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You know you've been in the shop too long this weekend if:
- You have been wearing more or less the same clothes to the shop for days.
- You feel like you are wearing safety glasses for hours after your take them off. - Coffee, Donuts, Soda, Pizza, Repeat. - You bring the robot to Home Depot to test parts in the parking lot. - Your non-FIRST friends call you to make sure you are still alive. - You have uttered some choice four-letter words at the IFI Loader. - At the end of the night, your sixth sense guides you to ihop without written directions. - At ihop, you hear the cappuccino machine and look over to see who is using the dremel. add your own last-minute build experiences! :) |
Re: You know you've been in the shop too long this weekend if:
you start singing to the drillpress
then you start singing harmony WITH the drill press! you have to look at your watch to figure out what DAY it is! |
Re: You know you've been in the shop too long this weekend if:
when things that remind you of the ship deadline start to dissappear (such as Clocks Calendars and mainly anything that may pair up to creating a date & time)
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You know you've been in the shop too long this weekend if:
You think the platform makes an incredibly comfortable bed |
Re: You know you've been in the shop too long this weekend if:
You have gaps of time you can't account for.
Really bad ideas start to sound really good. People in the shop no longer have a filter. You learn that Red Bull doesn't freeze after being in 15 degree weather for 5 hours. The Police show up to find out why there are cars at the high school at 5AM and the first thing you ask them is to borrow their radar gun. <--Really happened Friday! Coming Soon: A time lapse of the last 48 hour of the Bobcat Robotics build. |
Re: You know you've been in the shop too long this weekend if:
when instead of using ice to help someone's face (of which a ball was harshly slammed into) you use a frozen mountain dew
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Re: You know you've been in the shop too long this weekend if:
When at 1AM someone suggests that we'll have to make a change "tomorrow" and someone else immediately says "It already is tomorrow."
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Re: You know you've been in the shop too long this weekend if:
When you confuse last night and last week.
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Re: You know you've been in the shop too long this weekend if:
When all your programming starts to say "I Love You"
When Poof Balls start floatng around your head. When coffee becomes your Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner When your mentor can actually find something---True Story!!! more to come... |
Re: You know you've been in the shop too long this weekend if:
For kicks, you open up a box of poof balls to break up the lidless eyes
The computer lab is your only break The sound of video makes you wonder what the freshmen are doing to the poor robot. The snaps of static from the frame don't phase you anymore. Edit: When your break is studying for a Psych test The 30yo couch in the student center is your bed for a few hours Quake 3 on highest volume doesn't hurt your ears and then the martians in your eyes dance around with the avatars on my screen. |
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Right on, John.
-- STATIC! -- Doesn't phase me in the least anymore. I laugh when others jump. EDIT: When the team leader asks what the mentors want for dinner and one of them answers a number without knowing what meal he's asking for. (TODAY!) When you fight over the battery operated hand drill, one group wants it to pack the robot, the other to finish building the battery charging station. (TONIGHT!, about 11pm) When you've developed the habit of touching something else metal before touching the robot! (UGH! Every Day!) :mad: Quote:
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Re: You know you've been in the shop too long this weekend if:
when you get home and your parents ask "who are you and what are yo doing in my house?"
when the programmers decide to get craftier with the sensors when the drivers decide to get more creative in their driving if your bot looks like a shopping cart and so you take it to a grocery store(our teacher said just because the prototype bot looks like the shoppping cart of doom, it doesn't mean we're going to use it to go shopping. We almost took it to McDonalds across the street in so that we could have dinner with the bot outside the shop) |
Re: You know you've been in the shop too long this weekend if:
when you pass out on a bentch becouse it looks oh so comfertabel
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ehrn you yypr eiyh yout ginhrtd ogg yhr kryd snf fony rbrn noyivr@
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Re: You know you've been in the shop too long this weekend if:
When someone hands you a box of cupcakes and you're more interested in the box and how it can be cut up and used on the robot
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Re: You know you've been in the shop too long this weekend if:
- When your looking for soda and you ask "where is the syntax"
- When you ask someone to press the Printf button wanting to program the robot - When wanting a screw driver you ask someone to pass the fork |
Re: You know you've been in the shop too long this weekend if:
All of the static shocks that keep happening either numbs your fingers or you just don't notice them anymore.
