"Quotes" that were said during build season

[csi235]

Pit Admin (at Dallas): "Team 476 needs a shift register"

Hey, us programmers need to get some humor in now and then.

[bandducky511]

"Err guys, is there supposed to be liquid here?"

"So all we need to do is put the plastic thingy on and finish building the robot, right?"

[ZakuAce]

Said to me: "You should ignore the voices in your head."

At Wisconsin some team asked for a FTL drive, right before me
Me "I WAS JUST GOING TO ASK FOR THAT"
Student: "Think of somethign else."
Me: "How about a Cylon detector."
Student: "Oooh, I have one of those on my iTouch."

[GillSt.Bernards]

Me: Hey Sandra you might not want to turn the robot on yet.
Sandra (Mentor) - Why would that be?
Me: Becaus we haven't gotten all the sawdust out of the control board yet.

[FRC4ME]

MC at FTC regional: "...and you guys know what you're here for..."
Student: "Robots!"
<audience laughs>

Mentor to judge: "Nice to meet you...and I do know the physics!"
(entire team had just finished explaining to the judge that "our head mentor is a history teacher")

Me: "Would you like to run autonomous in second gear?"
Mentor: "I would like to run it in fifth gear."
(we only have two gears)

On the bus to Chesapeake:
Student: "I have to go to the bathroom."
Mentor: "Go knock on the door of that bus in front of us; its a charter bus and probably has a bathroom."
Student: "No!"
Mentor: "Then you'll have to wait fifteen minutes."
Student: "Okay."

On the bus from Chesapeake:
Student: "I have some bad news."
Mentor: "Hold it!"
<everyone laughs>
Mentor: "You've got fifteen minutes."
Student: "But will we get there soon?"
Mentor: "That would depend on whether your definition of 'soon' includes fifteen minutes."

Safety captain at Pizza Hut: "I have a safety announcement. Everyone walk slowly, no trampling, and save me more than one piece of cheese pizza."

Driver: "The drive system seemed to get worse and worse as the match went on; also, the pivoter doesn't work."
^After this, I look at the code and realize I left the robot in tuning mode, which uses the pivoter switch to adjust a traction control constant.

Mentor: "What value are we sending to the motors?"
Me: "I don't know; let's print it out."
Mentor: "Okay, what's the value?"
Me: "The value is dollar-sign dee."
Mentor: "I think you meant to type percent dee. Try again."

[LukeS]

Saturday, at the end of week 4:
Me: We're running out of time, and we still have to perfect the drive system and write autonomous.
Andrew (programming leader): It's okay, we'll finish teleop and drive this week, then write autonomous next week.
Me: Oh, I didn't realize it was so simple!

Friday night/3:30 Saturday morning, end of week 6:
We have to ship the bot, and the practice bot for a scrimmage:
Me: Okay, the drive should work, what now?
Andrew: I'm tired, lets go home.
Me: What about autonomous?
Andrew: We don't really need it until Chicago (Midwest Regional). We have two more weeks.

Wednesday, week 8:
The day before we leave for the Midwest Regional:
Me: So, what do we have for autonomous?
Andrew: Nothing, but it's fine, I'll write it on the care ride up.

Thursday morning, 10:00ish, week 8:
We just arrived in Chicago:
Andrew: I fell asleep in the car, could you please write autonomous?

Saturday afternoon, Boilermaker Regional:
Alex (Qbranch): How's the autonomous work? I does something different each time.
Andrew: It's supposed to drive forward for 2 seconds, then drive in circles. I have no idea what's going on, it can't even be weird encoder values, it's based entirely on timers.
Me: IT'S BECOME SENTIENT!

We used LabVIEW this season, despite much of us wishing we were using C.
Mr. Kelly is a teacher Andrew and I have, not at the same time.
Me: So, none of us knew LabVIEW going into the season, but all but 1 of us knew C.
Mr. Kelly: Who, Andrew?

Andrew: One of the biggest things I miss about C is that you look smart doing it. You even look smart typing out "Hello World." In LabVIEW no matter what you do, it's just linking pictures together with lines.


