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

[ZInventor]

when you wonder if it would be possible to, using only first approved components, build a working version of wall-e...

that'd be fun...

or when you try to build a hud display that works like ironman's visor...
i think all you'd need is a couple of web cams, and a set of ipod video goggles, but i don't code, other than html, and i don't think i'd be able to write the software to control the goggles...

and when you're surprised that the posing in this thread is slowing down after 1250 posts!!!!!

come on, we have to hit 2000, at least

-Z

[SlaminSwimster]

When Wall-e comes out you call your whole robotics team and plan a date to go see the movie and afterward telk about how we totally could design a bot just like him :) 1251 down 749 to go

[+()c|D]

When you not only can but do point out all of the flaws with the technology in Iron Man.

[+()c|D]

Another...

Summer has started and you cant wait until it is over, because that means you are that much closer to Build Season. :)

[Ricki E.]

When you count down the days until build season... already.

(Can't wait to recruit freshman)

[SlaminSwimster]

you call all your friends who are hanging by the pool and drag them to your team's weekly summer meetings just to show them how cool robotics is.

[ducttapedude]

you lean over to get a drink from the water fountain at the mall and put your hand up to hold your safety glasses up

[pacoliketaco]

...you start designing next years robot before the current season ends

[Carlee10]

After a long day babysitting, you think your young charge just said "Let's Rack and Roll!"

[The Megan 2207]

Watching Wall-E with the robotics team, you squeal with delight when everything follows the lines! LINE SENSORS! This makes all the small children in the theater look at you funny.

[artdutra04]

When you realize that your mother sorted all of office supplies in your house using the yellow McMaster-Carr (http://www.mcmaster.com/) zip lock bags.

Ballpoint pens are in the "item 11 on the packing list" bag.

[Cow Bell Solo]

when watching Wall-E when he fixes himself and when Eve fixes him along with anything else you say "Thats what robotics for"

[Dolan]

When the fallowing thought go’s throw your mind "If I fall my senor year I could be a student again for the 2010 year then go to college" then you realize that your mentors will kill you for it.

[typharn91]

you want the car from "back to the future" just to go to the next build season

[BJT]

4th of july, 3 day weekend, 85 degrees, you live on a lake, all of that and your'e working on the robot for IRI.

[Katie_UPS]

When the first thing you think when you wake up is; How many days till IRI?

EDIT:


Also, on the NEMO site, I found this somewhat fitting;

http://www.firstnemo.org/PDF/first_competition_tips.pdf

[ttldomination]

You're watching "21" and you wonder if that's a CIM motor they're using to make the front half of their robot turn....

[Karibou]

~You knew what NEMO was before you opened the PDF, and you're not a mentor
~When you go through this (http://www.firstnemo.org/PDF/first_competition_tips.pdf) and do the following:

(quotes from http://www.firstnemo.org/PDF/first_competition_tips.pdf ....)

"Color Coordinate your tools for easy access in the pits, say I need a 10/24 screw, where is it--oh, it's blue"
~Your team actually DOES do this (and oh my god, that makes things SO much easier)

"Batteries don't help you if they're lying on the field"
~If I remember correctly, our backup battery fell off once during a match. That, and 3 of our 4 bumpers (though it's getting hard to remember what fell off when...those matches were PRETTY intense :D )

"Never forget your safety glasses"
~Yes, that's why I always have them in my purse, robotics season or not-robotics season (is there such a thing!? :ahh: )

"Always keep track of your stuff"
~Mr. Leslie needs to read this (he lost his car keys in Pittsburgh, so he left his car there, carpooled with someone during the 6 hour drive back home, slept, grabbed another set of keys and another person to drive him back out there, retrieved his car, and drove back home. We have students keeping track of his keys for him now.)

"Designate a few team members to be 'team spokespeople' in the pit, and make sure they are always there to be spoken to"
~This is a team joke...

"There is no cure or treatment for addiction to FIRST"
~Oh dear...

[Joe G.]

When you see the thread titled "team 228 can and bottle drive" and think "what kind of crazy drivetrain is that?"

[smurfgirl]

When you see the thread titled "team 228 can and bottle drive" and think "what kind of crazy drivetrain is that?"

That one made me laugh.

[EricH]

--When you're at Pep Boys for something unrelated to robotics and are sure you see a CIM motor, large size, in its original state.

--When you get a job at a go kart track and start trying to figure out:
Can your driver control the robot on this track (there are 6 tracks)?
Can the overpass be hurdled over?
If not, how can it be, without landing in the channel on the other side of the fence?
How do you control the robot where you can't see it?
Can it beat the karts we've got on the track?
Will the robot spin out (slick track)?
How good would our driver be (bumper cars, tank-drive steering)?--When you think that they've got it wrong on the track when one of the three main tracks starts with a right turn and ends with a right turn (and it's drive straight into both of them...)

--At said go kart track, there is no bumping on most of the tracks...so you think of it as "hurdler interference" instead of "bump to pass".

[dbell]

When you see the thread titled "team 228 can and bottle drive" and think "what kind of crazy drivetrain is that?"
I thought the exact same thing!

When you do a google search for "aluminum stick weld" (http://www.google.com/search?num=50&hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=com.ubuntu%3Aen-US%3Aunofficial&hs=cyw&q=aluminum+stick+weld&btnG=Search) and this CD thread (http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/showthread.php?t=43137) comes up, and you think its cool.

When you buy another pair of safety glasses even though you already own 3.

[Zak698]

When you start making your own WALL-E cuz you know it can be done

[Akash Rastogi]

When you see the thread titled "team 228 can and bottle drive" and think "what kind of crazy drivetrain is that?"

lmao, first time I saw that I thought the same thing. I kept thinking about how it would work. lol

[sgreco]

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

The altitude of your plane reaches higher than any FIRST teams you know, and you can't wait 'til next year.

When it's 67 degrees outside and you say "geez it's HOT out"

[carolynn4848]

when watching Wall-E when he fixes himself and when Eve fixes him along with anything else you say "Thats what robotics for"

how about when you watch Wall-E
-you ask your mentor if your team can build one
and
-when Eve fixes Wall-E you say that you want her on your team next year

[carolynn4848]

I got the answer 1501 on a math problem today, and wrote team THRUST next to it. I'm waiting to see what my math teacher says.

lol!! I've done that before, except i dont remember the number or the team name, and my teacher gave me extra credit!

[ZInventor]

your team's weekly summer meetings

No fair, you guys actually meet during the summer! on my team, i sometimes get to do corporate demos during the summer, but that's about it...

boo hoo...

-Z

[ZInventor]

and my teacher gave me extra credit!

i've done something similay, but it was a bit more far feched...

on my adv. Geo-Trig final i used a few senarios from robotics to show i knew how to solve some problems, even though i was at a total loss without my calculator... evil teacher banned calculators on a geo-trig final...

but i still aced the test, after supplementing about 20 of the problems with robotics problems... (trackball trajectory using sine waves for a coupple of them)

-Z

[kristenliz_28]

...when you spend 6 hours at a bake sale on the fourth of july so your team can spend $100 on donuts during the build season... :p

[Doctorwho]

...When you have already sketched out, CADed, and priced next year's drive system and chassis, without knowing what the game will be

[SlaminSwimster]

No fair, you guys actually meet during the summer! on my team, i sometimes get to do corporate demos during the summer, but that's about it...

boo hoo...

-Z

Yea we meet once a week. mostly its just experimenting with stuff but we do some fundraising planning and community events too. (driving the robot at relay for life) i live for those meetings though!!!

[Renee Becker-Blau]

You've been so busy with other robot stuff that it didn't actually click that you were going to IRI until you saw a post saying, teams are leaving FOR IRI.

