You know you've overdosed on FIRST when... [Archive] - Page 9

EricH

03-11-2009, 17:56

When you keep a tub of K'nex for "prototyping" design ideas and have won arguments with a k'nex model.
When a picture of a K'nex model of part of the field makes it into your design book submission, then into the book. (2007) Yes, we do prototype that way sometimes.

Bonus points for doing the same sort of thing with VEX parts.

dragonrulr288

03-11-2009, 18:01

When...
Anything with a team number you know gets circled with an arrow pointing to the name scribbled along the side... My physics teacher [also a coach for the team] sees ALOT of this!:yikes:

Chris is me

03-11-2009, 18:05

When you and your friends, after throwing a bunch of playpen balls around your room, design a Vex robot to try and accumulate them so you don't have to clean it up.

BrendanB

03-11-2009, 18:40

Chris, that is just lazy.:p

When your friends just start conversations with how is robotics cuz they know it will just come around to that in most conversations.

When just about all of your gmail statuses relate to robotics.

Karibou

03-11-2009, 19:13

When...
Anything with a team number you know gets circled with an arrow pointing to the name scribbled along the side... My physics teacher [also a coach for the team] sees ALOT of this!:yikes:
I do that with all of my band music...which means that most numbers are circled :P (my stand partner has just given up on asking what a "Robowranglers" or a "Wildstang" are)

KarenH

03-11-2009, 21:32

Chris, that is just lazy.:p
No, it's not lazy--it's using technology, which can be defined as getting processes and machines to do our work for us. Historically:

--Man discovered fire, and used it to cook his food so he wouldn't have to expend so much energy chewing.

--Man invented matches, so he didn't have to expend so much energy starting the fire.

--Man invented the butane lighter so he didn't have to burn his fingers lighting the fire.

And now--

--Man invented the robotic vacuum cleaner so woman would not have to exert effort on the sweaty, dusty job of vacuuming. Instead, she can relax while making scientific observations of the family pets as they react to the new "creature" making all that noise and chasing them around the house.

The effort expended by woman getting man to BUY--not merely admire the engineering of--the robotic vacuum cleaner shall not be discussed here.
:p

Disclaimer: This post does not prove that I'm overdosed either on FIRST, or on technology.

BrendanB

03-11-2009, 21:49

Just you wait until all those robots rise up and take over the world!:p

Until then, i'll keep making robots.;)

Oh and Chris, you're in college so i guess that you have a right to be lazy as your mom isn't there to tell you to clean your room. LOL:)

EDIT: at karen, when you had to expend effort to get the vacuum, did the male say that it was useless when you could just vacuum the floor and that it was lazyness, or that it was a dumb idea. :P

EricH

03-11-2009, 22:04

EDIT: at karen, when you had to expend effort to get the vacuum, did the male say that it was useless when you could just vacuum the floor and that it was lazyness, or that it was a dumb idea. :P
The males were too busy looking at the engineering of the robot. Houston 2003: team 330, having arrived kind of early for the Championship, goes to a local mall for a while. The mentors/parents and students split up to explore, and after a while, the parents group stops in front of a store that has a robotic vacuum cleaner. The battery needs changing, and the robot is kind of flipped over during this process. The engineers were apparently commenting on the robot's design, functionality, etc. The wives were trying to figure out how to get their husbands to get one, or so I hear from one of them;).

BrendanB

03-11-2009, 22:09

WOW! That is really funny. :D
Then again what do you expect from males in FIRST, look at the engineering of it.

KarenH

03-11-2009, 22:59

EDIT: at karen, when you had to expend effort to get the vacuum, did the male say that it was useless when you could just vacuum the floor and that it was lazyness, or that it was a dumb idea. :P

The effort expended by woman ... shall not be discussed here.
Must the woman expend effort explaining what "shall not be discussed" means? The point of this thread is to discuss "overdosage;" in this case, not just on FIRST, but perhaps on technology itself. ;)

Blue_Mist

03-11-2009, 23:22

WOW! That is really funny. :D
Then again what do you expect from males in FIRST, look at the engineering of it.

Who said it was just the males admiring the engineering? ;) I'd love to take one apart...

And, you know you've overdosed on FIRST when you're in college, see that this thread has 2010 replies and the FIRST thing (sorry) that goes through your mind is "Oh! New game, new game!"

Trying to Help

03-11-2009, 23:40

I bought one of the robotic vacuums solely for the purposes of convincing my spouse to pick up the floors. That way we'd be able to use the robot. If the floor was covered in parts and wiring, you can't run the robot very well.

The effort expended by woman getting man to BUY--not merely admire the engineering of--the robotic vacuum cleaner shall not be discussed here.
:p

Disclaimer: This post does not prove that I'm overdosed either on FIRST, or on technology.

Chris is me

04-11-2009, 00:02

Who said it was just the males admiring the engineering? ;) I'd love to take one apart...

I think he meant to play on the gender concept of "men don't like to clean" rather than "men love to engineer".

When you join your college's battlebots team and accidentally rule out robot designs in your head because of FIRST rules. ("Hmm, a wedge would be nice, oh wait 10 degrees rule...")

Blue_Mist

04-11-2009, 02:44

I think he meant to play on the gender concept of "men don't like to clean" rather than "men love to engineer".

I think that as well; I was poking fun at it. :)

...every conversation you have with any engineering (chemical, biomedical, electrical, mechanical, etc.) or programmer/computer science major inevitably dissolves into robots and why they are cool, then moves onto what FIRST is and why it is awesome.

...every conversation you have with anyone, if it goes long enough, dissolves into this...

...you realize that the previous two points were only the most recent in a long line of "Overdosed" comments involving conversations involving FIRST and robotics, and will probably be mentioned many times again

Ryan Simpson

11-11-2009, 19:39

When your team is cleaning up the shop and is about to throw out a bunch of track balls, you take 3 of them home with you.

BrendanB

11-11-2009, 19:46

Track balls or orbit balls? Cuz if it is track balls... how much do you want for one of them?:p

BEEKMAN

11-11-2009, 20:38

you take more notes on the robot design, and make more drawings on your robot, then you do notes for the class your in

your robotics notebook has more notes then any of your honor classes combined

anytime the word "first" is mentioned in converation, you think about your robot, and eventually start talking to random people about FIRST

almost everything you hear somehow relates to robotics

you hear the word "pot" from your school resource officer, and think "why is he talking about potentiometers???"

you feel bad for people pulling trailers when you're driving on the highway

you're mom tells your dad that she wants to buy a roomba so you can take it apart, when she's just looking for an excuse not to vaccume

when someone ask's you what you're drawing and you reply "nothing" you wind up explaining for 10 minutes whats wrong with your robot

you spend more time posting on chief delphi than you do doing your math homework

chiefdelphi is bookmarked and facebook isn't

delsaner

11-11-2009, 22:51

When your team is cleaning up the shop and is about to throw out a bunch of track balls, you take 3 of them home with you.

I forgot to take mine out of the car... :rolleyes:

Chris is me

11-11-2009, 23:30

When your team is cleaning up the shop and is about to throw out a bunch of track balls, you take 3 of them home with you.

If my team ever throws our ball out, I'm taking it. Wonderful chair if deflated.

J93Wagner

12-11-2009, 00:54

If my team ever throws our ball out, I'm taking it. Wonderful chair if deflated.

Quite unfortunately, last year a couple weeks after labor day, someone was an idiot and popped one of ours. Now we only have one... :mad: We never did figure out who did it anyway. Ah, well, nothing can be done now...

