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when you try to program a universal remote using labview...
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When you literally just wished a friend:
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When you distinguish between friends with the same name by team number.
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When you are have already been to the USA 2 times this year (within 6 weeks) because of your robotics team.
You are already looking at hotels for next year's Championship. |
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-"when your buttons weigh more than you do" (as quoted by my friend Pyrite)
-"Hey Pyrite, when you die can i have your robo buttons?" "no, they're MINE ALL MINE." (as quoted by Convy and Pyrite) -when you cheer more for robotics team than for sports teams |
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-you believe you can put omni wheels on anything
-when you design a new system that doesnt make sense for school |
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When you actually total up the amount of money you spend taking your significant other out over the course of the year and offer to spend that same amount (rounded up) to put their name on a robot as a sponsor... and consider it a romantic gift. (This is a true story, they contemplated it until they realized their other alternative was to eat my cooking.)
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-You wear your team shirt to work, and are entirely shocked when a customer asks where your FIRST team is from. Turns out, he's an old 503 mentor.
-You know that he was with 503 as soon as he mentioned that he used to work for Magna. -You spend half a hour building towers...out of oversized nuts and bolts. -You try to apply aspects of your robot (release mechanisms from this year's kicker) to your physics projects. -Building said physics project was harder than building a robot...because you didn't have the right tools. And couldn't make it out of metal. |
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Everytime you hear the word Australia, the phrase "AUSSIE AUSSIE AUSSIE! OY OY OY!" comes to mind
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You just told a friend "If you need anything just 175 me" ...
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You've returned to Chief Delphi to check up on things after a few years.
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When you get in trouble in AP Computer science for trying to figure out how to program a swerve drive in java, and not participating in the AP review
when the only reason you take AP computer science is so you can program the robot |
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When you use the robot's code to skip ahead to AP computer science. (We have 1 year of "learn java" class before we are normally allowed to enter AP)
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...when you do your math homework, and write ideas for robotics next year, and make packing lists for Championships, and jot notes about editing the videos from Champs when you get home....all on the backs of used pages of scouting data from Regionals :D
....when you're the most enthused member of one team: get back from Regionals and get yourself onto another local team as official videographer at Championships ...when you go to meeting for one team, and that evening go to a science fair with the other team, then come home and make plans for the off-season events ....when you STILL can't bear to discard any of the outdated robotics documents on your computer: robotics stuff makes up most of the 1s and 0s on my comp AND both external hard drives. |
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when you get excited when you find out you have relatives on other FRC teams (1684 and 67!)
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When you have been obsessed with designing stuff for off season projects and every day on of the other programers always says "What do you have for me today" every seventh hour.
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-You're 16, and a mother of 3. Robots, that is. (and you conclude that you also should get flowers, even if your children are gutted and locked in a dark cage this weekend)
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When you are really mad at yourself that you explained to your mom everything about Battlecry and how your team did since she is away for the weekend before telling her happy Mother's Day! :( :( :( :( Such a bad kid.... :( Now to make a cake.
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- You have dreams about FIRST cakes
- You collect many things, but your proudest collection is your collection of FIRST shirts - You chose a project topic in Spanish just so you can incorporate FIRST into it |
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-Your friend is reading an exchange paper in journalism, and when she says "hey, they have a robotics team!," you grab the paper out of her hands saying "AHHH WHAT TEAM??" and read the article.
...and this has happened twice. 1504 and 167. |
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...when, instead of counting sheep before you go to bed, you try to name as many teams as you can, and then put them in numerical order :)
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When you get back from Atlanta and are walking around in a fog because your eyes are so used to safety glasses.
When you realize you are writing this wearing your team shirt to bed, because you miss robotics |
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...when it takes you a month to take off your afterparty band, and then a friend says that he met someone while getting his prom tux who still had hers on. (Mysterious girl from 1073, I salute you!)
...when you see the fifth generation starter pokemon, and post a status about getting the fire type and naming it 1902, and it takes less than five minutes for a friend in another state to get the joke and "like" it. EDIT: ...when it takes that same friend only four minutes to see this post. |
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-All of the Pokemon in your SoulSilver game have team numbers for names...and each one is named for a team for a specific reason. |
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When your freaking out because you have run out of things to CAD, and no one you typically ask for ideas is on facebook! :eek:
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When you notice the amount of replies on the "You Know you've overdosed on FIRST when..." thread corresponds to a team number.
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You know you overdosed when you're spending your summer building a robot, to carry a robot, at a robotics competition.
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When you walk down the stairs and everyone in the room is wearing a robotics shirt.
