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

You post a status on facebook/twitter saying "RED AL-LI-ANCE," and the comments are as follows:

"*clap clap clapclapclap*"
"GALI-LEO"
"*CLAP CLAP CLAPCLAPCLAP*"
"*Cowbell Cowbell CowbellCowbellCowbell*"
"sorry noisemakers are prohibited at FRC events"
"*clap-clap, clap-clap-clap*"

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

I've got to try that! :D

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

You see a wind-guard on a semi and the first thing you think of is <G46>

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

its 4 in the morning, your friend is asleep, so instead of going to bed, you check and see how week 3 regionals go, and look at chief delphi, then work on that paper you need to finish a rough draft on by tomorrow.

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

When you and your friend start designing a t-shirt that says "FIRST...Our March Madness is better." or something similar.

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

when you see a soccer field and think "where are the humps, the towers, and the other 2 goals?

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

BLUE AL-LI-ANCE!

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

When
- you look at a clock/channel and can identify it by team number (my dad did this yesterday)
- you start grouping all numbers by twos (channel nine-fifty five)
- you come up future plans for the robot durring long lectures
- when your friends are shocked you spend 24 hours at robotics in the past two days and you reply ehh beter then kettering (27 hours there :D)
- the back few pages of your notebook are of robot sketches
- you thought of rush when you read 27 hours at kettering
- posted this at steel armidilos (8:18)

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

When you see your team number everywhere... and it its starting to scare you.

when you accidently held up three's while cheering at a pep rally at your school.

When your just sitting on Chief Delphi hitting the refresh button so you can read the new posts / threads FIRST.

When you always capitalize FIRST.

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

when you're playing PlayStation and wonder "what's up with my [tank] drive code?"... and then you realize, you're playing PlayStation

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

You finish watching the Purdue/Texas game, and then realize that the Boilermaker Regional was probably the most exciting to happen to Purdue this week (and that game was INTENSE).

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

when u see a robotics shirt and you lose the game

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

...you see random numbers, and instantly assumer that they're an FRC team number! :D

...you are constantly looking for cool "toys" to buy when you're at Home Depot.

...you can't stop thinking about FIRST. Ever.

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

When you are at IHOP watching the end of The Greater Kansas City Regional and jump on TBA to look up the price of your tickets.

When CAD becomes "fun".

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

When at fast food restaurants, you only buy meals that cost your team number.
(for those who do not understand my vague wording, I buy a burrito meal at my local Taco Bell because it costs $4.69)

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

When you worked so hard at the regional that anything is hilarious on the ride home. Including making bow ties/hats out of zip ties

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

When you can't sleep the night after a regional because you have "Cotton Eyed Joe" stuck in your head.

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

When you have a different team's shirt for each day of the week (I plan on getting a bunch more :D)

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

Or when everything is hilarious at the restaurant you all go to later that night, hence giving birth:



To Rufus.

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

This could be a problem for lower team numbers, and team numbers that don't end in 9. Know any place that sells a meal for $3.30?

I'm not overdosed, just curious. ;)

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

When you can't sleep the night before a regional because you're worried you've forgotten how to dance to "Cotton Eyed Joe".

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

When you are a scout and even after the competition you still have numbers and team names and there team info and robot information run thought your head even 2 days after the regional is over and still think that you have to pick alliances for some reason

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

when you start drawing out highly detailed match strategies on how to beat 217 during class

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

Care to share any of those? mine are filled with ideas on how to beat 469 and other improvements to our bot lol

-When you hear songs that remind you of teams ("TNT dynamite" goes to 280, "I'm a be" goes to 33 and "sandstorm" goes to 2771)

- When one of your favorite shows are on and your trying to watch it and post of CD... and failing at the first one

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

When you see a poster around school with the word "led" in bold (as in, "I led you through the forest") and immediately start wondering why the poster is talking about LED lights.

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

When you can't sleep before competitions because you're too busy teaching your team the Cotton Eyed Joe, Electric Slide, and proper conga line etiquette

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

When you dont want to wake up from a dream because you arent done helping the other team figure out with their battery charger yet at a random competition.

