where a city is, and only figures it out because she knows what teams are from that city. (accompanying quote: "Where is that...Goodrich, that's up by OH--Martians, More Martians! That's Goodrich, right?!")

[Vermeulen]

When you clean off your room's desk, and you find, amongst other team things, a copy of your team's bylaws proposals, a pile of accidentally pocketed nuts and bolts, your tinted safety glasses, the safety glasses the team gave you for Atlanta, the safety glasses that didn't fog up in Atlanta, your 2 pairs of spare safety glasses, and your glow-in-the-dark wristbands.

When the above isn't even half of it.

[EricH]

When you make a FIRST reference in the car--and immediately think, "This goes in the quotes thread."

When you promptly forget said reference due to discussing IRI.

[RoboMom]

one day you realize someone's (or your own) license plate has "bot" in it.
.

When you are driving through NJ on I-95 and you are passed by a car filled with people who roll down the windows and wave because they recognize your tags which are the same as your screen name on cd. ;)

[Karibou]

...your mom keeps saying "I-469" instead of "I-465" when leaving Indy...and doesn't notice it (we actually DID take the real I-469 on the way down. I was happy.)

[Chris is me]

...your mom keeps saying "I-469" instead of "I-465" when leaving Indy...and doesn't notice it (we actually DID take the real I-469 on the way down. I was happy.)

I had to navigate back to the airport and I'm pretty sure I just said "take 469" every time.

When you're thinking of how to iterate a robot you've already taken apart that competed in a game that doesn't really exist anymore.

[BrendanB]

When instead of sleeping on the car ride home, you and 1058 students buy $6 dollar RC cars at Walmart, modify them, drive them in the van home, and play sumo with them on the seats! (1519 won a majority of the matches) ;)

Best car ride ever! 1058 is the best FRC team I have ever met!

[Jeremy Germita]

When you have recurring dreams about the next year's kickoff.
When you see a price painted on a business's window in that team's color, it makes your day(Burger King, $3.99, ORANGE):D
When looking for a car, you ask the salesman if it hangs or goes over the bump.
When your cell phone and computer wallpaper is a pic of your team's robot

[kjolana1124]

When, while sitting in Urban Affairs class, your professor talks about people in the 60's thinking that people of today would have robots, and your professor then going on to say no one today has their own robots.

You all know where I'm going here :D

ALSO

When someone's Facebook status is "no1 can hang =(", besides you getting mad about the grammar, the first thing you think of is commenting "what about [insert 20+ teams here] just from [insert region here] alone?!" only to then realize that he doesn't do FIRST and would thusly be confused.

[kgzak]

When your background on your computers are your team's colors (monitor 1=Purple, Monitor 2=Green, Monitor 3=Black)

When you have part of an older robot sitting in your garage so you can program a mechanum drive

When your dad, who's job is robots in a warehouse environment, is jealous of your desk set up.

[KarenH]

When, while sitting in Urban Affairs class, your professor talks about people in the 60's thinking that people of today would have robots, and your professor then going on to say no one today has their own robots.

You all know where I'm going here :D
I worry about a professor who is completely unaware of the ROOMBA robotic vacuum. They're even sold at Target, so they're mainstream.

But I don't worry about you, because after this you'll be aware that your professors don't always know what they're talking about. :)

Does owning 3 Roombas count as overdosed on FIRST?

[demosthenes2k8]

No, making them competition legal does.

[princessnatalie]

When you hear Taio Cruz's song, Dynamite,
you mistake the "Gotta let go!" part for "Galileo!"

[kgzak]

When every time you spray the window at work to clean it you spray a question mark shape...and you didn't even realize it until today and you have been working there for over a month.

[kjolana1124]

You're watching Shaytards and he's telling a story and the phrase "this is a literal holy cow moment. Has anyone ever had a literal holy cow moment."

And you just smile.

[kjolana1124]

Because it won't just let me edit ^^ for some reason...

When you're at a dance for camp, Cotton Eyed Joe comes on, and the first thing that comes to mind is "I was unaware that the field was having errors."

When, while typing that, you wanted to write first as FIRST, but then groaned at yourself and your stupid puns.

[Bjenks548]

When you're at a dance for camp, Cotton Eyed Joe comes on, and the first thing that comes to mind is "I was unaware that the field was having errors."


When you have to stop yourself from dancing at a party when the Cotton Eyed Joe, YMCA, Cupid Shuffle, and Sandstorm comes on because no one there is dancing or from robotics.