KarenH

12-11-2009, 01:16

you feel bad for people pulling trailers when you're driving on the highway
If you ever stop being O.D.'d on FIRST, keep on feeling bad for people pulling trailers. In many states (including California), they can only go 55 mph while everyone else can go much faster, legally. And the horror stories my dad can tell! He has driven with a trailer for thousands of miles--with no serious incidents, thank the Lord!

you're mom tells your dad that she wants to buy a roomba so you can take it apart, when she's just looking for an excuse not to vaccume
Vacuuming is supposed to be the kids' job. So what's YOUR excuse? ;)

P.S.: Tell your mom that Roomba needs its dust chamber emptied after every use, and after every 3 uses, the brushes must be disassembled for cleaning, and the sensors must be cleaned, and the person who does this chore will get dirty. Just did this today myself.

Last cleaning, Roomba vacuumed like a little kid: ran around the room a few times, missed spots, twice attacked his enemy the carpet sweeper, then announced "I'M DONE!!" prematurely. He usually does a better job.

EricH

12-11-2009, 01:25

P.S.: Tell your mom that Roomba needs its dust chamber emptied after every use, and after every 3 uses, the brushes must be disassembled for cleaning, and the sensors must be cleaned, and the person who does this chore will get dirty. Just did this today myself.
Especially those cliff sensors--that's what got the last one.

When you notice that the Mythbusters got an Airtrax forklift (AKA mecanum-drive forklift)-- and remember that one of them at least used to mentor an FRC team. (And then you remember that said Mythbuster can probably give a status update on that himself if he wants--and probably won't, remembering what happened last time he did.)

Chris is me

12-11-2009, 01:33

When you notice that the Mythbusters got an Airtrax forklift (AKA mecanum-drive forklift)-- and remember that one of them at least used to mentor an FRC team. (And then you remember that said Mythbuster can probably give a status update on that himself if he wants--and probably won't, remembering what happened last time he did.)

When you know who he's talking about and what team he appeared in public with last.

(No, I'm not stalking the man, I just follow that team)

Andrew Schreiber

12-11-2009, 01:37

When you agonize over javascript performance for a library you are working on. Did you know that javascript objects are just named associative arrays?

When you plan on doing a massive rewrite of a python script to improve performance by a couple dozen clock cycles just because you want to keep the caching time down so the regional twitter feeds can be as up to date as possible.

When you keep detailed notes about changes that need to be added to said scripts to make it better.

BEEKMAN

12-11-2009, 16:05

when you count down to kick off, and not christmas

BrendanB

12-11-2009, 23:47

DUH...kickoff IS Christmas!;)

When you check chiefdelphi before email now.

Andrew Schreiber

13-11-2009, 16:20

...90% of the topics in your recent activity feed are marked as read.

...you start recognizing spotlight quotes by the thread they are from...that happened in 2002 (this is proof I read the archives WAY too much)

...you have a half dozen or more posts in this thread.

J93Wagner

13-11-2009, 20:11

During the WKCE (Wisconsin Knowledge and Concepts Exam, it's totally outdated), you jump on the opportunity to talk about FIRST.

ATannahill

13-11-2009, 23:44

You need a "It's a robot" bumper sticker for your truck.

Trent B

14-11-2009, 02:45

... you contemplate figuring out how to unbolt the middle seats in a van nearly as old as you so you can more easily transfer your robot from place to place. (These bolts go through the bottom of the van, and are protected from the elements by a metal plate (they go into threaded holes so at least I wouldn't have to find nuts on the underside) but would be incredibly rusted.)

(Never actually did take out the seats but it fit in with the frame about 3" from the back window glass fortunately it never hit the glass (put a blanket over it and I think it would have hit the ceiling first) or that would be bad to say the least, and my sister would have killed me...)

Vermeulen

15-11-2009, 14:35

During the WKCE (Wisconsin Knowledge and Concepts Exam, it's totally outdated), you jump on the opportunity to talk about FIRST.

Seconded.

When you'll build 250 sit-skis for the team's off-season project, but you won't do your math homework

KarenH

16-11-2009, 00:25

Seconded.

When you'll build 250 sit-skis for the team's off-season project, but you won't do your math homework
Maybe if you realize that better math leads to better sit-skis (http://www.polynovacomposites.com/files/Sit-Skis%20Get%20a%20Makeover.pdf), you'll be less O.D.'d on FIRST. :)

RoboMaster

16-11-2009, 00:30

...when you're doing a "label these important cities on a map of the states" assignment: "Don't know that one, not that one, wow, I'll have to look up that one, never heard of that one, or that one, I KNOW THIS ONE! *writes down Atlanta in it's rightful, honored place* :D

Akash Rastogi

16-11-2009, 00:54

When you're mildly amused that 111 friends are online for chat on facebook, just cause of WildStang.

dragonrulr288

22-11-2009, 10:28

Karibou

22-11-2009, 12:33

Andrew Schreiber

22-11-2009, 14:39

When you figure this is the thread to ask this..
I want to make my room a review of all of the past games. so... I would like to know some of the game pieces and if anyone knows where to get them, because Christmas is right around the corner, and the relatives would like to know what I want! haha so any help with that?

::safety::

Also, if you like a trip down memory lane for websites the internet archive is pretty handy. http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://usfirst.org The game rules are mostly available. (I am actually kind of surprised that FIRST hasn't changed their website name yet, they haven't been US FIRST since 1996.)

RoboMom

04-12-2009, 13:07

Today I was buying lobster from the local fish place.
I live in Maryland, (but I grew up in New England.)
The lobsters were covered by wet newspaper.
When I look down, there is Dean's face and article about FIRST in the Nov. 19 Boston Globe.
I said "I know this guy! I've had dinner at his house."
The fishmonger says "Our lobsters are very well read and would like to be invited next time."

hyperdude

04-12-2009, 19:23

Also, if you like a trip down memory lane for websites the internet archive is pretty handy. http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://usfirst.org The game rules are mostly available. (I am actually kind of surprised that FIRST hasn't changed their website name yet, they haven't been US FIRST since 1996.)

Yes, but the domain name refers to the site being U.S.-centric in nature. Or that it encompasses the entire U.S. (and the world, sure... but the U.S. is the epicenter)

Or it's just stuck.

You know you're overdosed on FIRST when your classmates don't even know about the robotics team, and you meanwhile know more about FIRST than the team coach.

thurston2619

05-12-2009, 10:06

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

robotics becomes more stressful than school, but you keep going because you love FIRST.

you and your mentors have to debate for over 2 hours about whether you want to go the State Championship and save money for next year's team or go to the World Championship.

Suspect_Deezy

06-12-2009, 13:26

when even in college,.. your dormates are sick of you telling them stories about Atlanta,.. they "could have sworn they went with you" they heard the stories soo much,

when you anticipate the Kick off more than your dad anticipates the Super Bowl

When even though you cant drive you still envision yourself during build season testing a prototype.

J93Wagner

06-12-2009, 22:00

You know you've overdosed on FIRST when, after long Parent/Advisor/Scout meeting on Philmont, you findout someone on your crew is going to be on one of three rookie FRC teams in Sheboygan.

P.S. I really hope they get a lot of help, and not just from Team 93!

Rion Atkinson

06-12-2009, 22:05

When all through the Frontier Trails BEST competition you are hoping for January 9th.

You then get yelled at for bringing it up.

Akash Rastogi

06-12-2009, 22:09

When you participate in Fantasy FIRST drafts

kgzak

06-12-2009, 23:35

When you have to get a surgery and the only times they have open are christmas break or build season and you chose to have it over christmas.

thurston2619

07-12-2009, 13:18

you plan robotics fundraising events over Christmas break so you can help your team go to Worlds

you think of fundraising ideas in your sleep

you go on a college visit and your tour guide is a FIRST alumni... you high five when you discover this fact and then procede to talk about all the different competitions you have been too and what the best game was. you then continue talking about all the different competitions you have won at that particular college and why you are so excited to go there in the fall

Renee Becker-Blau

07-12-2009, 13:59

You leave your team go to a college five hours away &:

It takes you two weeks into the semester to start organizing a FIRST support organization called GO FIRST (Group Organization for FIRST) & attend a RPC meeting in Minnesota.

