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Grant Cox
14-02-2008, 21:24
http://img409.imageshack.us/img409/5463/0214081907dh6.jpg

Jenny Craig's weight reduction system is in full swing at the chicken coop.
Alalea
14-02-2008, 21:29
XD

Or, of course, you hear: "What do we need money for? We're done building." "Traveling, shipping, the cart, [blah blah blah], and ham sandwhiches."

OR "Our Robot is going live...9 days before we send it out. Oh shoot." Followed by lots of frenzied, important looking movements and frenzied, important sounding shouted orders <.<
hipsterjr
14-02-2008, 21:37
We call our wight loss system the "Dewalt Diet";)
Alalea
14-02-2008, 21:42
I don't want to know how much weight we need to lose <.<
synth3tk
14-02-2008, 23:35
We call our's the "How Much More Crap Can We Load On Here" anti-diet.
JaneYoung
15-02-2008, 09:39
Jenny Craig's weight reduction system is in full swing at the chicken coop.

I've heard that running laps might help. Can fat chickens run laps? :D
Grant Cox
15-02-2008, 14:29
I've heard that running laps might help. Can fat chickens run laps? :D

Just as long as there's no purple haze blurring their vision ;)

Optional alternate pun: Looking at the dents and broken pieces in our practice bot, I'd say that running laps is definitely working to reduce its weight :p
jacob07
15-02-2008, 14:33
its just relaxing to know that we are under weight and have to add more....:D
Alalea
16-02-2008, 17:37
its just relaxing to know that we are under weight and have to add more....:D

Yes, it is. 23 pounds-ish. All you heard from our teacher-dude was "And we can but a steel rod here..." XD
WaterFreak
16-02-2008, 17:52
You realize that you have 2 weeks worth of work to try to get done in 2 days.

And, oh yeah, by the way, we are 20ish pounds overwieght. Time to break out the Dremel tool & Dewalt drill and ATTACK!!!!!!!!!
Alalea
16-02-2008, 17:56
You realize that you have 2 weeks worth of work to try to get done in 2 days.

And, oh yeah, by the way, we are 20ish pounds overwieght. Time to break out the Dremel tool & Dewalt drill and ATTACK!!!!!!!!!
We'll manage, we're pretty good at that.
joycecutliff
16-02-2008, 18:23
When you're 96 pounds and for once you're happy to be weightmaster! :)P

PS Whoever's going to The Great Lakes Regional , good luck against 240 :)
Chrisms
16-02-2008, 22:42
our drive train team today disassembled their base to reduce weight. They have the robot tonight, I'm curious where they took weight from... I'm pretty sure they went for the "take it apart, reassemble it, and wonder why you have extra parts laying around" approach.
Dan Richardson
16-02-2008, 22:48
1.) When you don't get in until 6 am because a team themed after Bacon had to go on a "lean" diet. Happy to say WalrusPig is now underweight and feeling very spry.

2.) When you don't want to get off Chief Delphi / YouTube because you can't wait to see who posts the next teaser. ( A white board doesn't count grr.... 217..)
lasereyes
16-02-2008, 22:51
When you're glad that everything worked and we don't need massive amounts of coffee to stay up and remove weight from the robot on Monday night :D .
cjtenny
17-02-2008, 01:22
When you take off your safety glasses and poke yourself in the eye because you took them off a while ago, and so you go to take them off your head but grab your hair because they're not raised up there either.
reflion
17-02-2008, 01:37
Goodness, we haven't even finished putting the robot together, let alone weighed it.
Dillon Compton
18-02-2008, 15:47
When you crate the robot on Sunday night and take the two days before ship off...
joycecutliff
18-02-2008, 16:58
when the jokes stop and work begins!
Alivia
18-02-2008, 17:01
When you leave a meeting at 10 pm, and come in the next morning to see everyone wearing the same clothes from yesterday because they didn't go home, you have a pretty good indicator that ship date is near!

hahaha.
Eye-gor
18-02-2008, 21:42
And, oh yeah, by the way, we are 20ish pounds overwieght. Time to break out the Dremel tool & Dewalt drill and ATTACK!!!!!!!!!

our head mentor has a horror story he likes to tell about the time the team arrived at competition to find that the robot was overweight, at which point "speedholes" were invented and a grinder was applied to help take off that extra pound. we've got a picture around here somewhere...
this is the point where everyone either starts panicing, or becomes totally cool with everything because at this point if its not going to make it, what's the use in trying so hard?