[Zholl]

when you hear "We Like to Party" come on at prom, and everybody from robotics jumps up and does the "Mormon Dance" (if you're confused, watch this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2J_W7ufSsjQ). the video's courtesy of a mentor from 2859, and this particular instance happened at the Colorado regional social. I wasn't there, but I'm pretty sure we did this in KC as well)

[KarenH]

Because it won't just let me edit ^^ for some reason...
Apparently on CD you get 24 hours to edit your post. After that, it's cast in stone. Internet stone, that is.

[Basel A]

...when by now, if someone says "Holy Cow!" you wonder if there's been a 1538 sighting

...when you want to hop whenever the numbers 503 or 33 come up

...when you want to bang on the nearest glass whenever 494 comes up

...when nerd alerts are in fact necessary every day at 11:37 pm

...when you realize you have an inherent dislike for 2009 due to the L-word (the game-that-must-not-be-named)

...when you get home from the championship past midnight and wish you could skip forward to kickoff

...when you've developed a tolerance for Mountain Dew

[kjolana1124]

When you realize that your Domino's pizza cost $11.24, so you're keeping the receipt to frame back home.

Oh yes.

[MagiChau]

When you rather be doing a robot presentation at the moment.

[blayde5]

When while watching the World Cup, you were half expecting a player to climb on-top of the goal

When you see India's lunar rover for their moon mission you think it would make a great Breakaway goalie bot (it has a solar panel that folds perpendicular to the robot and a bogie system to climb over rocks (or bumps :P))

[Karibou]

...when you want to bang on the nearest glass whenever 494 comes up
...or you want to get as far away from the nearest glass as possible to save your ears :P

...when you've developed a tolerance for Mountain Dew
Funny story about that; I was with some friends last night, and my total was 5 glasses of Mountain Dew. Still didn't keep me awake. Maybe I need to take a break from that stuff so that it will still work by the time 2011 comes around...

[carolyn]

When you hear Taio Cruz's song, Dynamite,
you mistake the "Gotta let go!" part for "Galileo!"


When you read through these and realize the same thing happened to you.::safety::

[ThaineP]

When while watching the World Cup, you were half expecting a player to climb on-top of the goal
:D

Well, this may happen in twenty years or so, when this year's FIRSTaholic soccer (sorry, footaball) geniuses compete in the World Cup.


Thaine

[elemental]

You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
You know which exits to take to go home because they are team numbers.
Get off 79, pass 34, and merge onto 67. No joke.

[kenavt]

your dropping your iPod because it is really HOT when the battery percentage is 67%.

[Radical Pi]

your dropping your iPod because it is really HOT when the battery percentage is 67%.

Umm...that is actually true with mine

[kenavt]

Umm...that is actually true with mine

Awesome! But are you doing it accidentally, or on purpose... :ahh:

[Radical Pi]

Awesome! But are you doing it accidentally, or on purpose... :ahh:

Accidentally. Ever since the 3.0 update when the battery starts draining my iPod gets really hot. It's happened on both of the ones I've owned (non-MC 2nd gen for both of them). I have to have a case on it all the time :ahh:

[kenavt]

Accidentally. Ever since the 3.0 update when the battery starts draining my iPod gets really hot. It's happened on both of the ones I've owned (non-MC 2nd gen for both of them). I have to have a case on it all the time :ahh:

That's obviously not part of the product features as described by Steve Jobs (if it were, that'd be kinda odd... I can't really imagine him with his presentation on the new iTouch talking about how it heats up when the battery is draining), just to be Mr. Obvious. I think some people had the same problem with iOS 4, but I don't know much about it.

[Spirator]

When you get home from a weekend working with the team, go to school during the week and halfway through that week, you wonder where your weekends went.

[ChrisH]

When you are climbing a steep hill in Yosemite with a 40+ lb pack on your back and you start counting the switchbacks and naming them after teams.

Special Note for Al Skierkiewicz, we camped at 111

[pSYeNCe]

When you see some commercial that says "First is the beginning. First moves us forward, fast." and it goes on to say all kinds of things about First, not mentioning a product until the end, and you freak out because you think it's about FIRST (come on! There were spaceships too!). Then you sigh explosively when it's about some phone.

[Wildcat]

When your favorite area at the maker Faire Detroit was the FIRST area

[EricH]

When you see a license plate that has a team number and the letters "GAG" on it--and wonder why anybody would gag at that particular team.