You visit home only when there are important Saturday robot events.

You find all the area community demo days and attend as many as possible.

You start applying FIRST to things you learn in your Scientific and Technical Communications class.

You make your support group official before the end of the semester is up.

You present a seminar at Minnesota Splash on Chairmans & convince your best friend from your old team to visit that weekend so she can go to the strategy seminar.

You realize that all this happened because robot withdrawal is being experienced.

Karibou

13-12-2009, 11:47

You see a Facebook status saying "DA BEARS SUCK", and you have to read it (in shock) three times before realizing that it is not referencing a team, but is rather your cousin illiterately complaining about the Chicago Bears.

demosthenes2k8

13-12-2009, 12:49

when 75% of your Google contacts are from FIRST and CD

BrendanB

13-12-2009, 15:20

When your definition of a good friday and saturday is spending 8 hours watching movies on thebluealliance.net and 12 hours sleeping...probably won't have one of those until april when robotics starts winding down.:rolleyes:

Chris is me

13-12-2009, 16:38

When you hear your old high school won the FTC Championship and JUMPED OUT OF YOUR CHAIR in excitement. I've got an old teacher to thank. :D

freaky_dork88

17-12-2009, 09:55

when your team number is the screensaver on your phone :D

CrashTestPilot

18-12-2009, 00:57

When you go to a holiday party generously sponsored by your boss, decline beer offered by your boss, drink one Coke and say you have to leave because you are going to school to give hands on training on power tools to your FIRST team.
You get to school and realize that there are only four students there because everyone else took the training you gave the day before. (The plan was to split the group of students into three sessions, but everyone was too excited and they had to attend first available session).

You come back home and proceed to make up stories about what happened at the holiday party because you promised your wife not to spend more than one night per week at the school during off season.

thurston2619

24-12-2009, 00:34

when you spend your weekend writing a letter to the editor of your local newspaper on behalf of your team

when you plan on rooming with a friend from another FIRST team at college

when you call your boss and start talking about fundraisers for robotics and they think it is the most natural thing in the world

when you convince your boss to help with your team's fundraisers

when you have your mentors', co-captain's, and other teams' captain's cell phone numbers memorized from calling them so frequently

when your work schedule is based off when you don't have robotics meetings

when you get special discounts for the amounts of hair dye and gel you buy just because of competition season

when you and your best friend are both captains of different teams and you joke about how finals will go at specific competitions

kgzak

24-12-2009, 18:50

When you have spent you whole Christmas Eve trying to figure out the game hint. :D

ATannahill

24-12-2009, 18:51

When you have spent you whole Christmas Eve trying to figure out the game hint. :D
From church.

BrendanB

24-12-2009, 20:23

From church.

HAHAHA funny!

When at your own Christmas party your on Chief. *Sigh, if they didn't move to australia I wouldn't be on here.... THANKS SARAH!!!!;)

Phoenix Spud

25-12-2009, 01:00

HAHAHA funny!

When at your own Christmas party your on Chief. *Sigh, if they didn't move to australia I wouldn't be on here.... THANKS SARAH!!!!;)

Glad to help!

When you are looking at CD (more than once...) on Christmas Day!!!

Nin_estarSaerah

25-12-2009, 20:47

When you spend more time on Christmas day on CD and FIRST website than you do playing with your new gadgets.

When you list a game hint with your presents when people ask you what you got for Christmas.

zakthemac

26-12-2009, 06:01

When you have spent you whole Christmas Eve trying to figure out the game hint. :D

WHAT!!!!! THERE WAS A GAME HINT????

demosthenes2k8

26-12-2009, 12:35

I believe that zakthemac has NOT overdosed on FIRST yet.

Zach O

26-12-2009, 14:49

When you have no clue how many days are left until Christmas, but you've been counting down to kickoff for 120+ days

kgzak

26-12-2009, 14:57

When you know the time date and place of kickoff but completely forgot what day christmas was

Phoenix Spud

27-12-2009, 00:15

When you go on Facebook to check your team's page

ttakashima

27-12-2009, 06:54

When you are in college and on Christmas day run between presents, food and the computer to read the replies on the game hint post...

When you go to school and still find the time to spend 50+ hours a week at your teams shop...

When after you come home from that shop you stay on CD for another 20 hours a week...

:D :D :D :D

dragonrulr288

28-12-2009, 10:54

Wait... We already had Christmas? Oh I missed it lol. Ive been trying to figure out the hint

Karibou

28-12-2009, 12:16

-You hear "pure evil" in a song, and you immediately think of the GDC

Thuvishan.R

05-01-2010, 21:35

Every time you look at a digital clock you associate the time with a FRC team you know.

goodsky

07-01-2010, 22:35

Every time you look at a digital clock you associate the time with a FRC team you know.

Every Exploding Bacon general meeting begins promptly at 7:02 pm. Because in Military Time that's perfect.

note: that's not entirely true however... we would be lucky if we were only 2 minutes late. :)

Joe G.

07-01-2010, 22:56

vic burg

08-01-2010, 10:02

Chris is me

08-01-2010, 10:46

Every Exploding Bacon general meeting begins promptly at 7:02 pm. Because in Military Time that's perfect.

note: that's not entirely true however... we would be lucky if we were only 2 minutes late. :)

I've jokingly petitioned that 1714 team meetings be moved to 5:14 PM rather than 5:30... No one seemed to catch on though. :(

Nin_estarSaerah

08-01-2010, 17:52

When exams are next week, and you still haven't studied because you are on Chief Delphi.
When you were going to start FAFSA, but a game hint got in the way.
When you are actually hoping it won't snow, because of kick-off.

MGoelz

08-01-2010, 20:02

When you're super excited at the beginning of a school year to get the locker number that corresponds to your team's. :P

demosthenes2k8

08-01-2010, 20:20

When you spend all day yelling out "Twenty hours and forty-two minutes" etc

NorviewsVeteran

09-01-2010, 00:16

you create a desktop shortcut to the encrypted manual PDF file

Phoenix Spud

09-01-2010, 00:50

You are planning on waking up at 2 AM to watch kick-off.

You know a couple of other people who are planning to do the same!!!

(9 hours and 10 min to go!!!)

Thing2_1723

09-01-2010, 07:19

*You didn't fall asleep the day before kickoff
*After your team canceled their kickoff party for bad weather, you got your parents to invite the team to your house for a party
*Your mom says you're addicted to CD and you respond "It's better then doing drugs"

dragonrulr288

09-01-2010, 07:48

.. when your mom yells at you for not sleeping [at about 2 this morning]. I fall asleep for two minutes, then wake up so I can say I slept.:D
... When you have been ready since 11 last night to go to kickoff
... When you have counted down to kickoff since before Chirstmas..
... When you are more excited than for Christmas... [sorry mum, loved the presents at Christmas, I'm just addicted to FIRST]

synth3tk

10-01-2010, 04:22

* Every one of your Facebook or Twitter statuses over the 24 hours since Kick-Off mention FIRST in some way, shape, or form.

* Your entire sleep schedule is thrown off after Kick-Off, every year.

* Your mind immediately goes into full-gear the second after the game animation has finished playing.

And, of course:
*You didn't fall asleep the day before kickoff

Karibou

10-01-2010, 09:28

* Every one of your Facebook or Twitter statuses over the 24 hours since Kick-Off mention FIRST in some way, shape, or form.

I counted 40 Twitter updates (including @replies) from myself, which translates to 40 Facebook statuses. All regarding Kickoff. The people who follow/are friends with me who aren't in FIRST were probably pretty annoyed.

carolynn4848

10-01-2010, 10:39

I've jokingly petitioned that 1714 team meetings be moved to 5:14 PM rather than 5:30... No one seemed to catch on though. :(

Team 1735 meets at 5:35

Kimmeh

10-01-2010, 11:28

When you spend all of your time after Kickoff on CD...only to dream about it that night as well as finding yourself reading threads in your dream. (In other words, CD just wasn't "there", no, I was actively reading it.)