Somehow convince yourself that the robot won’t work so you’re forced to work harder. |
Re: You know you've been in the shop too long this weekend if:
When you have no preception of what time is anymore....you will work for hours on end and not even realize it.
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Re: You know you've been in the shop too long this weekend if:
the students from buzz would have to say...
-when you went to grab your bottle of coke...you instead picked up the methyl ethel bad stuff...and almost drank that until you realized coke doesn't smell like pure death :rolleyes: -every parent has stopped by with some form of "food" (baked goods) -when you fall asleep in the teachers lounge...more than once -when human player practice turns into an all out game of dodge ball...but you just keep pegging one person -when you start making up songs that fit the mood like: "there's so much hostility....and our robot has no capabilities" -when more than one alumni comes back and is not surprised to see that the robot is in shambles -when onomatopoeias start making sense when you're asking for a certain size drill bit -when you get so frustrated that you call the Greek kid on the team Poseidon because he's doing something wrong -you don't see daylight -weather doesn't matter -weather doesn't exist -you spend more time at school...than you do at home -the janitors know you better than your own parents -you called a janitor mom or dad -you have time lapses -your dog doesn't recognize you anymore -your own family doesn't recognize you anymore -there's no such thing as a curfew -you don't realize you have about a foot's worth of PVC shaving on your shoulder for about an hour after you've done it...and it's more than one person...and they're all staring at each other -you're sick of pizza -you can use the lathe without really paying attention to it -you go through about a dozen or so band saw blades a day...and you think it's not a problem -stopping the milling machine turns into the worlds best game -when 8 people at 10:30 in the morning the day before ship have nothing better to do than this...and the robot is nowhere near done...you know you've been in the shop too long :) see you all at competition...if we're still alive |
Re: You know you've been in the shop too long this weekend if:
-When more than half you mentors have a fever of over 100 and they still show up at the scrimmage
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Re: You know you've been in the shop too long this weekend if:
When your at your house and you accidentally tell your parents you have to go home.
This as a matter of fact happend to me today, my mom was asking my dad to help her with the computer and I told my dad I couldn't wait any longer and I needed to go home. |
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Re: You know you've been in the shop too long this weekend if:
- When eating at Wendys becomes its own holiday celebrated with it's own special song and dance.
-When you sleep inside of the '04 goal because it looks so comfortable. -When you bring a blanket and pillow to driver training because its your only chance to get a good hour long nap. -When you start talking about taking electrical tape off of the robot to make weight. |
Re: You know you've been in the shop too long this weekend if:
When you eat all your meals by the lab.
When your mentors have back pains and muscle spasms and they still come in. When you get to school at 8 and leave at 11 ... 15 hours later. When you go home just to see your parents, because you haven't seen them in a long time. When you start creating alternate lyrics to beatles song such as six weeks a year to eight days a week and binary code write to paperback writer |
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when you come home and your dog barks like it does to strangers
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You know you've been in the shop too long when...
- on a day off from school, you show up earlier than you would if there was school. (Happened today) - you order food for delivery and they already know what you want and where to go. - the pile of soda cans, chinese containers, and pizza boxes is as tall as a person. - you do more work on the robot/in the shop than you do at home. - you only go home to do homework and sleep. - the school janitors know you by name. - you go to sleep and have dreams of a working robot. - you accidentally call your mentor(s) mom or dad. - random spots in the shop look like good places to nap. - you consider putting the laptop inside the goal opening, and testing the robot's shoting capabilities. - you think everything in life can be solved by if/else - you start making artwork out of drill press and lathe shavings. |
Re: You know you've been in the shop too long this weekend if:
-when you finally look out the window only to see the sun rise in the morning.