When you make that comment in the car, and immediately get told that you're overdosed on FIRST.

[kgzak]

When you are making a stand for your xbox and think of ways to make it lighter.

[demosthenes2k8]

@kgzak: Swiss Cheese?

@pSYeNCe: I thought that too, it's rather annoying.

...when your friend mentions seeing a robot made out of cardboard, and you immediately turn to a friend from another team and ask whether that's competition legal

[Brianna]

...When you look at old competition photos at least once a week.

...When you know that it is exactly 158 days until Kickoff 2011.

[Bjenks548]

When some of your friends say a number, they look at you expecting to hear a team name (I've done that to them too often)

When your room is slowly transforming from sports trophies to robotics memorabilia (just looking around i can see my 548 slingback with my robotics letter and 3 pins, my hat with chairman pin, 2 paper plate awards, safety glasses, 10 more pins, 3 medals, my "bling", back up robotics hat, small soccer ball that says 2010 breakaway, the trident, 2 moon rocks, and a super cell)

When you take the time 134 days before kickoff to post on chief delphi

[MishraArtificer]

...when you were disappointed that there were no robots in the Monroe County Fair Parade. ****it.

[AlexandraS]

When the school year isn't enough and your summer job is teaching NXT Robots at day camp...and then attempt to convince all your campers to find an FRC team to join

[princessnatalie]

When you see some commercial that says "First is the beginning. First moves us forward, fast." and it goes on to say all kinds of things about First, not mentioning a product until the end, and you freak out because you think it's about FIRST (come on! There were spaceships too!). Then you sigh explosively when it's about some phone.

I did the exact same thing. Except I was like screaming in a movie theater, then got angry looks... oops.

[pSYeNCe]

When your room is slowly transforming from sports trophies to robotics memorabilia

...When you think that is an awesome transformation :D

[Andrew Schreiber]

When you spend nearly 3/4 of an interview describing what FIRST is to the interviewer... and he debates using that as another thing to screen potential employees by. :D

[demosthenes2k8]

...when you realize that, when installing software, you automatically write your team name under "Organization".
My Openoffice installation is for the good of the team.

[Wildcat]

when you hear "Sweet Caroline" on the radio, and the first thing you think of is Team 33, The Killer Bees

[JaneYoung]

when you hear "Sweet Caroline" on the radio, and the first thing you think of is Team 33, The Killer Bees

That's awesome. I always think of 234, Cyber Blue, when I hear it or sing it and I always smile. Always.

Thanks for the memories, 234.
Jane

[Thing2_1723]

When you see some commercial that says "First is the beginning. First moves us forward, fast." and it goes on to say all kinds of things about First, not mentioning a product until the end, and you freak out because you think it's about FIRST (come on! There were spaceships too!). Then you sigh explosively when it's about some phone.

I'm so glad I'm not the only one

[CalTran]

When you can walk around your house and find a pleathora of buttons from different teams and sponsors.

When you can't wait for school to start, because you can resume Robotics meetings, and it means Kick-Off is coming soon.

Also, when you get super happy that this thread is approaching your rather high team number (2410)

[kenavt]

When you can walk around your house and find a pleathora of buttons from different teams and sponsors.

When you can't wait for school to start, because you can resume Robotics meetings, and it means Kick-Off is coming soon.

Also, when you get super happy that this thread is approaching your rather high team number (2410)

When you wear your robotics shirt as normal attire.

When you realize the above quote in this thread IS your team number!

[Radical Pi]

When you find that in the heat, some of the team buttons you got at competition have fused to your team shirt

[Taylor]

That's awesome. I always think of 234, Cyber Blue, when I hear it or sing it and I always smile. Always.

Thanks for the memories, 234.
Jane

I didn't hear it during IRI. I was quite disappointed.


Bum-bum-bah.

[ThaineP]

When you see some commercial that says "First is the beginning. First moves us forward, fast." and it goes on to say all kinds of things about First, not mentioning a product until the end, and you freak out because you think it's about FIRST (come on! There were spaceships too!). Then you sigh explosively when it's about some phone.

Too true.
Stupid Sprint, check your copyright laws first :P


Thaine

[Radical Pi]

When you notice that the GRUB bootloader takes up your team number in Kilobytes of memory

[Vermeulen]

...when your friend mentions seeing a robot made out of cardboard, and you immediately turn to a friend from another team and ask whether that's competition legal

I know that 2194 made the top cover of their robot out of printed cardboard. I was actually pretty surprised that it didn't get trashed, considering the hole in the top of our bot from someone's wheel.