I'm sad that there is no way to start 2604's meetings on our team number...The closest we could get would be to swap numbers around and start at 04:26. (However, with that time, I think we should stick with conventional 12 hour time, and not 24...) :yikes: :D

RandomStyuff

10-01-2010, 15:01

Ok, this is one of my best friends, but I'll post it seeing as he can't:

- When on your only weekend off in the next month (from your service in the Israeli Navy) you come to help with the kickoff until 1 AM when you need to be halfway across Israel, ready for service by 8 AM.
AND
- When in your daily 40 minute break you spend 25 minutes on the phone with your team talking about strategic ideas for the robot and checking up on your team

O'Sancheski

10-01-2010, 19:45

When you write down various quotes from all the build seasons.
When you have a shortcut icon on your desktop to ChiefDelphi.

thurston2619

10-01-2010, 20:57

when your days now consist of waking up, going to school, going to robotics, going to work, and then back to robotics before heading home for the night.

when you discover your guilty conscience because you are drawing robot designs in church.

when the only thing you look forward to from day to day is working on Breakaway.

when your best friend joins the team just because they know they won't see you if they aren't at meetings.

when your parents start talking about your 18th birthday and all you say is "i'm busy that day, it's build season"

khemathunder09

11-01-2010, 02:21

When you empty your pockets, and find, among other things:

-Vex Power expander
-3 wrenches of various sizes
-Dremel cutoff wheels and tool
-Assorted 1/4 - 20 hardware
-11 zipties
-Vex programming dongle

And it's not even build season yet...Don't forget a roll of solder, duct tape, and your leathermans! lol
Or...
-Your favorite 1/4" drill bit (That you brought home with you so other people wouldn't mess it up)
-Your team's signature purple electrical tape
-Scrap aluminum
-A gear you spent a third of build season perfecting (that never got used)

And then when the newspaper takes your picture for being team Captain you proudly show all of this off while wearing your Letterman jacket with its robotics patches.

thurston2619

11-01-2010, 07:02

when you wake up early enough in the morning to check CD before school.

when checking CD is the FIRST thing you do in the morning.

and you wish....

And then when the newspaper takes your picture for being team Captain you proudly show all of this off while wearing your Letterman jacket with its robotics patches.
... but your school district has yet to accept your team as a sport.

BX HANNAH

11-01-2010, 21:45

Hey Everyone!

Team 1023 wanted to help complete Dean's HW/have another space for teams to talk so we made a "Super Nerds!!" fansite on Facebook. Here's the link, we'd love it if you checked it out, became a fan and added some pictures and stuff of previous years! :)

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Super-Nerds/240805998917?ref=ts

bladetech932

16-01-2010, 17:16

You know you've overdosed on FIRST when
you set your alarm clock to your team # ex: 9:32

Phoenix Spud

16-01-2010, 21:00

When you talk to some people about FRC, tell them how much you are meeting (12 hours a day) and they tell you that you are working more for FRC than they do for work!!! :ahh: :yikes: :ahh: :yikes: ::safety::

dragonrulr288

20-01-2010, 12:11

http://xkcd.com/689/

^When you see this and the first thing that comes to mind is, "That's SO against the rules! It doesn't even have bumpers!"

Then you proceed to show your family and they have NO clue how awesome of an idea it was XD

BrendanB

20-01-2010, 12:16

when while taking a college class you are tempted to put a sign on a door that says, "1519 was here!" all because you see orbit balls in the shop and the xkcd umbrella bot comic on the door and realize it is team 2342's workshop!

when your boss puts his foot down and and won't schedule so you can make it to robotics on time in hope that you will quit the team because of it. (i think i've overdosed when you make you boss really mad at you!);)

vic burg

20-01-2010, 13:31

.... when your 18th birthday cake was the FIRST logo because you just couldn't wait for your last season.
.... when your senior year was NOT your last season of FIRST.

FRC4ME

20-01-2010, 13:34

.... when your senior year was NOT your last season of FIRST.

:D I love this one.

There will not be another build season during my lifetime when I am not somehow involved with FIRST. I mean that.

BrendanB

20-01-2010, 13:52

:D I love this one.

There will not be another build season during my lifetime when I am not somehow involved with FIRST. I mean that.
Same here. Winter was made for FIRST, and skiing!

vic burg

20-01-2010, 14:42

:D I love this one.

There will not be another build season during my lifetime when I am not somehow involved with FIRST. I mean that.

Thanks. Yeah, I mean, I didn't want to get away from FIRST but I thought it would happen. I was wrong. FIRST is like learning to speak. Once you start, you never shut up!

Racer26

20-01-2010, 14:54

I think theres a large number of addicts. I know I am.

-Your desk at work is covered with scraps of paper with robot design ideas.

synth3tk

20-01-2010, 19:09

...you schedule your spring semester college classes around your team's build schedule. No lie, I made sure that my classes allowed me to get out to the high school about half-hour after the meeting starts.

.... when your senior year was NOT your last season of FIRST.
Why would it be? ;) This is my second college-mentor year.

Thanks. Yeah, I mean, I didn't want to get away from FIRST but I thought it would happen. I was wrong. FIRST is like learning to speak. Once you start, you never shut up!
My family wishes I would shut-up already. :P

sami9145

22-01-2010, 20:27

you know you and your family are addicted to first when your mom goes onto the robot site you made for your team and sees this comic: http://xkcd.com/689/
and she laughs histerically then contimplates said idea...
:D i have an awesome mommy

you know youre addicted to first when you go to a drama tournament and a member on your debate team shows you where their robot build room is (he happened to know) just to see your reaction... you react with an OH EM GEE ROBOT MOMENT for 2 whole days because thats how long that tournament was
:D hahahaha it still amuses me

jamie_1930

24-01-2010, 14:29

Your starting to panic because there was no FIRSTcast last week and Greg Needel has posted a thread saying what time there broadcasting tonight!!

Phoenix Spud

24-01-2010, 20:14

When you have gotten 10+ other students overdosed on FIRST in the past month. :ahh: ::safety:: :D

Phoenix Spud

29-01-2010, 18:14

When you are wearing your Safety Glasses so much that the back of your ears hurt. ::safety::

Brandon_L

29-01-2010, 20:15

When you are wearing your Safety Glasses so much that the back of your ears hurt. ::safety::

When you leave the shop, sit through a 30 min car ride to get home, play xbox for an hour, then realize your safety glasses are still on the back of your head.

-42-

29-01-2010, 21:24

You began to swear compulsively at any mention of 'design changes'

sami9145

30-01-2010, 10:11

... when on a completely unrelated site you are reading the forums and you notice a guy say he had joined robotics and you bombard him with questions regarding his team and everything FIRST related...

... when after bombarding someone with questions you proceed to make a thread asking if anyone else is awesome enough to be in robotics... XD

Fennig247

30-01-2010, 12:15

When your sitting in a philosophy class in college and an idea pops up in your head for a design because of how your teacher taught you to be more philosophical.

Or, when your working at apple and yet every new device comes out, you want to implement into your every day tasks in the build room or scouting at competitions.

Vermeulen

31-01-2010, 22:36

When you plan on being Dean Kamen for halloween, and need to get some friends for Woodie and Dave.

Phoenix Spud

31-01-2010, 22:41

You have 3 generations in your family involved in FIRST.

BrendanB

01-02-2010, 10:29

When you have to annotate an magazine article and class in you convince your group to do the one that has BAE systems mentioned it in. I think they were getting a huge tube bender for aircraft carriers or something like that.:rolleyes:

Phoenix Spud

01-02-2010, 18:39

When you spend more time at FRC than your house :ahh:

FIRSTgirl675

02-02-2010, 01:45

...when you have been working in the shop and then head over to another high school (that doesn't have robotics team) and realize that they've been giving you funny looks because you still have your safety glasses on.

