Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

I prefer legos... Also, when you are geeked about getting the 2000th post in a thread.

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

Probably been mentioned but

When you see threads like this ...

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

When a picture of a K'nex model of part of the field makes it into your design book submission, then into the book. (2007) Yes, we do prototype that way sometimes.

Bonus points for doing the same sort of thing with VEX parts.

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

When...
Anything with a team number you know gets circled with an arrow pointing to the name scribbled along the side... My physics teacher [also a coach for the team] sees ALOT of this!:yikes:

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

When you and your friends, after throwing a bunch of playpen balls around your room, design a Vex robot to try and accumulate them so you don't have to clean it up.

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

Chris, that is just lazy.:p

When your friends just start conversations with how is robotics cuz they know it will just come around to that in most conversations.

When just about all of your gmail statuses relate to robotics.

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

I do that with all of my band music...which means that most numbers are circled :P (my stand partner has just given up on asking what a "Robowranglers" or a "Wildstang" are)

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

No, it's not lazy--it's using technology, which can be defined as getting processes and machines to do our work for us. Historically:

--Man discovered fire, and used it to cook his food so he wouldn't have to expend so much energy chewing.

--Man invented matches, so he didn't have to expend so much energy starting the fire.

--Man invented the butane lighter so he didn't have to burn his fingers lighting the fire.

And now--

--Man invented the robotic vacuum cleaner so woman would not have to exert effort on the sweaty, dusty job of vacuuming. Instead, she can relax while making scientific observations of the family pets as they react to the new "creature" making all that noise and chasing them around the house.

The effort expended by woman getting man to BUY--not merely admire the engineering of--the robotic vacuum cleaner shall not be discussed here.
:p

Disclaimer: This post does not prove that I'm overdosed either on FIRST, or on technology.

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

Just you wait until all those robots rise up and take over the world!:p

Until then, i'll keep making robots.;)

Oh and Chris, you're in college so i guess that you have a right to be lazy as your mom isn't there to tell you to clean your room. LOL:)

EDIT: at karen, when you had to expend effort to get the vacuum, did the male say that it was useless when you could just vacuum the floor and that it was lazyness, or that it was a dumb idea. :P

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

The males were too busy looking at the engineering of the robot. Houston 2003: team 330, having arrived kind of early for the Championship, goes to a local mall for a while. The mentors/parents and students split up to explore, and after a while, the parents group stops in front of a store that has a robotic vacuum cleaner. The battery needs changing, and the robot is kind of flipped over during this process. The engineers were apparently commenting on the robot's design, functionality, etc. The wives were trying to figure out how to get their husbands to get one, or so I hear from one of them;).

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

WOW! That is really funny. :D
Then again what do you expect from males in FIRST, look at the engineering of it.

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

Must the woman expend effort explaining what "shall not be discussed" means? The point of this thread is to discuss "overdosage;" in this case, not just on FIRST, but perhaps on technology itself. ;)

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

Who said it was just the males admiring the engineering? ;) I'd love to take one apart...

And, you know you've overdosed on FIRST when you're in college, see that this thread has 2010 replies and the FIRST thing (sorry) that goes through your mind is "Oh! New game, new game!"

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

I bought one of the robotic vacuums solely for the purposes of convincing my spouse to pick up the floors. That way we'd be able to use the robot. If the floor was covered in parts and wiring, you can't run the robot very well.

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

I think he meant to play on the gender concept of "men don't like to clean" rather than "men love to engineer".

When you join your college's battlebots team and accidentally rule out robot designs in your head because of FIRST rules. ("Hmm, a wedge would be nice, oh wait 10 degrees rule...")

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

I think that as well; I was poking fun at it. :)

...every conversation you have with any engineering (chemical, biomedical, electrical, mechanical, etc.) or programmer/computer science major inevitably dissolves into robots and why they are cool, then moves onto what FIRST is and why it is awesome.

...every conversation you have with anyone, if it goes long enough, dissolves into this...

...you realize that the previous two points were only the most recent in a long line of "Overdosed" comments involving conversations involving FIRST and robotics, and will probably be mentioned many times again

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

When your team is cleaning up the shop and is about to throw out a bunch of track balls, you take 3 of them home with you.

