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"%&!#$&!%#$&%#!$ IS THIS THING THREADED BACKWARD?!?!?!?!?!?!??"

-me, after some genius (me) had the bright idea of putting the allen-wrench end of an allen bolt on the inside of the C-channel, with a piece of plywood above it.

Took me twenty minutes to get the thing out, along with three different allen wrenches, two socket wrenches, four pairs of pliers, and a fair amount of yelling at the stupid bolt to GET THE $!&%$#&!% OUT OF THERE!!!!

I think I need to think ahead more :)


Thaine

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there everybody goes again... fixing hardware problems in software

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This is what happens at "interdisciplinary team progress review" meetings

Programmer:We're still having some issues with the threading on the camera code
Mechanist:What, the threads got stripped?
Programmer:What? No, it's a multi-threaded program but some of the threads are using too much CPU time
Mechanist:Multi-threaded?

This lead to a ten-minute discussion of uses of the word "thread".

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"Breakaway is just Lunacy that sends my brain on Overdrive!its like Triple Play of the mind!"
I was ganna add more but I was pulling this out of the top of my head!

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"Just eyeball it!"

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Not technically build season, but at a recruiting event, some kid came up and asked if the robot could "RUN ME OVER!?" to which our mentor responded with a yell, "NO!" and then "well, it could..."

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Mine (from during the competition season):
"Looking forward to the opportunity to breakaway from work and join the lunacy at the LA FIRST competition. Just as long as our team keeps aiming high and triple-playing the competition, maybe we can raise the bar over previous years and go into overdrive in Atlanta!"

Another Mentor's reply to above:
"Might be in double trouble for those diabolical dynamics. Hope your zone zeal does not lead you to rack 'n' roll all over the place, unless you ramp and roll into rug rage."

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"We must construct additional pylons!"

"Fibon Carbor...I mean Carbon Fiber"

"The Game"

"Spawning Pool!"

"If you think I'm sexy, you should see my robot"

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Programming Mentor Matt - when the autonomous code wasn't quite working
"I have never had one of my inventions come after me before!"

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"Ok this sounds a little crazy, but think that we can jump the center zone?"
"Are you serious?"
"We can't just rule it out without doing the math"
"Yes, yes we can"
"Okay, when week 6 rolls around and 1114 has a youtube video of them jumping the bumps..."

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At Clemson, we had an hour to kill so we walked up to the graveyard to explore and we found an abandoned cell phone sitting on a rock. One of my friends picked it up and looked at the pics to see whos it was (it was slightly creepy that all the pics showed only half of the guys face). Anyway, we put it back and then throughout the rest of the weekend:
"OMG is that the guy from that phone we found in the cemetery?"
"He does look like him, but his nose is too small..."
"He could have had surgery"
"Well he could have dyed his hair too, changed his eye color..."
"You are introducing way too many variables into the situation so lets just go ask him for buttons and move on."

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"I have a nice robot for breakfast every other morning. They're rich in iron."

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"This thing is held together with zipties and faith"

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Weekend before ship in 2009
"what do you mean were 40 pounds over the limit!"

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Team 1772 was asking for suggestions for alliance partners when they were on the field and so we were yelling out "1758!!!" but they ended up choosing 2751 and then our teams driver yelled out "But we gave you zip-ties!!"
:D