Re: People i want to meet at nationals
 

-I want to meet Ricky Q. because 269 has a really great name. (Cooney Robotics? John Cooney [814 human player]? come on!) =P
-And Ryan Dognaux because he has a cool last name.
-And Wetzel because I don't know how to pronounce that.
-And John VN because everyone likes him so much it just might be worth it to say hi.
-And Andy Baker for the same reason as John
-And Dave Lav...wait a sec, I already met Dave Lavery!!1! :D :D :D

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He's nothing special anyways... :p Nah Ricky is a good guy...a bit goofy, but a good guy. (How bad could someone that supports a baseball team that hasn't had a winning season since the early 90s be a bad guy ;))

anyway

Im not sure if i should be honored or scared that people want to meet me :-p...but anyone that knows me knows that I like meeting people, so if you see me walking through the pits, the stands or in 45s pit, stop me and introduce yourself...ill be walking around looking for people as well.

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In semi-offtopic fashion, I bring you....

People I want to meet in the off-season!!!

Dave Lavery
Amanda Morrison
Brandon Martus (dont forget to bring Brandon Marcus ;) )
DJ Fluck
David Kelly (even if it is just to see Amanda kick his butt ;) )
Both Clark & Kyle Gilbert
Koko Ed
Wetzel (maybe we can hunt down a DDR machine!)
Big Mike
Katie Reynolds
Joel Johnson
Paul Copioli (to see exactly why hes so "Copioli")
Karthik
Kristina

...oh yeah! and CD-47 Bot! I love that guy! :D


...okay, back to work. This was a rather pointless post :)

Re: People i want to meet at nationals
 

People I really want to meet:

People who have started teams with a college while in college.

People who have in depth knowledge of how the teams work with college

Anyone who takes college classes and does FIRST at the same time.

Then people I generally respect what they say:

both Ken's - leung and wittlief
dave lavery
andy baker
joe ross

here is a start I gave up. But I liked jess's previous posted names. They sound good.

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LoL no problem about that backing into us thing.. Tho my neck is still a bit sore :: cracks it :: j/p of course :-)

Man There are sooo many people I want to meet. But of course all the hard core FIRSTERS top my list. Too many to list, but many of the sames as above. Like Fluck, Neun, Baker, Lavery, Johnson, Leung, Wong, Big Mike ( even tho I heard he isn't actually all that big ) Erin R, Katie R, Ken W, the list goes on and on ( that is not nearly all it just a small sample )

So stop by the 710 booth everyone and give me and Ryan a howdy hello, or how do you do. Or if you see me walking around and recognize me, I always get a kick out of it when someone shouts out " Stud Man Dan " ( Its the small things in life that amuse me )

Dan

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Have you ever considered that some people might be scared to meet up with you? :D I know Joe M was looking over his shoulder for you last year. :eek: But seriously, DJ a cool guy to meet (especially when you're bored while standing in line for a frozen lemonade at AstroWorld way too long).

Seems likes everyone wants to meet Dave Lavery (and everyone should cause he is a really cool guy)
Last year a rookie on our team saw Lavery at Annapolis screamed with excitement :

"Dude! That's Dave Lavery! I need to get him to autograph my shirt!" :ahh:
The rest of the team and I chuckled and asked "Why???" :rolleyes:
He said "Because Dave created Stack Attack, and its a great game"

That made me think, "Why was the thought of Dave's autograph so weird to me?" I have autographs from Dean and Woodie like most FIRSTers, but I never was compelled to get one from Dave, even though he is the 3rd most recognizable person in FIRST after Dean and Woodie, a member of the "Inner Circle of Game Creation", and a very important NASA engineer.

To me, he will always be the goofy guy in the Hawaiian Shirt with the Krispy Kreme Crown. :) He is so approachable that you don't need to treat like the FIRST Celebrity he is. I guess I think of him as regular guy, because the first time I met him was in an elevator while we were both lugging gear for our bots into a Congressional Office Building to give a presentation to Congressmen after Dean gave a speech. Dave was a just guy working alongside me in room full of VIPs. I've talked to him other occasions but I doubt he would recognize me.