[CalTran]

When you've been waiting for the above post so you can be the 2410th post, and make your captain proud!

[Thing2_1723]

At your back to school rave, you and your robotics friends hear the beginning of 'Satisfaction' and get very excited only to realize its a rap remix. And then you and your friends rant to your mother about them only playing top 40 :(

[Dragon Princess]

When you see a group of people in matching shirts you immediately think of being at a FIRST competition, and your sister knows you're about to scream your teams song to see who calls back and she stops you so you won't embarrass her.

It was worth it, although the group didn't call back and skirted away as quickly as they could. :D

[vic burg]

When you see some commercial that says "First is the beginning. First moves us forward, fast." and it goes on to say all kinds of things about First, not mentioning a product until the end, and you freak out because you think it's about FIRST (come on! There were spaceships too!). Then you sigh explosively when it's about some phone.

OMG! That annoyed me as well!!!!
I seriously thought it was about FIRST what with the space ship.... I think a team should make a spoof off of it where the ending object is their robot.

[quinxorin]

...When fitting two robots in your garage is more important than fitting your car in.


I know that 2194 made the top cover of their robot out of printed cardboard. I was actually pretty surprised that it didn't get trashed, considering the hole in the top of our bot from someone's wheel.
That's why our robot is protected with 3/8in thick bulletproof Lexan. That's 50% thicker than what MythBusters used to use.

When you see a group of people in matching shirts you immediately think of being at a FIRST competition, and your sister knows you're about to scream your teams song to see who calls back and she stops you so you won't embarrass her.

It was worth it, although the group didn't call back and skirted away as quickly as they could. :D
What's your team song? Ours is "A Team." That would seem pretty obvious to anyone who has been to a competition with us, as our main team chant involves yelling the letter "A" repeatedly.

[KrazyCarl92]

When you begin immediately thinking higher of an entire city because of the FIRST competition it hosts

[Zholl]

when you realize that you can't remember the names of the mascots of your school's rivals (or any other school in the area) despite having played with the pep band for every home football and basketball game for the past 3 years, yet FRC team mascots come readily to mind

[Jeremy Germita]

When you are defragging the team laptop and you discover that a file is contained within 399 fragments.

When you are cleaning out said laptop and you discover there are 399 megabytes of files in the recycle bin.

When you notice the above, then make it a point to post it on CD before bed.

[BrendanB]

When you can no longer play soccer normally because you now have a tendency to stay on one side of the field and wait for the ball and won't move up the field.

[Karibou]

...Chrome lists CD before Twitter as one of your most visited websites.

[buildmaster5000]

You wait 2 years so your post can be # 2421 in this thread!!!:D

and when you go to chief delphy before you do any hw...ever

[KarenH]

...you keep thinking your team should try to get Harbor Freight as a sponsor, because in every ad (and I've been getting a lot of them lately), they say they have 330 stores.

...the fact that Harbor Freight has 330 stores is starting to drive you crazy.

[Basel A]

When your brother pretends to put on a bib, and you go, "That was so 2008."

[Phoenix Spud]

When your friends ask when you will have free time, you reply "May," and they just stare at you...

[Tarzan19]

When your friends ask when you will have free time, you reply "May," and they just stare at you...

This is so true.

When you start to notice team numbers in the mileage of your family's new car.

and you try to drive said car as much as possible so that you can be driving when said car hits 2345 miles, so i can pull over and take a picture of it.

[kstl99]

When you secretly wish your niece had picked a different day to get married so you wouldn't miss River Rage.

[RoboDesigners]

When you spend the entirety of a 9 hour plane trip to CA (from rural VA) making plans for a robot you want to build.

[Zholl]

when you're running airfoil simulations in engineering and produce an airfoil with a coefficient of lift of 0.399, and immediately have to tell your robotics buddies about it since it's the team you won regionals with rookie year

when you jump on CD in the middle of class while working on said simulations to share

when you're now trying to make an airfoil with a lift coefficient of 2.996, or some other number with the same sequence

[ThaineP]

You wait 2 years so your post can be # 2421 in this thread!!!:D

I'm still waiting...

When your countdown clock is at 107 days, 18 hours, 0 minutes, 7 seconds, 6 seconds, 5, 4, 3...