You've managed to make the past 3 weeks a never ending robotics meeting at your house. (ok we got maybe 5 scattered days off)

You have loads of things to do before you leave for IRI and you're sitting here writing about how you're overdosed on FIRST.

Renee

[Joe G.]

When you recognize shopping cart wheels as Colsons

[lasereyes]

When you count down the days till the CalGames (81 days!!!!).

[ShotgunNinja]

You post on the 86th page in a "You know you've overdosed on FIRST" thread.

You spend the summer making a Motorized Driver's Seat (aka GoBot) out of the robot from two years ago. And it actually works. And you drive it around the school during Gear-Up for the incoming freshmen.

[Torboticsmember]

When you go to your high school during the summer to tell your teacher that there is gonna be a new speed controller, after you stopped by her house and she wasn't there.

[CCCP]

when pizza doesnt look good because you had it all build season:rolleyes:

[Arthur S]

when right after Championships end you start guessing what the game will be next year.

[Cow Bell Solo]

when right after Championships end you start guessing what the game will be next year.


No, no, NO.

After the kickoff ends for the year you start guessing what the game will be the next year, while reading this years game!!

[Michelle692]

When you count down the days till the CalGames (81 days!!!!).

When you've been counting down to CalGames since 140 days... and you constantly remind some of your friends how many days are left!

[ubermeister]

When you accidentally type "We would graciously accept" instead of "We would greatly appreciate" in a paper...

[SlaminSwimster]

wen u realize u judge whether u can date a guy by how much he likes the robotics meeting u bring him 2.

[rhoads2234]

when someone says "Which color do you like better? Red or blue?" and your response is "It depends on which teams are on the alliances."
This happened to me last night and it took me several moments of confused looks to realize that they weren't talking about alliances but about the actual colors and the person who asked me wanted nothing to do with robotics. (The blasphemy!)

[XXShadowXX]

Ok here is some that have popped up recently




You have more robotics T-shirts then all your others
You are still posting on CD
Your still working on you autotanious(sp?) code
You have 5 more drive systems CAD'd
When people ask how long per week you are at robotics meetings you say what week?
Still designing a wonder drive for next year. Ours got's 4 wheels, 8 directions, top speed 16f/s, now if we would use it...
You have been counting down to kettering kick off since atlanta

[Akash Rastogi]

Your still working on you autotanious(sp?) code


Autonomous* :p get it right. jk

[lingomaniac88]

No, no, NO.

After the kickoff ends for the year you start guessing what the game will be the next year, while reading this years game!!

I'm already guessing what the game will be in 2011 (although I'm probably wrong about it). :p

[Koko Ed]

You eagarly await the release of the competition dates so you can use it to determine your vacation schedule for next year.

[waialua359]

You eagarly await the release of the competition dates so you can use it to determine your vacation schedule for next year.

Or when you post at 1:50 in the morning on Sunday night before a work day. ;)

[Carlee10]

Or when you post in class....

[XXShadowXX]

When you make the andymark logo on notepad...

|\..................../|
|#\......../\......../#|
|##\....../&&\....../##|
|#|#\..../&/\&\..../#|#|
|#|\#\../&/..\&\../#/|#|
|#|.\#\/&/....\&\/#/.|#|
|#|..\/&/......\&\/..|#|
|#|../&/\....../\&\..|#|
|#|./&/\#\..../#/\&\.|#|
|#|/&/..\#\../#/..\&\|#|
|#/&/....\#\/#/....\&\#|
|/&/......\##/......\&\|
|&/........\/........\&|
\/....................\/

#1300 W00t!

[Raumiester2010]

when you have enough team t-shirts to last you a week (at least) and only one is actually from your team

[EStokely]

You know when it is just a week before school, you have already had a dozen team meetings since school let out and you are trying to figure out how to add a few more meeting days.

You also know you have a problem when the team is growing to almost 50 students and its just that one lone teacher, you, wondering how to get them all to drink the cool aide....

[Lions for First]

when you STILL have you sumbmission for rookie all-star on your desktop because you don't want to lose it

[SlaminSwimster]

when u call a teammate about what time practice is and end up talking over an hour about the team and robotics in general.

[Renee Becker-Blau]

You start swim practice and count by robot numbers... example-

1 2 3...14 15 Bomb Squad 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 (rest of the team stops)

(Robot people keep going) 26 Rush 28 29 30 31 32 Killer Bees! (yes we are planning to learn more below 25!)

[Joe G.]

You start swim practice and count by robot numbers... example-

1 2 3...14 15 Bomb Squad 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 (rest of the team stops)

(Robot people keep going) 26 Rush 28 29 30 31 32 Killer Bees! (yes we are planning to learn more below 25!)

When you read this post, and try to find additional numbers you recognize. (The Juggernauts (1) and Raider Robotix (25) are the only ones I was able to name off the top of my head, I'm out of shape.)

[EricH]

4 is Element and 7 is Team 007. 11 is MORT.

[Raumiester2010]

when your math teacher is demonstrating a math problem in class and as you notice the fact that the answer is your team number (68:yikes: ) and you have to stifle the urge to start cheering as loud as you can when you notice that people might think you are crazy
(as opposed to showing up to class with orange hair (as opposed to your normal brown hair) and constantly wearing your team paraphernalia.):cool:

[sgreco]

You start swim practice and count by robot numbers... example-

1 2 3...14 15 Bomb Squad 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 (rest of the team stops)

(Robot people keep going) 26 Rush 28 29 30 31 32 Killer Bees! (yes we are planning to learn more below 25!)


Team 8-vikings

Team 5-Robocards

Team 31-Prime Movers

Team 28-Mission Impossible

Team 9-Roboriders

Team 21-Combbat

Team 20-Rocketeers

(I didn't want anyone left out)

[Karibou]

You go shopping for a homecoming dress, and try a yellow one on--just for kicks. You end up buying it--not because it's yellow/image compliant, but because it actually DOES look good.

See, I WAS going to get black shoes to go with it, but my friend wouldn't let me :rolleyes:

[Libby K]

You start swim practice and count by robot numbers... example-

1 2 3...14 15 Bomb Squad 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 (rest of the team stops)

(Robot people keep going) 26 Rush 28 29 30 31 32 Killer Bees! (yes we are planning to learn more below 25!)

I am going by those I remember and what I remember them by (not necessarily team name...)

Juggernauts, 2, 3, Element, Robocards , CogSquad (now 2239), 007, Paly Robotics, RoboRiders, 10, MORT, 12, 13, 14, 15, Bomb Squad, 17, 18, 19, Rocketeers, ComBBAT, Chatsworth HS, 23, 24, Raider Robotix, 26, Rush, Mission Impossible, 29, Fury, Prime Movers, 32, Killer Bees!

Some of these have folded, but I'm going on memory here. I apologize for any incorrect entries.

[EricH]

Juggernauts, 2, 3, Element, Robocards , CogSquad (now 2239), 007, Paly Robotics, RoboRiders, 10, MORT, 12, 13, 14, 15, Bomb Squad, 17, 18, 19, Rocketeers, ComBBAT, Chatsworth HS, 23, 24, Raider Robotix, 26, Rush, Mission Impossible, 29, Fury, Prime Movers, 32, Killer Bees!Chatsworth's name: HOMER.

[acdcfan259]

When you make robotics jokes at Cross Country practice.

[pacoliketaco]

When you make robotics jokes at Cross Country practice.

whenever i do that i always seem to be the only one laughing...

