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

[Jreed129]

Being the good kid you are you call your mom everyday when you get to school and tell her your home*.....


(*only tends to happen during build season)

[dragonrulr288]

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

lol this truely happened to me!!!


and i donno who said it, but the one about pitching a tent at the build site... I considered sleeping in a bed of duct tape (we had used and crumpled up) and staying there all night, telling stories to our robot. lol
:D

oh, and when you are inside your build site so much you forget you have 1+ feet of snow.. or what snow is....

[rotolomi]

... when your world history teacher reads the class an opinion editorial article and when it mentions Dean Kamen you excitedly turn to the 2 kids in your class on your robotics team and all exchange huge smiles. and you all have to refrain from jumping out of your seat and screaming "YES! FIRST DOMINATES ALL!!!" :D

(heres the link)
FIRST DOMINATES ALL!!! (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/11/opinion/11friedman.html?_r=1)

[Robert Cawthon]

When your kids join robotics just to remember what you look like.:eek:

[rotolomi]

...when your world history teacher is reading the class an opinion editorial about the economy and teacher salaries and youre not really paying attention but when the article mentions dean kamen, you excitedly look at the other 2 kids from the robotics team and exchange huge smiles. and youre so excited that you must refrain from jumping out of your seat and screaming, "FIRST ROX UR SOX OFF! I LOVE DEAN KAMEN!!!" :D

[techsupport07]

-when you set your alarm to wake up at 4:30 so you can get into the shower before anyone else.
-when you hear the words woodie or flowers and think "gracious professionalism."
-when you are in math class, someone yells out a number and you wonder where that team is from.

[XXShadowXX]

when ever you get a answer for math homework you wonder what their name is and were their from....

You told your new members about buttons, and they go i can keep them in ziplock sandwitch bag, you laugh and don't tell why...

[dragonrulr288]

-when you are constantally looking at the clock to see your team's number that will never show (2:88)

[amariealbrecht]

when you carry a pair of pink safety glasses in your purse at all times and offer them to students who you feel need to be safe...haha

when all you do is talk about robo in comp sci

when you get to school and the first thing you realize is that you did none of your homework because you were on chief delphi all night

when i got caught working on fleece designs and sweatpant designs for our team in history class

when you text inside robo jokes to friends

when you go to school and want to wear pink tights underneath your skirt instead of the white ones (probs on the Robettes...katy?)

more to come...

[andrew348]

-your parents just assume you will be home around 10pm every night
-your diet for six weeks is pizza.
-you spend eight hours trying to find orbit balls
-you can't think of anything to do after build season because you are just so use to Robotics
-Chief Delphi is a quick link on your browser
-you have a long list of Robotics quotes that seem to last forever

[647techangel]

when you think about failing on purpose to do another year of FIRST

[no.1manenti]

When you reply to this original post

[IndySam]

When you go to AndyMark to pick up parts and end up staying for an hour and helping them unpack 1200 wheel bearings.

[BrentJ]

When you see the roman numerals "VI" on a website and instantly think of Labview.:yikes:

[Jon Stratis]

When someone at work asks if you spent more time on project X, project Y, or Robotics this week... and he already knows the answer.

[lingomaniac88]

when ever you get a answer for math homework you wonder what their name is and were their from....
How about this:
...whenever you get an answer for math homework you KNOW what their name is and where they're from.

[Maxpower57]

You definitely know you've overdosed on first when you wash the aluminum shavings off your hands AFTER you eat dinner.


saftey first

[The Megan 2207]

You definitely know you've overdosed on first when you wash the aluminum shavings off your hands AFTER you eat dinner.


saftey first

Or you just don't wash the aluminum shavings off your hands at all. They'll be covered in aluminum shavings again in 10 minutes anyway.

[smurfgirl]

I think MIT has been overdosing on FIRST today. I was handing out our class of 2012 sweatshirts at an event today, and I had CD open on my laptop. Someone waiting for their sweatshirt walks up, goes "SWEET, Chief Delphi, anything new?", and proceeds to open up a few threads. Then, while I was walking down my hall in my dorm, I passed a group of people discussing the merits of shooters vs. dumpers and what will be more effective in the 2009 game. I love MIT. (:

[NorviewsVeteran]

I love MIT. (:

When you plan on stapling your extra-curricular activities (most of which begin with a capitol F) in front of the page with your GPA on your application to MIT for a couple of reasons: 1: To impress the people who read it and 2: in hopes that the printer runs out of ink before it gets to the GPA page.

Put in a good word for me?:)

[Cow Bell Solo]

when you leave your home (the place where your family lives) and say goodbye, I'm going home (referring to school cause of robotics) without really realizing that you just did that.

[Kal-c]

...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

[Joe G.]

When you kept flipping back to chiefdelphi out of habit yesterday.

[Darkcrosbone]

when you stay up all night to check who will post the answer you need on Chief Delphi:yikes:

[phencer42]

When you put your clock to military time just so you can see your team number once a day.:rolleyes:

[dragonrulr288]

When you put your clock to military time just so you can see your team number once a day.:rolleyes:

i tried this... sadly the day will never come when i see my team number on a clock... :(
2:88 never shows up... i always wait for it though!!

[Nathan Streeter]

When you have a FIRST game piece as part of your room's furniture... Ever since 2005 I've had a blue tetra from an official field in my room.

I've found it makes an excellent place to toss hoodies or drying towels! I'm actually kinda curious to see how many other people have game pieces in their room...

[roboraven15]

when your heating/ frying day old krispy kreme donuts on a scrap peice of aluminum on a hot plate.

[Michelle692]

i tried this... sadly the day will never come when i see my team number on a clock... :(
2:88 never shows up... i always wait for it though!!

Same here! I will always wait for 6:92... which will also never come...

so instead I stopped the stopwatch feature on my watch to exactly 6.92 seconds! (and refuse to use it to time anything because I don't want to mess it up!)

[Raumiester2010]

When you have a FIRST game piece as part of your room's furniture... Ever since 2005 I've had a blue tetra from an official field in my room.

I've found it makes an excellent place to toss hoodies or drying towels! I'm actually kinda curious to see how many other people have game pieces in their room...

well i'v got about 3 poof balls in my room from '06 (and i wasnt even on the team that year...) wish i had a tetra though. wonder if my mentors would let me build one in our shop... probably not...


...when you continue to brave the cold inside our shop to keep coming to 9-5 meetings on Saturdays (darn GM weekend shutdowns... seems just the area we are in is cold...)


and i too wait for 68 but it too will never come... but i continue to laugh whenever i see 1114 on the clock

[dragonrulr288]

When you have a FIRST game piece as part of your room's furniture... Ever since 2005 I've had a blue tetra from an official field in my room.

I've found it makes an excellent place to toss hoodies or drying towels! I'm actually kinda curious to see how many other people have game pieces in their room...

LUCKY! i wish i had a tetra in my room! (i wasnt even in that year...)
no, i cleaned my room the other day and found a whole bunch of screws, nuts, bolts, ect.. in my room

[Xizkos]

-You sketch robot/electrical designs for fun when you're bored.
-When you close your eye's at night, and dream that you're back at Nationals.
-When you choose your class/job schedule just to accommodate FIRST.
-When it's 3am and you're still working on the Electronics Board :D

[dragonrulr288]

when you have gone from drawing dragons to Robotic dawgs in less than one month of joining robotics

[Azure Kite]

Right when you close your eyes, you start imagining your robot being destroyed in various ways.