Phoenix Spud

02-02-2010, 04:48

When you think about posts for this thread in you spare time/when you can't sleep!!! :ahh:

Phoenix Spud

02-02-2010, 04:49

When you had 5 posts on the previous page...

Chris is me

02-02-2010, 06:32

Phoenix Spud

02-02-2010, 19:19

You get overly excited because your post count is a team that you know!

ReapersRule

03-02-2010, 14:18

When you see this comic on XKCD http://xkcd.com/689/ and realize you know a team that would consider that design and recognise your robot's trademark in the image (our green lattice aka fence)

andy174drive

04-02-2010, 21:44

When you have AP Macroeconomics homework to do, a take home test to finish, and reading for a College Freshman English class and rather than procrastinate on Facebook, you open Chief Delphi and start reading threads. XD

blayde5

07-02-2010, 01:56

When a friend asks you for a 5, you pull out a 5mm allenkey.

Karibou

07-02-2010, 11:45

"Hand me a green [allen wrench]" really means "I need a green and a 7/16 [crescent wrench]"

RoyerAJ

07-02-2010, 12:45

You know you've overdosed on FIRST when................ even four months after the championship you feel a pang of fear every single time you enter a large room and realize you aren't wearing any safety glasses....... unfortunately a true story...

ReapersRule

07-02-2010, 15:37

When you call the robot your baby and want to kill (not literally) anyone who hurts it.

When you buy prescription safety glasses to avoid wearing 2 pairs of glasses

Phoenix Spud

12-02-2010, 17:59

When you call the robot your baby and want to kill (not literally) anyone who hurts it.

So true! I call Fenix1 (the robot my old team shipped to Australia) my baby sometimes!

When you start remembering the quotes at the top of CD!!!

Captain banana

12-02-2010, 18:04

When you stay awake for 6 weeks straight on caffine to finish a robot and then crashing just to do it again in a week!

kristenliz_28

12-02-2010, 20:00

You come to work on the robot on a friday night.

Rion Atkinson

12-02-2010, 20:49

You come to work on the robot on a friday night.

When you wish that you could be working on the robot on a Friday night... And every other night.

EthanMiller

12-02-2010, 22:11

When you've got three laptops in your bedroom, and you're using them all... to browse CD.

When you are annoyed that a day is a holiday, because that means you can't go to school and test the code you were awake since kickoff writing.

Oh, and when you take apart a lasertag gun to see if the IR is compatible with and legal for use on your bot, just in case the next year's game is lasertag of sorts.

When you already have a picture in your head of a robot playing lasertag after reading that sentence.

rsegrest

12-02-2010, 23:01

You know you're overdosed on FIRST when...your idea of a date night away from the 4 kids (ages 16, 14, 2, and 1) OR your 2nd date with a girl...is to go to the local high school and help the robotics team...:yikes:

Swear on my life true stories...the first is a local engineer who is mentoring for the first time and wanted to show his wife what we do, they stayed for 2 hours instead of going out to eat and the second is our high school welding teacher who on their second date said "I need to run by the high school real quick" and ended up staying for an hour and a half to weld parts of our kicker together...:D

P.S. Both women proved how cool they were by 1: Not killing their date/husband and 2: Actually asking questions and commenting on how much fun it looked like we were having...

Phreadumb

12-02-2010, 23:23

when you actually have time to acknowledge this thread, and do so at 11:23 PM

Phoenix Spud

13-02-2010, 04:50

When after a team meeting instead of relaxing, you are on CD, and working on award submissions at home.

SteveGarward

13-02-2010, 05:41

When, after 5 weeks, you realise that you've had only 1 day away from the build!

thurston2619

13-02-2010, 10:11

when you have perfect attendance for build season and still get up early on your day off school to be at the build site at 10 am because you don't want to be accused of having senioritis

when you're youtube account has more videos of your robot on it than the team's youtube account

when you go to the build site from 10am til 4pm, go to work til 8pm, and then go back to the build site

when you spend 3 hours cleaning up the electrical guys area and then go on to clean the rest of the site because it will be a safer working environment for the team

when you have science teachers down the hall for a professional development day and as they are leaving the building they all end up stopping by the build room because they have all heard about the team from their students

SammyKay

16-02-2010, 21:36

You know you're overdosed on FIRST when you take out your earring and use the post of it in order to reset the jaguar rather than wait for someone to get a pen to reset it ~~~one of the girl's on our team did that tonight while we were practicing driving :)

HazzardFuzzBomb

16-02-2010, 22:33

[TBT] Vampire

16-02-2010, 22:36

you go home or any other place besides the shop and smell the smell of the rubber that you used to make the mecanum wheel rollers.

onecoolc

16-02-2010, 23:39

Vampire;921704']you go home or any other place besides the shop and smell the smell of the rubber that you used to make the mecanum wheel rollers.

This.
It won't get out of my nose.

Alex Chambers

16-02-2010, 23:59

When you have built a pyrimid made intirely out of mountin dew cans that covers an intire table.

balrock043

17-02-2010, 15:52

i've done that a FEW times.

SavtaKenneth

18-02-2010, 07:30

When you wake up with a temprature of 104 feeling like crap and the first thought coming into your mind is " $@#$@#$@#$@#$@#$@# I don't wanna miss a day of robotics"

[TBT] Vampire

18-02-2010, 17:01

You come to school sick an entire week just so you don't miss a week of robotics.

Michael Ogden

18-02-2010, 19:12

...you consider any beverage without caffeine to be a joke. Oh wait, I already do. :)

[TBT] Vampire

18-02-2010, 19:35

You draw a robot on your homework papers to solve your homework for you.

Michael Ogden

18-02-2010, 19:40

...you use CIMs as dumbbells and bench press old robots.

Bananna

18-02-2010, 20:39

...when you're responsible for the quote on the wall saying "Oh, I have a drill bit in my pencil case!"

cmh0114

18-02-2010, 21:14

...you realize that your team probably spends as much on Mountain Dew as they do on the robot.

Actually, I don't think this is true, but it certainly seems like it sometimes. :D

Karibou

18-02-2010, 21:36

...you realize that your team probably spends as much on Mountain Dew as they do on the robot.

Actually, I don't think this is true, but it certainly seems like it sometimes. :D

That'd be about $3,500 in Mountain Dew. I could believe that...

[TBT] Vampire

19-02-2010, 17:50

I could as well :D

...when you just KNOW when it'll be one of those 2 AM nights.

[TBT] Vampire

20-02-2010, 09:28

Correction, 6 AM and still going. >.< WORK ROBOT WORK!

GGCO

20-02-2010, 16:06

You're willing to smoke a pvc pipe.

Phoenix Spud

20-02-2010, 17:29

When you are on the couch sick, but still want to go to FRC because it is your team's last day. (We are shipping the robot one day early to give it an extra day through customs)

When you were running a fever last night (and tried to hide it, but didn't quite manage it...) and you still stayed till 11 PM!!!

When both of your parent have lost bets, resulting in them wearing a mohawk. (Why else do you think I was up so late? Dad, it is your turn :yikes: )

Chris is me

20-02-2010, 17:51

That'd be about $3,500 in Mountain Dew. I could believe that...

Monster would be more plausible. Say at bulk it's 1.50 a can, that's only ~2400 cans. With a 60 person team, that would make 40 cans per person. 7 days * 6 weeks = 42 cans of Monster at one a day.

When you get build flu. You're not an addict without build flu.

KC1AJT

20-02-2010, 18:05

NullEntity

20-02-2010, 18:05

When you OD on Mountain Dew. (I think it's gonna happen soon!)