[wendymom]

You are watching an NBC news story about the flooding in Florida from Fay and you start screaming.......theres a Horsepower 801 shirt. Poor man is removing his belongings from his home and boat and I can only stare at his shirt and wonder if I've seen him at a competition.

[Karibou]

whenever i do that i always seem to be the only one laughing...
Geez, you're lucky, then. I get punched (seriously) by multiple people if I even mention the color yellow o.O

[Katie_UPS]

I have a robo-friend with me at swim (cough cough renee).

We crack robotics jokes and no one gets it.

Now they just let us slide at the "robotics kids"

[Carlee10]

When your really sick and you sit outside in the heat for 5 hours to sell stuff for robotics....and you still say that you had some fun.

[Tetraman]

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

...You set aside a shoe box on your first year of robotics, filled with team memorabelia - and to start your 9th year in FIRST, you've got twelve shoe boxes.
...To start the new robotics year, you bought three goldfish and named them Woodie, Dean and Dave.
...You read over the entire FTC rulebook, even though you don't partisipate in FTC.
...You visit CD during the summer.
...The freshman to the team get lessons on power tools, teamwork, the build process, and The Cha Cha Slide.
...Numbers represent memories rather than the teams.
...You think Woodie, Dean and Dave should form their own three-man FRC team for a year.
...You include "Wrap the freshman in tin foil" as an idea for the robot.
...You design a team logo, and than design that one team's logo, and than that other team's logo - all because its fun.
...In each and every Internship interview you have, it somehow turns to FIRST and all you want to talk about for the rest of the interview is FIRST.
...It's a sport. No, I don't care what you think. It's a sport.

[Lions for First]

You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
your chem. teacher mentions 12 doughnuts and all you think about for 10 minutes is Dave and a box of Krsipy Kreams

[lingomaniac88]

...when you could have sworn you heard Barack Obama say, "I graciously accept your nomination..." during his speech at Denver.

[Nate Smith]

...when you download and convert the match start horn into a ringer for your cell phone

(For when FIRST calls, at that... :)

[lasereyes]

...when you download and convert the match start horn into a ringer for your cell phone

(For when FIRST calls, at that... :)

Hmm, I didn't think of that one. Where can I find it? :P

[Nate Smith]

Here are the ones that I have...now keep in mind these are the old school FIRST timer sounds...interesting stories behind these:
CHARGE.WAV - Startup sound from some version of OS/2
FOGHORN.WAV - Some generic sound found onlnie
BUZZER.WAV - A recording of a space heater's "I'm tipped over!" buzzer

(Stories from a reliable source...FIRST staff member)

FYI - Sounds are in WAV format, convert as needed to suit your phone.

[Anna B.]

When you see TBA (To Be Announced) in a concert program and you wonder why it would mention The Blue Alliance.

[Raumiester2010]

when you are posting on You know You've overdosed on FIRST when... instead of reading the book that is due the next day...

[ZInventor]

or instead of that chem project...

and when you are trying to predict the date when this thread will reach 2000 posts... (i know it'll be before kickoff, possibly even some time in the next coupple months???

[ATannahill]

when you see the new security fences at school and think "Great, now we have to go another way to get the robots from the engineering room to the gym"

[ZInventor]

or you think about building a bot to move your bot over the fence...

[BlondeNerd]

when you contribute a LOT to your college engineering class discussion on Dean Kamen.

[Stephi Rae]

When you are jealous that you ^ had the opportunity to HAVE a class discussion about Dean Kamen in your engineering class...

[Anna B.]

When you see the countdown to kick-off (111 days!), get really excited and say, "Wildstang to kick-off!!" without even realizing it until your sister asks you what you are talking about. :D

[Raumiester2010]

amen to that... (so im not the only one who does that)

also,

... when you are trying to think of ideas for your football flinging OCCRA Robot and one of the sites you come across while Googleing football launcher is a FIRST team's and their kickoff countdown (kudos to team 230) makes your day while simultaneously depressing you because kickoff is still over 100 days away...

[Alivia]

...you're doing research for a college term paper (about 'No Child Left Behind') and you come across an article which talks about a school where students build these battlebots** and go to a national competition. Curious, you google the school in question and find out that they do indeed have a FIRST Robotics team! And then you sit there and chuckle for the rest of the class period because every where you turn, FIRST is in the air!

(The article then states how this hands-on experience is what is needed with 'No Child Left Behind'. )

**This was a direct statement in the article, not my own word choice.

[ATannahill]

AND you e-mail them saying that battle bots is a degrading name for what they do.

[Spartan151]

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

-You personally build useful inventions for your team during the off season that you really don't need, would probably be better off without, but just look cool to have.

-You find yourself checking Chief Delphi at least once every class period, knowing you have other more important things to do.

[Mr. Giggles]

You know your overdosed on F.I.R.S.T. when........

-You have the next season's game already figured out and have already gotten the robot designed and ready to build after the kick off.
:] :cool: :D

[Libby K]

You know your overdosed on F.I.R.S.T. when........

-You have the next season's game already figured out and have already gotten the robot designed and ready to build after the kick off.
:] :cool: :D


That's impressive! Wanna share? :P

[carolynn4848]

That's impressive! Wanna share? :P

i second that

[lasereyes]

i second that

ditto.

[Spartan151]

You know your overdosed on F.I.R.S.T. when........

-You have the next season's game already figured out and have already gotten the robot designed and ready to build after the kick off.
:] :cool: :D

Giggles! Good to have you with us.

...
......
...Wait. Is there something you know that I don't? Which closet is it locked in?

=P

[Banderoonies]

From a NEMO perspective.

You know you've overdosed on FIRST when you go to make a dinner reservation and you've request a reservation for 50!

[Katie_UPS]

When listening to the weather channel you notice that the background music is the same music used in the first 15-ish seconds of the "Get ready for FIRST" vidio.

[ericbarch]

...when your car looks like this:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3164/2877881902_2e1aaa2b0e.jpg

[lasereyes]

...when your car looks like this:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3164/2877881902_2e1aaa2b0e.jpg

THAT'S AWESOME!

[vivek16]

...when your car looks like this:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3164/2877881902_2e1aaa2b0e.jpg

Wow, you just made my day. Wouldn't it make sense to deflate the ball? I suppose you may not want to carry around a compressor but still. :D

-Vivek

[R.C.]

Wow, you just made my day. Wouldn't it make sense to deflate the ball? I suppose you may not want to carry around a compressor but still. :D

-Vivek

I love the ball, I just wish we had an inflated one :ahh:

[Joe G.]

When you involuntarily twitch upon hearing the "charge" noise.

When more of your music than not you first heard at a FIRST event.

When there is a power drill on your coffee table.

When you buy a laptop rather than a desktop entirely so you can take it to FIRST events.

When you hate Mondays, not because of the normal reasons to hate Mondays, but because those are the only days we don't have robotics of any sort.

[Mr. Giggles]

Or.....when are still playing the previous season's game on your practice field at the school or where ever you built it at.

[EricH]

Or.....when are still playing the previous season's game on your practice field at the school or where ever you built it at.I believe that's called an offseason event, as long as other teams show up.

[Mr. Giggles]

well, it's an A for effort anyway.:D

[Spartan151]

When you spend more time in CD reading these posts than you have doing class work all year.

When you purposely try to create logical problems on your Calculus tests that equal to your team's number.

When your friends think that carrying a wrench, screwdriver, and calculator in your pocket is a normal, everyday occurance.

When your classmates tune out your conversations when you start talking in "robotics words", or words your team has made up and created a dictionary for.

[cheeto69]

-when you consider your robot as one of your own.
-when you are on chief delphi posting threads 24/7.