[Brandon_L]

When you watch "I, robot" and wonder if your bot could do that.

[Mikesername]

When you watch "I, robot" and wonder if your bot could do that.

I think someone caught I, Robot on FX tonight ;)

I did too, and the whole time I was thinking "dude.. I wonder if that would be legal"

[Jreed129]

When you watch "I, robot" and wonder if your bot could do that.

I think someone caught I, Robot on FX tonight ;)

I did too, and the whole time I was thinking "dude.. I wonder if that would be legal"

Kind of funny because I was watching too and thinking.....

how long it would be until we can create adaptive intelligence in computers?

[Anna B.]

When you are learning about the Constitution and you keep applying it to FIRST. The Constitution would be the rules, the Amendments the Team Updates, the Supreme Court cases would be the Q&A, and the founding fathers the GDC

Only, I don't think they sent out game hints...

[J-Mech]

When you miss fighting about designs only to have both of them fail.

[pacoliketaco]

when doing a sideshow for a school project that depicts yourself growing up, the second half contains almost nothing but robotics pictures...

[freaky_dork88]

Or you just don't wash the aluminum shavings off your hands at all. They'll be covered in aluminum shavings again in 10 minutes anyway.

aluminum shavings make you GROWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!

[lingomaniac88]

Only, I don't think [the Founding Fathers] sent out game hints...
Actually, they did. At one point the Founding Fathers sent out a painting of a slave sitting in front of 3/5 of a cake.

[Doctorwho]

- You have AutoCAD inventor on your PC

- Your Backpack is covered in team buttons

[BeyondReality]

When, playing combat dodgeball in PE, you keep thinking about making a robot that could grab bottles from the baskets, pick up small balls from the floor and hurl them at others.....and that had to be legal, meaning you can't extend beyond the perimeter of the box!
(I was slightly alarmed when that happened to me :D )

[ZInventor]

When you put your clock to military time just so you can see your team number once a day.:rolleyes:

grrr, my team's 2915... don't we all wish there were that many hours in a day!!!!!!

-Z

[ZInventor]

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

I've had that one happen,

same when they got me a USB mouse that fits on your finger!!!

the stuff in the background of the pic (attached) were also great x-mas presents, the redish thing is a Korg KP3, and the thing with all the knobs is a BCDJ3000 usb dj controller...

fun for robotics, as it outputs in usbmidi, which the control system can read...

plus, who wants to work on cad without music...

-Z

[fordchrist675]

I've had that one happen,

same when they got me a USB mouse that fits on your finger!!!

the stuff in the background of the pic (attached) were also great x-mas presents, the redish thing is a Korg KP3, and the thing with all the knobs is a BCDJ3000 usb dj controller...

fun for robotics, as it outputs in usbmidi, which the control system can read...

plus, who wants to work on cad without music...

-Z

Haha!

Same here, my got me a really nice caliper set, and some ball end allen wrenches. Only problem I forgot them in Utah =[

[Pelleti93]

...You discover FIRST is the only place where Robo Dawgs don't chase X-Cats and X-Cats don't chase Rat Packs.
...Your digital camera happens to target MOE rather than the other green object you want.
...You actually understand the words coming out of an engineer's mouth.
...you swear basketball refs should throw flags instead of blowing wistles.
...You remember the days when a final score of 50-40 was 90 big ones.
...Grasshoppers are harder to squish.
...you have once seen a gila monster in the Flordia everglades.
...You tell your friends Aladdin was Scrabian.
...You constantly sing, "Wild Stang" no matter what your friends say it's supost to be.
...You have never, ever, ever forgotten what the Wo-Bot looks like.
...You get the Smile of team 1 and the Smile of team 175 mixed up all the time.
...Elite is spelt E.L.I.T.E.
...Newbies are cool.
...The best way to lose weight is to drill holes.
...You have a n.e.r.d number
...Tripplets is another word for colaboration.
...When you still live with your team after you've graduated.
...The Pits are the best place to find friends.
...Pink is an acceptable color for guys.
...you think and/or know Nerds are sexy.
...You've GOT to have a picture taken with Dean, Woodie or Dave.
...You want your school to provide less money so your team can play in the Vex tournament rather than FRC.
...You wish you were 10 years old again so you could play in the Lego Leauge.
...You act different.

...You've GOT to have a picture taken with Dean, Woodie and/or Dave.

[GillSt.Bernards]

When you are best friends with the janitors because you are still there when you are building

When you get to see the janitors leave and you are still at school not planning on leaving yet

[GillSt.Bernards]

You need something to hold your hair up after you spent an all nighter at school so you use a screwdriver

[dragonrulr288]

you walk to school in the morning with saftey glasses on, and noone thinks its abnormal

[NorviewsVeteran]

There are more safety glasses on your dresser than in the shop from accidentally bringing them to your house.

[dragonrulr288]

having no life cuz you are at robotics all the time. friends and family have forgotten my number, cuz i never answer my phone


you know the build site's number by heart, but not your own cell

[5n1p3r]

When you dont get home till around 9 each night, school or no school, and you find yourself to be looking forward to the next day because your hoping your robot will be done by then
When you get really excited and yell random YES's when something gets done right
When you lookk at anything mechanical and imagine what type and how much programming went in to making it

[Jreed129]

...the first "person/people" to wish you happy birthday is chiefdelphi.....

[ZInventor]

you walk to school in the morning with saftey glasses on, and noone thinks its abnormal

or you get discounts at the local hardware store cuz you were wearing safety goggles and way too much tech gear...

-Z

[rotolomi]

... when you get a pink hexbug for christmas and you just think it's the cutest thing. (it's the one bug i'm not scared of!) :D

[samir13k]

When you waited a week to get the 1501st post since it is your team number only to miss it because you were wiring a practice bot!

[ZInventor]

When you waited a week to get the 1501st post since it is your team number only to miss it because you were wiring a practice bot!

well, we have alot of catching up to do then, since i'm eagarly waiting to post the 2915th post!!!!

Hello everyone, my name is Z, and i overdosed on FIRST.

[ZInventor]

When you're sad that this thread dropped off the list on the CD homepage!!!!!

-Z

[carolynn4848]

I'm waiting to be post 1735.

[demosthenes2k8]

Post 166 has been long past...cry

When you look at a robot in a game or movie and wince at how much programming would go into its AI. (WOPR, I'm looking at you and your unrealistic-at-the-time AI!)

[pacoliketaco]

...You've GOT to have a picture taken with Dean, Woodie and/or Dave.

When you already have a picture with Dean and Dave, and now NEED to go to Atlanta to get one with Woodie.

when you followed Dave through the pits in order to get to a clearing for a picture.

as for the WOPR, i really wondered why there was about 1000 flashing lights on it. it did not seem like they could be interpreted in any way for anything useful.

[demosthenes2k8]

"Greetings Professor Falken

A strange game.
The only winning move is not to play.

How about a nice game of chess?"
ilshifoomsad...but I never got the point of them either...OMG! It's binary! Better read fast!


...when Chief Delphi is your homepage.