Dragon Princess

20-02-2010, 18:30

when your programming team puts the following on your note wall:

http://www.team61.com/gallery/2010-build/medium/Picture%20201.jpg (http://www.team61.com/gallery/2010-build/Picture%20201.jpg) (click to see full size)

notice the lower right

the more important question isn't why you wrote the lyrics to pants on the ground on the white board. Instead is why is their WHITE BOARD MARKER on a SMART BOARD???

Lol no offense but when I looked at the picture that's the first thing I noticed.

harpal1991

20-02-2010, 18:35

You have spent the last 18 hours editing the Championship footage -amen to this

Chris is me

20-02-2010, 18:40

the more important question isn't why you wrote the lyrics to pants on the ground on the white board. Instead is why is their WHITE BOARD MARKER on a SMART BOARD???

It looks like the board is one of the models that also has dry erase.

Brandon_L

20-02-2010, 18:43

when "Fire Lasers" is on your days to-do list, and crossed off.

When you reach in your pocket and aren't sure if you have change or washers.

When your saturday's pizza matrix is more organized then the toolbox

KC1AJT

20-02-2010, 19:16

It looks like the board is one of the models that also has dry erase.
he's right they clean off easily

Captain Slacker

20-02-2010, 19:46

-When you get home at 12:45am from robotics the night before scrimmage, simply because your mom was tired and didn't want to stay at the site any longer, while the rest of the build team is still there, and you get everything ready for the next day. Then you realize your nails aren't team color so you stay up till 2:30 making sure they're perfect, only to wake up at five to head out for the scrimmage(:
-When your homework doodles always consist of robots or new cheer ideas...

:D

NullEntity

20-02-2010, 19:47

when you have just enough time to go home, shower, and go to school.

Actually: when you don't have enough time to go home, shower, and go to school.

pSYeNCe

20-02-2010, 20:24

...the patterns on the bathroom floor's tiles look like LabVIEW programs
...A bunch of people are on the ground looking at something, and you automatically look for the robot they're working on
...you're at the basketball game and you ask who's on the red alliance
...you no longer say numbers "one thousand, eight-hundred and seventy one," but rather "eighteen seventy one" (and then promptly wonder if you met a team that had has that number)

KC1AJT

20-02-2010, 21:47

you see a group of people crowded around the robot and wonder what you guys screwed up this time

kws4000

21-02-2010, 19:28

You work late on Sunday night, write down a list of food to get and the McDonalds is closed, and your parents aren't going to whip up 2 dozen burgers at the last minute, and you have to pack the robot up the next day for shipment, with an openhouse the next monday that has been announced over the PA at school that claims the robot is already done, and the robot doesn't do half of what it is supposed to do, and one joystick is accidentally unplugged, resulting a half-hour of delays.

kws4000

21-02-2010, 19:40

You suddenly realize that you are the only Junior on the team, the only programmer for this year, have no practical experience machining raw aluminum, and the guys who know anything worthwhile are Seniors, and the Sophomores spend all of their time on Facebook, while the Freshmen just stand around.

kws4000

21-02-2010, 19:53

Safety glasses feel more natural than underwear
The first solution was the best solution (and now you're on the fifth version) (and it is the entire robot that doesn't work)
A wire cutter and pile of zipties replaces the pencils/pens in the front pocket

Gir_450

21-02-2010, 21:20

you know you overdose on FIRST when you keep some of the buttons you spent hours making

Tarzan19

22-02-2010, 00:12

--watchdog not feed is an inside joke between you and your friends
--all your current inside jokes are from robotics
--you can say exactly what your team members and mentors are thinking, because your thinking the same thing
--working from 10am till 11pm is an improvement from last year
--you call your mentors by their first name with out a second thought
--you put robotics before your 500 point research paper due tommorrow
--school is cancelled tomorrow, and the robotics team has already made plans for going in and working.
--your parents use not going to robotics as a threat
--your parents cant carry through on that threat because they have to be there as well
--you wish your teachers would give an extension on all assignments till after the shipdate
--dont understand why teachers dont give extensions for their assignments till after shipdate
--you treat your robot like a dog, (i.e. whistling for it to come, yelling at the robot to stop and not the driver)
--deciding that posting on CD is more important than sleep
--wondering why your robotics team only has 11 members
--wondering how 11 people managed to build a robot in 6 weeks
--you decided that going without dinner to get the baller catcher done is a good idea

charmed862

22-02-2010, 07:01

Probably said before this build because of all the snow, but i think it needs to be said.

When we're the only kids to be praying and trying to jinx a snowday during build season, and then having the only status on Facebook, being ticked that there's a snowday....Like Today, when Bagging is Tomorrow >:(

Kimmeh

22-02-2010, 08:18

--school is canceled tomorrow, and the robotics team has already made plans for going in and working.
--you wish your teachers would give an extension on all assignments till after the shipdate
--don't understand why teachers don't give extensions for their assignments till after shipdate

Oh yes! As soon as I found out that school was canceled I was already calling mentors to find out our plans for the day and see who would be their the earliest so I could show up.

-- When your teacher coach won't let you sleep in class after staying late at the shop because he can't sleep in class. (But I left AFTER him!)
-- When you whistle for the nuts and washers that fell instead of getting new ones because the original are gold colored and look better than the normal silver color.
-- When you're watching the robot being spray painted all you can think is "Holy Cow that's a sexy robot."

SteveGarward

22-02-2010, 13:03

When you've only missed 1 day the entire build season.

When you get home from work ready to inhale some food before running to build, and your 6yo daughter looks at you funny and says 'you look familiar... I know the face...'

kws4000

22-02-2010, 15:58

when all wires are ordered 2,3,1,8,7,5,4,6 etc when any sane person would've went in order.

O'Sancheski

22-02-2010, 16:03

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

you actually participate in Chief Delphi

Pirate_Nelly354

22-02-2010, 16:13

...When you finish the school day and think, "yay, I get to go home now!"

By home, of course, I mean the robotics room.

[TBT] Vampire

22-02-2010, 16:38

You stay at school 26 hours, 17 of which were spent working on the robot.

kws4000

22-02-2010, 16:42

you've actually done this?

it's easier to modify, build, deploy, and change the cRIO settings (LabVIEW) than it is to make a split PWM
there are either too many or too few cooks in the kitchen
you need to move the shop air compressor outside to hear yourself think

Leeebowitz

22-02-2010, 20:02

...when a sentence that started out having nothing to do with FIRST ended up like this:

"My friend Calvin, who isn't in Warbots, who TOTALLY SHOULD be in Warbots...um, what was I saying again?"

Wildcat

22-02-2010, 20:30

...when this is your yearly calender:
Jan-Feb: Build Season
March-April: Competition Season
May-Aug: Demo Season
Sept-Dec: Pre-Season

-When you spend more time on CD than you do on your computer
-When you want there to be school on a snow day so you can go to your team's meetings
-When CD IS your facebook

darkangel

22-02-2010, 21:21

When you're up 'til who-knows-when the night before school starts, finishing the homework that got pushed to the side as you concentrate on preparing for ship date.

Katie_UPS

22-02-2010, 21:25

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

AnibaS

22-02-2010, 22:30

When your every other sentence either has the word "robotics" or "chiefdelphi" in it.

Number of times I said "chiefdelphi" today: 14

Chris is me

23-02-2010, 14:02

You sleep for 14 straight hours after crating. I didn't know I could do that.

kws4000

23-02-2010, 16:40

you prefer to figure it out the hard way rather than asking a guy who could figure it out in less than 2 hours

kws4000

23-02-2010, 16:48

some of your buddies go to sleep at midnight from a night of building, then get up at four in the morning to machine some more parts, then skip all of school to work on the robot, and are prepared to go all the way to midnight again (7 hours and 12 minutes to bagging!!!!!), and some new code has yet to be tested with a completely different design than yesterday.

kws4000

23-02-2010, 18:56

the only persons at fault are the programmers when the pressure switch isn't tightened
an air cylinder smashes through a gaurd and it is the programmer's fault

Captain Slacker

26-02-2010, 21:09

Bill_B

26-02-2010, 22:29

when you come down with a mysterious case of robotscurvyvirusflu on ship day and when you get to school all of your teachers asked how the robot looked in the crate :] or your french class already came up with a skit on how the robot took you hostage...