-you realize that you and your teammates are starting to argue like brothers and sisters -you get a joy out of a patch of ice out side the bot shop -50 no longer seems like a cold temperature inside a building -your parents don't expect you home anymore |
Re: You know you've been in the shop too long this weekend if:
...when you're running out of room to put the empty soda cans.
...when the team has a "favorite screwdriver". ...when everyone knows what "the small wrench but not the really small one" means (3/8). ...when you have nicknames for most of the rest of your tools, too. ...when the school has to modify the alarm system so the administrators don't get woken up after midnight by the alarm company... again. ...when you're tired enough that ordinary words and phrases like "penguin," "Mike's arm," and "thumper" are hilarious. ...isn't everybody wearing the same clothes they were on friday? ...you excuse yourself from regular classes because of a bad case of "robotics flu." ...your teacher has "fallen in love... with rivets." ...shavings, holesaw cutouts, fasteners, and other stuff removed for weight constitute a "feel good pile." Quote:
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Re: You know you've been in the shop too long this weekend if:
When during a scrimmage you take poof balls and crawl under the pit table to take a nap.
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Re: You know you've been in the shop too long this weekend if:
When the soda machine became sold out of only Mountain Dew and Powerade because the programmers first drank all of the Mountain Dew, and then started mixing caffeine products and Powerade.
When you think the above event signifies the end of the world. When you can't figure out why you're so tired in the shop, continue working at "normal" pace out of sheer motivation, and when you get home at 11, your mom takes your temperature and you discover you have a fever of 102.4. And then, the next day, it's strangely gone and you can go to the shop for the final 9 hour sprint of build and test. |
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I am D K-Man Im WoodieFlowers! Choo Choo Cha Choo or Nothings gonna change my whirl, Nothings gonna change my whirl... or you sing "Radar Love" to the robot when you are alone together ! "Its my robot calling said I need her here and its half past four and Im shifting gears" |
Re: You know you've been in the shop too long this weekend if:
-if your a programmer, you blame problems on the electrian
-if your a electrian, you blame problems on the programmer -If a mechanic speaks about anything closely related to changing, modifying or adding something mechiancal, everybody shouts NO! -After work, instead of going home, you accidentally show up at the shop with out going home to change. -You do your homework while driving, in order to stay at the shop longer.... -You skip class, repeatedly... -The Robot is done ,but nothing works.... |
Re: You know you've been in the shop too long this weekend if:
When zip ties are your best friend.
When any hint of smoke is near you, you think the robot is burning. When You tear poof balls for amusement. When team members, after long days of frustration, sing in unison at the Bohemian Rhapsody. When every blink of the eye is a blessing When half your food consists of metal shavings When teammates chug soda from a funnel and hose When tally marks are on the board counting the amount of dremel blades and drill bits broken. When you realize that 98% of your body is composed of soda. When you find that rolling down the halls of an empty school in a creeper, brings great joy. When a team member puts the robot hopper ramp on his head and informs us that he is ready to invade Africa. When random weapons (chinese stars) are created from the metal that is supposed to be used for the robot. When one robotics team member jumps on a table and acts like a gorilla. |
Re: You know you've been in the shop too long this weekend if:
When alicia decorates every single poof ball left.
When you can no longer bring up the issue of weight because it is a "sensitive" subject. When you *willingly* go into a pinata. |
Re: You know you've been in the shop too long this weekend if:
When you get so fed up with the robot and everyone is annoying you that you settle your differences with a match of sumo wrestling and follow it up by playing dodgeball... with the robot.
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Re: You know you've been in the shop too long this weekend if:
When you've been running around the shop so much that you're able to dodge all of the part and scrap piles at full speed without thinking....
When new levels of tiewrap technology have been realized... |
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when you have been with ur team so long u can finish their sentences and know when their about to fart
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You know you've been in the shop too long this weekend if: When you work on robot all Friday night. Then you go to scrimmage on Saturday . Finally go home Saturday night about 8:00. Get up Sunday morning go back to shop thinking I must be really tired cause everything is blurry for about four hours before you realize there is a lens missing from your glasses. :eek: :cool: :)
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Re: You know you've been in the shop too long this weekend if:
you know if you have been in the shop too much if you have not been to the center of town for the past 6 weeks.