[ZInventor]

...when Chief Delphi is your homepage.

or when chiefdelphi, firstawards, your team blog and website, first forums, andymark and a few other tech sites make up your homepage tabs...

-Z

[SlaminSwimster]

when you watch the FIRST video during kickoff and realize numerous members of your team are in it

[ZInventor]

no fair, we thought we were in it (some of our members came from another team), but later found out it was another team...

[Zipding]

You know your overdosed on FIRST when most of your favourites are Chiefdelphi threads

[Cow Bell Solo]

When pizza hut stops calling your phone when they go to deliver to the address of your location to ask where exactly you are, what door to go into, and everything else, and then also bring plates and crushed pepper and parmasan cheese topping when we had never gotten that before. Lets just say lots of pizza has been ordered.

[Zipding]

You know you're overdosed on FIRST when you tear apart robots from past years to build the new one

When you're on Chiefdelphi during EVERY SINGLE ROBOTICS MEETING

[phencer42]

You know you're overdosed on FIRST when you tear apart robots from past years to build the new one

When you're on Chiefdelphi during EVERY SINGLE ROBOTICS MEETING

Guilty as charged. :D

[Mish Mooney]

When someone ask's you: "what's today's date?" and you automatically reply 329. Last year, at the SPBLI Regional, the final day was our teams date. And we're proud to say when they annoucned the chairman's award winner, they ended the speech with "there's only one question to end this with; what's today's date?" Twas an amazing day.

[nathanww]

...you hear something non-robot-related, and get completely confused because you're brain is still trying to relate it to FIRST.(i.e.today someone mentioned getting a new trackball for his computer--my first mental image was of a giant red Overdrive ball sitting next to it)

You find yourself conversing entirely in C++("Okay, it's while targetAquired...no, ParticleAnalysisReport declaratiog at the if boundary")

[SammyKay]

when you sit on Chief Delphi refreshing every few seconds to read the new quote they have for Valentine's Day on the top of the page, reading aloud to your mother and sister, and then putting it on your facebook (http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/profile.php?id=590072353&ref=name) in your quotations part of your profile :)

[vic burg]

....it's been a year since you had your blue hair, and even though you are no longer part of a team, you want to dye it blue JUST because you're volunteering at a regional.
....you're volunteering at a regional even though you are no longer part of a team.

[Trying to Help]

The guys on your team are trying to order pizza using C++ and they're arguing about the best code, not the best pizza place!

Trying to Help

[mizscience]

You start suffering from what I call "post-robot ship syndrome". Something that has consumed your life the past 6 weeks is gone, just like that, you worry about things like FedEx trucks spontaneously combusting, and (best case scenario) you're left for at least ~1.5 weeks with a mediocre stand-in [aka a practice bot] :]

[synth3tk]

...someone asks you about FIRST over TeamSpeak, you start going nuts explaining the program, it's founders, the fun, the stress, then linking them to your team website and the current year's animation.

[Renee Becker-Blau]

you start drooling over all the pictures of the new 09 robots.

[smurfgirl]

....it's been a year since you had your blue hair, and even though you are no longer part of a team, you want to dye it blue JUST because you're volunteering at a regional.


Yes.

[JYang]

when you hear "I Wanna" by AAR and can picture the robot youtube video made for your team....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cz8PktQikng&feature=channel_page

[XXShadowXX]

The response 'magic' doesn't cut it to the old question 'how does that work?'

[ZInventor]

but, magic blue smoke does :) ...

lol... everyone knows that all electronics are powered by magic blue smoke, and if the blue smoke decides to come out of the electronics, then it just don't work no more...

-Z

[Raumiester2010]

when you watch the FIRST video during kickoff and realize numerous members of your team are in it

when you sit watching it repeatedly, searching for a fermilliar face

or

when you get all pumped just from seeing pictures of Atlanta :cool:

[dragonrulr288]

when you go and play lasertag with annother Robotics team [W00T GO WOBOTS!!!!] and include several chants... [lets go red team! *clap clap clapclapclap*]

[Kimmeh]

When driving home from a competition at 11pm, you look up at the drivers GPS and you see the vision target.


A team member and I were in the back seat on our laptops, I glance up at our mentors GPS, it outlines the road in the same shade of pink...and all I saw was the vision target, for close to a minute.

[Lynx]

-You hear a number, any number, and you look down to see a scouting sheet with their info.
-You feel naked without your safety goggles.
-You memorized the pit.

(note: 1 and 3 of those are scout/strategist specific)

[GreerD]

When you suddenly realize you're on an alliance with 71 against 1114 and 217 in the Championship finals... And wake up in Health class.

[dragonrulr288]

when you try to plug your laptop into the washer to try to get your laundry to start.. the stupid programming must have been erased............

[Creator Mat]

When told that there is no meetings you don't know what to do with the free time but try and build a robot

then the day after shipping you finish your last class and think to yourself "O.K. I finished my last class of the day...(stand at locker for a few minutes) what do i have next... (1 min later)... o YEA i get to go home and have life"

[Kimmeh]

When you still can't accept the fact that you're not going to nationals. And it's not because you had an awesome robot or because you felt you "deserved" to go. When it's because your schedule just opened up and you don't know what you'll do with all that free time...

When you get home from a competition and need a tool and you turn to grab it from it's location in the pits.

When you reference the number of safety tokens you earned to a FIRST team. (We had 47 :D )

When you know you're going to spend 3 days on your feet, you're going to lose your voice, run on sugar and adrenaline, eat the world's worst food for your body, and get NO sleep, and you know that you'll still be fine.

When you've considered a failing your senior year to spend another year with your team. (Instead, I think I might take a gap year between hs and college.)

[pacoliketaco]

When you know you're going to spend 3 days on your feet, you're going to lose your voice, run on sugar and adrenaline, eat the world's worst food for your body, and get NO sleep, and you know that you'll still be fine.

after two regionals back to back, i felt so horrible. but its always worth it, but wow does your body start to hurt after not eating real food for awhile. i think i would have fallen asleep while driving if it want for adrenaline.

[NorviewsVeteran]

You replaced the picture of your girlfriend on your phone's background for one of your robot.

[dragonrulr288]

lol this one is my coach's!

at the airport, when talking on the phone with annother mentor, talking about the B.O.M. [bill of materials] and having security pass you. you pronounce B.O.M. as the word bomb. security.. well, isnt very happy with you!

[typharn91]

when your at work and every other total your almost positive is a team that was at the regional you went to or one you watched the webcast of

[PlatyPi Gunner]

-when you close your eyes and see robots running into each other
-when you still think winning your first regional was just a dream
-when upsetting the 1 seed as 8 seed and winning said regional made your more excited then when you beat your HS football rival for the first time in 11 years

[NorviewsVeteran]

When you catch a bit of a football game in the hotel lobby, see the coach on the sideline, and think, "Hey, where are his safety glasses?!"

[ezygmont708]

When you Stay up all night writing grant applications to various organizations, get dressed, go to work, and realize that it is Sunday when you set off the Alarm!!!

48 Hours without sleep and still writing... and it's almost coherent!!!:yikes:

[Cascade]

When you have worn a hole in the arena floor from the pacing back and forth hoping you are watching your first regional win ever!

Oh my aching feet!

