Deka Cafe..."Where all FIRST Staff...

[Justin]

...goes to lunch." (Cheers theme music) do do do do.

Okay,

So I work @ Autodesk now here in Manchester, NH. Which is right down the street from both FIRST Place and DEKA Research (this little company owned by a Dean Kamen). At the DEKA Building there exists a cafeteria known as the DEKA Cafe. If you go there around lunch time you can offten find numerous members of the FIRST staff enjoying lunch. Today I ran into Eric Rassmusen and Dean Kamen. Just thought I'd share so that you can all think I'm just so special for having lunc w/them

-Justin

Ps. Sorry to toot my own horn but ya know

[EddieMcD]

Don't worry, we still like you.

Hey, you know, if you take the first 2 letters from Dean's first and last name, it spells DEKA. What a coincidence.

-Ed "Yes, The High Priest JUST figured this out" McDonnell

[Lora Knepper]

Originally posted by Justin
...goes to lunch." (Cheers theme music) do do do do.

Ps. Sorry to toot my own horn but ya know

Justin, I'd expect nothing less of you In fact, I'd expect nothing less of anyother FIRST-a-holic that ran into Eric and Dean at lunch

~ lora

[Pamela]

The Deka cafe has suprisingly good food as I learned from working at FIRST Place for 3 summers . The best are the chicken fingers ! Also, at least last summer, if around lunchtime you take a stroll past DEKA down to Arms Park you may catch a few of Deans employees out and playing with the IBOT in the park, made for great lunchtime convos with my campers !

[EddieMcD]

Note to self: apply for a job at FIRST Place in the future.

[Pamela]

I worked there 3 summers, never got paid, got addicted to food at the DEKA cafe and lost money by spending all summer there . But it was so much fun to work at FIRST Place as a camp counseler, wish I still could I need to save up for college though so I'm working 2 jobs . I miss the industrial size beanbags, those things were great!

[Leon Machado IV]

Don't worry. I've been in FIRST for four years now and I just figured out how Deka's name was formed. I thought it was from a metric measurement that I found in a book one time (can't remember what it measured and how much).

[David Kelly]

Originally posted by Leon Machado IV
Don't worry. I've been in FIRST for four years now and I just figured out how Deka's name was formed. I thought it was from a metric measurement that I found in a book one time (can't remember what it measured and how much).

You talkin about a Dekameter?

Deka- means 10; a dekameter is 10 meters

[Leon Machado IV]

Yep, that's it. Thanks. Been out of school for a bit.

[EddieMcD]

Actually, it's deca- , so it wouldn't work. Besides, Dean loves hexagons, so if anything, he'd name it Hexa if not after himself.

[David Kelly]

Originally posted by EddieMcD
Actually, it's deca- , so it wouldn't work. Besides, Dean loves hexagons, so if anything, he'd name it Hexa if not after himself.

take a look at this

[EddieMcD]

Hmm... The High Priest has to show this to his teachers next fall.