[Mr. Giggles]

-when you consider your robot as one of your own.
-when you are on chief delphi posting threads 24/7.

that is bad

[XXShadowXX]

-You STILL!! can't have a conversation with any of your friends with out using a robotics inside joke every other sentence...

-You get werid looks from new members when a inside joke is said in normal conversation(design, programming, machining, logicistics, ect.), and everyone including the mentors laughts.

[mastermind12]

-When you have been sick now for over a week and still stay up till 1 or 2 in the morning reading all the posts on this thread.(i am almost completley better though)

- Even though you are sick and have been for over a week and you go to school so you can attend your teams meetings because you know if you stay home your parents won't let you go and you refuse to miss any meetings.

[cheeto69]

-if you are willing to the WORST THING YOU CAN THINK OF that is still just legal to raise money while trying to get sponsors so you can actually keep your team running.:yikes: :o

[Mr. Giggles]

-when you get excited when you see the word robotics in your economics book.

[ATannahill]

-When you have been sick now for over a week and still stay up till 1 or 2 in the morning reading all the posts on this thread.(i am almost completley better though)

- Even though you are sick and have been for over a week and you go to school so you can attend your teams meetings because you know if you stay home your parents won't let you go and you refuse to miss any meetings.
did the second one.

[mastermind12]

I am still doing both of them.

- And because you were up so late and are sick you fall asleep in English class and the teacher is so busy reading that she doesn't even wake you up.

-Even though you know you should try and get more sleep then 2 or 3 hours of sleep since you are sick but you are so used to getting only 2 or 3 hours of sleep and can't get any more sleep.

-When you nearly miss your bus 2 times in a row because you were up til the time mentioned above

-When because you were up til the time mentioned above your mom is taking your laptop and phone at 9:30 from now til the end of the school year on weekdays.

Probably more to come.

[mastermind12]

-When you were up ti 2am or 3am and just realized instead of doing your math homework which is due in about 15 or 20 minutes you are on CD.

-When you hate that you have to leave for about 15 to 30 minutes to take a test and don't want to.(teacher has to go get my student id so not yet but soon.)

But I will be back after til 11am. Then again maybe around 11:35 til 2:20.

[mastermind12]

- When someone behind you says a question talks about wire and you can't help to wonder what kind of wire and if its the same type of wire that you use for electronics

-When you are in class talking on AIM to someone from robotics when you shouldn't be.

Thats all til after lunch. But more to come probably.

[Dan Petrovic]

- When someone behind you says a question talks about wire and you can't help to wonder what kind of wire and if its the same type of wire that you use for electronics

-When you are in class talking on AIM to someone from robotics when you shouldn't be.

Thats all til after lunch. But more to come probably.

Sounds good, but when you do have more, remember to edit your previous post rather than making a while new one.

[Katie_UPS]

You know you're NOT overdosed on FIRST when...

You hear "comparing notes" and imagine two flutests debating B flat.




Sorry. Couldn't resist being completely off topic....

[cheeto69]

you know your overdosed on first when...

you sit in geometry class and make the FIRST logo with the shapes given to do your work by the teacher.

[EricH]

sorry,that post was not meant to be posted twice. i clicked send reply and the page didn't change, so i clicked it again and when the page finally changed and i found out it was posted twice.:ahh: :oEasy way to deal with that: The edit button (lower right of the post). Check "Delete message" once the editing window opens. A new sub-window opens; check "Delete message" (as opposed to "Do not delete message.").

Oh, and the edit button can also keep you from double-posting.

Edit: Fixed by moderator

[AndyB]

...When you're purchasing $4 Saitek controllers off a wootoff because you want to find out if they work with the new control system. (not me, unfortunatly, i dont have $4).

...When you recognize FIRST's calendar of important dates as a list of what-should-be National Holidays.

[lingomaniac88]

...when your car looks like this:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3164/2877881902_2e1aaa2b0e.jpgTHAT'S AWESOME!

Unfortunately, it's probably over the 120-pound weight limit and it exceeds the 28" x 38" footprint. :(

[mastermind12]

-When all you can think of his how much you will miss building and competing in FIRST competitions after this year because its your senior year in high school.

[Mr. Giggles]

-When all you can think of his how much you will miss building and competing in FIRST competitions after this year because its your senior year in high school.

yeah, iknow how it feels, i'm a senior too.

[Libby K]

-When all you can think of his how much you will miss building and competing in FIRST competitions after this year because its your senior year in high school.

Yup. I'm pretty sure everyone in the class of [OH WHAT? OH NINE!!] is feelin' it too.

[KarenH]

When you wear a T-shirt saying,

"MY OTHER KID IS A ROBOT"

(Seen yesterday at the Fall Classic)

[mastermind12]

- When you could be doing your math homework(due at (9:30am) since you didn't do it last night and instead you are on CD posting.

-When you told the teacher you had something you could do since you couldn't get on to the Foresight testing site in English class and even though you know she didn't mean this type of something you go on anyway.

[Cow Bell Solo]

...When someone on the team mentions that we should buy a team video camera and your dumbstruck why nobody has thought of that before, It makes so much sense.

...When you come up with an idea about a pop club so that you can save money from not spending it on schools machines that now have nonreal pop(diet and zero :( ). Plus it makes money for the team.

[Karibou]

-Your homework problems fall on pages 108-111. Instead of writing those numbers on your paper, you write "108-Wildstang," and wonder if your teacher will notice.

-Also, today's homework problems are #1-33. "Juggernauts-Killer Bees", anyone?

-When doing an ABCs activity on a forum that you're a part of...this is what happens:
A is for Atlas, ASNI, Andy Baker
B is for bumper, Balzac, Billfred
C is for Charlotte, Chief Delphi, CAD
D is for Delphi E.L.I.T.E., Dipswitch, DeWalt
E is for Einstein, Exploding Bacon, engineer
F is for FIRST, FRC, FLL
G is for Gearheads, GAME, GHX
H is for heart, "How the **** did you do that?", H.O.T
I is for IRI, IFI, "I DIDN'T DO IT!"
J is for JVN, Juggernauts, JaneYoung
K is for Kamen, Koko Ed, Kramarczyk
L is for love, lathe, Lavery
M is for Mallory, Mill, MORT
N is for nuts, newbies, NEMO
O is for Overdrive, open-hole, overweight (robot)
P is for PWM, Programming, Paul Copioli
Q is for question, quality, quantity
R is for ROBOT, RC, RUSH
S is for Safety (Glasses), Susie Q, SegWay
T is for TechnoCats, Thunderchickens, TTT
U is for underweight robot, uh-oh, UPS
V is for vise-grip, Viking Robotics, valuable
W is for website, Woodie Flowers, William Leverette
X is for x-acto knife, xanthrochroid, X-Cats
Y is for yellow, Yin-Yang, Ypsilanti
Z is for zucchero, zipties, Zondag

(Charlotte, Atlas, and Balzac are all 1189 robots. Mallory is our Build group leader. Zucchero is Italian for 'sugar,' which we survive on during build season)

-Mark Kramarczyk links that post as his favorite when the list is posted on the team forums

-While doing chemistry homework, you remember that Cd is the symbol for Cadmium because Cd=Chief Delphi and CD=Robotics=CAD(mium)

[Arthur S]

when you are in advisory and your teacher partners you up with a freshmen and then makes you play a game where you have to draw a number of shapes, and then your partner has to draw a shape, and then you have to dictate what you have drawn to your partner, and then you start explaining how to draw the first logo. (lol for some reason my freshmen drew the logo going in like a diagonal direction.)