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

Track balls or orbit balls? Cuz if it is track balls... how much do you want for one of them?:p

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

you take more notes on the robot design, and make more drawings on your robot, then you do notes for the class your in

your robotics notebook has more notes then any of your honor classes combined

anytime the word "first" is mentioned in converation, you think about your robot, and eventually start talking to random people about FIRST

almost everything you hear somehow relates to robotics

you hear the word "pot" from your school resource officer, and think "why is he talking about potentiometers???"

you feel bad for people pulling trailers when you're driving on the highway

you're mom tells your dad that she wants to buy a roomba so you can take it apart, when she's just looking for an excuse not to vaccume

when someone ask's you what you're drawing and you reply "nothing" you wind up explaining for 10 minutes whats wrong with your robot

you spend more time posting on chief delphi than you do doing your math homework

chiefdelphi is bookmarked and facebook isn't

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

I forgot to take mine out of the car... :rolleyes:

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

If my team ever throws our ball out, I'm taking it. Wonderful chair if deflated.

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

Quite unfortunately, last year a couple weeks after labor day, someone was an idiot and popped one of ours. Now we only have one... :mad: We never did figure out who did it anyway. Ah, well, nothing can be done now...

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

If you ever stop being O.D.'d on FIRST, keep on feeling bad for people pulling trailers. In many states (including California), they can only go 55 mph while everyone else can go much faster, legally. And the horror stories my dad can tell! He has driven with a trailer for thousands of miles--with no serious incidents, thank the Lord!

Vacuuming is supposed to be the kids' job. So what's YOUR excuse? ;)

P.S.: Tell your mom that Roomba needs its dust chamber emptied after every use, and after every 3 uses, the brushes must be disassembled for cleaning, and the sensors must be cleaned, and the person who does this chore will get dirty. Just did this today myself.

Last cleaning, Roomba vacuumed like a little kid: ran around the room a few times, missed spots, twice attacked his enemy the carpet sweeper, then announced "I'M DONE!!" prematurely. He usually does a better job.

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

Especially those cliff sensors--that's what got the last one.

When you notice that the Mythbusters got an Airtrax forklift (AKA mecanum-drive forklift)-- and remember that one of them at least used to mentor an FRC team. (And then you remember that said Mythbuster can probably give a status update on that himself if he wants--and probably won't, remembering what happened last time he did.)

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

When you know who he's talking about and what team he appeared in public with last.

(No, I'm not stalking the man, I just follow that team)

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

When you agonize over javascript performance for a library you are working on. Did you know that javascript objects are just named associative arrays?

When you plan on doing a massive rewrite of a python script to improve performance by a couple dozen clock cycles just because you want to keep the caching time down so the regional twitter feeds can be as up to date as possible.

When you keep detailed notes about changes that need to be added to said scripts to make it better.

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

when you count down to kick off, and not christmas

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

DUH...kickoff IS Christmas!;)

When you check chiefdelphi before email now.

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

...90% of the topics in your recent activity feed are marked as read.

...you start recognizing spotlight quotes by the thread they are from...that happened in 2002 (this is proof I read the archives WAY too much)

...you have a half dozen or more posts in this thread.

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

During the WKCE (Wisconsin Knowledge and Concepts Exam, it's totally outdated), you jump on the opportunity to talk about FIRST.

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

You need a "It's a robot" bumper sticker for your truck.

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

... you contemplate figuring out how to unbolt the middle seats in a van nearly as old as you so you can more easily transfer your robot from place to place. (These bolts go through the bottom of the van, and are protected from the elements by a metal plate (they go into threaded holes so at least I wouldn't have to find nuts on the underside) but would be incredibly rusted.)

(Never actually did take out the seats but it fit in with the frame about 3" from the back window glass fortunately it never hit the glass (put a blanket over it and I think it would have hit the ceiling first) or that would be bad to say the least, and my sister would have killed me...)

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

Seconded.