[Neidi Poole]

you spell ATLANTA in all caps

you pray for the competition and your entire class knows what you are talking about because you've said it so many times

[ZInventor]

When it takes having the regional director of your FIRST program giving you a hug as you high-five the judges to make you realize YOU'RE GOING TO ATLANTA... (and, as a plus, you have tears of joy pouring off your face the whole time)

Thanks Deb !!!! (Debra Mumm-Hill is the Pacific Northwest regional director)

http://riverdalerobotics.com/images/person3.jpg

[nathanww]

...When you wake up at 1 in the morning, scribble a note about debugging image processing on your arm, and fall back asleep

...when you're convinced that your robot is actually plotting against you

...when you decide that a cRIO isn't that bad of a pillow after all

[cpeister]

When your friends get angry with you because you are constantly talking about robotics. They end up abandoning the few of you that are on the team and walk away. They also get angry when facebook threads get overrun with robotics talk.

[kgzak]

When you get a toolbox for christmas and immediately say "this won't hold all my tools"

Your teacher says this isn't rocket science and you think to yourself "rocket science is easier"

when the robotics season is over you go home and build your own robot because you have nothing better to do.

you think in if statements

[katd30]

On your 8 hour drive back from Atlanta you begin re-writing songs to have FIRST related lyrics
(We started with the 12 Days of Competition and Dean Had a Little Plan, which were the 2 remotely decent ones, and progressed on to Oops I Broke the Robot, Build Build Build Your Bot and I've Been Working On The Robot. We were getting pretty delusional...)

[germanystudent]

when everyone in the school can hear you coming because you fill your ENTIRE book bag with buttons.

when you hear the teacher talk about odds and probability and immediately think of percentage of accuracy for human players

in the lack of building a robot, you immediatly take over your mom's garage and start to manufacture a rail gun and a jacob's ladder.

you start to think up plans for wind turbines for something to do.

you ask people to show gracious professionalism in everyday conversations.

your boutonniere for prom is made from a graphics card, some electronics parts, and LED's.

[ZInventor]

On your 8 hour drive back from Atlanta you begin re-writing songs to have FIRST related lyrics
(We started with the 12 Days of Competition and Dean Had a Little Plan, which were the 2 remotely decent ones, and progressed on to Oops I Broke the Robot, Build Build Build Your Bot and I've Been Working On The Robot. We were getting pretty delusional...)

any way you could post lyrics:?

- you know you've overdosed on FIRST when you actually care to find out the lyrics to aforementioned songs.......

-Z

[typharn91]

when you realize that you lnoe have 20+ othrr teams shirts and 30 + robotics related shirts

[LadyinthePit]

You ask your prom date (who is also on your team) if he will wear red converses with his tux so he'll be cool like Woodie.

He agrees to do so and then asks if he can sign your dress.

[LilGrohnke2013]

...You text everyone in your contacts (all the ones that weren't in Atlanta) in all caps saying OMG WE GOT OUR ROBOT SIGNED BY DEAN KAMEN AND WOODIE FLOWERS! then your friends send you back 10 question marks. :yikes:

really we did get it signed by both of them. the team decided we are framing our polycarbonate that they signed i will put a picture up soon!

[katd30]

any way you could post lyrics:?

- you know you've overdosed on FIRST when you actually care to find out the lyrics to aforementioned songs.......

-Z

Already done:

12 Days of Competition (http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/showthread.php?t=76882)

It's only the 12 Days and Dean's Plan ones

[KarenH]

On your 8 hour drive back from Atlanta you begin re-writing songs to have FIRST related lyrics
(We started with the 12 Days of Competition and Dean Had a Little Plan, which were the 2 remotely decent ones, and progressed on to Oops I Broke the Robot, Build Build Build Your Bot and I've Been Working On The Robot. We were getting pretty delusional...)
...you read this and think, "Gee, I wonder how it would be if they made a CD or DVD of their team performing these lyrics, and then share it with the other teams?"

a la Its a Robotics Life (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AatseOThTCA)

[Jrock0793]

- When someone walks up to you after Atlanta and you hand them one of your team's buttons thinking they wanna trade.:yikes:

-When you're playing with legos and you find yourself building something that can move a mini orbit ball into a cup:]

-When you find yourself comming up with new things to spell with your team's poster letters in your free time.

[Logan]

-When you submit your Inventor award and realize that you spelled your team name wrong on the bumpers.
-Hackysack and Frisbee have become the most interesting part of Atlanta, not the competition.
-You realize how awesome Woodie's shoes are. (Atlanta 09)
-You’re willing to drive 14+ hours in one day to go to a competition.
-sexual innuendos involving orbit balls (and any robot references) become a normal part of conversation.

[Shelabot]

---When you get back and have the urge to chant anything, anything at all from Atlanta. For instance:

...When I say Blue you say Cheese! Blue! Cheese! Blue! Cheese!Cheese! Blue! Cheese!

...When I say Atlanta you say Georgia! Atlanta! Georgia! Atlanta! Georgia! Atlanta! Georgia! WHOOH!!!

...When I say Hillshire you say Farm! Hillshire! Farm! Hillshire! Farm! Hillshire! Farm! GO MEAT!


(PS: Had a great time at Atlanta. Hope to see everyone again!)

[typharn91]

when your doing team mario kart ballon battles on the bus ride home with the people on youir team and after you win you start cheering for the blue alliance cause you were on teh blue team

[rotolomi]

... you still have your FIRST after-party wristband and don't take it off until it falls off... but it's made of plastic ;)
... your team jacket is covered in buttons from miscellaneous teams...
... you are already searching for a new tiara in preparation for being pit queen next year...
... you have days worth of makeup work yet you find yourself on chief delphi...
... you have experienced multiple stomachaches from dehydration and refusing to pay $3.50 for a bottle of water at the arena...
... you frown at the stairs at school, wishing they were escalators...
... you have gotten lost in the georgia world congress building...
... you cry because the season's really over after nationals, not because you didn't come home with any awards...
... you've gotten used to seeing people riding around on segways...
... you hate anyone who has the nerve to complain about car rides, butt pain, or aching legs (18 hours to atlanta, sitting down the whole time and then in the stands, standing in the pits all day)
... you ask your teacher for 15 points rather than 2 for that last question you answered in the last 20 seconds of class time (stole that one from nationals)
... you wonder what you are going to do without your favorite seniors next year...
... you think FIRST should be year-round...
... you're wearing so much spiritwear from other teams, nobody can tell what team you're from (various necklaces, buttons, temporary hair color, bracelets/wristbands, stickers, etc.)
... you realize your best friends in the world are scouting with you by your side, your most satisfying accomplishment is driving around scoring orbit balls on the regolith field, your heros are dean kamen and woodie flowers, and the best thing that's ever happened to you is FIRST :)

[DerDer247]

When...

You use the word Coopretiton outside of Competitions, and out of contex.

When you walk down the hall at school and someone yells EXCUSE ME! you instantly yell ROBOT COMING THREW! right back.

when after walking a long time for the whole day, and your feet are extremely sore, and you are about to get blisters on your feet. you say: "At least it isn't Atlanta."

you leave for lunch one hour before hand so you can beat the long lines.

Your the only group of people that don't tan on a "vacation" to Atlanta.

You know:
Don't Stop Believing
The Macarana
and several other songs, that were popular two to twenty years ago.