[mastermind12]

-When you have 2 homework assaigments due at 9:30 this morning for one class(teacher already mad) and are still posting on this thread cause you are trying to avoid doing the homework as you don't really understand it that well. :(

(Still don't get it!PROBLEM!)(Anyone good at math?If so please email me at kthimm1@gmail.com)(teacher definitely mad, need to get it done somehow)

[Booksy]

...when you find yourself accidentally ending your sentences with ";" 's;
...when your favorite excuse for not doing something is "i gotta go work on the robot"

[Cow Bell Solo]

...when someone on your team knits you a winter hat that has the FIRST logo on it with your name and team number on the back. It's awesome, (i'll upload pictures). THANKS MEGAN

[ATannahill]

When your science class has to do a project concerning racing (sown) moles, you try to think of ways to disguise your robot. Then came the vex kit...

[The Megan 2207]

...when someone on your team knits you a winter hat that has the FIRST logo on it with your name and team number on the back. It's awesome, (i'll upload pictures). THANKS MEGAN

You mean this hat?
This is what happens when we aren't in OVERDRIVE (overused pun intended).

[Cow Bell Solo]

yes,

You know you've overdosed on FIRST when you go to cut your nails but you can't find your nail clippers, but yet you look over at your toolbox sitting in your room and think, ah snips that will work!

[lasereyes]

yes,

You know you've overdosed on FIRST when you go to cut your nails but you can't find your nail clippers, but yet you look over at your toolbox sitting in your room and thing, ah snips!

Ow!

[The Megan 2207]

yes,

You know you've overdosed on FIRST when you go to cut your nails but you can't find your nail clippers, but yet you look over at your toolbox sitting in your room and think, ah snips that will work!

I've done that too, but it wasn't in my room. I am not fortunate enough to have my own tool box.

[robotkayleigh]

...Google puts up the archives from 2001 and your first thought is to go and look up FIRST and your team's old website. (It's actually pretty cool.)

[ShotgunNinja]

You've posted in this thread at least 3 times.

[KarenH]

You've posted in this thread at least 3 times.
You read this post and think, "Only 3 times? That's not really overdosed!" :ahh:

[Anna B.]

When you are at a math meet in the middle of a round and suddenly you have a very strong urge to start screaming some robotics chant, but you have to suppress it!

[Cow Bell Solo]

...When you get people looking at you and you hear people wispering "Look at his hat" to one another. Because you are wearing your new(3rd) FIRST Hat that has fiberoptics in the logo that flash while you are walking around stores and parking lots.

...When you tell Radio Shack that they don't have the right type of resistor for your hat that has LEDs in it, and of course it is a robotics hat.

...When you are programming a Fantasy Robotics League Website during the entire Physics class in the classroom instead of working on your Forces packets that there will be a test on the next day on that stuff.

[EricH]

...When you are programming a Fantasy Robotics League Website during the entire Physics class in the classroom instead of working on your Forces packets that there will be a test on the next day on that stuff....When you need to remind Brandon to finish the CD version (http://www.chiefdelphi.com/fantasy/) so you (a scorer/draft runner for Season Long Fantasy FIRST) have an easier job.

...When you know that the CD version exists.

...When you are that into Fantasy FIRST...

[Cow Bell Solo]

...When you need to remind Brandon to finish the CD version (http://www.chiefdelphi.com/fantasy/) so you (a scorer/draft runner for Season Long Fantasy FIRST) have an easier job.

...When you know that the CD version exists.

...When you are that into Fantasy FIRST...

No I know that there is a CD version, but I am actually programming a website like people use for Fantasy Football, or Baseball, Hockey, etc. but FIRST Robotics. Sorry to say I think this will be better than CD's version as it will run like other Fantasy leagues(I hope). It all started at robotics banquet touring Medtronics facility and then joking with some others about seeing a worker adjusting their lineup, then that went into having a Fantasy Robotics, which lead me(the main and only programmer currently then on the team) to want to program that, then this summer learned two/three new languages (not all for the FR but some yes) and am currently programming the site. This first year I will just have our team test it out along with some of my friends that are interested that aren't even in FIRST , fix stuff from what they think and open it to the FIRST community the next. I know you will have to wait but I want it to be in good working order.

so if that doesn't explain my overdosing on FIRST I don't know what will.

[Bethany Mc.]

...when you look at a trackball enough times and think...i want to make my prom dress out of a trackball and dont care about the tread marks on it, because it gives it more "love":D

[EricH]

No I know that there is a CD version, but I am actually programming a website like people use for Fantasy Football, or Baseball, Hockey, etc. but FIRST Robotics. Sorry to say I think this will be better than CD's version as it will run like other Fantasy leagues(I hope). It all started at robotics banquet touring Medtronics facility and then joking with some others about seeing a worker adjusting their lineup, then that went into having a Fantasy Robotics, which lead me(the main and only programmer currently then on the team) to want to program that, then this summer learned two/three new languages (not all for the FR but some yes) and am currently programming the site. This first year I will just have our team test it out along with some of my friends that are interested that aren't even in FIRST , fix stuff from what they think and open it to the FIRST community the next. I know you will have to wait but I want it to be in good working order.

so if that doesn't explain my overdosing on FIRST I don't know what will.Hey, if it's good enough, maybe Brandon won't have to work as much--integrate the signup (the only thing currently working, apparently) from CD with your program, link it somewhere or something like that (or get it here), and boom! Fantasy FIRST, better than ever.

Just make sure to link it when it's ready...

[Cow Bell Solo]

Hey, if it's good enough, maybe Brandon won't have to work as much--integrate the signup (the only thing currently working, apparently) from CD with your program, link it somewhere or something like that (or get it here), and boom! Fantasy FIRST, better than ever.

Just make sure to link it when it's ready...

Trust me, once I get it working and am satisfied with it I will release it to the FIRST community for all to use cause wouldn't want to participate.

[Duncan Macdonald]

... you add metal supermarkets to your cell phone contacts.

[waiakea2024]

...every other word out of your mouth has something to do with FIRST...no matter what the conversation was about :D

[Cow Bell Solo]

When in your CIS History class your teacher says the year '1816' dealing with what he is teaching and you got so excited that you bursted out "The Green Machine". The teacher paused for a second but continued on and some of the kids just shake their heads at me(them not being in robotics but knows me and robotics and knew what I meant).

[Jreed129]

... you car a team uniform in your car just incase you need to give a presentation to a company to get another sponsor for you team.

[milliga9]

This one is more for the adults,

You plan your wedding for the holiday season because you know not as many team activities will be going on and then plan your honeymoon so you can be back in time for kick-off.

Who knew FIRST was such a good matchmaking organization :)

[Cow Bell Solo]

when you work on creating your pumkin design for halloween, and that design happens to be the FIRST Logo.

[vic burg]

.... when you have graduated 6 months ago, but you still go to your team meetings every week.

[wendymom]

This one is more for the adults,

You plan your wedding for the holiday season because you know not as many team activities will be going on and then plan your honeymoon so you can be back in time for kick-off.

Who knew FIRST was such a good matchmaking organization :)

When you are trying to convince your doctor that if he is going to do surgery then he needs to do it NOW......you need to be fully recovered by Jan 3rd!!!

[Spartan151]

...When you have an entire section of your team's robotics manual devoted to learning the appropriate way to dance to the music played at the regionals, specifically Cotton Eye Joe. We don't have this in ours....yet!

[EDIT]: Wow, I've succeeded in killing it for a few hours. Woohoo!

[waiakea2024]

When in your CIS History class your teacher says the year '1816' dealing with what he is teaching and you got so excited that you bursted out "The Green Machine". The teacher paused for a second but continued on and some of the kids just shake their heads at me(them not being in robotics but knows me and robotics and knew what I meant).

haha that is hilarious :D i can see myself doing something like that :D

[T3H_K3YM45T3R]

...you live off DIBS for the entire build season...



