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No Problem.
Posted by Andy Baker, Engineer on team #45, TechnoKats, from Kokomo High School and Delphi Automotive Systems.
Posted on 5/4/99 2:08 PM MST
In Reply to: Re: We're not really mean posted by Tim Murray on 5/4/99 12:58 PM MST:
Tim,
I guess I got a bit wound up about your post... maybe a bit too much.
From what you posted, you have some very good insight (about what you
saw in Chicago) and I admire you for speaking your mind. You are the
first person who openly questioned our tread design, and what our
intentions were in making them that way.
I'm sure that if you and I were face to face, and you said 'hey, Andy,
what's the deal with those treads!!! They look pretty mean to me!', then
we would have a friendly conversation about what we had to go through
to get those darn treads to work.
The trouble with posting opinions on websites and emails is that the
person you are talking to can easily misunderstand the your intentions
and only pick up on a few key words that can easily 'tick off' the reader
(in my case, it was the word MEAN). If you knew me, the last thing I
want to be called is mean... but then I look at my original post on this
thread and I said 'We're really not that MEAN'. So, since you used that
same word, so therefore you were sorta given license to use it.
I suppose that I should've expected courageous guys like you and Tom to
reply to my original message... I asked for it. I also realize that many
teams shed alot of blood, sweat and tears, working on their robot. After
all of that work, along comes a robot who 'appears' to be designed to tear
up everyone else's bot, I guess we were asking to get some grief.
Once again, no problem, Tim. No offense taken. I am disappointed that
you won't be at Rumble. I would've enjoyed talking with you.
Regards,
Andy Baker
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