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

Same here!!!

When you wake up from a dream confused, because you couldn't figure out how to properly strain relive a wire!

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

This actually happened to me!!! On our last day before we shipped!!!!!!!!!!! Then I missed ANOTHER team meeting because I was still sick. At least I was better for GSR, but my cough still is here...

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

When, instead of putting thermometers up to the lamp, you're shaking them so you'll appear better so you can go to the WPI regional...I almost had to :D

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

When you find your programming mentor in a dream, both realize you're in a dream, and immediately think, "neat! extra time!" and begin discussing autonomous mode. :D

(Unfortunately, we gave up after a few minutes when we realized nothing we were saying was making any sense.) :D

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

i have no problem releasing them after the michigan state comp, if i release them now, the chickens will just figure out a way to counter them before my team can use them

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

haha probably a good idea, I've hinted a few times on CD what our strategy will be to beat 469, but im not giving away any specifics yet.

When
-other sports just don't seem as exciting anymore (there just way to long after 2:15 matches)
- When you spend more time on CD then on Facebook
- When you've walked out of seminar after working, and walk around with saftey glasses on the rest of the day.

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

When you memorize numbers (phone #'s, addresses etc...) by associating them with FIRST teams.

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

...when you are talking about going to prom with someone and they say that they will try and dance if you want them to, but your response is "It's like in the shop: if you feel uncomfortable doing something you don't have to do it."

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

...when you and your team friends are waiting in front of a restaurant for your ride to come, so you play chacha slide, YMCA, macarena, cupid shuffle, etc. and dance to it in order to keep yourselves occupied.
=]

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

...when you get REALLY excited when you see this at the top of the screen 2 years after posting it in the "Quotes that were said during build season" thread...

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

When you're on spring break, and you're still on CD and talking with your team.

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

When your got on vacation on spring break and are planning to spend the first 3 days of vaction watching webcasts of your team at states.

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

-You cut out a "MAIN BREAKER" label and stick it above the lightswitch in your room. Both of them.

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

When you have a dream that MOE beat your high school in basketball, and when you wake up, you go on CD to tell people.

(also applies to having a dream about being an alliance partner with 469, and then learning that their robot is powered by maple syrup. You then go out to a grocery store and learn that the greater Atlanta area is out of maple syrup. Of course, you need to get maple syrup, so you make your own from a maple tree that you just happened to have in the pit.)

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

There were a LOT of FIRST references within our game of monopoly with fellow teammates. Most of these references were made by a friend and I.

-Whenever someone would land on a bought railroad and owed $25, we would say in an announcer voice "RAIDER ROBOTIX"
-Whenever someone bought houses (in this model, houses are stacked), we would say "oh snap, stack attack"
-We said "This game is Lunacy"
-Whenever someone landed on Luxury Tax ($75), we say in an announcer voice "ROBO RAIDERS"
-When our friend kept making a lot of money, we said she was "Rackin and Rollin"

On top of the monopoly game, we shared our knowledge of how many team names and numbers we know (50+).

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

Do I hear a possible fund raiser? "Monopoly: FIRST Edition Educates teams on FIRST teams and robot types!" (Or maybe just the different regionals... With Atlanta Park Place, and St. Louis being Board walk.) :yikes:

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

I would buy FIRSTopoly...

Replace the railroads with drivetrains (swerve, mecanum, holonomic)
Go is replaced with Kickoff: Collect KOP
Jail replaced with un-GP or something along those lines
Replace the monopoly guy with Dean Kamen
Replace the electric company and water works with Andymark and NI
Game pieces are replaced with models of FIRST game pieces (orbit ball, tetra, soccer ball, etc.)

If I manage to get the graphic design department on this, I want to bring this to champs.

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

Check out this thread from a few months ago.

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...ad.php?t=77898

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

Bah humbug... I'm still going to try bringing it to champs.