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Re: You know you've been in the shop too long this weekend if:
When you do current calculations in you head for all the main systems at flat out and realize the main breaker may blow this year.
That you weld the little tabs on the aluminum piece your working on because you can't find four of the correct sized screws...And you rationalize the welding will be lighter |
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Re: You know you've been in the shop too long this weekend if:
your entire body is covered with a film of PVC dust.
you don't notice the metal shavings in your nose anymore. your hand seems to vibrate when you're not holding the dremel, and seems to remain still when you are. you drink someone elses coffee despite the huge skull and crossbones sharpied onto the cup, and just plain don't notice because of sleep deprivation. your parents are becoming increasingly suspicious that you've been sneaking off to drink (drinks that you really aren't allowed to drink by law) because of the sheer amount of time you spend out of the house. you think i'm kidding. and good luck everyone; happy ship day tomorrow. |
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Your team knows the difference between the stubby screwdriver and the nubby screwdriver.
You think its a good idea to ram your bot into the wall to test it. You realise that the red stuff dripping from your hand isnt paint. Your bot looks more like swiss cheese, than the acutal stuff. You decide to slaughter metal desk parts to add weight back to the robot. Your bot starts telling you when its upset. |
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 You are so tired that when you finally arrive to competition you cannot remember the correct finger to flip at a longtime rival. |
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When you start seeing smoke come out of a drill that isnt smoking and when your safety glasses leave marks on your nose an in your hair :ahh:
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When the programing and electric teams start arguing about who's fault it is, and you then realize your the only one on the electronic and programing team there, and the entire team is looking at you funny because you haev litterally been arguing with your self.
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When you order a Quarter twenty at wendys
when you ask the guy at the hardwares store for 200 inch long quarter pounders |
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when you have a vivid dream that you are at the work site, and nothing is going right, and you must get the robot done by morning
and you wake up and you ARE at the work site, and nothing is going right, and you must get the robot done by morning then you wake up...... |
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You know you've been in the workshop too long when: You post 20 posts a day on ChiefDelphi for the last 21 days. You think that Whole Foods is a hardware store. You come home and you think you're staying at a 5-star hotel. You order Delivery from the Ram's Head Tavern. You think the world will end at 5:00.01 AM. You dream of that last modification you wanted to put in, but you never had the time to do so. You think your Fix-It Window is too short. You get in trouble with the school for trespassing because you've stayed on school grounds from 7 am to 9 pm the next day. You can't work at a computer unless it has MPLAB IDE, Easy-C, IFI Loader, and C-Compilers |
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Wait... people actually LEAVE the shop during build season :confused:
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Re: You know you've been in the shop too long this weekend if:
- You've heard the same set of songs repeated on the radio in the shop at least 10 times. (Cascada, Fall Out Boy...)
- The shop looks like a bomb went off in it, but even the mentors don't attempt to clean. - This looks familiar:  |
Re: You know you've been in the shop too long this weekend if:
When you begin a game of dodgeball while the programmers are working out the autonomous mode. Then you begin to sword fight jedi style.
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Re: You know you've been in the shop too long this weekend if:
When you wake up in the middle of the night, only to discover that you never went home, and were sleeping in the closet of the test room.