When you'll build 250 sit-skis for the team's off-season project, but you won't do your math homework

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

Maybe if you realize that better math leads to better sit-skis, you'll be less O.D.'d on FIRST. :)

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

...when you're doing a "label these important cities on a map of the states" assignment: "Don't know that one, not that one, wow, I'll have to look up that one, never heard of that one, or that one, I KNOW THIS ONE! *writes down Atlanta in it's rightful, honored place* :D

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

When you're mildly amused that 111 friends are online for chat on facebook, just cause of WildStang.

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

When you figure this is the thread to ask this..
I want to make my room a review of all of the past games. so... I would like to know some of the game pieces and if anyone knows where to get them, because Christmas is right around the corner, and the relatives would like to know what I want! haha so any help with that?

::safety::

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIRST
Wikipedia is your friend [:

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

Also, if you like a trip down memory lane for websites the internet archive is pretty handy. http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://usfirst.org The game rules are mostly available. (I am actually kind of surprised that FIRST hasn't changed their website name yet, they haven't been US FIRST since 1996.)

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

Today I was buying lobster from the local fish place.
I live in Maryland, (but I grew up in New England.)
The lobsters were covered by wet newspaper.
When I look down, there is Dean's face and article about FIRST in the Nov. 19 Boston Globe.
I said "I know this guy! I've had dinner at his house."
The fishmonger says "Our lobsters are very well read and would like to be invited next time."

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

Yes, but the domain name refers to the site being U.S.-centric in nature. Or that it encompasses the entire U.S. (and the world, sure... but the U.S. is the epicenter)

Or it's just stuck.


You know you're overdosed on FIRST when your classmates don't even know about the robotics team, and you meanwhile know more about FIRST than the team coach.

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

you know you've overdosed on FIRST when...

robotics becomes more stressful than school, but you keep going because you love FIRST.

you and your mentors have to debate for over 2 hours about whether you want to go the State Championship and save money for next year's team or go to the World Championship.

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

when even in college,.. your dormates are sick of you telling them stories about Atlanta,.. they "could have sworn they went with you" they heard the stories soo much,

when you anticipate the Kick off more than your dad anticipates the Super Bowl

When even though you cant drive you still envision yourself during build season testing a prototype.

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

You know you've overdosed on FIRST when, after long Parent/Advisor/Scout meeting on Philmont, you findout someone on your crew is going to be on one of three rookie FRC teams in Sheboygan.

P.S. I really hope they get a lot of help, and not just from Team 93!

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

When all through the Frontier Trails BEST competition you are hoping for January 9th.

You then get yelled at for bringing it up.

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

When you participate in Fantasy FIRST drafts

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

When you have to get a surgery and the only times they have open are christmas break or build season and you chose to have it over christmas.

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

you plan robotics fundraising events over Christmas break so you can help your team go to Worlds

you think of fundraising ideas in your sleep

you go on a college visit and your tour guide is a FIRST alumni... you high five when you discover this fact and then procede to talk about all the different competitions you have been too and what the best game was. you then continue talking about all the different competitions you have won at that particular college and why you are so excited to go there in the fall

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

You leave your team go to a college five hours away &:

It takes you two weeks into the semester to start organizing a FIRST support organization called GO FIRST (Group Organization for FIRST) & attend a RPC meeting in Minnesota.

You visit home only when there are important Saturday robot events.

You find all the area community demo days and attend as many as possible.

You start applying FIRST to things you learn in your Scientific and Technical Communications class.

You make your support group official before the end of the semester is up.

You present a seminar at Minnesota Splash on Chairmans & convince your best friend from your old team to visit that weekend so she can go to the strategy seminar.

You realize that all this happened because robot withdrawal is being experienced.

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

You see a Facebook status saying "DA BEARS SUCK", and you have to read it (in shock) three times before realizing that it is not referencing a team, but is rather your cousin illiterately complaining about the Chicago Bears.

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

when 75% of your Google contacts are from FIRST and CD

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

When your definition of a good friday and saturday is spending 8 hours watching movies on thebluealliance.net and 12 hours sleeping...probably won't have one of those until april when robotics starts winding down.:rolleyes:

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

When you hear your old high school won the FTC Championship and JUMPED OUT OF YOUR CHAIR in excitement. I've got an old teacher to thank. :D

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

when your team number is the screensaver on your phone :D

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

When you go to a holiday party generously sponsored by your boss, decline beer offered by your boss, drink one Coke and say you have to leave because you are going to school to give hands on training on power tools to your FIRST team.
You get to school and realize that there are only four students there because everyone else took the training you gave the day before. (The plan was to split the group of students into three sessions, but everyone was too excited and they had to attend first available session).

