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... when your fantasy of a romantic Valentine's Day evening is an all-night build session in the shop.
... when choosing between having your birthday party or another build session, you make the right choice and bring a FIRST themed cake, ice cream and pizza. ... when your grades take a hit between time in FIRST and a state-champion marching band. ... when the phrase "inhale audibly" is in your regular vocabulary. |
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...when there are six threads and over 110 posts discussing the game clue within 10 hours of the clue being relesed - and it is one day before Christmas when you all should be focusing on the fact that you are out of school for the holidays, you get some time off work, you can spend time with family, and there is all that shopping to be done!
Geez, some people need to get a life. Like, what are you doing right now - you are reading this. It is Christmas Eve, for goodness sake! Stop reading CD and go see your family! Get away from the computer and go outside and play! You are still reading this - stop it! I can see you, you aren't fooling anyone. Stop right now, and turn off the computer. Quit reading, dang it! There, that's bette... <click> -dave (grumbling as he goes back to working on a FIRST-related animation that he will still be doing very, very late tonight as Santa squeezes down the chimney, hopefully bringing Dave's shiny new Shelby GT500KR...) |
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whern you laugh reading dave's last post and continue to read and reply to things on cd
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When you are in a chat we 19 other FIRSTers dicussing the clue and some how it turns into a planning of the game wich involes Drivers eating, not touch the contorls, robots making noodles , human players setting up blast sheilds and food fights having multipliers.
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...when you go off topic on whether or not robots could eat,
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You know you've been in FIRST to long:
1. When most of your T-shirts are old team uniforms and FIRST crew shirts from 10 years ago. 2. When your spouse (who doesn't sew) offers to make all those old shirts into a a quilt. 3. When you continuously find 20 and 30 amp circuit breakers in odd places like seat cushions and lint traps. 4. When January doesn't start until the first Saturday of the New Year. 5. when you have an opportunity to go to the party at Dean's house and skip it in order to experience the January Night Life in Manchester. 6. When you say, "Oh No, not another ride on a Segway!" 7. and "Oh No, not another homework assignment." |
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-When you know all the word to the Cha Cha Slide, and have these uncontrolable urges to dance when ever someone says left or right.
-When you forget what birthday cake tastes like without metal shavings in it.(havent had a metal-less cake since 4th grade, and imm almost done with High school now) -The first famous person you ever met in FIRST was Jeb Bush( If anyone remembers, that was about 7 years ago) -when your done early with a test,flip the paper over, and imediatly start drawing FIRST symbols,and designing a new team T-Shirt(I'm guilty of that, its not even funny) -When you pray for just enough snow to keep the soda cold outside the metal shop door. |
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when your first thought after waking up is "gee, i wonder if anything new's been posted on Chief Delphi..."
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My team hasn't even been to FIRST yet and half of those thigns apply to us :ahh:
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~when you start calculating the ammount of pizza and soda u have consumed in the last 6 weeks-courtsey of my best friend from team 103
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$15)More than you know. $16)My step father hates when I start talking about it because I haven't shutup about it in 7 years. add this: If you've ever been hit by a deer, wrecked your car, on the way to the meeting, and still arrived on time. and this: If you've ever begged the only tech guy at the firstPLACE during the off season to give you a tour, AND GOT ONE, because you flew 800 miles to see it. and this: If you worked for months in preperation for the start of competition your rookie year (and your teams rookie year) to learn the programming language required. (P-BASIC for me.. and I was the only programmer) (all are me). Matt |
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When you excitedly tell everyone that you got 8 different colored rolls of duct tape for Christmas from your parents, then as an after note you tell them about the XM radio.... :yikes:
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When you have actually offered to sell bodily fluids and or organs so you could go to nationals (multiple members of my team)