... sur la façon dont le robot t'a pris l'otage. ..

I've been after the "other" school teachers to mentor in FIRST even if they have no presumptive knowledge of robotics. My pitch is that mentoring here is as good a way to demonstrate the relevancy of their subject as there is. How do you expect to make alliance decisions with any of the French teams in
Atlanta?

Tarzan19

07-03-2010, 10:58

after winning your first regional, you wake up after dreaming about still competeing, where you were only one seeding point ahead of number 2.

scottmacdonald

07-03-2010, 17:47

When I realized I was cheering for the other basketball team today when they scored thinking, "yes a higher seeding, oh wait..."

kws4000

08-03-2010, 15:19

You can't stand to watch your team play because you have so much invested in it, it becomes unbearable to to even think of watching your team lose even A match.

popnbrown

08-03-2010, 15:33

You graduate High School, go onto a very tough engineering school, and neglect do your homework, watch the webcast for your home regional all of saturday and sunday from 800 miles away, then break your glasses, wake up your roomate by yelling so loudly and almost cry when your team wins the Chairman's Award, and then start looking for flights back to New Jersey.

I'm in love with FIRST. There's no other explanation.

Dantvman27

08-03-2010, 16:04

When you walk into a restaurant after competition and realize that what you thought were your sunglasses on your head were really your safety goggles

Thing2_1723

08-03-2010, 21:12

*your parents use your account on CD more than you, just so they know what you've been doing for the past 6 weeks cause you're too tired when you get home
*you've showered with safety glasses on, more than once

kws4000

15-03-2010, 18:09

mnajork

15-03-2010, 19:16

The program has to be changed in about ten different places for every revision of the mechanical parts, and you consider it a halfway decent challenge juggling school, FIRST, driver's ed, track, eating and sleep (in order of importance ;) ).

You flipped school and FIRST. You come home after build and you try to fit as much school work in as you can before you sink into utter incoherence

kjolana1124

21-03-2010, 10:23

When you have this conversation:

"Yeah, I guess my family gets a little too sweeped up in March Madness"

"Me too! I don't know which regional to watch first! I hope Blue Alliance gets all the footage for the matches I miss."

"..."

:D

Chris is me

21-03-2010, 10:38

...when you don't know what March Madness is supposed to be. (I guess it's a basketball thing?)

Leeebowitz

21-03-2010, 10:41

...when all you remember from your dreams for the past few nights has been this: "Team 1525 graciously accepts!"

It's only a dream...:(

Wildcat

21-03-2010, 11:55

...when you don't know what March Madness is supposed to be. (I guess it's a basketball thing?)
-when your "March Madness" is all of the FRC Regionals (or Michigan districts)
-when you organize a scouting trip to a competition your team isn't at just for fun

Karibou

21-03-2010, 14:03

You post a status on facebook/twitter saying "RED AL-LI-ANCE," and the comments are as follows:

"*clap clap clapclapclap*"
"GALI-LEO"
"*CLAP CLAP CLAPCLAPCLAP*"
"*Cowbell Cowbell CowbellCowbellCowbell*"
"sorry noisemakers are prohibited at FRC events"
"*clap-clap, clap-clap-clap*"

synth3tk

21-03-2010, 14:19

Kimmeh

21-03-2010, 14:26

You see a wind-guard on a semi and the first thing you think of is <G46>

Tarzan19

21-03-2010, 14:41

its 4 in the morning, your friend is asleep, so instead of going to bed, you check and see how week 3 regionals go, and look at chief delphi, then work on that paper you need to finish a rough draft on by tomorrow.

kjolana1124

21-03-2010, 16:07

-when your "March Madness" is all of the FRC Regionals (or Michigan districts)
-when you organize a scouting trip to a competition your team isn't at just for fun

When you and your friend start designing a t-shirt that says "FIRST...Our March Madness is better." or something similar.

BIGWILLI2081

21-03-2010, 16:13

when you see a soccer field and think "where are the humps, the towers, and the other 2 goals?

Wildcat

21-03-2010, 17:47

You post a status on facebook/twitter saying "RED AL-LI-ANCE," and the comments are as follows:
BLUE AL-LI-ANCE!

Bjenks548

21-03-2010, 20:18

When
- you look at a clock/channel and can identify it by team number (my dad did this yesterday)
- you start grouping all numbers by twos (channel nine-fifty five)
- you come up future plans for the robot durring long lectures
- when your friends are shocked you spend 24 hours at robotics in the past two days and you reply ehh beter then kettering (27 hours there :D)
- the back few pages of your notebook are of robot sketches
- you thought of rush when you read 27 hours at kettering
- posted this at steel armidilos (8:18)

BJC

21-03-2010, 20:34

When you see your team number everywhere... and it its starting to scare you.

when you accidently held up three's while cheering at a pep rally at your school.

When your just sitting on Chief Delphi hitting the refresh button so you can read the new posts / threads FIRST.

When you always capitalize FIRST.

Joaquin Moreno

21-03-2010, 21:00

when you're playing PlayStation and wonder "what's up with my [tank] drive code?"... and then you realize, you're playing PlayStation

kjolana1124

21-03-2010, 23:23

You finish watching the Purdue/Texas game, and then realize that the Boilermaker Regional was probably the most exciting to happen to Purdue this week (and that game was INTENSE).

yoda92

21-03-2010, 23:33

when u see a robotics shirt and you lose the game

synth3tk

21-03-2010, 23:34

...you see random numbers, and instantly assumer that they're an FRC team number! :D

...you are constantly looking for cool "toys" to buy when you're at Home Depot.

...you can't stop thinking about FIRST. Ever.

Rion Atkinson

22-03-2010, 00:39

...you see random numbers, and instantly assumer that they're an FRC team number! :D

When you are at IHOP watching the end of The Greater Kansas City Regional and jump on TBA to look up the price of your tickets.

When CAD becomes "fun".

Agentarrow

22-03-2010, 02:01

When at fast food restaurants, you only buy meals that cost your team number.
(for those who do not understand my vague wording, I buy a burrito meal at my local Taco Bell because it costs $4.69)

cooker52

22-03-2010, 09:37

When you worked so hard at the regional that anything is hilarious on the ride home. Including making bow ties/hats out of zip ties

delsaner

22-03-2010, 09:40

When you can't sleep the night after a regional because you have "Cotton Eyed Joe" stuck in your head.

Ryan Simpson

22-03-2010, 11:44

When you have a different team's shirt for each day of the week (I plan on getting a bunch more :D)

kjolana1124

22-03-2010, 12:17

When you worked so hard at the regional that anything is hilarious on the ride home. Including making bow ties/hats out of zip ties

Or when everything is hilarious at the restaurant you all go to later that night, hence giving birth:

http://i43.tinypic.com/33wbj38.jpg

To Rufus.

KarenH

22-03-2010, 17:52

When at fast food restaurants, you only buy meals that cost your team number.
(for those who do not understand my vague wording, I buy a burrito meal at my local Taco Bell because it costs $4.69)

This could be a problem for lower team numbers, and team numbers that don't end in 9. Know any place that sells a meal for $3.30?

I'm not overdosed, just curious. ;)

synth3tk

22-03-2010, 18:26

When you can't sleep the night after a regional because you have "Cotton Eyed Joe" stuck in your head.
When you can't sleep the night before a regional because you're worried you've forgotten how to dance to "Cotton Eyed Joe".