[wirsingrl]

When you start rewriting Lady Gaga songs about FIRST...here's what I've got so far...

Favorite FIRST Team
(To the tune of Paparazzi)

We are the crowd
We're c-coming out
Got my buttons its true
Need that button from you
It's so magical
Your robot is unbeatable

I got my team shirt
signed by Woody and Dean
I'm so fabulous
With glasses of safety
They don't have a price
Ready for the green field light

'Cuz you know that baby I
I'm your biggest fan
I'll follow you until you love me
You're my favorite FIRST team

Baby, we'll be famous
Chase you down until you choose me
I'll accept graciously

Promise I'll play fine
But I won't stop until that banner's mine

Baby we'll be famous
Chase you down until you love me
You're my favorite FIRST team

[Wildcat]

when your able to convince your tennis team that you got traded to another FRC team and are transferring out at the end of the semester all because you wore another team's shirt besides your own

[rcmolloy]

Building the kit chassis from last year for prototyping drive trains for 2011...in your room.

[Team2861]

you take your robot to a soccer game and make a jersey that fits over your robot to look like a person and you change the team number to "Kick hard, sorry ;), I'll run over you, and GGGGGGGGGOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!" (and take out their best player from behind to get a red card! =P)

[Abra Cadabra IV]

When you keep an eye on this thread for months so you can post your team number... and are then angry that you missed it because you had to go get a haircut.

(Poor post #2429 - we were never meant to be.)

Also, when you've gone to college and you're happy that a significant portion of your classmates were also FIRST members. Yeah!

[Phoenix Spud]

When you try to think of posts for this thread so it might someday get to your team number... (C'mon guys, it can't be that hard to get to 3,132 posts!!!)

[J93Wagner]

When you remember that you should get on CD again and facepalm and smack yourself for forgetting in the first place becuase this site is a place that shouldn't be forgotten.

Also, when you spend 12 hours a day for six days straight staring at Inventor and hoping that it will go faster so you can finish the redesign of a drive system (Crab drive in my case) so that at the next meeting you have something awesome to keep the design team going during the summer (My plan didn't work due to a lack of communication).

[MagiChau]

No matter how the word "first" is used you always think of FIRST.

[davidthefat]

When I am looking forward toward the FIRST season than the football game on friday... I am pretty burnt out from Football, I chose it will be my last year, and do Robotics all through my second half of my Junior year to graduation

[Fletch1373]

when you spent 6 tiresome(but still amazing) weeks building a robot and still decided to compete at one(or more) regionals with your team, volunteer at 3+ other regionals as well as champs, get home and wonder what you're gonna do until january...

[216Robochick288]

...When the "Army of Sum" patch/sticker has gone thgough the wash so many times on your jacket that it is now fused to it....

[J93Wagner]

when you spent 6 tiresome(but still amazing) weeks building a robot and still decided to compete at one(or more) regionals with your team, volunteer at 3+ other regionals as well as champs, get home and wonder what you're gonna do until january...

:Cry: So true...

[sithmonkey13]

When your parents are glad for build season, for you're out of the house, and therefore not talking about FIRST to them

When you're disappointed that you don't have enough robotics t-shirts, even though your closet is full of them (wish it was true)

You consider only people on your team to be your friends

[Phoenix Spud]

You watch the Grand Final (kind of like the Super Bowl) and wish it was a televised FRC competition!

[Nikki Haux]

When you have spent 18 hours reading every post on this thread.

[remulasce]

...When your physics teacher compliments you on your dowel-taping skillz during a lab.

The dowel needed to be completely covered in tape. We covered the rollers of our ball magnet in electrical tape for better grip. Repeatedly.


Unrelated: Turning a CIM motor with only your wrists is a good workout.

[Captain Slacker]

When you see the license plate "FRC FAN" and get really excited. After numerous failed attempts at picture taking while at the stoplight you follow them into a gas station and ask if they would mind you taking a picture.
(the guy had no idea what FIRST was, so he thought I was a smidge creepy. soooo worth it!!)

[Samheartsrobots]

When you get goosebumps just thinking about kickoff.

When you jump up and down and commence screaming when you find out you are registered for Championships this year.

When you get overly excited explaining FIRST to the freshman on the team, and begin to scare them a little.

[C222]

You scream with glee every time you see an Airtrax in the latest Star Trek movie.