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

At the very least, we could make them one at a time to sell to other teams. Don't go mass, just teams. (And hey, at the very least, thats over 1,00 teams. :D )

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

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

-You have read all of the posts in this thread~
-When you are sad that there are no more posts in this thread to read. :(

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

Best. Dream. Ever.

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

-When all you can talk about is FIRST, because of course it is your life!

I have to agree with mosts of the posts though. It is amazing how FIRST affects us so deeply!

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

When you are startled awake by an anxiety driven dream where you feel like you are at a regional as lead que and your sleeping on the job and your team has to take up your slack for your lazy butt so you wake up and can't get back to sleep.

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

- When you head to your 3rd hour class in room number 217 and people think your crazy because you start randomly start talking about chickens....It happens....
-Oh, and when you suddenly notice that your team signs say 50- cause a certain team keep taking your "3"s...I love them bees :D

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

How else are we supposed to cheer for Team 3333? We need to appropriate other people's threes. Duh.

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

This was made even better as you currently have 33 posts...
I sincerely wish Team 3333 was in Southeast Michigan. :D



When you clean your room and find enough screws and washers for a decent sized robot...:rolleyes:

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

Didn't even notice that! Awesome!

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

-when you see someone wearing all denim and dont judge them because dean wears that
-you cant hang out with anyone else for 6 weeks straight and your excuse is "sorry i have (insert team name here)"
-you see mailboxes and try to name the team faster then your other robotics friends.

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

....when you have come up with a new meaning for IDK.... I'm Dean Kamen.
....you base your college choice on which team is near which college.

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

... you realize that you only have so many years left of this fun. after that, it's considered work

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

When you're walking to class at WPI, see Dean Kamen talking on the phone in the lobby of Fuller Labs, and text EVERYONE you know.

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

...you are proud of the rubber chicken hanging on your keychain (thanks, 217!)
...you start singing Cotton Eyed Joe in the hallway randomly.
...you wish you could go to Atlanta this year, and can't wait for next kickoff already so you can win a regional next year!
...you are thinking of volunteer/fundraising projects so you won't have to last-minute fundraise to go to Atlanta like last year.

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

When a discussion about a potential off season project involving multiple sensors and microprocessors turns into a discussion of doing it with spare parts laying around your basement. (Yes, my buddy and I scrounged enough parts out of our respective parts bins to build a 5 axis IMU)

When your friend updates facebook with, "I just found a pic24 in my laundry..."

Oh the joys of being a college student.

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

We have fairly frequent sleepovers at which we make up cheers all night long. The best cheers come @ 3am :)

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

.... when you can dance to Cotton-Eyed Joe, Chicken Dance, Cha Cha Slide, and Macarena straight in a row at another non-FIRST event and everyone is amazed you are still somehow moving by the last song (no matter HOW exhausted you are!)

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

after this happens, your older-non-FIRST sister is between anger because the attention isn't on her and embarrassment because everyone is staring at you going -->:eek:

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

You know you have overdosed on FIRST when you and a teammate wear only FIRST team paraphernalia for twin day.

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

-When you go from saying thats hot instead of thats cool, to thats 67 instead of thats hot, you might be a FIRSTer.

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

....when you see a finals sign on campus that says "Crunch Time" and you AUTOMATICALLY scream in your brain "THAT'S SPELLED WRONG IT SHOULD BE KRUNCH TIME!" And then start to mutter "What time is it? Krunch Time!" to yourself. (I just did this today. I *almost* felt ashamed.)

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

When New Years for you is kick-off day

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

When you hear people at school talking about how last night's basketball game was really close and the first thing you think of is "Good, that means more ranking points for them!"

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

When you see on your odometer 282.6 and immediately wish Wave Robotics had made it to Atlanta this year... :(

:sigh to self:

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

When you use your team's 2009 moon-rock shooting robot to get revenge on your ex XD

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

When you blame the programmer when someone burnt the food.