Ed__

22-03-2010, 20:02

When you are a scout and even after the competition you still have numbers and team names and there team info and robot information run thought your head even 2 days after the regional is over and still think that you have to pick alliances for some reason

Wildcat

22-03-2010, 20:23

when you start drawing out highly detailed match strategies on how to beat 217 during class

Bjenks548

22-03-2010, 21:30

when you start drawing out highly detailed match strategies on how to beat 217 during class

Care to share any of those? mine are filled with ideas on how to beat 469 and other improvements to our bot lol

-When you hear songs that remind you of teams ("TNT dynamite" goes to 280, "I'm a be" goes to 33 and "sandstorm" goes to 2771)

- When one of your favorite shows are on and your trying to watch it and post of CD... and failing at the first one

Leeebowitz

22-03-2010, 21:43

When you see a poster around school with the word "led" in bold (as in, "I led you through the forest") and immediately start wondering why the poster is talking about LED lights.

kjolana1124

22-03-2010, 21:44

When you can't sleep the night before a regional because you're worried you've forgotten how to dance to "Cotton Eyed Joe".

When you can't sleep before competitions because you're too busy teaching your team the Cotton Eyed Joe, Electric Slide, and proper conga line etiquette

Tarzan19

22-03-2010, 21:49

When you dont want to wake up from a dream because you arent done helping the other team figure out with their battery charger yet at a random competition.

Phoenix Spud

22-03-2010, 22:35

When you can't sleep before competitions because you're too busy teaching your team the Cotton Eyed Joe, Electric Slide, and proper conga line etiquette

Same here!!!

When you wake up from a dream confused, because you couldn't figure out how to properly strain relive a wire!

Phoenix Spud

22-03-2010, 22:42

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

This actually happened to me!!! On our last day before we shipped!!!!!!!!!!! Then I missed ANOTHER team meeting because I was still sick. At least I was better for GSR, but my cough still is here...

kjolana1124

22-03-2010, 22:50

When you dont want to wake up from a dream because you arent done helping the other team figure out with their battery charger yet at a random competition.

When, instead of putting thermometers up to the lamp, you're shaking them so you'll appear better so you can go to the WPI regional...I almost had to :D

FRC4ME

22-03-2010, 23:04

When you dont want to wake up from a dream because you arent done helping the other team figure out with their battery charger yet at a random competition.

Same here!!!

When you wake up from a dream confused, because you couldn't figure out how to properly strain relive a wire!

When you find your programming mentor in a dream, both realize you're in a dream, and immediately think, "neat! extra time!" and begin discussing autonomous mode. :D

(Unfortunately, we gave up after a few minutes when we realized nothing we were saying was making any sense.) :D

Wildcat

23-03-2010, 05:58

Care to share any of those? mine are filled with ideas on how to beat 469 and other improvements to our bot lol

i have no problem releasing them after the michigan state comp, if i release them now, the chickens will just figure out a way to counter them before my team can use them

Bjenks548

25-03-2010, 19:35

i have no problem releasing them after the michigan state comp, if i release them now, the chickens will just figure out a way to counter them before my team can use them

haha probably a good idea, I've hinted a few times on CD what our strategy will be to beat 469, but im not giving away any specifics yet.

When
-other sports just don't seem as exciting anymore (there just way to long after 2:15 matches)
- When you spend more time on CD then on Facebook
- When you've walked out of seminar after working, and walk around with saftey glasses on the rest of the day.

Norman J

26-03-2010, 19:58

When you memorize numbers (phone #'s, addresses etc...) by associating them with FIRST teams.

FIRSTgirl675

26-03-2010, 23:55

...when you are talking about going to prom with someone and they say that they will try and dance if you want them to, but your response is "It's like in the shop: if you feel uncomfortable doing something you don't have to do it."

delsaner

31-03-2010, 13:27

...when you and your team friends are waiting in front of a restaurant for your ride to come, so you play chacha slide, YMCA, macarena, cupid shuffle, etc. and dance to it in order to keep yourselves occupied.
=]

MishraArtificer

31-03-2010, 15:24

...when you get REALLY excited when you see this at the top of the screen 2 years after posting it in the "Quotes that were said during build season" thread...
Team newb: To expect any average group of high schoolers to build and develop a robot in less than six weeks is...madness!

Me: Madness?

THIS
IS
FIRST!

Vermeulen

31-03-2010, 18:26

When you're on spring break, and you're still on CD and talking with your team.

Bjenks548

31-03-2010, 18:30

When your got on vacation on spring break and are planning to spend the first 3 days of vaction watching webcasts of your team at states.

Karibou

31-03-2010, 20:59

-You cut out a "MAIN BREAKER" label and stick it above the lightswitch in your room. Both of them.

Vermeulen

01-04-2010, 10:30

When you have a dream that MOE beat your high school in basketball, and when you wake up, you go on CD to tell people.

(also applies to having a dream about being an alliance partner with 469, and then learning that their robot is powered by maple syrup. You then go out to a grocery store and learn that the greater Atlanta area is out of maple syrup. Of course, you need to get maple syrup, so you make your own from a maple tree that you just happened to have in the pit.)

delsaner

03-04-2010, 13:05

There were a LOT of FIRST references within our game of monopoly with fellow teammates. Most of these references were made by a friend and I.

-Whenever someone would land on a bought railroad and owed $25, we would say in an announcer voice "RAIDER ROBOTIX"
-Whenever someone bought houses (in this model, houses are stacked), we would say "oh snap, stack attack"
-We said "This game is Lunacy"
-Whenever someone landed on Luxury Tax ($75), we say in an announcer voice "ROBO RAIDERS"
-When our friend kept making a lot of money, we said she was "Rackin and Rollin"

On top of the monopoly game, we shared our knowledge of how many team names and numbers we know (50+).

Rion Atkinson

03-04-2010, 13:13

Vermeulen

03-04-2010, 13:55

I would buy FIRSTopoly...

Replace the railroads with drivetrains (swerve, mecanum, holonomic)
Go is replaced with Kickoff: Collect KOP
Jail replaced with un-GP or something along those lines
Replace the monopoly guy with Dean Kamen
Replace the electric company and water works with Andymark and NI
Game pieces are replaced with models of FIRST game pieces (orbit ball, tetra, soccer ball, etc.)

If I manage to get the graphic design department on this, I want to bring this to champs.

Ryan Simpson

03-04-2010, 14:02

Do I hear a possible fund raiser? "Monopoly: FIRST Edition Educates teams on FIRST teams and robot types!" (Or maybe just the different regionals... With Atlanta Park Place, and St. Louis being Board walk.) :yikes:

I would buy FIRSTopoly...

Replace the railroads with drivetrains (swerve, mecanum, holonomic)
Go is replaced with Kickoff: Collect KOP
Jail replaced with un-GP or something along those lines
Replace the monopoly guy with Dean Kamen
Replace the electric company and water works with Andymark and NI
Game pieces are replaced with models of FIRST game pieces (orbit ball, tetra, soccer ball, etc.)

If I manage to get the graphic design department on this, I want to bring this to champs.

Check out this thread from a few months ago.

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/showthread.php?t=77898

Vermeulen

03-04-2010, 15:08

Bah humbug... I'm still going to try bringing it to champs.

Rion Atkinson

03-04-2010, 15:13

Bah humbug... I'm still going to try bringing it to champs.

At the very least, we could make them one at a time to sell to other teams. Don't go mass, just teams. (And hey, at the very least, thats over 1,00 teams. :D )

RoseJ

04-04-2010, 20:03

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

-You have read all of the posts in this thread~
-When you are sad that there are no more posts in this thread to read. :(

kjolana1124

04-04-2010, 20:26

(also applies to having a dream about being an alliance partner with 469, and then learning that their robot is powered by maple syrup. You then go out to a grocery store and learn that the greater Atlanta area is out of maple syrup. Of course, you need to get maple syrup, so you make your own from a maple tree that you just happened to have in the pit.)

Best. Dream. Ever.