[Zack247]

When people start talking about 4/20 at school and you start wondering who Team 420 is.

[PlatyPi Gunner]

You use the word coopertition in a scholarship essay, have to explain what it means, and then brag about getting to see it signed into a trademark in person.

You have to appease your underclassmen's obsession with crab drive by telling them they can make a t-shirt launcher so they don't try and build next years chassis.

Your entire team steals all the bean bags and half the couches in the robo lounge and falls asleep during lunchtime because they were up all night working on scouting reports(some of you may have seen us =D)

While half asleep in the robo lounge you hear the demonstration of Math CAD and think it's the best thing in the world because it can do Calculus

You make gear ratio jokes about the Teacup ride at the Championship afterparty

When your primary reasoning for winning your regional is that a Pi team couldn't lose on Pi day:D

[ay2b]

...you've been to numerous distant cities, but you've never actually seen the city, because you spend all your time there in one or two buildings and the hotel.

[ZInventor]

...You text everyone in your contacts (all the ones that weren't in Atlanta) in all caps saying OMG WE GOT OUR ROBOT SIGNED BY DEAN KAMEN AND WOODIE FLOWERS! then your friends send you back 10 question marks. :yikes:

really we did get it signed by both of them. the team decided we are framing our polycarbonate that they signed i will put a picture up soon!

we also got dean and Woodie's signatures, and paul's, and Doc T's (CEO NI), and Mark's...

instead of framing the lexan sheet, we plan on transferring it from robot to robot each year (a practice that dean and Woodie approved of when told about it.)

will post pictures soon...

also,

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

you successful confuse a top NASA telecommunications engineer with a MATH PROBLEM (look at the bottom of http://www.riverdalerobotics.com for the formula)

when your team mentors point out witch parts of the plane they designed on the flights to and from Atlanta (we are lucky to have 3 Boeing mentors!)

when as you go through airport security, you realize that you left a pair of CALIPERS in your backpack, along with a coupple pairs of pliers! DOH...

then, you notice a guy with a full socket wrench set and immediately know he's a FIRSTer too...

[MarySheridan]

You know you're overdosed on FIRST when...
-you cry when the season is over
-when you realize your college is 3 hours away from your team and you decide to transfer
-when all you talk about after spring break is robotics and you are called a "robotics whore"

[kapolavery]

...when your own parents tell you to shut up about robotics and block your computer from going on chief delpho

...when everything starts looking like a robot

...when your own parents tell you that if you dont stop talking about FIRST, they threaten to send you to a community college (not that anything is wrong with that.. its more economical IMO)

[Team 135]

When someone steps in front of you in the hall and you yell out "10 points, impeding" more than a year after that game.

[delsaner]

Sorry if these are repeated...

...when you hear a kid say "oink oink" and you say in your head "BOOM!"

...when you are learning about galileo, and you start cheering "GALI-LEO!"
(or any other of the division names)

...when you overhear someone talking about a chairman, and you start cheering hysterically.

...when you go to the store, and the total price is a team number you recognize.

[Shelabot]

Is everyone copying all the things from page 1 and posting them here? I'm having major deja vu...

[Chris is me]

When you see a tye-dye shirt and look for the WildStang logo.

This actually happened to me.

[AcesJames]

When you find yourself thinking up amazing team alliances in your spare time

When you open a word document and try to list every team in your state, in order

When you think back upon the year's Dean Speeches, and try to critique them

When the season is over, but you're still making revisions to the past year's robot

When you find yourself still txting the girl you met at robo prom.

When you call a girl at school a robo ho, and expect everyone else to know what that means.

[Chris is me]

...when you go to the store, and the total price is a team number you recognize.

Funny story. On my way to my first meeting with this strange FRC team that was going to help me rebuild an FTC robot for Atlanta 08, my family got some Burger King, and the price of the meal came out to $17.14. Then I found out that was the team's number ^_^

Every other time I go to McDonald's my price comes out to $5.37. Go Chargers!

When you spend your study halls on Chief Delphi learning about all the robots in your division.

[lukevanoort]

I was intending to google Andy Timmons (he is a guitarist if you aren't familiar), but instead typed AndyMark...

[mikelowry]

a member of our team actually got order number 1771 at burger king, and then a couple weeks later, another member paid $17.71 for food at wendy's

[Finleym]

When you ask to do the model that you made of this year's robot for your reverse engineering project in IED (Introduction to Engineering Design).

Unfortunately the teacher (who is also one of our Robotics Instructors/Coaches) said no because there were too many parts, he didn't want me disassembling the bot, and he didn't want to grade that large/complex of a product.

[RoboMom]

When I receive an official FIRST email with the word "crapet" and think it is yet another new word added to the Lunacy lingo this year before realizing it is just a typo and they meant carpet.

[Andrew Schreiber]

When you debate making bingo boards out of commonly used words and phrases from Lunacy. (1/6th gravity, Crater, Lunar Surface, unloading...)

[Lucretius]

...when you're not sure if you're hallucinating when you see numerous prefrosh wearing various team shirts on campus right after Atlanta

[wo-bot 141]

when the car in front of you on the highway begins to hydra plain. you think your are driving on regoltih.

[ttldomination]

...when you read through the "You know you're overdose on FIRST when..." thread and hope that someone is more hooked than you are.

[Mish Mooney]

- One of your assistant principles sees any team member and starts chanting 329
- You call your advisor daddy
- While calling the team president you wake him up, he was dreaming that he was scouting for fun.
- You can't go a day with out talking about robotics.
- You believe that blood doesn't run through you veins, but mountain dew does.

[delsaner]

- You can't go a day with out talking about robotics.
- You believe that blood doesn't run through you veins, but mountain dew does.

I 2nd both of these statements
:D

[Mish Mooney]

I 2nd both of these statements
:D

My team empties out the Mountain Dew in the vending machines at my school late at night (:

[delsaner]

Haha, my team stays awake by wither quoting annoying internet references, rapping internet references, or working
^-^

[pacoliketaco]

... you have days worth of makeup work yet you find yourself on chief delphi...
... you frown at the stairs at school, wishing they were escalators...


...when you still use "i was in atlanta" as an excuse many days after returning home. and you plan to keep on using it, for the rest of the year.

so while in georgia i made a sport out of going the opposite way up/down the massive escalators. it is amazingly fun, and good exercise. especially on the sets where there are two escalators going in the same direction so you can race teammates. haha

...you look at your watch and try to figure out which team the time represents.

...your excuse for not giving blood at a blood drive at school is that you bled enough on the robot and pit floor after catching your finger in a chain/sprocket. yay stiches...

[wendymom]

When you are on facebook and look down and notice its 11:47 and you try to get a web-hug raffle ticket.....really

[KarenH]

When you debate making bingo boards out of commonly used words and phrases from Lunacy. (1/6th gravity, Crater, Lunar Surface, unloading...)
I'm not sure you could get enough unique items for bingo (don't you need a few dozen?), but you probably could come up with 9 items for Sudoku. You could use robot parts symbols for regular FRC Sudoku, and special Lunacy items for Lunacy Sudoku. If you did it in color, you could use 3 moon rocks, and would only require 6 more items.