You come back home and proceed to make up stories about what happened at the holiday party because you promised your wife not to spend more than one night per week at the school during off season.

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

when you spend your weekend writing a letter to the editor of your local newspaper on behalf of your team

when you plan on rooming with a friend from another FIRST team at college

when you call your boss and start talking about fundraisers for robotics and they think it is the most natural thing in the world

when you convince your boss to help with your team's fundraisers

when you have your mentors', co-captain's, and other teams' captain's cell phone numbers memorized from calling them so frequently

when your work schedule is based off when you don't have robotics meetings

when you get special discounts for the amounts of hair dye and gel you buy just because of competition season

when you and your best friend are both captains of different teams and you joke about how finals will go at specific competitions

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

When you have spent you whole Christmas Eve trying to figure out the game hint. :D

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

From church.

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

HAHAHA funny!

When at your own Christmas party your on Chief. *Sigh, if they didn't move to australia I wouldn't be on here.... THANKS SARAH!!!!;)

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

Glad to help!

When you are looking at CD (more than once...) on Christmas Day!!!

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

When you spend more time on Christmas day on CD and FIRST website than you do playing with your new gadgets.

When you list a game hint with your presents when people ask you what you got for Christmas.

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

WHAT!!!!! THERE WAS A GAME HINT????

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

I believe that zakthemac has NOT overdosed on FIRST yet.

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

When you have no clue how many days are left until Christmas, but you've been counting down to kickoff for 120+ days

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

When you know the time date and place of kickoff but completely forgot what day christmas was

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

When you go on Facebook to check your team's page

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

When you are in college and on Christmas day run between presents, food and the computer to read the replies on the game hint post...

When you go to school and still find the time to spend 50+ hours a week at your teams shop...

When after you come home from that shop you stay on CD for another 20 hours a week...

:D :D :D :D

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

Wait... We already had Christmas? Oh I missed it lol. Ive been trying to figure out the hint

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

-You hear "pure evil" in a song, and you immediately think of the GDC

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

Every time you look at a digital clock you associate the time with a FRC team you know.

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

Every Exploding Bacon general meeting begins promptly at 7:02 pm. Because in Military Time that's perfect.

note: that's not entirely true however... we would be lucky if we were only 2 minutes late. :)

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

When you empty your pockets, and find, among other things:

-Vex Power expander
-3 wrenches of various sizes
-Dremel cutoff wheels and tool
-Assorted 1/4 - 20 hardware
-11 zipties
-Vex programming dongle

And it's not even build season yet...

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

Don't forget a roll of solder, duct tape, and your leathermans! lol

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

I've jokingly petitioned that 1714 team meetings be moved to 5:14 PM rather than 5:30... No one seemed to catch on though. :(

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

When exams are next week, and you still haven't studied because you are on Chief Delphi.
When you were going to start FAFSA, but a game hint got in the way.
When you are actually hoping it won't snow, because of kick-off.

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

When you're super excited at the beginning of a school year to get the locker number that corresponds to your team's. :P

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

When you spend all day yelling out "Twenty hours and forty-two minutes" etc

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

you create a desktop shortcut to the encrypted manual PDF file

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

You are planning on waking up at 2 AM to watch kick-off.

You know a couple of other people who are planning to do the same!!!

(9 hours and 10 min to go!!!)

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

*You didn't fall asleep the day before kickoff
*After your team canceled their kickoff party for bad weather, you got your parents to invite the team to your house for a party
*Your mom says you're addicted to CD and you respond "It's better then doing drugs"

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

.. when your mom yells at you for not sleeping [at about 2 this morning]. I fall asleep for two minutes, then wake up so I can say I slept.:D
... When you have been ready since 11 last night to go to kickoff
... When you have counted down to kickoff since before Chirstmas..
... When you are more excited than for Christmas... [sorry mum, loved the presents at Christmas, I'm just addicted to FIRST]

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

* Every one of your Facebook or Twitter statuses over the 24 hours since Kick-Off mention FIRST in some way, shape, or form.