...My entire team lives off of dibs during build season.
and I just realized that DIBS doesn't seem very Gracious or Professional

[team1203 4life]

When you have a letterman jacket that says West Babylon Robotics
and
you have a countdown timer until the kickoff on your desktop

[Jreed129]

you have a countdown timer until the kickoff on your desktop

When you have a count down to kick-off on a teachers white board who isn't on the FIRST team:D

[Cow Bell Solo]

When you have a count down to kick-off on a teachers white board who isn't on the FIRST team:D

When I do that, the post above, wrote in my planner a countdown to kickoff, remind everyone whether on the team or not how many days to kickoff, have a program in your calculator that always counts down until kickoff when you turn it on. And I could keep going, I've been waiting for kickoff since we got last years game, I'm already counting down to next years kickoff: 52 days 17 hours 0 minutes 55 seconds to kickoff111 :eek:

[Cyberphil]

When you are dreaming about next years water-game, and you sketch drawings of the "Perfect Robot" for that game.

[hipsterjr]

...you have tried multiple times to convence your fiancie to let a past robot be the ring barer, or in the wedding period.

[Andrew Schreiber]

When on twitter the people you follow consist primarily of people from FRC teams across the nation. (http://twitter.com/aschreiber)

When a date with your gf consists of building a vex robot and discussing another vex robot with her father. Or for that matter, going to said gf's house and spending 2 hrs helping her dad debug code for his vex robot.

[mikecombes]

when you start making a vacume cleaner out of random shop pieces

[Mitch1525]

When you go shopping at Wet Seal and buy a robot shirt, wear it to a robotics meeting, and can't wait to show it to all your FIRST friends across the country : D

When you dress as a FIRSTer for Halloween and use colored Zip Ties to hold back your hair. **No one understodd what I was. I was sad.**

[Nin_estarSaerah]

When you have an AP US history test tomorrow, and, although you know you ought to be studying, you can't seem to tear yourself away from your PowerPoint presentation for potential sponsors. (The war of 1812 is irrelevant anyway, right?) :D

[Raumiester2010]

... when you are depressed that Facebook dosn't have an app that has the countdown to kickoff... (will someone make one of these?)

[Nin_estarSaerah]

... when you are depressed that Facebook dosn't have an app that has the countdown to kickoff... (will someone make one of these?)

I noticed this, but I did add a countdown application and set it for Kickoff, but it still isn't quite the same.

[ttldomination]

when you reach over the pick up an allen wrench, and you can tell whether or not the allen wrench is the correct size by simply touching it...

[blaxbb]

The plot-line of the movie Stealth reminds you of when you programmed autonomous.

[lasereyes]

The plot-line of the movie Stealth reminds you of when you programmed autonomous.

Oh my god! I just noticed that, and it's SO true! :ahh:

[pacoliketaco]

The plot-line of the movie Stealth reminds you of when you programmed autonomous.

wow. so true. i've been hurt so many times by our robots running wild in auto mode.

[Renee Becker-Blau]

When you're hearing all this talk about weddings, and you make sure to tell all your robotics friends that if anyone ever plans on proposing to you that it better be at the national competition.

[EricH]

When you're hearing all this talk about weddings, and you make sure to tell all your robotics friends that if anyone ever plans on proposing to you that it better be at the national competition.
Trying to one-up someone (http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/28748), huh?:p

[Renee Becker-Blau]

Trying to one-up someone (http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/28748), huh?:p

Nah, any robotics field is fine, as long as i can say, "I graciously accept" :p :yikes: But I have to say, that picture is adorable.

[Raumiester2010]

Man, whoever thought that up is my hero...

... when you are pumped up for atlanta... and it is still a month away from kickoff...

[Nin_estarSaerah]

When your non-FIRST friends know what 39 days, 12 hours, 19 minutes and 52 seconds means.
:D

[Cow Bell Solo]

When you are on CD and posting on CD at your cousins house on Thanksgiving. And when you tell your family about some stuff like Deans inventions and other stuff when you talk about things at the table. And many more things but then I would be on here for hours posting.

[Renee Becker-Blau]

You get into a huge fight with your parents because you think that "being to sick to go to school" is different from, "being to sick to go to robotics"....ggrrr

[Nate Smith]

You get into a huge fight with your parents because you think that "being to sick to go to school" is different from, "being to sick to go to robotics"....ggrrr

I actually got away with this once...had the day off school because I was getting all of my wisdom teeth taken out, but despite the painkillers, i still drove to the meeting at our sponsor that night...

[Renee Becker-Blau]

I actually got away with this once...

I was given an ultimatum, if I go, my dad wouldn't go.. and he was the mentor in charge of the preseason workshop today...

Thus the next best thing: surfing CD :D

[lingomaniac88]

When you start speculating on a game hint (http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/showthread.php?t=70443) that hasn't even been released yet.

[SCROSSLEY-GCEC]

VEX related technically but still...

when your parents think you're dating every guy in the robotics team
when you have to explain to all your non-robotics friends as to why you have a roll of duct-tape and zipties in your handbag
when it takes you five minutes to actually think of any non-robotics friends to justify the above
when your grandparents come to your house to visit and ask why you're at home
when your teachers have stopped asking why you werent in class
when you walk around the school quietly in a sleep-deprived state waiting for a class you can get away with skipping
when you sprint from one end of the school to the other (while recieving weird looks from everyone you pass) just to get that precious extra 2 minutes on the robot
when you and your team spend every lunchtime in the robotics room even when you have no robots to build
when your robotics mate's older sister (who happens to be your hero [other than Dean Kamen :L]) is standing right behind you and you dont even notice because of the heated discussion you're having with the mate on who's robot will be finished first
when you can write all this stuff even though you havent had your rookie FIRST competition yet
when you have heated debates over whether cardboard team signs in the VEX competitions have to be made of 'vex cardboard'
when you program your calculator so that you can make notes about robotics during math class (then i had to clear the memory for an exam and cant remember how i did it :()
when you complain that your internet cord doesnt stay in and all your friends immediately yell 'DUCT TAPE!'
when the one person who doesnt suggest duct tape starts explaining in great detail how you can fix it 'properly' and everyone stares at him like he's mad
when someone at an event hears you talking about Delphi and asks if you know who <insert screen name here> is.
when your immediate response to the above is 'well she IS my teammate. if you like i could recite you her weekly schedule'
when you've rebuilt your VEX robot so many times that you start informing everyone that when you finally get a FIRST number, your rebuild-count will be higher
when you walk into your class after lunch - late - wearing your safety glasses, because you forgot to trade them for your normal glasses, and have to run back to get them
when you dont care when everyone laughs at you for the above
when you log onto Chief Delphi in in the middle on the night and are disappointed to see the 'Nightly Backup' notice
when the seniors at your school go on study leave and you suddenly find yourself a loner because all your junior friends are non-robotics friends and refuse to hang out with you within a month of a VEX competition
when you dont care about the above and spend all lunch in the room anyway, fiddling with gear and tank-tracks
when you no longer laugh at the word 'joystick'
when doing a project on cults in english class, you seriously start to wonder if FIRST is a cult - then decide you wouldnt care even if it was
when you cant wait to get your team number so you can do the things that people posting here do
when the worst threat you can possibly make to someone is 'I wont give you the small allen key!!'
when you come up with detailed plan of how to survive six weeks at school so that you dont have to go home

[The great thing about liking someone in your robotics team is that they've already seen you at your worst, and you cant shock them with ANYTHING anymore :D]

[XXShadowXX]

Your computer has a countdown program telling you how many days, hours, minutes, and seconds until kick off and ship.