[Phoenix Spud]

You notice the number of medals Australia currently has in the 2010 Commonwealth games equals a team number! (121)

[demosthenes2k8]

...you see this quote: http://notalwaysright.com/drive-hoo/7015
and immediately look up team 1209 to see whether that team is in that area.

[Wildcat]

When you see the following problem in your math book during class and instantly think "FIRST"

The number T of teams that have participated in a robot-building competition for high school students can be modeled by T(x)=(7.51x^2)-(16.4x)+35, 0 is less than or equal to x, x is less than or equal to 9, where x is the number of years since 1992. for what years was the number of teams greater than 100?

(bonus points to whoever solves it)

[EricH]

I know the answer.

42...Oh, wait, wrong answer.Any year after Year 4, or any year beyond 1996.

The real question is, is that an accurate function for FRC?

[kgzak]

1997+

in your pre-engineering class everyone, including the teacher, asks for advice from you.

[kgzak]

The real question is, is that an accurate function for FRC?

How many teams did we have during last years competition? According to this function we would have 2173.

[buildmaster5000]

When you see the following problem in your math book during class and instantly think "FIRST"

The number T of teams that have participated in a robot-building competition for high school students can be modeled by T(x)=(7.51x^2)-(16.4x)+35, 0 is less than or equal to x, x is less than or equal to 9, where x is the number of years since 1992. for what years was the number of teams greater than 100?

(bonus points to whoever solves it)

If math books know FIRST, the government can't be far behind:D Where is the secretary of education?

[Wildcat]

when your bored enough to think up a wd-40 spin-off of an old spice commercial
Hello nerds,
look at your robot, now back to me, now back to your robot, now back to me! sadly, it isnt me, but if it stopped using ladies scented robot wash and switched to WD-40 it could smell like me. look down, back up, where are you, your at the arena with the man your robot could smell like. whats in your hand, back at me, i have it. its an oyster with that tool you love. look again, the tool is now nuts and bolts. anything is possibe when your man smells like WD-40 and not a lady. im on a bus

[demosthenes2k8]

Wildcat, if you filmed that you would make my life.

[davidthefat]

*sigh* I can't wait for kickoff... Im actually am planning on going to kick off instead of just watching from my computer.

[MishraArtificer]

when your bored enough to think up a wd-40 spin-off of an old spice commercial
Hello nerds,
look at your robot, now back to me, now back to your robot, now back to me! sadly, it isnt me, but if it stopped using ladies scented robot wash and switched to WD-40 it could smell like me. look down, back up, where are you, your at the arena with the man your robot could smell like. whats in your hand, back at me, i have it. its an oyster with that tool you love. look again, the tool is now nuts and bolts. anything is possibe when your man smells like WD-40 and not a lady. im on a busThat would totally be awesome. I downloaded the original off of Youtube after the first time I saw it on TV. (Firefox is awesome for things like that.) Anyone need a transcript of the original?

[MagiChau]

*sigh* I can't wait for kickoff... Im actually am planning on going to kick off instead of just watching from my computer.

In the 2010 season I forgot where the bus is going to be so I missed it and just showed up for the brainstorming session when the team got back. Maybe I will make it in 2011. I don't like how usually if you miss the live webcast there's usually no video you could download. Internet went down while watching the Championship :/

[BrendanB]

When you get mad because your ThunderChickens lanyard for your keys, "Sticks out too much for dress code". So I now have to keep them entirely in my pocket. :o

And they almost made me take off my FIRST pin. :(

[synth3tk]

When you're ready to curse Dave Lavery sometime shortly before December, every year.

[Zholl]

When you're ready to curse Dave Lavery sometime shortly before December, every year.

when despite this, you're still busy hyper-analyzing and speculating on everything he posts that could possibly relate to next years game a full two months before kickoff

[Techgirl675]

...when you're having a WWI lesson about the different alliances and everytime the teacher mentions "alliance" you automatically think "alliance?!"

...when the teacher asks "What's an alliance?" and you think in your head, "a set of 3 FRC teams that work together during a match...." :D

Hahaha My whole class did this to a new history teacher who had no idea that we even had a robotics team!