Then you could start a Lunacy Sudoku thread under the Games/Trivia (http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=84) subforum. I might even play! :D

The added "benefit" of starting such a forum is that you would prove you're totally overdosed on FIRST... as if anyone has a doubt!

[Beerin]

...you're driving on the highway and a team name pops into your head every time you see a mile marker (ex.:47=Chief Delphi, 33=Killer Bees.....)

it gets to the extreme when...
....every time you see ANY NUMBER that corresponding team name jumps immediately into your head! :ahh:

[Mish Mooney]

Today while in the hall talking to a fellow robotics member, one of our friends tried to throw a frisbee at whom i was talking to...

Instead it hit my eye... anyone wanna guess the first thought that went through my head?

...If only I was wearing my safety glasses...::ouch::

_________

A friend of mine caught herself saying "That's not gracious professionalism" to someone who isn't a robotics member... They gave her a funny look.

[Kimmeh]

You suddenly realize that deciding to build at the school means that you can post build season quote when they happen. You don't have to wait...and remember them until you get home... :D

[Jetweb]

you make a post just because it is post #1649 and you partnered with team 1649 to win a regional

[NorviewsVeteran]

it gets to the extreme when...
....every time you see ANY NUMBER that corresponding team name jumps immediately into your head! :ahh:

1086 (Blue Cheese) is a couple of blocks down from Norview on someone's mailbox.

[Pirate_Nelly354]

You're in your Baking and Pastry class and ...

1) You get excited when the Chef starts talking about safety rules.

2) The Chef turns on the mixer, once you hear the noise you think, "oh no! I don't have safety classes on!" Then you realize...oh...right...it's just a mixer...

[1086VEX]

1086 (Blue Cheese) is a couple of blocks down from Norview on someone's mailbox.

really!?!?!!? thats sweet!!:D

...when you just cut off your team social wrist band from champs. last night!!

[typharn91]

when you and your friends on your team start texting each other at random times say where teh onlything in teh text is a team name coincidentally the teams number also hapens to be the time and you start making a game outta it

[Chris is me]

...when you just cut off your team social wrist band from champs. last night!!

When you're not cutting it off until after graduation ^_^

[ZInventor]

When, as you read about something completely un-FIRST related, you see the word lunacy, and immediately write FIRST in giant bold next to it...

when all you really want for your birthday is to meet Dean and Woodie, and, since you get to go to the Championship, and your birthday happens to be at the right time (mine's April 18th), YOUR WISH COMES TRUE!!!!!!!!!

-Z

[carolynn4848]

When you still keep checking this thread, just so you can post on your team number. (I'm still waiting...)

[ZInventor]

When you still keep checking this thread, just so you can post on your team number. (I'm still waiting...)

same! (it'll be a while for me... still over 1000 posts away...)

when 1GB isn't enough space online to store all your robotics pictures, in half quality Jpeg!!!

[notsteve]

when you lose weight (from missing meals) while changing your diet to mostly pizza, pop, and cheeto's

[dragonrulr288]

when you flip out in school [German, 6th hour to be exact] when you see the clock that reads 2:16

you also have a Code Red kid in German who understands. your teacher, however, does not. needless to say, i got many funny looks...

[Kimmeh]

You're talking (messaging) with someone and they mention a code red. As in the school lock down type. When you respond, you start to capitalize Code Red...because anything else looks weird.

[Karibou]

when you lose weight (from missing meals) while changing your diet to mostly pizza, pop, and cheeto's
Build season messed with my diet so much...I'll never be able to eat large meals again!

[NorviewsVeteran]

Build season messed with my diet so much...I'll never be able to eat large meals again!

I lost a few pounds during the build season (I don't have many to spare) but I must say, the 6 Week diet is rather effective!

[Karibou]

-When you can distinguish #35 chain from a distance...or you don't even have to be there.

(basically, my radio astronomy friend texts me from the local Lowe's and asks if I know what size chain to buy for our telescope. I didn't know, but I guessed 35, and ended up being right XD)

[carolynn4848]

When your mentor changes the meeting start time to 5:35, and you know why right away. (5:35 is also 17:35)

(still waiting for the right post)

[Kimmeh]

You're excited because you found a way to describe the game in under five seconds.

Robot bumper cars playing basketball on the moon. :D

[pastorellipedro]

When you realize today is may 3rd, or 5-03....

[Akash Rastogi]

Your gameplan for 2010 starts the Saturday night at the FIRST end of the season party. :cool:

[lady lighting]

- when you find noting to do the day after you get back to atlanta
-you want to start planing for next year
-your friends look at you weird cause all you talk about is robotics

[kitfisto92]

- you sit in english class strategizing the best robot design instead of some long-winded speech on Shakespeare
- you argue about the best performance of a robot at a regional the day you get back to school at lunch with your friends
- you chant red alliance-blue alliance back and forth in the middle of the cafeteria
- you text your friends every time a team you adore comes up as a time (i do that a lot at 2)
- your color schemes for every project you do is your team
- you incorporate FIRST into every class you have, including German and biology
- your notebook has your favorite teams on it and your "non-FIRST" friends ask you how you got the answer 365 from 111 and 842

[BrendanB]

When at work totals, change, and prices have team numbers in them and you think of their name. (I can come up with at least 1 in every customer, if I am watching closely. And during the 2008 Championships, I saw team numbers 1024, 1114, 330, 148, 233, and 968 five of which made it to Einstein)

When you see a friend from another team and your with a group of none FIRSTers and they lay the ground rules that if we say anything about robotics they are going home.

When I'm not working on a saturday my co-workers ask if I have a robotics competition or meeting.

[team1203 4life]

When you own a Letterman robotics jacket:cool:

[rotolomi]

... when you watch chief delphi closely for days, waiting for the 1675th post so you can be post #1676 (for the pascack pioneers of course!)... ERIC! :p
... when others call you a nerd for posting on chief delphi, then you cleverly point out that they had to have been on cd to see the post (DANIELLE!)
... you visit cd more frequently after robotics is over for the year than during build season...
... when you know the season is never really over :D
... when your most prized possession is your chairmans award medal (even though you werent there to receive it... :(

(here eric... i'm bringing you one step closer to post #1676 :cool:

[Chris is me]

... when you watch chief delphi closely for days, waiting for the 1675th post so you can be post #1676 (for the pascack pioneers of course!)... ERIC! :p

When you hope a 1675 team member makes the post beforehand.


... you visit cd more frequently after robotics is over for the year than during build season...


... guilty :(

[Tyler Hicks]

when you notice a bunch of saftey hazards in your school, and everyone asks why you are wearing saftey glasses.

[Katie_UPS]

... when you watch chief delphi closely for days, waiting for the 1675th post so you can be post #1676 (for the pascack pioneers of course!)... ERIC! :p


When you hope a 1675 team member makes the post beforehand.



... guilty :(


When upon seeing that, you are flattered.

And your heart kinda leaps for joy at the sight of your team name.

When you decide that your team number has to be the best number ever, and you aren't sure if its cause its a nice looking/sounding number, or if its because its your team number.