Your robotics friends constantly remind each other in the halls guess what XX days XX hours till ship!

You still arn't completely sure how many button you have becuase everytime you count them you find somemore

You sit in class reading wiring diagrams, and blueprints for silent reading. And your teachers don't ask anymore.

When you are called out of class the teachers just say, "Robotics?" And you nod.

You forgot about christmas and is more concerned about kickoff.

You have Chiefdelphi as your homepage.

Your calc. teacher directs question to you.

[The Megan 2207]

You make an enormous FIRST logo cookie for a Christmas gift.

[Raumiester2010]

... when you get depressed still thinking, darn, it's still 12 days, 23 hours, 59 minuets until kickoff starts

... when you have a ton of posters in your room and most of them are robotics related

... when just watching old 2006 videos get you so pumped for competition that you stay up until 2 in the morning just rocking back and forth trying to think of new ways to get the team out there and how to get more sponsors...

... when your robotics friends complement you on your newly dyed orange hair while your non robotics friends laugh at you, and you honestly don't care

[BlondeNerd]

You make an enormous FIRST logo cookie for a Christmas gift.

That cookie is epic!

[viperred396]

....when your a rookie at FIRST and your attempting to get all Six weeks of homework done over winter break

[phencer42]

When a game hint is posted, and in less than 1 week there are over 500 replies.

...you hit the refresh button constantly within the first week just to see how much the page number increases per minute.

[Aurent]

-when your more excited about kickoff than christmas and new years

[Mrashes]

... you know Gracious Professionalism isn't just a buzz word, its a way of life

[NorviewsVeteran]

-when your more excited about kickoff than christmas and new years

I plead guilty

-When you start sketching ideas for the robot in geometry so the teacher thinks you're doing the work

[Renee Becker-Blau]

You make sure you have a zip tie on your christmas tree.

[Cow Bell Solo]

That cookie is epic!

I totally agree, and the cookie tasted awesome!! (I wish I didn't have to eat it, I wish I could of kept it :( , but oh well)

[Torboticsmember]

When talking to your friend, who is the former captain of your team, and you think about having a FIRST Robotics themed role playing game. And even go as far as creating the name Dungeons & Dean.

[Raumiester2010]

... when you start poling the War Craft 3 community if they know about FIRST then get excited when one of them has heard about it.

[robonerd13]

...you know youve overdosed on FIRST when it:
FIRST comes up in normal conversation

CD is the top bookmark because you use it so much

You spend all your free time in the robotics room trying to fix last years robot, getting the camera to work, figuring out what the clues mean, and reading CD posts.

=] ~~this is all me~~ =]

[ComradeNikolai]

-when your more excited about kickoff than christmas and new years

When, for you, Kickoff is New Year's Day.

[MishraArtificer]

... when you start poling the War Craft 3 community if they know about FIRST then get excited when one of them has heard about it.


...when you take this idea to the Diablo II community after reading about it here! (I don't suppose you play DII also?)

[Booksy]

-when your more excited about kickoff than christmas and new years

Holy Crap, Christmas:eek: , I totally forgot! I still haven't gotten any presents!

Oh well, at least the robot's prepped.:)

[ExarKun666]

You spend all your free time in the robotics room trying to fix last years robot, getting the camera to work, figuring out what the clues mean, and reading CD posts.


^
|
To true, I do that a lot. You know you've overdosed on FIRST when you invent a game of your own, and actually start programming for it, and pretend that you only have six weeks to finish it, just to pass the time (six weeks to be exact)

[16MentalTempest]

1. Chief Delphi is your homepage
2. You have more visits per day to CD than to either Myspace or I Can Has Cheezburger.
3. You get the music from the 'Life is full of firsts' video stuck in your head.
4. You open 3DS Max more times in one week than any computer/console game you own.

I'm guilty of all of these. I just watched the above mentioned video, and I had that gut feeling of both nostalgia and longing for kickoff to hurry up and get here! I need to get up and go to the high school at 5:30, but I'm sure I'll never get any sleep beforehand.

[kgzak]

CD is the top bookmark because you use it so much



Top Bookmark???? its my homepage!!!! (not really) ;)

[NoahTheBoa]

Top Bookmark???? its my homepage!!!! (not really) ;)

CD actually is my homepage for build season

[Cow Bell Solo]

CD actually is my homepage for build season

Just build season, CD IS my homepage year round, 24-7, why wouldn't it be.

[Raumiester2010]

1. Chief Delphi is your homepage
2. You have more visits per day to CD than to either Myspace or I Can Has Cheezburger.
3. You get the music from the 'Life is full of firsts' video stuck in your head.
4. You open 3DS Max more times in one week than any computer/console game you own.

I'm guilty of all of these. I just watched the above mentioned video, and I had that gut feeling of both nostalgia and longing for kickoff to hurry up and get here! I need to get up and go to the high school at 5:30, but I'm sure I'll never get any sleep beforehand.

Huh, so i'm not the only one doing that...

And


...when you take this idea to the Diablo II community after reading about it here! (I don't suppose you play DII also?)

Sorry, no i don't. i prefer RTS games to FPS.

[ZInventor]

-when your more excited about kickoff than Christmas and new years

Christmas and new years? what's that... the only holiday i can think of for a month in either direction is kickoff... am i missing something huge?

oh, wait, my outlook calendar has them listed too, i wonder what they are?

time for wiki!!!

but first, time for caffeine...

-Z

[Doctorwho]

When you think of making an Overdrive level for LittleBigPlanet

[Doctorwho]

When you think of making an Overdrive level for LittleBigPlanet

[The Megan 2207]

You take all the stickers from the KoP and affix them to anything you can (I currently have a couple Jaguar stickers in my room).

Or when a few members of your team fight over who gets the stickers...

[Nin_estarSaerah]

when your family gets you a toolkit for christmas....and its like the coolest present ever.

[Karibou]

...You're playing on your Wii and your Mii has yellow and black* clothing
...you're talking to one of your friends about how amazing the Wii Fit is, and you find out that her Mii is yellow and black too.

*We on 1189 are too obsessed with our team colors for our own good...even my shoes/laces are imagery compliant!

[Cow Bell Solo]

When for the past few years(since joining robotics mainly) you ask for tools for you birthday and Christmas as they both happen right before kickoff and think of what tools you need for robotics on what you want.

[Dan2081]

When you get on CD before opening presents on christmas morning

[samir13k]

the electrical guy just got done looking at the electrical panel model in inventor, and goes to build the actual thing. So he walks up to a mechanical guy, and without even realizing at first says "how could i constraint this?" (True Story lol):rolleyes:

[sayso_411]

when you see safety glasses hovering infront of you constantly even if you are not wearing them

[gorrilla]

when you have the Overdrive buzzer sounds mixed into songs on your ipod.......



anyone else have the little mixer for the ipod classic? its so cool:D

[Electrical1764]

I was sitting in traffic with one of my friends and the car in front of us is not moving, and it should be. He suggests: "Bump to pass"...he was not joking.

[robonerd13]

You take all the stickers from the KoP and affix them to anything you can (I currently have a couple Jaguar stickers in my room).

Or when a few members of your team fight over who gets the stickers...

OMG!!!!! I have done this sooo many times!!!! :yikes:

[robonerd13]

when you believe that the best smells are freshly cut metal, and fresh sawdust

AXEL GREASE AND THE ORANGE SOAPY STUFF! <3

[hihihiflcl81pig]

When you:
-Pull out your graphing calculator after a test to graph, while everyone else is playing games on theirs.
-When you figure out the equation to allow any pair of wheels on your soon to be omni-bot to be at full power in Language Arts.
-When you are proud to say that you have successfully programmed a prime number generator on your graphing calculator.
-Don't pay attention in Math and Science classes since you have already learned it in two months after school last year.