[evanms]

....Competed in FIRST for four years
....Decided to mentor your team and two others your first year out of hs and volunteer for a regional
....Mentored your high school team and volunteered for two regionals in your second year out of hs
....Decided to help mentor a rookie team and volunteer for three regionals your third year out of hs

...WHATS NEXT :ahh:

[MagiChau]

....Competed in FIRST for four years
....Decided to mentor your team and two others your first year out of hs and volunteer for a regional
....Mentored your high school team and volunteered for two regionals in your second year out of hs
....Decided to help mentor a rookie team and volunteer for three regionals your third year out of hs

...WHATS NEXT :ahh:

Create youtube videos so you can mentor people globally. :D

[Cyberphil]

... you go home looking to buy a lathe and mill when your going off to college in less than a year.
... your homework consists of finding cool things to make in the shop.
... you begin scouting for an event before the game is even announced.
... you apply for a college because they have an FRC team. (Not solely because of that, but you understand what I mean!)

[GaryVoshol]

You look at the trailers of every lawn mowing service, to see if maybe it's one from an FRC team.

[JaneYoung]

You look at the trailers of every lawn mowing service, to see if maybe it's one from an FRC team.

I do that. Nothing like a good trailer for robot travel!

When you think about customizing a horse trailer for robots. A lot...

[Phoenix Spud]

When your robotics team is already starting for build season.

When you aren't sure how you are going to get all your FLL stuff done by FRC season.

[RoboDesigners]

When, after your robot has messed up for the 50th time in a row, you're muttering "I hate this! I'm going to quit right now and never come back," as you're walking back to the computer to fix the program again!

(one of those moments of severe dissapointment after many hours of hard work... I still love it!)

[Bjenks548]

-When you still have 2 months until kick-off and your challenging yourself on old games encase they come into play next year.
-You want to play the Red vs Blue puma music out of the cart next year, along with hats for you and your friends that go with Red or Blue team
-Your becoming more and more like the Big Bang theory characters (Friday was meatloaf and Halo night) without robotics
-When you check Bill's Blog at least twice a day in hopes of a game hint (other then a tennis ball)

[KarenH]

I do that. Nothing like a good trailer for robot travel!

When you think about customizing a horse trailer for robots. A lot...

While I, personally, would prefer a horse in the trailer to a robot, I don't think much customizing is needed. Just leave the horse out; it would prefer not to ride in the trailer, anyway.

In my former workplace years ago, the bosses ordered a used computerized phototypesetting machine. It was about the size of a large desk, and rather heavy. It was specially shipped from Seattle to Hermosa Beach, CA, in--you guessed it--a horse trailer! One end of the machine had a long, curving gouge on it. I liked to think that it could have been damaged by a horse kicking it.

[Phoenix Spud]

When you wish WikiLeaks would cover FIRST...

[dag0620]

Let's see,

-I'm the only member of my team who's active on Chief Delphi
-I've been distracted in class dreaming about Build Season
-I decided to try to write a blog about my First Experienced
-I got over my head in trying to start a FRC podcast

and oh yeah, I've about Driven my Team crazy with keeping them informed about Bill's Blog (Scoundrels, they should all be reading it themselves;) )

[buildmaster5000]

Let's see,

-I'm the only member of my team who's active on Chief Delphi
-I've been distracted in class dreaming about Build Season
-I decided to try to write a blog about my First Experienced
-I got over my head in trying to start a FRC podcast

and oh yeah, I've about Driven my Team crazy with keeping them informed about Bill's Blog (Scoundrels, they should all be reading it themselves;) )
All of the above and:
...when you realize that you are the only team member who reguarly checks CD
...create the code for your off season swerve project because the main programmer is "too busy"
...when the mentors are asking you what you want to do until kickoff

[demosthenes2k8]

...when you get upset because you didn't make the top post on page 166 of this thread.

..when you and your friend end a brainstorm with "We should try that out at the next training."

...when your entire programming team hates Binky (pointers teacher)

[806Blacksmith]

>>>> When you spend most of your time on ChiefDelphi (24/7).
>>>> When you try to remember something on a test all that pops up in your head is robotics.
>>>> When you talk about Robotics to your dog and think she's understanding

[candace.73.1995]

-When you start having dreams every night about robots.
-When you consider failing your senior year to stay in First.
-When you can tell somebody about the robots your team has built since 2001.
-When you see years past robots that are taken apart and laying in 17 different places and it brings tears to your eyes.
-when you spend weekends teaching your parents dances to songs they play at regionals.
-when you forget that other humans exist outside of the robotics lab.

[davidthefat]

My personality just changes as soon as it gets close to robot season. I get all serious. I look like I am in deep thought all the time. I don't mess around like I do in football season, robot is serious business.

[Kimmeh]

When you skip going to get sushi at work so you can stay at your desk and work on FIRST stuff...