When you wake up in the middle of the night, and find yourself with hands in Lathe handle positions. When your dreams are of turning down aluminum When you wake up in the middle of the night and yell "I've got it" and rush straight into a wall, believing to be at the robotics room still. ^all of these have happened to me^ |
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Re: You know you've been in the shop too long this weekend if:
...when you spend more time working over the 4 day weekend on the robot than you would in a normal week
...when you have a member of your team say he'll be home in 2 hours (10pm) and you drop him off at midnight....and he forgot his keys so his parents are mad at him ...when you leave school and realized you'll be back again in several hours ...when your normal dinner time is 12am, breakfast at 6am, and lunch at 11am. ...you hear sirens from some where and become panicked becuase you think neighbors across the street called the cops becuase they saw 5 cars at school at 12am. |
Re: You know you've been in the shop too long this weekend if:
-While sleeping, you have dreams. And in the background you can hear the camera servos searching for the target
-Removing extra spaces from the programming to save weight sounds like a good ideal -Because the school turns off the heat on the weekends, you have to wear your coat half the time -When team members amuse themselves by rolling off 12 foot high piles of cushions (I will post a video as soon as possible) -You literally spend more time at school than at home, and only go home to sleep to go back to school -You completely solo wire the electronics in 4 hours out of sheer willpower, yet stare blankly at your homework twenty minute later -The only reason you leave is because the security guard kicks you out -You think zip ties are the most important invention ever -Critical setbacks no longer phase you All of the above are true except the first two |
Re: You know you've been in the shop too long this weekend if:
When you do an entire renactment of a fight from starwars episode 3 with knight style armor and box helmets... not kiding me and another guy did it... PM me if you wanna see and ill send it to you
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Re: You know you've been in the shop too long this weekend if:
-the dremel has a song that everyone knows
-you dream about using the lathe and share that dream with the team that has the same dream -you hold a wake for your "killed" drill bit -think about lathes and mills more than girls :rolleyes: |
Re: You know you've been in the shop too long this weekend if:
-when the sound of a bandsaw cutting aluminum that once was deafening and painful becomes soothing to the ears
-when your hand continues to vibrate a bit and you feel like your using a dremel an hour after you finish using it for a LONG time -when you find hard tables comfy to sleep on -when you remember exactly what size wrench is for what nut and what allen key/screwdriver is for which bolt on your robot (almost) :) -when you look at your bed in the morning and see lots of metal shavings on it |
Re: You know you've been in the shop too long this weekend if:
when you drive home so late that you see one car on the road, all the stop lights are flashing, and the radio is actaully plyaing music.
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Re: You know you've been in the shop too long this weekend if:
when u go home and take a shower and you have more metal shavings in you hair then hair itself( this is a true story )
when u are so tired that u sleep in the computer room so you have enough energy to drive home( another true story about one of our college students ) |
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When you...
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Get tattoo's of the logo of your robotics team?(And they look awesome.)
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When you go under a table and sleep with a bumper under your head and another in your arms.
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If you have more mountan dew in the shop than walmart has on their shelves
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when you take a break for supper and your trombone lesson, and walk into the music store still wearing your safety goggles.
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when you find a nice place to take a nap, and you wake up in a 4' x 4' x 5' plywood room, and it feels like you are flying in a big jet.
When you fly FedEx no one can hear you scream! |
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One of your team members wakes up, and the first thing he thinks, is "Tomorrow is ship day!" instead of "Today is my birthday."
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Local radiostation does the 9pm shoutouts and next thing you hear is them doing the 2am shoutouts and then the 3am.
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Are just now preparing for the first real sleep(>2 hours) in 2 days. (its 4:15p.m.)
Drink 8 cups of coffee in 3 hours Fall asleep lounging on a moped and dream about programming The people around you have minidreams about "press the program button!" set off a fire alarm 4 times in one night Start wearing robot pieces. launch balls at anyone who dozes off fantasize about the bed waiting upstairs have a component on your robot called the "hopper flopper" You are speding your night in a har chair at a table made of a door and 2 sawhorses. On the table is your laptop, a desktop, the OI, a few sandwiches, about a dozen empty soda cans, and endless assortments of other odds and ends. realize what excellent pillows poof balls make |
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-when your mentor joins you in a game of skeeball through the center goal
-when you know which of the 50 keys on your mentors key ring opens his office door -when you go home and crawl in bed, and think that your robots launch mechanism is tangled in your sheets (all are true) |
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When you start barking commands in C very fluently, but for some reason cannot pronounce "salad," or "dongle."