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When you finally found something to CAD and you had to tell everyone! ^_^ |
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Also, when the thing you're most excited about this summer is having time off to design a new team website! |
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-When you tear for a good 20 minutes straight at the Championship after-party, because you realize the (Jan-Apr) portion of the season is over. (no joke)
-When you and a team-mater (myself and Ryan Simpson) go back and forth naming teams and their team numbers for a half-hour. |
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When you are teaching Vacation Bible school, the theme is Glalactic blast and you find a way to bring the robots in for "discovery" time.
When each day is a different color and you vow to wear a robotics shirt each day.........and you can, in fact you have a few choices Monday-green-Moe/Thunderchickens Tues - Red- Robocats/Xcats/ambassador shirt Wed - Blue - Krunch/AndyMark/HotShot state champ Thurs - Yellow or Orange - Exploding Bacon/IRI Crew/Mission Mayhem Fri - Purple - New Orleans Regional Shirt. |
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When you are certain that the number of posts in this theard is bold for everyone on the forums.
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This is an awesome thread, so relate-able. I guess FIRST is a good think to overdose on. My friend and I enjoy yelling out team names in Math class when the answer coordinate to a team. Teacher: Jimmy do you know the answer to number 16 Jimmy: Is it 254? Teacher: That is (interrupted) Me and My Friend Together: The Cheesy Poofs Teacher: correct ~DK |
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Wait, so the Cheesy Poofs are the answer to the Bomb Squad? :p
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-You have 6 pairs of Converse shoes, and buy another pair because they're 217/365 Green.
-You find another bright green pair of Converse for less than half the price, and buy them, because they're only $11. -You keep both pairs of shoes. Because one is slightly darker than the other. -One of those pairs goes right on top of the pair of bright pink Converse in your closet. 233 and 217/365 are finally sitting on top of each other! Please never allow me to have a credit card. Ever. I might end up with more stuff than I will ever need, simply because it's the same color as a team's shirts. |
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...you watch the live feed from Atlanta during lunch time and you
check the rankings between classes, because your team didnt make it, but you are friends with members of the team that beat you. ...everytime you check your phone during class you have pictures and messages from said friend, all about how awesome Atlanta is. ...you dress in said teams colors for support, across the country. |
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every story you tell in any class starts with "So, this one time at robotics..."
you take up half a class period to explain this year's game to people not on the team. when you randomly find some duct tape in your back pack and don't remember putting it their ^also with safety glasses and other shop items when someone asks you if your sad you tell them "I miss my robot" one day you realize someone's (or your own) license plate has "bot" in it. your parents sometimes wish they could switch their red bumpers for blue ones. you can't wait to read this thread every time it is updated. |
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Your mom is trying to figure out where a city is, and only figures it out because she knows what teams are from that city. (accompanying quote: "Where is that...Goodrich, that's up by OH--Martians, More Martians! That's Goodrich, right?!")
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When you clean off your room's desk, and you find, amongst other team things, a copy of your team's bylaws proposals, a pile of accidentally pocketed nuts and bolts, your tinted safety glasses, the safety glasses the team gave you for Atlanta, the safety glasses that didn't fog up in Atlanta, your 2 pairs of spare safety glasses, and your glow-in-the-dark wristbands.
When the above isn't even half of it. |
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When you make a FIRST reference in the car--and immediately think, "This goes in the quotes thread."
When you promptly forget said reference due to discussing IRI. |
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...your mom keeps saying "I-469" instead of "I-465" when leaving Indy...and doesn't notice it (we actually DID take the real I-469 on the way down. I was happy.)
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When instead of sleeping on the car ride home, you and 1058 students buy $6 dollar RC cars at Walmart, modify them, drive them in the van home, and play sumo with them on the seats! (1519 won a majority of the matches) ;)
Best car ride ever! 1058 is the best FRC team I have ever met! |
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When you have recurring dreams about the next year's kickoff.
When you see a price painted on a business's window in that team's color, it makes your day(Burger King, $3.99, ORANGE):D When looking for a car, you ask the salesman if it hangs or goes over the bump. When your cell phone and computer wallpaper is a pic of your team's robot |
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When, while sitting in Urban Affairs class, your professor talks about people in the 60's thinking that people of today would have robots, and your professor then going on to say no one today has their own robots.
You all know where I'm going here :D ALSO When someone's Facebook status is "no1 can hang =(", besides you getting mad about the grammar, the first thing you think of is commenting "what about [insert 20+ teams here] just from [insert region here] alone?!" only to then realize that he doesn't do FIRST and would thusly be confused. |
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When your background on your computers are your team's colors (monitor 1=Purple, Monitor 2=Green, Monitor 3=Black)
When you have part of an older robot sitting in your garage so you can program a mechanum drive When your dad, who's job is robots in a warehouse environment, is jealous of your desk set up. |
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No, making them competition legal does.