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

You know you've overdosed on FIRST when:
While watching the NFL Draft you expect the players to either say: "Sam Bradford regretfully rejects" OR "Sam Bradford Graciously Accepts"

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

...when you still have the Afterparty band on your arm, but the one from getting into the pits got too scratchy and the one from roboprom fell apart in water.
...when you're excited when someone else has their band on, too

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

When you're in Atlanta, staying up till 2 in the morning, knowing you have to get up at 5 (to get the shower first) texting your friend back home about championships

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

("Sam Bradford Graciously Accepts?" was actually my facebook status that evening. I also tweeted "Watching the NFL Draft. It's kinda like Alliance Selections, but not as exciting")

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

When your spring break trip to Florida is much less appealing than a weekend in Atlanta for the Championships.

When you keep side shields in your wallet.

When you are debating which team to pick at an offseason event - two weeks before it happens.

When you you now know you can sprint 3/4 of a mile in three minutes, carrying the last black polo from the FIRST store, two cameras, and a tripod, to the game field and still capture the whole match on tape and take pictures.

When your greatest fear in Atlanta was not losing your wallet containing $200, but losing your all-access pass to the event.

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

...When even though you are sick and its Saturday you still try to get up and get dressed to go to practice saying, "I will be fine mom..."

.. and when you're devastated you can't go...

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

-You're in Toronto for the band trip, and see "W Simcoe St." on a sign, and immediately think "1114!? Oh, no, wait, they're in St. Catherines..."

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

When anything happens during school, and you instantly start looking for the nearest programmer to blame.

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

Whenever something doesn't go you say the watchdog wasn't fed.

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

Explain? I don't get this one. (Being an alumni, I didn't get to spend much time at meetings...****it...)

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

If you don't feed the watchdog he poops bytes :D

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

The watchdog is basically a safety program you run so if something goes wrong it kills your program. It needs to be fed data from other processes. If it isn't fed data well it says Watchdog not fed :D When it is not fed your program is not allowed to boot.

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

When as soon as you get home from Atlanta you begin researching travel arrangements to St. Louis.

By the way, does anyone have an antidote for a FIRST overdose??

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

More FIRST of course!

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

I wasn't aware that there was a market for an antidote. Isn't our goal to overdose? :)

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

I believe the only cure... is more cowbell? :D

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

We feed Thor (yes, we named the watchdog) Kibbles and Bytes! :)

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

You have a brainteaser problem for physics about Issac Newton, and at the end of your work, you write "ISSAC-"

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

At the minute the season ended you started brainstorming on next year's challenge.

you see a known combination of team number in random places you get excited.

Chief Delphi is your second most visited page on the internet.

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

You send off a player in soccer for Denying an Obvious Goal Scoring Opportunity, and then think, "Did I report that as DOGSO or DOGMA?"

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

You have so many ideas at meetings, paper just isn't fast enough. As a result, you will probably get ink poising from all the stuff you have written on your hands and arms.

...and your team is starting to accept this as common place.

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

You're watching a hockey game and do oh well if they win, their seeding points will be 5+4*2+5, which would be 18. That's not bad, oh wait never mind that means nothing here. lol

Cass

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

when you get so caught up thinking about robots that you take a wrong turn on your way to your next class about a mile away on the other side of your high school campus

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

This one's from a friend.

...when you're walking in the halls of your high school and you realize you're walking in crab mode!

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

- Your friends have learned to listen to every other word you say because you only talk about FIRST
- A major factor in what schools you're looking at is what teams you can mentor
- Decisions involving FIRST are the hardest in your life, but the most rewarding
- Anytime the word "engineer" is mentioned in your APUSH class, you get a little happier inside

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

When you think of summer break as great, more time for FIRST.

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

When your teacher tell you the homwork is on page 191... and you yell the X-CATS!

When your teacher is talking about rationals and keeps saying division by zero... and you keep the thinking in your head... TEAM 229!




PS it happened to me:)

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

When you're standing in line to sell back textbooks at the end of the semester, and notice a tie-dye shirt behind you and think, "Wildstang". And then notice that it's not a Wildstang shirt, but is being worn by an alum of Team 226 and he gets the joke.