You make incessant jokes about the robot "smoking your 'pot'" after witnessing the potentiometer sizzle. You bat poof balls out of the air from pure instinct, no matter which way they fly from (assuming you aren't goal-tending). No matter what, you can't seem to shake the vision of a giant error message popping up whenever you think about catching some ZZZzzs |
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You're making me feel like I've been at the shop for three days instead of in my dorm room slaving away at homework.... but.. I have one...
You know you've been in the shop to long when ....your mentor decides to run cable through the ceiling to the TV in the shop so he can watch his news. (yes, this happened when I was home for winter break) |
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When time no longer matters and people think you've become a tool in the workshop
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When the students are no longer allowed to talk to the programmer because he's got to finish up the autonomous mode
When you start replacing steel bolts with aluminum bolts just because you know in the end it will matter When you realize that an all black background for your side panels will add weight because of the extra toner When the large deadweight hammer becomes a viable programming tool :D When you have recurring nightmares about your robot being destroyed in a scrimmage, days after it happened and was fixed When you almost have an aneurism when the scale reads 290 and you don't realize there's an engineer crawling around on it When you get teary-eyed about the time the robot is supposed to ship |
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When you've learned to intercept the balls your robot shoots in mid-air with another poof ball
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...when you weld on your camera mount and forget to check the clearence of the shooter. Then on top of that not realize it until you try and show the whole school how cool it is and it fails!!! (Really happend to us today right before we shipped it. We never did fix it, not enough time.)
Josh Team Driver/Designer(That^^^ mistake was NOT my fault by the way :D ) |
Re: You know you've been in the shop too long this weekend if:
when someone says where's the sharpie and you have a sixth sense to know exactly where it is
you make a metal shaving angel instead of a snow angel you smell like melting plexiglass / lexan you wonder what that orb of light is in the sky while on the way home after the robot ships you find the squeaks of hardened steel on the lathe soothing your bedroom stays clean for the full 6 weeks you cross state lines only to get a certain type of mountain dew (livewire) because they do not sell it in your state and then sell it to others on the team you're at the school more than the janitors you know where everything is at in the mess called a parts closet you're at work and hear the maintenance guy grinding on something and wonder where the dremel went |
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you run from the computer to your shop jumping up and down and screaming, "who used the robot gmail account to make a myspace!" (we don't have one; I realized that I was just delusional)
for the girls: when you no longer care enough to freak out about what to wear tomorrow |
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when you use ur mentors house and call it home(i actualy did that when talking to his wife) |
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when you go to jack in the box at 12am and when they tell you that they are out of chibata bread and someone yells "por que" at the guy takin your order
when you go to IHOP at 7am after workin for 21 hours soo you can take a nap when you use foam as a bed when you start to see what happens at night to your mentors after sleep deprivation when you fall asleep on a rolly cart made of wood when you spend 93 dollars at starbucks on coffee when you have chuging contest of moutain dew when all you think about is how to stay away from home when you become soo sleep deprived that you dont rememeber what happened like 2 min ago when you are woken up after a ten minutes nap by shouts of "TEN IN TEN TEN IN TEN" When you leave for home and it is still light out side, due to days of elapsed time you have eclip races for entertainment your english papers end up having robot drawings instaed of actual words which energy drink is most effective is a serious matter of concern when u have an argument on how long it takes to get to a starbucks when all food starts to taste like aluminum shavings and tap magic a massive game of "ROBOT" is played using the goal when half your poof balls have large chunks ripped out of them from out of line bevel gears you go to school for the sole reason that you need four classes to come to robotics sleep becomes a five letter words and is associated with 'weak' and 'never' you start wondering what size bolts would fit through holes on badges and key chains every piece of clothing you own has metal shavings somewhere a collective cheer is sounded when the new plate is half an oz. lighter instead of lint in your pockets u have bolts, nuts, washers, aluminum shavings, zip ties.. etc.. you actually find a way to run out of zip ties u spend hours tryin to find a way to make ur robot weigh ur team number P.S. most of these happened over the weekend to someone or another on our team |
Re: You know you've been in the shop too long this weekend if:
WHen the only thing keeping you awake is the fact that you are too sore to go to sleep. (It's possible)
When you see the meaning of life in a screensaver and it makes sense. |
Re: You know you've been in the shop too long this weekend if:
When three people is not enough to screw in an angle bracket
When you are sick and would rather be at school (half our team was sick) When the sounds of metal on metal no longer bother you When you actually enjoy spending time on a project which is due the next day |
Re: You know you've been in the shop too long this weekend if:
You can't remember how most of the cuts on your hands got there.