So my suggestion to everyone meeting him for the first time is to ask him for his autograph, and give him the respect and admiration he is due. Maybe he'll write one of his cool catch phrases like "My other Car is on Mars" or "That’s Pimp!" on your shirt followed by his signature. Then you can show it off and everyone will be jealous.

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yay!! 2 people want to meet me .. ok so one ive met but yeah .....

Here is who i want to meet:
Dean Kamen
Woodie Flowers
Dave Lavery
Andy Baker
Joe Johnson
Ken Wittlief (sry if i spelt it wrong)
Ken Leung
Karthik (i met him .. just never really talked to him)
JVN
Elgin Clock
Mechman 108
Tytus
Dez250
all of 1088 (ok so ive met them and chilled with them .. but it was good times)

and sooo many more who i cannot remember right now .. but unfortunately (courtesy of my doctor) i will not be coming to nationals ...

anybody want to get me a shirt with all these peoples signatures on it ??
edit: and i collect operator badges!!

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I know no-one wants to meet me, but if I bring my daughter to the webhug will you pretend that you do?

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/pi...gle&picid=4675

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Very funny, Daddy. We can just say that we come in a meet-one-get-one-free package and then people will want to talk to both of us.

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ngreen, in respect to your question about meeting the college students...i highly suggest you stop by my team 461's pit. all or most of our advisors are college students some of them have been on previous teams in highschool. they are very willing to stop and chat with you.

Re: People i want to meet at nationals
 

People I want to meet for the first time:
Joe Johnson
Dave Lavery
Ken Patton
Paul Copioli
Koko Ed
Ed Sparks

People I want to meet again:
Woodie Flowers
Dean, Bart, and Mitch Kamen
Andy Baker
Karthik
Glenn Thoroughman
Ken Leung

Re: People i want to meet at nationals
 

People I want to meet at Nats

JOHN V NEUN

...no wait i live with him.....he's an $@#$@#$@#..

I already beat the pig farmer at a game of pool...

So i guess i'd just really like to meet Chris Hibner from 308...

Chris Carne
229

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Yeah Matt had already invited me. I've been talking with the Engineering Dean trying to check out there interest in helping with the program. I'm very interested in Purdue's program since the Boilermakers are kind of a sister school to K-State. That would be great. Thanks.

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Speaking of people who want to meet people at nationals...here are people I want to meet...not because I have or haven't met you yet, but because I owe you a prize! Make sure you come flag me down!

1. Joe Ross (Gotta figure out how to smuggle in a 12 pack of Coke)
2. Colleen T190
3. Raul
4. Karthik
5. SigmaKid108
6. Dave Flowerday
7. Andy Baker
8. Tom
9. Chris Hibner
10. lilszek24
10. JVN

Yes, these are the 3 Questions top 10!!!...er...11

As for everyone else I want to meet...well...I want to meet everybody! Haven't been to nationals in about 3 years so I have forgot what all of you have looked like! So if you see me, say hi! (Even if I look consumed with my strategy work)

Good Luck!
-Andy Grady

p.s. I've met JVN too...its true, he really isn't all that big and impressive! ;)

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I only want to meet JVN because he owe me a dinner ;-).

Most other names I see on other's list I've met in the past year from Nationals, or regionals, or IRI. Doesn't mean it won't be GREAT seeing them again. The only problem is, I am notorious for being the quiet one at competition, mostly because I usually only get 2-4 hours of sleep every night and work from 7am in the morning to 6pm in the evening at competition. The lack of sleep and stress from the day usually drive my english speaking skills at least 5 years back.

Few people I have to pay my respect to:

Rich Wong
Libby Ritchie
Don Knight
Andy Grady

Those are the people I really wanted to keep in touch with but can't because I've been so busy lately.

Others, I don't want to just meet. I want to actually hang out with them with all the time I can get in Atlanta.