*using aluminum pipe to sword fight with Andrew*
Mentor: Hey, why aren't you coding?
Me: The code's deploying.
Mentor: Carry on then.

[FRC4ME]

These are all funny, but I think the Greatest Quote of 2009 Award must go to Team 177. From a thread on Chief Delphi:

2884: "DUDE! Check that you don't have the wires in the jaguars/victors inverted..."
2883: "I think that might have been our problem....thanks"
2883: "we switched them around and it still doesn't work....do you think we could have fried the jags?"
177: "If you didn't before, you have now..."

I know its probably mean, but I just had to laugh at that one. If someone from 2883 is reading this: don't worry, I know it was an honest mistake (albeit a funny one).

[Kimmeh]

I've got a bunch. And they're all from about an hour or two time span...

Mentor talking about how he went to a Smashing Pumpkins concert a long time ago.
Stoldt: I don't know why people throw shoes. Then they don't have any shoes.

Wishing our lead mentor was here. With our electronics so we could test. This has become a regular quote in the Programming Room.
Cody: We write our code to work! Not to test!

Brian: Documentation is a very important way of life.

(Mentor)Brian: What would you do if you didn't have an answer to everything?
(Student)Brandon: That will never happen!

Brian: I was really impressed there for a second.

Brian: Is that an Xbox to PC adapter?
Chad: Yes
Brian: That takes all the fun out of it!

Cody: Our current speed is 2.32831, which is perfectly exceptional, except it's 2.32831 x 10^-10 power, in inches per second. Continents move faster!

A mentor and I filing down corners on masks for the younger siblings on the team.
Stoldt: Here Cody, run your hands all over the edges and tell me if it makes you bleed.

[Thing2_1723]

Candy: KODY! TURN YOUR PANTS OFF!
Kody: I like my pants being turned on...

Doc: A total piece of stuff on wheels

Candy: Did you just get dressed in the closet?

Candy: How cheap do you think I am?
Waage: I can afford you so...

Candy: I dont get you. Ever.

Josh: Angry whopper is coming!

Hook: Im using the redneck engineering system, if it doesn't work, use a bigger hammer

Ray: Im gonna dance till my voice is gone!

Kody to Candy: Would you like to hold my wood?

(Waage hits his head on a drill press and some type of cutting oil looking stuff starts leaking from his nose) Me: Was that cutting oil or your brain?

And our team celebrated National Thats What She Said Day, but for the girls (like myself), we celebrated National Thats What HE Said Day

[Fro]

Mentor picks up our human player grippers and starts waving them around.
Mentor "This reminds me of one of those bug sci-fi movies. Where the bug's like 'anghanghangh' and you're like 'ahhhhhh' and the bug is like 'anghanghangh' and you're like 'ahhhhhh' and the bug is like 'anghanghangh'."
Student "Just like that Bryce?"
Mentor "Just like that."

Mentor looks at the loose chains on the robot's pickup.
Mentor "This is all foohgoley."
Other Mentor "Is that a technical term James?"

[Shelabot]

Alright guys, this one is from a mentor that works for our sponsor Flexicell. It's half a joke, but still depicting reality with amazing perception.....

"Guys: Measure with a micrometer, mark with a chuck, and cut with an axe!"

[FRC4ME]

Just got another one from our head mentor:

Student: "Is this the final design for the new shooter?"
Mentor: "It's not a shooter; it a 'pffft'er."

[Oblarg]

"Real men don't need master links, they connect chain with pliers and vice-grips."

"Wait, wait, wait. We're 4.5 pounds UNDERWEIGHT?"
"Hey, did you remember to take off the antigravity device before weighing the robot?"

(Sign in our pit) "Danger: 5,000,000,000,000 pV at high impedance!"

[XANA]

"cut the CERO in half to save on weight"

[dragonrulr288]

Judge: "so whats so special about you robot?"
Me, small pause: "well.... we redesighned our robot in 8 hours..."
Judge:"...."