You are single-handedly keeping the local pizza place in business. |
Re: You know you've been in the shop too long this weekend if:
If you lay down on the hard tile floor in your CAD Lab, grab a bumper that your physics teacher/robotics advisor just finished, and try to get some sleep. (I tried, but couldn't actually sleep).
One of the advisors gives you his key to the school and keys to the vocational rooms because you are there more than him (true, and yes, I gave them back). |
Re: You know you've been in the shop too long this weekend if:
When you're sitting at a resturant and you the noise of the cooling unit on the soda fountain and think... "Hey, there's the compressor" :P
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Re: You know you've been in the shop too long this weekend if:
when u spend 70 hours in the lab over a 4 day period
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Re: You know you've been in the shop too long this weekend if:
... when the first thing your mom does after seeing you is laugh and say "you smell like aluminum."
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Re: You know you've been in the shop too long this weekend if:
when you begin accusing zip screws of being antisemitic because they wont go in right for you
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Re: You know you've been in the shop too long this weekend if:
when your dad says "don't make it a late night" it means come home before he wakes up to go to work
When everyone in the machine shop is standing on a table with the robot working on it, rather than putting it on the floor, to save the time it would take to get it off the table. mentors too! (haha i have a picture of this one if you want to see it) when you are replacing zip-ties with needle and thread because "zip ties are too heavy" when you wear safety glasses on your head durring the school day, through all your classes, and nobody bothers to ask why anymore when you have tools in your pockets throughout the schoolday just to save time finding them later when you know the part number of every componenent, even screws, on the robot, where to find its cad file, its dimensions for placement, and where it belongs in the grand scheme of things when you know the size of the screwdriver, wrench, and allen/hex key needed for EVERY single piece of hardware when you can do the calculations for how much wieght will be lost by lightweighting a material because you have the densities for almost all of the materials memorized and can do the d=mv calulation in your head when you tell people to stop painting things to save weight when "the big manly drill" is a commonly understood title for a specific drill when you find yourself and your best friend standing atop a 10 fool ladder, eating gummybears out of a bowl, simply because you can, and then realize simultaineously "you know what? i.. really don't even like gummy bears.. like .. at all..?" when you decide to hold the radar gun "ghetto style" when you pay more attention to the fact that a chain is loose rather than the fact that the cheerleading team is practicing in the gym right next to you when the janitor knows you by first name and knows to leave the lights off in the cad room when your working in it when every meal in the past 4 days has come from a fast food place, despite the fact that it was only 4 or 5 meals anyway when your justification for washing you hands AFTER you eat is "you can get robot on your food, but you can't get food on your robot :) " (that is a quote i am often heard saying" when you can't tell if its caramel on your hand, or chain grease, and you just eat it anyway when your parents realize that you spend more time at the school doing robotics then actually doing school "Yay days over!" "well.. for me the day has just begun :) " when you're spending your lunches and studies at school working in the shop when you realize that you've spent the 2 days after the robot has been crated up recovering from the 4 days prior. when the difference between breakfast, lunch and dinner has nothing to do with the time but the order in which they are eaten when you're so sick of pizza that you eat it just to get it out of your sight when you look at a picture of a robot on a computer screen and try to hold the middle mouse button to rotate it (CAD people probably understand this one) when 4 of the 5 team members in your physics class are absent on tuesday and the one that isn't calls you to complain about it when you consider sanding off the paint to save weight when you mount the camera exactly where your mentor said he would slap you if you put it there, just to keep the software team happy when you realize you know as much about the electronics as the electronics lead, and sometimes more when your software lead shouts "your