[thehurd03]

When You can't sleep because your anticipating kickoff.

When the air coming out of your car vents starts smelling like a machine shop, and instead of getting worried you take a big whiff and think about kickoff!

[Bananna]

...your various account passwords contain your team number.
...you're on winter break in China, and stay home reading this thread rather than going to see the Olympic stadium.

[ZInventor]

AXEL GREASE AND THE ORANGE SOAPY STUFF! <3

no, Dykum (the red stuff used to mark metal...)

that stuff's trippy... jk, always wear a respirator, or at least a mask...

[Anna B.]

...when your parents get you safety glasses for Christmas

[lasereyes]

AXEL GREASE AND THE ORANGE SOAPY STUFF! <3

YES! BEST SOAP EVER!!!! :D

[thehurd03]

when your mentors are trying to get you to stop working on the robot so you will eat, and you say "just one more bolt!"

[sayso_411]

When FRC Kickoff Year means more than New Year

[Madification]

-when you copy and send this to your friend cause you can relate to almost every one
-when you just love hearing the word robot
-when around your team, non-robotics personel have no idea what you are talking about either due to the inside jokes or robot lingo
-Your coaches don't call you by your actual name anymore, just the robotics nickname
-when your parents finally stop asking what time they should expect you home and just ask for you to let them know when you're leaving the school
-When you develope a twitch during off season

I FREAKING LOVE FIRST ROBOTICS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Otaku]

When you walk into your house at 10pm and your mom asks where you've been since 6am and all you can do is grin and say "It's build season".


When your mom understands completely.

[AlexD744]

-When you go to your first competition (even off season) and come back with 4 hours of sleep
-When your non-robotic freinds don't understand half the jokes you tell
-When you start Christmas break thinking kickoff is almost here
-When you stay up til 2 on Cheif Delphi despite the fact that you have a Bio Project Due the next day (and history homework)
-That remonds me; I gotta get to work

[The Pre]

-you take speed reading classes in the off season just so you can get through CD threads or the rule manual faster
-you're on CD instead of sleeping
-your dates with your significant other (not your robot) happen at build sessions during FIRST season

[Cow Bell Solo]

-All during kickoff with all the speeches you say "that must be a game hint" and basically all the ones you pointed out, did have a good connection to the game(even the not so settle ones that they said)
-When you got no sleep the night before kickoff because you are to excited, editing and placing member photos on your website that you just took, and more and yet I'm on CD after 1 in the morning and show no signs of stopping soon.
-When it was the day or two before New Years and people ask what are you doing, and then you reply I forgot that there is a new years because I've been thinking too much about the Robotics Kickoff.
-When the janitors at school have stopped asking you WHY you need to get into the tech ed room because you have asked many times before and have answered Robotics.
-When you make sure you have a new, full ink cartrages for printing of the manual, and other related forms for kickoff.
-Don't know why you are on this late without sleep for the past like 39 hours
-Are going to work on the remaining member photos you got today for website and upload photos to website from kickoff tonight, I guess now this morning.
-Think that you should stop this but you can't, but now I am

[SCROSSLEY-GCEC]

when you stay up til 4am on January 4th because that is when the Live Kick-off Webcast starts (NZ Time - GMT +12 - go figure)
when the Kick-off you stayed up insistently for is for a competition that you dont compete in un til June :p

[Darkcrosbone]

... when your room is littered with machine parts and your sleeping with a screwdriver and sautering iron (<--- i'm pretty sure that's spelt wrong) in your hand next to your robot

[Delia]

when you hear it's going to snow and you say "it had better not! we can't miss another day of build for SNOW!"

your family stops asking where you'll be or what you're doing.

your physics teacher teaches a lesson about the cofficient of friction and you say "that's lunacy!" and start laughing hysterically while everyone just stares at you and wonders if you need a doctor (you do).

all things moon related make you start thinking about the cRIO.

[XXShadowXX]

You cleaned your room and found; a spike, 2 t joints for pneumatic tubing, and a 30 amp fuse.

[SWIM]

When you have nighmares about rule G14

[dragonrulr288]

~when you wake up late, realise its sat., and you have missed an hour of robotics (I love robodawgs ♥). you then proceed to bike an hour in 6 or so inches of snow to get to the last half hour of robotics
~when in your first competition, you see Wo-Bot. your first impression is "AWW!!! HES SOOOOO CUTE!"
~when you get a stomachache when you dont have pizza and coke for lunch.
~when you realise that many of the new rules come from past events from your team (ehhehe)
~when you have a bag full of sharpies, alen wrenches, 3 pairs of saftey goggles, multiple nuts, screws, ect. , and 20 of your teams buttons taking over your school bag. you decide that your textbooks really arent that important.
~when you get multiple tools for christmas and are overjoyed
~when its a snow day and your sister complains about missing a feild trip. you begin to bawl hysterically because robotics is cancelled.

[smurfgirl]

~when you realise that many of the new rules come from past events from your team (ehhehe)

When you think your team/you are the cause of so many new rules... because basically every memory you have is about FIRST. (I promise though, it really wasn't us who caused these rules.)

[Dantvman27]

when you wake up at all hours of the night with new ideas for robot designs, right them down, then cant sleep because they arent perfect


when you wake up in the moring and cant interpret what you put down for a robot idea last night and it bugs you all day


when you finally remember what your notes ment way after the meeting when its no longer relivent

[pacoliketaco]

~when its a snow day and your sister complains about missing a feild trip. you begin to bawl hysterically because robotics is cancelled.

when your school cancels all after school activities, and you immediately text your robotics teammates that our meetings cannot be canceled.

[The Megan 2207]

You leave your house to go to school and your cat looks at you funny and tries to follow you (like she always does). You tell her, "Sorry, you can't come with me. I'm going to go home now."

(Yes, I have conversations with my cats)

[fishgurl]

-When you find it more practical to pitch a tent in the shop and sleep there
-You and your team cry when you get a new school building, and have a shop no more
-You switch from going door to door to sell Girl Scout cookies to asking for money for robotics

[ZakuAce]

The first thing you think of when you wake up is "What am I going to do at robot club today?", spend 15 minutes thinking about it, find yourself wide awake, look at the clock and find it is only 5:00am and you should sleep for another hour. But there is no way THATS going to happen.

[smurfgirl]

(Yes, I have conversations with my cats)

Maybe the problem here is on a more fundamental level than just "overdosing on FIRST"? ;)

[Delia]

You leave your house to go to school and your cat looks at you funny and tries to follow you (like she always does). You tell her, "Sorry, you can't come with me. I'm going to go home now."

(Yes, I have conversations with my cats)


SIMILAR STORY (well not really but it also involves cats):

when you can't say goodbye to your 40 inch trackball from overdrive (named Clyde) so you bring it home and leave it in your room, only to find that your cat has made it his new bed. :D

[lingomaniac88]

...and find it is only 5:00am and you should sleep for another hour. But there is no way THATS going to happen.
You know you've overdosed on FIRST when you don't even know what the word "sleep" means.

[NorviewsVeteran]

You know you've overdosed on FIRST when you don't even know what the word "sleep" means.

Until the second the robot ships, and then you remember they joy of it.

[rbrown1]

Your wife becomes a robot widow so that you can help mentor a team and she agrees to officially move Valentines day till after the build season.

[nevereverregret]

you dont see your family anymore... and forgot your dogs name