If you have ever looked disappointed at a christmas tree because it didnt have a tetra on it If you have ever seen how fast you could stack your mothers rubbermaid containers If you and your mentors have email conversations regularly at 3AM If youve ever had to set up an alternate gmail account just because your other one was full of robotics shtuff (Me) If youve ever asked a girl what team she is from and what division she is in as a pickup line (2004-05 Nationals) If you have ever thought of an ultimate christmas gift as a pair of dean kamen worn jeans and matching denim jacket If you have ever considered denim fashionable for that matter If you have ever bragged about the number of mySQL databases your host supplies If when you here the word woodstock, Woodie flowers instantly comes to mind If you've ever offered to shave your head if your team gets their 3D animation in on time. (Greg Owens) If you have ever brought a backpack to regionals and nationals just to fit your 2 2 liter bottles of mountain dew in If you've randomly started asking people to deciver what really is "a shovel's show" If you've ever been forced into robotics via peer pressure If you keep a bundle of zip ties with you in your back pocket, just in case... In engish, you've been downgraded for putting the word 'first' in all caps If you've ever gotten off on a tangent about why dean kamens hair never moves If when hearing the words red white and blue, you think FIRST over america Youve gotten addicted to playing your teams computer simulation for that year's game If when saying the ABC's, you shout the letter F, I, R, S, and T as they come in that order If youve considered buying a laptop just so you could make scouting easier this year If youve ever been working on your teams website at school, looked at the clock and said to yourself, shoot, i have school in 3 hours... If after winning a regional, you wore your medal around school and bragging about how you double stacked on the center goal with 2 seconds left to all of your non-FIRST friends If youve ever gotten in a fight with a band-geek that FIRSTies are cooler than Bandies |
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You do all of your "homework" in class because you never go "home" and then think that that is a pretty good excuse.
You gather a crowd because you get overly excited because of an Inventor drawing. The janitor stays as late as you because he's fixing the holes that your robot put in the walls. Kill switches are an everyday lifesaver. Your mother saves money on groceries because you eat all of your meals at school. |
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You know you've been in FIRST too long when you tell your friends that Christmas does not start till January 7 and is six weeks long.
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you know when Daves hair looks (you know the "I JUST WOKE UP look)...Ok :D
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When you told someone trying to recruit you for a college that e-mail is the best way to get in touch with you because who knows when you'll be home with FIRST season starting in 3 days.
When you introduce yourself by team number, team name and offices held rather than by first name. When you turn to your fellow build mate and ask for the 'persuader' (hammer) so you can 'convince' this joint to work correctly. |
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you tell customers at work about FIRST and this years game.
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When draw WildStang symbol in your notebook at school :D
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when all your non-robotics friends wince whenever you mention the words "Robotics", "FIRST" or "Dean Kamen"... (i'm working on the wince to go with "Denim" also..)
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when you spend over an hour copy pasting this to word to print off for your team
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.........When you realize that so many people have posted on this topic that it is almost impossible for another person to find a different post!
.........When you realized you have read every single post on this page. |
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When you are tryin to take a hiatus and CD is the first webpage i visit everyday
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..........if your like me and your posting things like this to get your rating up LOL
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..............If you have ever writen a team name for an answer in your math class.
.............. If your the only one still posting on this subject. (ME :rolleyes: ) |
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If your favorite T-shirts are all related to FIRST in one way or another.
If you check CD more than once a day. |
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-When you have dreams of UTC regional every night for months prior to the competition...and u capped the vision tetra in those dreams...hah. :eek:
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"Pot" means potentiameter, not a plant.
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When ChiefDelphi creates a smiley ( :D ) for your teams mascot.
If you don't get this take a look at my avatar. :rolleyes: |
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when your first aid kit and tool box are the same thing.