safety is becoming less and less of a concern to me!" because he wants to test the software while your working on the robot when taking a break means taking your safety glasses off when your justification to your parents for working even though you're sick is "my body can heal itself, the robot can't!" when in your sleep you are thinking of ways to lightweight things when the electronics box has gashed up your arm so much that you consider documenting your blood as part of the robot weight weight when you are the single reason the medkit is low on band-aids ("..lowsy electronics box... darn master link...") when your mom joins the parent group (the people who bring us food on weekends) just to actually see you --- alright im sure I can come up with more but thats it for this post |
Re: You know you've been in the shop too long this weekend if:
Quote:
one of mine is leaving the shop to go eat and then on the car ride back relise you are still wearing safteys :D the time lapse is coming :) i just need to get back to school some time |
Re: You know you've been in the shop too long this weekend if:
2 more:
the day after the robot ships, looking in your wallet and realizing how much money you spent on fast food and energy drinks Friday i had 50 some dollars now i have -2 dollars :eek: also when its 4 in the morning and someone says "wow your up awful Early" and you respond with "nope technical I'm up awful late!!" :p |
Re: You know you've been in the shop too long this weekend if:
when you stay after school even though you already shipped the robot just because you have no idea what you are suppose to do when you get home anymore.
or when you have a caffeine withdrawl and your friends think that you have a hangover when the janitors tell you how to get into the school at night without a key when you realize you are almost failing most of your classes because you forgot what homework was |
Re: You know you've been in the shop too long this weekend if:
When you look around your shop and think to yourself "you know, maybe having five teams in one room isn't too much afterall.."
When you spent 90% of your last four days (awake or asleep) in the robotics lab (I actually did out the math on this one). When you realize that this is the only the fourth day in the past six weeks I haven't been to the robotics room.. When the word "magic" is applied to about 6 different tools in the shop, 4 of them being "the magic wrench" and everyone on the team still knows which one you mean. When the only reason you aren't still programming the robot is because ALL of your batteries are too dead to shoot consistently. When you have just spent more time in the school in one weekend than you would in a normal week. When you are so deep sleprived that... zzzzzz When you have fallen asleep every time you have sat down today. When autonomous mode really just doesn't seem that important any more. And not because you have more important things to do, just because you're too tired to bother. When you realize that you've been running your robot for the past 24 hours *without bolting down the shooter* (D'oh) When you haven't eaten a meal at home in 5 days (and you usually eat at least two every day), and you haven't eaten at all in 18 hours. When wednesday morining comes around and you decide that you're too tired to bother starting your homework for the weekend. When you're browsing chiefdelphi instead of sleeping.. even though you desperately need the sleep and are staring blankly at the screen even as I type. When the robot *actually* *works* - Toby Overclocked, 246 |
Re: You know you've been in the shop too long this weekend if:
- You're tired of standing and lean against a drill press, and fall asleep (oops)
- Class? What class? - You eat pizza out of the fridge when nobody knows how it got there, or how long it's been there - Showering is for the weak - The cleaning ladies bring you copies of the paper, with your robot on the front page... while you're still testing at 7 am - You nickname the overweight robot 'Tubby' and the entire team convulses with laughter - You paint the crate beautifully... upside down - You have eaten a whole loaf of bread's worth of PB&J in one week |
Re: You know you've been in the shop too long this weekend if:
When the programmers decide to go on strike, because they wantto test their code.
Parents call at 3 am to see what time you will be coming home tomorrow morning Have to do off-roading to get the cars past the locked gates. |
Re: You know you've been in the shop too long this weekend if:
When you can't remember your last actual meal.
When EVERYTHING looks like a robot. When washing your hair in a sink is a viable vanity option. When you start discussing new and unusual uses for the practice poof balls. |
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