* Your entire sleep schedule is thrown off after Kick-Off, every year.

* Your mind immediately goes into full-gear the second after the game animation has finished playing.

And, of course:

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

I counted 40 Twitter updates (including @replies) from myself, which translates to 40 Facebook statuses. All regarding Kickoff. The people who follow/are friends with me who aren't in FIRST were probably pretty annoyed.

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

Team 1735 meets at 5:35

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

When you spend all of your time after Kickoff on CD...only to dream about it that night as well as finding yourself reading threads in your dream. (In other words, CD just wasn't "there", no, I was actively reading it.)

I'm sad that there is no way to start 2604's meetings on our team number...The closest we could get would be to swap numbers around and start at 04:26. (However, with that time, I think we should stick with conventional 12 hour time, and not 24...) :yikes: :D

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

Ok, this is one of my best friends, but I'll post it seeing as he can't:

- When on your only weekend off in the next month (from your service in the Israeli Navy) you come to help with the kickoff until 1 AM when you need to be halfway across Israel, ready for service by 8 AM.
AND
- When in your daily 40 minute break you spend 25 minutes on the phone with your team talking about strategic ideas for the robot and checking up on your team

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

When you write down various quotes from all the build seasons.
When you have a shortcut icon on your desktop to ChiefDelphi.

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

when your days now consist of waking up, going to school, going to robotics, going to work, and then back to robotics before heading home for the night.

when you discover your guilty conscience because you are drawing robot designs in church.

when the only thing you look forward to from day to day is working on Breakaway.

when your best friend joins the team just because they know they won't see you if they aren't at meetings.

when your parents start talking about your 18th birthday and all you say is "i'm busy that day, it's build season"

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

Or...
-Your favorite 1/4" drill bit (That you brought home with you so other people wouldn't mess it up)
-Your team's signature purple electrical tape
-Scrap aluminum
-A gear you spent a third of build season perfecting (that never got used)

And then when the newspaper takes your picture for being team Captain you proudly show all of this off while wearing your Letterman jacket with its robotics patches.

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

when you wake up early enough in the morning to check CD before school.

when checking CD is the FIRST thing you do in the morning.

and you wish....
... but your school district has yet to accept your team as a sport.

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

Hey Everyone!

Team 1023 wanted to help complete Dean's HW/have another space for teams to talk so we made a "Super Nerds!!" fansite on Facebook. Here's the link, we'd love it if you checked it out, became a fan and added some pictures and stuff of previous years! :)

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Super-...5998917?ref=ts

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

You know you've overdosed on FIRST when
you set your alarm clock to your team # ex: 9:32

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

When you talk to some people about FRC, tell them how much you are meeting (12 hours a day) and they tell you that you are working more for FRC than they do for work!!! :ahh: :yikes: :ahh: :yikes: ::safety::

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

http://xkcd.com/689/

^When you see this and the first thing that comes to mind is, "That's SO against the rules! It doesn't even have bumpers!"

Then you proceed to show your family and they have NO clue how awesome of an idea it was XD

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

when while taking a college class you are tempted to put a sign on a door that says, "1519 was here!" all because you see orbit balls in the shop and the xkcd umbrella bot comic on the door and realize it is team 2342's workshop!

when your boss puts his foot down and and won't schedule so you can make it to robotics on time in hope that you will quit the team because of it. (i think i've overdosed when you make you boss really mad at you!);)

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

.... when your 18th birthday cake was the FIRST logo because you just couldn't wait for your last season.
.... when your senior year was NOT your last season of FIRST.

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

:D I love this one.

There will not be another build season during my lifetime when I am not somehow involved with FIRST. I mean that.

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

Same here. Winter was made for FIRST, and skiing!

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

Thanks. Yeah, I mean, I didn't want to get away from FIRST but I thought it would happen. I was wrong. FIRST is like learning to speak. Once you start, you never shut up!

Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...
 

I think theres a large number of addicts. I know I am.

-Your desk at work is covered with scraps of paper with robot design ideas.