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When you hear Taio Cruz's song, Dynamite,
you mistake the "Gotta let go!" part for "Galileo!" |
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When every time you spray the window at work to clean it you spray a question mark shape...and you didn't even realize it until today and you have been working there for over a month.
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You're watching Shaytards and he's telling a story and the phrase "this is a literal holy cow moment. Has anyone ever had a literal holy cow moment."
And you just smile. |
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Because it won't just let me edit ^^ for some reason...
When you're at a dance for camp, Cotton Eyed Joe comes on, and the first thing that comes to mind is "I was unaware that the field was having errors." When, while typing that, you wanted to write first as FIRST, but then groaned at yourself and your stupid puns. |
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when you hear "We Like to Party" come on at prom, and everybody from robotics jumps up and does the "Mormon Dance" (if you're confused, watch this. the video's courtesy of a mentor from 2859, and this particular instance happened at the Colorado regional social. I wasn't there, but I'm pretty sure we did this in KC as well)
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...when by now, if someone says "Holy Cow!" you wonder if there's been a 1538 sighting
...when you want to hop whenever the numbers 503 or 33 come up ...when you want to bang on the nearest glass whenever 494 comes up ...when nerd alerts are in fact necessary every day at 11:37 pm ...when you realize you have an inherent dislike for 2009 due to the L-word (the game-that-must-not-be-named) ...when you get home from the championship past midnight and wish you could skip forward to kickoff ...when you've developed a tolerance for Mountain Dew |
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When you realize that your Domino's pizza cost $11.24, so you're keeping the receipt to frame back home.
Oh yes. |
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When you rather be doing a robot presentation at the moment.
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When while watching the World Cup, you were half expecting a player to climb on-top of the goal
When you see India's lunar rover for their moon mission you think it would make a great Breakaway goalie bot (it has a solar panel that folds perpendicular to the robot and a bogie system to climb over rocks (or bumps :P)) |
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When you read through these and realize the same thing happened to you.::safety:: |
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Well, this may happen in twenty years or so, when this year's FIRSTaholic soccer (sorry, footaball) geniuses compete in the World Cup. Thaine |
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You know which exits to take to go home because they are team numbers. Get off 79, pass 34, and merge onto 67. No joke. |
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your dropping your iPod because it is really HOT when the battery percentage is 67%.
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When you get home from a weekend working with the team, go to school during the week and halfway through that week, you wonder where your weekends went.
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When you are climbing a steep hill in Yosemite with a 40+ lb pack on your back and you start counting the switchbacks and naming them after teams.
Special Note for Al Skierkiewicz, we camped at 111 |
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When you see some commercial that says "First is the beginning. First moves us forward, fast." and it goes on to say all kinds of things about First, not mentioning a product until the end, and you freak out because you think it's about FIRST (come on! There were spaceships too!). Then you sigh explosively when it's about some phone.
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When your favorite area at the maker Faire Detroit was the FIRST area
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When you see a license plate that has a team number and the letters "GAG" on it--and wonder why anybody would gag at that particular team.
When you make that comment in the car, and immediately get told that you're overdosed on FIRST. |
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When you are making a stand for your xbox and think of ways to make it lighter.
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@kgzak: Swiss Cheese?
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...When you look at old competition photos at least once a week.
...When you know that it is exactly 158 days until Kickoff 2011. |
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When some of your friends say a number, they look at you expecting to hear a team name (I've done that to them too often)
When your room is slowly transforming from sports trophies to robotics memorabilia (just looking around i can see my 548 slingback with my robotics letter and 3 pins, my hat with chairman pin, 2 paper plate awards, safety glasses, 10 more pins, 3 medals, my "bling", back up robotics hat, small soccer ball that says 2010 breakaway, the trident, 2 moon rocks, and a super cell) When you take the time 134 days before kickoff to post on chief delphi |
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...when you were disappointed that there were no robots in the Monroe County Fair Parade. ****it.
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When the school year isn't enough and your summer job is teaching NXT Robots at day camp...and then attempt to convince all your campers to find an FRC team to join
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When you spend nearly 3/4 of an interview describing what FIRST is to the interviewer... and he debates using that as another thing to screen potential employees by. :D
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...when you realize that, when installing software, you automatically write your team name under "Organization".
My Openoffice installation is for the good of the team. |
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