when you know how to splint a potential broken finger with a bolt and some duct tape when you refuse to go to a hospital because you dont want there to be an argument in the school board about somebody breaking something else during robotics when the real reason that you wouldnt go was that you were making a prototype of a prototype out of a treadmill and some plywood, and you needed to know how it would work. when you still still wince using the right side of the keyboard because you simply refused to even go get some ice when you fall asleep at night and wake up staring at the ChiefDelphi forums |
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When you see the words "FIRST STUDENTS" on the side of your school bus and get excited
When you spend 5 hours going to 15 different stores looking for poof balls and come back empty handed because they have all been sold to the other San Diego teams When you see a message on the official Poof Ball website directed to FIRST robotics teams. Check the site: http://www.poof-slinky.com/catalog/c...actio n=prov& |
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When someone mentions kickoff to you and you automatically get a headache just thinking about what the 3 amigos have in store for everyone =)
3 Amigos = Dave Dean and Woody =) When the above happens and your still working on last seasons game and robot |
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...when you're dating a guy, he's totally into you, but then he decides to ignore you because he thinks you spend too much time building robots with other guys. :yikes:
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when you get excited about getting zip ties for christmas (even though it was just a joke gift)
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when you break out the legos to prototype some designs. Sadly it didnt work
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when your dinning room tabel turns into a design table the day after kick off, covered in tissue boxes, toilet paper rolls, and pitiful model robots held together with tape.
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someone says something about pride in being a part of FIRST and then people go on for days about their pride, so they post ideas... and post and post and post and post.... |
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-when the janitors know your name but your parents forgot
-when your dining table still is covered from last years designs -when you know you have been in too long but you just want to stay in longer -when you run out of space to store robots so you decide to paint them on the wall -when you are looking randomly online (during "off season") and say this would really cool on a robot |
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When you get groupies for successes in FIRST.
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When you get robotics supplies for christmas (including safety goggles...)
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! When you know the WHOLE song and you can dance to it with out no problems. The song i mean is in my SIGGY! :D
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1. When you try to make it so your team meets more often because you think your team is behind schedual.
2. When all your mentors know where your house is because they have to drive you home at 3am all the time. 3. When you do all your homework in advance for a whole week on the day you dont meet on. 4. When you write papers about robotics and other technical stuff in english class, because its the only thing you think about. 5. When you design an entire robot in CAD just for fun during the off season. 6. When you prototype your idea for a design using VEX the day after kickoff- and it works ;) |
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my dad is my mentor, and i dont drink red bull. it gives you wings.
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You remember "the DONGLE"
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When you disassemble your own shop power tools to use the parts to build a mechanism prototype because you can't wait 24 hours for a build session at the school.
And you are a mentor who is *cough* years old. |
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...when you call mentors by names on CD...
EX: One of our mentor's name is Ken..and I accidentally called him Ken Wittlief...LOL. |
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When you cary two bags around school:
One for books etc and the other with your programming laptop, soldering iron and various bits that you havent found a use for yet |
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you forget how look your home
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This just happened to me. I was studing for my english final tomarrow and my mother asked me who wrote the poem I was reading and I said atonomous insead of anonymous (I wonder what my mind is really on :rolleyes:). I know that I have been in FIRST to long. The even scarier thing is that i imediatly had to go and post this.
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when every where you go your team number or other team # pop up and you go oh look #33 or #47 it get kinda annoying. Yeah and staying up real late like at 2 am and calling that early to go to bed wow im tired and craby in the morning. specially when i have to wake up at 5 5:30 to get ready for school it kills me. :ahh: :ahh:
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seeing random "robotics stuff" just like in public and thinking to yourself...that would be an awesome thing to post on CD...and doing it...with camera phone
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You know you've been in FIRST too long when You Eat, Sleep, Breath, Work on; Robots.
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You know, its really pathetic, but this is my first year in FIRST and a few of these things already apply to me....
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When you fall asleep in class for pulling an all nigher on your robot.
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When your mentors and coaches say "Use your English class to draw concepts, write down strategies, and think up what you want to do. English class is not as important as math and science.. :P" funny thing.. It's a nice idea, and if you know how to play your cards right.. you can get an A in the class while doing that.
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You know you've been in FIRST too long when you pick up a CD and one of the songs makes you go "Hey, isn't that one of the songs they play at competitions?"
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-- When someone says they bought a CD and you wonder how the heck they managed to buy the Chief Delphi team.
-- Contemplating the above question for 5 minutes before realising they mean "compact disc" because you just spent way too much time working on the bot and not enough time sleeping. |
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You've been working on FIRST too long when you start speaking in assembly language.