Haha. I just realized I got my team number! :D

[delsaner]

1676!!!!!!!!!!!! WOOOOOOOT!!!!!!!
^_^
Thanks Shellie!!

anyway....
When you are bored at home, and you go on chief delphi for fun...
When you tell people awesome stories, and start with "So one time, on chief delphi"...
When you realize that you still thinking of ideas for the robot, even when championships are over...
When you hang out with people from other teams over the summer...
When you wear part of the teams mascot costume to school...
When you hear people talk about the Deans List, and you think of Dean Kamen...
When you think of Robotics team names (I thought of torr-mentors xD)...

You have overdosed with FIRST.

[Alex_Miller]

When you are trying to type the words "First Baptist" for a baseball anouncment and you type out "FIRST Baptist"

[Akash Rastogi]

When you're sad that you were too late in making the 1676th post in this thread. :(

[Charlie]

- your vision improves while wearing safety glasses ::safety::

[tba]

When you have the FRC Tracker app for your ipod touch

When your trying to fall asleep then start thinking about a robot presentation your doing in a month

When zip ties are suddenly very importain in your life

When you wake up inbetween two rows of bleachers

[rotolomi]

(haha no prob eric. post #1676 woot!)

adding to eric's post...
... when you hang out with other teams over the summer and they figure out how to create a rave-mobile that (by the laws of physics) should not work! (i dont get how they had those speakers work through something that can support half of its electrical capacity...)
... when you plan to create a smart rave-mobile with a circuit breaker, just to make sure nothing explodes ::ouch::
... when you're having a party (with your robotics team and other robotics teams of course!) and the cops come because you're blasting basshunter in the backyard (:

[Chris is me]

When you are browsing Chief Delphi at school o_o

When you start yelling strategic comments at your computer screen when watching replays of old season videos.

[delsaner]

When you are browsing Chief Delphi at school o_o

Unfortunately, that would be me. I only go on when I finished my work and have nothing else to do.
._.

[PaW]

... you see the logo from this company and think it's some sort of bonus moon rock:

[Chris is me]

I passed the building with that logo on my way to a demo, and a mentor joked that it was a moon rock and that we should get them as a sponsor.

[JaiM]

...when you are yelling out strategy to the drive team while watching the videos from Einstein

[dbs12693x]

When you're hard-pressed to name good friends not involved in FIRST

[lady lighting]

every time you see a number you think of a team and freak out about it!!!

[rotolomi]

Unfortunately, that would be me. I only go on when I finished my work and have nothing else to do.
._.

yep, i'm on right now. i'm supposed to be doing a project...

... when you steal your friend's laptop to go on chief delphi during school
... when you check your email, wikispaces, goodreads, and chief delphi for messages

[typharn91]

when you check all those but really only care about the ones on cheifdelphi :D

[Katie_UPS]

When you discover that the cure to the swine flu is "oink oink BOOM!"

[marisaDKNY]

When you own a Letterman robotics jacket:cool:

Team 647 actually have Robotics letteramns! ah so cool!

[ZInventor]

when, if you forget to bring your laptop somewhere (which almost never happens), you decide to use your dad's IPhone, to check CD!!!!!!!

and write a coupple posts!!!!

-Z

[mcb]

When you're tempted to yell "ROBOT!" in the middle of the school hallway to get people to move.

[Doctorwho]

You attempt to get your team number as your license plate

[EricH]

When you see a book cover that is purple and green... and immediately say "Super Cell".

When either your mom or your dad says "That should go on a certain website" right after the above incident.

[Ice Berg]

When you've been up so late CADing that you try to do your history homework and upon handing it in the next day, you realize that all your sentences trail off into robotics stuff.

"Emilio Aguinaldo: He was an activist and believed that America had made a promise not to drill tons of holes in this bot."

"The Platt Amendment: The U.S. wrote this bill in response to Cuba’s interest in the new control system."

[JoeyTNT280]

when both you and your gf are on seperate teams and you talk about robotics all the time (247+280 =D)

When your friends ask when robotics season is going to be over so that youll talk about something else.

When you respond to the above with shouting never!!

Much love for robotics and 247 Da' Bears! and My favoritest Bear!!

[dqmot17]

When half of your friends are in robotics and the constant topic is "Those (insert good bot here), what to do about them...hm....."

When you stop a friend in the hall to go "I had a brainstorm in math! how about we put that thing there instead of the other place" and they get exactly what that means

When you have 30 emails...all robotics scheduling

When you say your busy after school with your girlfriend....but its only robotics (shout out to joey here)

[JoeyTNT280]

Ryan! Your awesome! Can't wait to hang with you and Sarah some time soon hopefully

[pacoliketaco]

You attempt to get your team number as your license plate

when your license plate IS your team number, FRC1807.

when looking through the latest Popular Science, you immediately skipped all the cool products and went straight to the article about Dean Kamen and FIRST.

[Chris is me]

When you're tempted to yell "ROBOT!" in the middle of the school hallway to get people to move.

When you actually have, then spent the rest of the day hanging your head in shame :(

[ZInventor]

When you actually have, then spent the rest of the day hanging your head in shame :(

when you actually have, but there was a robot coming through... (on your way to a school assembly where you were about to demo the bot)

and, why would you hang your head in shame??? you must not have overdosed on first yet!

-Z

[NorviewsVeteran]

When you have an experience and think, "hmm. Would that mean I'm dedicated, addicted, or have overdosed? I don't want to put it in the wrong thread..."

[mcb]

- When you manage to write more than a page about FIRST in an essay question on a test.

(Guilty as of this morning.)

- When you go to CD before checking email, Facebook, etc.

[Finleym]

when looking through the latest Popular Science, you immediately skipped all the cool products and went straight to the article about Dean Kamen and FIRST.

-When, after you read that article and the one about the new tank, you start thinking of how to use their climbing idea for your next bot.
-When you start trying to think of how to make the treads in an unconventional way.
-When you read the Dean Kamen article, you begin to laugh/cry when you think that you're one of the 117,000.
-When you aren't suprised by half of what the team in the article had to do.
-When you're reading the Dean Kamen article, you start thinking of all the different threads on Chief Delphi.

[Andrew Schreiber]

- When you manage to write more than a page about FIRST in an essay question on a test.

(Guilty as of this morning.)

- When you go to CD before checking email, Facebook, etc.

Not gonna lie, I do both of these. The essay was actually not a test, it was an application for a position at school.

CD is my most visited site at both work and in both browsers on my computer (one in each OS)

[carolynn4848]

When you are still waiting to post on your team number, and you are getting worried that you are going to miss it, because it is getting closer. (Almost there)

[Burmeister #279]

When you are still waiting to post on your team number, and you are getting worried that you are going to miss it, because it is getting closer. (Almost there)

guilty.

- When you [and your team] spent 4 months arguing <-literally<- back and forth with Computer Services to get Chief Delphi unblocked.
-When you [and a friend] completely interupt class by yelling "yes" and high-fiving because the above was accomplished.

[Phreadumb]

-When you right an essay comparing the new 2009 control system to the previous one for debate class

[typharn91]

when your readung this thread and you look at the time people post at and recognize the team number

[carolynn4848]

I am still waiting for my team number.

[Katie_UPS]

When you really hope someone from 1714 posts next.

"Whats better than robotics? MORE ROBOTICS!"

:) Thanks Chris for highlighting my team number post for me. :D

[Chris is me]

Thanks Katie for returning the favor ^_^

When your family and friends think of endless "What's better than (thing)? More (thing)!" puns and plays on the chant all day. (It's kind of annoying after awhile... Yes mom, more dinner is better than dinner...)