[Phoenix Spud]

When you spent your weekend helping run an FLL competition and are REALLY tired, but you can't wait for build season.

When you learn a lot about Denmark because their Ambassador came to the said FLL competition.

[Cyberphil]

When you can't wait to spend endless hours after school, only to go home at 9 to do homework.

When you try to create mock FRC games in your head and come up with the best possible solution to the hypothetical game. :D

[BrendanB]

When you try to create mock FRC games in your head and come up with the best possible solution to the hypothetical game. :D
Now that is my ideal off-season! :)

[dag0620]

When your dreaming about next years game - with some nights being good with an awesome game - and other times waking up with a nightmare cause the game was absolutely horrible.

[Zholl]

When you can't wait to spend endless hours after school, only to go home at 9 to do homework.

When you try to create mock FRC games in your head and come up with the best possible solution to the hypothetical game. :D

This is actually what we're doing right now, except the mentors just tweak an old game and we spend three days doing our first three days of build season. Right now we're doing Triple Play with 4 foot wide ball pits dividing the field (ala Breakaway)

[Michaela3229]

When you see your team's number in your family's dinner reciept and then when you go to that restaurant again you make everyone get the same thing so 32.29 will be at the bottom again :)

[Cyberphil]

When you find a map (http://www.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=105460526772026800183.00045cebef5a22bc2adb5&z=2) on Google that shows where most of the teams are and add your team to it. :D

When you wish that map had every robotics team in the world.

When you spend 45 minutes of each of your 4 class periods on CD.

When you make every popular song have something to do with robotics (Cybersonic to the song supersonic)

When you have an affair with the lathe and the mill.

When you finish your engineering design car early so you can spend more time on your off-season prototypes.

[Kimmeh]

When you see your team's number in your family's dinner receipt and then when you go to that restaurant again you make everyone get the same thing so 32.29 will be at the bottom again :)

When you read that post and you're happy that you've got a higher team number because you'd like to try that... :D

[demosthenes2k8]

@cyberphil: Team 166 actually made a physical map to give to dean with all the teams...you know what's annoying? Tiny little dots :D

...when you still think about GP at Science Olympiad...and then realize that few teams do.

[EthanMiller]

When you do so much robotics work in your bedroom, that when you enter it after (or before) competition, you automatically reach for your safetly glasses.

(Not lying, I have a "Safety Glasses REQUIRED Beyond This Point" sign on my door)

[apalrd]

...You hope to get a 33 on the ACT (but not more, because 33 is a good number)
...You assign IP addresses on your network based on team numbers
...You use "THUNDERCHICKENS!" as an exclamation.

[DiscoKittyPrime]

...you get the FIRST logo on your high school class ring and your team name and number inscribed on the inside of the ring.

[216Robochick288]

This year I am learning to program. Its different and weird and cool. I like it. but I think programming is getting to me...

My dad gave me a 10 to spend at the Lego League tournament this Saturday in Flint [Mi]. I folded it up and put it in my phone. My brother walks by and asks me "Abby, why is your phone stuck partway open?"
I say "Programming Error..."
He looks confused and lifts open my phone, only to she the 10 spill out. I laugh and say "Just a few too many 1's and 0's.." :cool:

[Cyberphil]

@cyberphil: Team 166 actually made a physical map to give to dean with all the teams...you know what's annoying? Tiny little dots :D


Well, this Google map allows you to zoom in wherever you want, and its accessible to every team, and person with an internet connection in the world. Do you think you could maybe add a few teams to the map? Its extremely simple to use and the directions and keys are right in the description.

You can find the map here (http://www.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=105460526772026800183.00045cebef5a22bc2adb5&z=2).

[Kimmeh]

...you get the FIRST logo on your high school class ring and your team name and number inscribed on the inside of the ring.

When you've seriously considered sending your ring in so that the sides can be changed to the FIRST logo...

[MishraArtificer]

When you've seriously considered sending your ring in so that the sides can be changed to the FIRST logo......When you're seriously considering GETTING a class ring (3 years after graduation) specifically after reading this post.

[RoboMaster]

When you're taking NerdTest.com's computer geek test and the question asks "What does CD mean to you? [list of terms]" and you immediately think "...Chief Delphi of course."

[rcmolloy]

When your AP calc questions have numbers of teams in the problems.

[Brandon_L]

When you get hired by a public school system to bring FIRST to their schools.

No, seriously, just happened to me. Im thrilled!