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...When being on Chief Delphi in the wee morning hours doesn't seem odd, but rather normal, you know you are a FIRSTer. :p
...When you explain to your math teacher why you didn't do their homework because you were at robotics, and then go on to explain in depth the amount of math and physics used when calculating everything out, you know you are a FIRSTer. ...When in the company of non-FIRSTers, the topic of a conversation seems to somehow always comes back to FIRST, you know you are a FIRSTer. ...When some of your non-FIRST friends ask you how was robotics, and you start telling them - in depth - about AndyMark's cool new products, (and they have no idea what "shift-on-the-fly" or "omni-wheels" mean  ), you know you are a FIRSTer....When you are feel shocked when you meet someone who doesn't know who Dean Kamen, Woodie Flowers, or Dave Lavery are, you know you are a FIRSTer. ...When you think owning one of these giant Mountain Dew cans is cool, you know you are a FIRSTer.  ...When you get out your calculator to find out exactly how much Mountain Dew would fit in the above can, you know you are a FIRSTer. ...When donuts, Dew, and pizza become food groups, you know you are a FIRSTer. ...When you force yourself to get less than four hours of sleep per night during January and February each year, you know you are a FIRSTer. ...When someone says CD and you think of a chiefdelphi.com instead of those plastic disks, you know you are a FIRSTer. ...When teachers stop asking you what all those drawings mean on the back of your homework and/or tests, you know you are a FIRSTer. ...When you know the rules of all the FIRST games going back at least four years before you became involved in FIRST, you know you are a FIRSTer. |
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When you draw out the playing field in a snow drift, on a foggy window or anything you can to bounce ideas around.
When you keep changes of clothes in your car to be able to stay the night and still keep up appearances. When you blow off a major concert that you spent big money to get tickets for. When you throw parties for Kickoff, to celebrate Auton working (in any way), send off, or any other reason you can find... |
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you know you are a FIRSTer when you have to cook breakfast and bring it in for your team just so they will have something to eat.. when you no longer have a 'liunch prd' but an hour of robotics durring the day when you and your team mates can finish eachothers sentances... when you say "one time, at robotics...' when your team acts like siblings and when you introduce them to people you say "this is my brother..." when you hate weekends because you don't get to be at robotics meetings :yikes: when you hate having to get a ride from parents becaus eyou can't drive so you have to leave at 8 instead of 11 pm or 2 am like the others |
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Immediately after an auto-accident, you rely on the fact that you were in your bumper zone and you do not deserve any penalties.
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When you see Tracy Byrd lyrics and think, forget that we're from the country; we build robots, and we like it that way. Then you intercept the lyrics so that you can correct them:
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When you have more food in the robot building room than at home...seriously we have four microwaves, a fridge, a dishwasher and some blow torches we could barbacue with...yummy fiberglass :D
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When you buy clothes by "Can I wear it in the machine shop?" more often than "How does it look?"
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When a 24hour trip from your home to a hotel in the US is a commom thing!
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...when you can look at this list after being in robotics for less than a year and read through this list laughing because you already have done most of these things
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when you read the robotics manual for pleasure reading.
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When as soon as you get home at 6pm you log onto chief delphi...
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When you start having dreams about FIRST (I did last night and this is my rookie year!)
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It seems a bit freaky to mew but the night before kickoff while i was sleeping I had some sort of Deja Vu and could almost tell that we were going to be shooting stuff this year. I think when u can predict the future you have been in FIRST way to long. :D
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when you develop the ability to eat pizza while keeping both hands on the angle grinder.
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-when all you wear are FIRST shirts
-when you find out one year you don't have a team you volunteer at 2 regionals just to see FIRST at its finest **2005 Iron Lyons, team 912, did not compete in FRC :( . But now we're back and better than ever! :cool: |
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when your spend more time at teh shop then u home
when you idolize your mentor as higher then a god |
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When you specially choose a class book with your team number
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when your natural tendency is to capitallize all letters of FIRST, no matter what the context...
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