[mikelowry]

So close to post 1771 :cool:

[cpeister]

when your 250 word reflection on why you love FIRST turns into a 2 page, 750 word FIRST is awesome paper.

EDIT: It is now 1000 words and counting

[carolynn4848]

So close to post 1771 :cool:

It's closer to 1735, and with my luck, I will miss it. Yay posting on team numbers!

[jmanela]

...you see someone wth a clipboard and ask for scouting info

...you are in the middle of class and your teacher finds you surfing the web on your i-touch (reading chief delphi)

...you are asked your name and you give your team number


...you go to your team's website 4-5 times. (per day)

[Mr. Pockets]

You spend four hours switching back and forth between Chief delphi and your team forum. Thank goodness I had very little homework ^_^

[MishraArtificer]

...when you realize just how awesome it is to find that you have ALL 5 Gearheads buttons.

[BrendanB]

When you get to give a customer change for a team number and you get mad at your boss because you have to count back the change instead of handing it to them and saying "and 330 is your change" or any other team number.

I was so glad yesterday when i told a customer "your total is 1519":)

[Andrew Schreiber]

When you struggle using other online forums and think, Why can it not be more like CD. (Yes this JUST happened to me, I expect all forums to look and work like CD, anything else just feels inferior)

[Karibou]

...when you realize just how awesome it is to find that you have ALL 5 Gearheads buttons.

YEAHHHHHHHHHH!
::safety::

-One of the rehearsal numbers in your band music is 217, so you draw a Thunderchickens logo next to it.

-You write FEDS!! in block letters next to rehearsal number 201

-And draw flames at number 67

[Chris is me]

When you're up late enough to see the Chief Delphi server backup message.

[NorviewsVeteran]

...you keep having to tell yourself that Chris is from Wisconsin, not from Blue Cheese.

[Chris is me]

...you have a very long conversation about the name ThunderChickens and where it came from with your family.

Apparently my mother's from the area and has heard the phrase before. Google tells me it's a robotics team and a band, so that was little help.

[NorviewsVeteran]

Apparently my mother's from the area and has heard the phrase before. Google tells me it's a robotics team and a band, so that was little help.

It's also the name of the squadron in the Marines I think that started in Vietnam flying the Chinook. They wanted to call themselves the "Thunder Eagles" but there isn't a Vietnamese word for 'eagle.' They now fly the V-22 Osprey.

[Akash Rastogi]

When you're up late enough to see the Chief Delphi server backup message.

That message is what I use as my signal to go to bed on Sundays. :rolleyes:

[jmanela]

When, as you read about something completely un-FIRST related, you see the word lunacy, and immediately write FIRST in giant bold next to it...

when all you really want for your birthday is to meet Dean and Woodie, and, since you get to go to the Championship, and your birthday happens to be at the right time (mine's April 18th), YOUR WISH COMES TRUE!!!!!!!!!

-Z

My wish came true as well (April 15th!!)

[dbs12693x]

I think it's when, even though your own team's number has passed in the post count, you hope Caroline can catch her's.

Also, when you go to check what the post of your team's number was.

[Adam Y.]

When you can identify Mecanum wheels in the newest Star Trek Movie.

[mcb]

When you're overly excited that you DID post on your team number. :)

When you make a list of ideas to get your family to drive two hours out of their way on vacation... so that you can drop by IRI. (It's the plan, let's hope it works.)

[dbs12693x]

Oh man, Good luck with that! IRI is my vacation.

[Phoenix Spud]

When your little sister recognized the BAE Systems logo 3 years before she started to read! She still can't imagine a spring without a FLL competition, and can talk about FLL, GSR, FRC, JFLL, safety, c, c++, robolab, the RCX, the NXT and more without blinking an eye!!!

(no joke!!!)

[carolynn4848]

YES!!!!!!!!!!!! I AM POST 1735!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WOOHOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sorry about my happy shouting moment, but YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

-When you are this happy about posting on your team number.

[Raumiester2010]

My wish came true as well (April 15th!!)

I wish my Birthday was in April, (even though i got woodie and dean's signitures!!!)

instead, i get IRI for my birthday!:D

[delsaner]

YES!!!!!!!!!!!! I AM POST 1735!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WOOHOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sorry about my happy shouting moment, but YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

-When you are this happy about posting on your team number.

Been there, done that! Check post 1676

[carolynn4848]

Been there, done that! Check post 1676

Nice, I was afraid that I was going to miss it.

[Chris is me]

I wish my Birthday was in April, (even though i got woodie and dean's signitures!!!)

instead, i get IRI for my birthday!:D

Both of these are much bettter than getting to leave my team on my birthday :(

You're overdosed on FIRST when you're setting aside money to save for plane tickets to Minnesota and Atlanta 2010, so you can (hopefully) go see your old team compete.

[Mr. Pockets]

When out of the last 40 e-mails in your inbox 38 of them are related to robotics (the other two are chain mail)

[J93Wagner]

You know an ENTIRE FRC team has overdosed on FIRST when you see the combined amount of hours from just the students reaches 2600 hours, without counting the messups on signing in and out.

[Chris is me]

You know you're overdosed on FIRST when you start recognizing what team your post count is equal to. Even on other forums. (I'm getting excited for post 2826 on a Pokemon forum I go to)

[mcb]

When you're caught between using your FIRST Robotics tote bag, bought in Atlanta, for either everything or nothing (to preserve the signatures you got!)

[BrendanB]

When you dream that the world has gone socialist under BAE Systems and they take Dean Kamen hostage for his ideas. And the FIRST community grows and FRC, FLL, and FTC become the International sport.

[J93Wagner]

You've stayed overnight at school on ship day. Four students and a teacher made it through, even though the teacher practically let everyone sleep during class cause he was so tired.

[DUCKIE]

... you get extremely exited about getting a FIRST volunteer thank you postcard / window-cling hybrid in the mail.

[pacoliketaco]

When you can identify Mecanum wheels in the newest Star Trek Movie.

OMG when i saw those i practically yelled to my friends pointing them out.

[Libby K]

... you get extremely exited about getting a FIRST volunteer thank you postcard / window-cling hybrid in the mail.

My family got one for each of us, since we all volunteer. I'm so excited to put it on my car. It's funny, yesterday in school my friends were talking about decals for our cars, and I jokingly said I wanted a giant FIRST logo on my back window. I guess I have one now!

[Karibou]

-As a "Hey, you two are captains now!" gift, your team decides to give you and your best friend/co-captain bright yellow watches that are synced to within a minute of each other.

-While displaying said watch's amazing backlight, you immediately say "Hey, 201 FEDS!" without thinking, and your friend just nods it off as nothing because she knows that it's some insane robotics thing.

-You see this Facebook status (below), and know exactly what the user is talking about.

At the end of build season, I weighed SieH20Bots. After competitions, I weighed Division By Zero. By Championship, I had gotten down to Tigertrons, but after eating Championship food, I went up to Hammerheads. By May I was ThunderChickens, and now I am MAK (Marshall/Kodak). How much did I lose this year, stated in Robot teams?

[J93Wagner]

You see two of the larger teams at a regional calling out each others team #'s. (1714 + 2826)