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

[BrendanB]

WOW! That is really funny.
Then again what do you expect from males in FIRST, look at the engineering of it.

[KarenH]

Originally Posted by BrendanB

EDIT: at karen, when you had to expend effort to get the vacuum, did the male say that it was useless when you could just vacuum the floor and that it was lazyness, or that it was a dumb idea.

Originally Posted by KarenH

The effort expended by woman ... shall not be discussed here.

Must the woman expend effort explaining what "shall not be discussed" means? The point of this thread is to discuss "overdosage;" in this case, not just on FIRST, but perhaps on technology itself.

[Blue_Mist]

Originally Posted by BrendanB

WOW! That is really funny.
Then again what do you expect from males in FIRST, look at the engineering of it.

Who said it was just the males admiring the engineering? I'd love to take one apart...

And, you know you've overdosed on FIRST when you're in college, see that this thread has 2010 replies and the FIRST thing (sorry) that goes through your mind is "Oh! New game, new game!"

[Trying to Help]

I bought one of the robotic vacuums solely for the purposes of convincing my spouse to pick up the floors. That way we'd be able to use the robot. If the floor was covered in parts and wiring, you can't run the robot very well.

Originally Posted by KarenH

The effort expended by woman getting man to BUY--not merely admire the engineering of--the robotic vacuum cleaner shall not be discussed here.


Disclaimer: This post does not prove that I'm overdosed either on FIRST, or on technology.

[Chris is me]

Originally Posted by Blue_Mist

Who said it was just the males admiring the engineering? I'd love to take one apart...

I think he meant to play on the gender concept of "men don't like to clean" rather than "men love to engineer".

When you join your college's battlebots team and accidentally rule out robot designs in your head because of FIRST rules. ("Hmm, a wedge would be nice, oh wait 10 degrees rule...")

[Blue_Mist]

Originally Posted by Chris is me

I think he meant to play on the gender concept of "men don't like to clean" rather than "men love to engineer".

I think that as well; I was poking fun at it.

...every conversation you have with any engineering (chemical, biomedical, electrical, mechanical, etc.) or programmer/computer science major inevitably dissolves into robots and why they are cool, then moves onto what FIRST is and why it is awesome.

...every conversation you have with anyone, if it goes long enough, dissolves into this...

...you realize that the previous two points were only the most recent in a long line of "Overdosed" comments involving conversations involving FIRST and robotics, and will probably be mentioned many times again

[Ryan Simpson]

When your team is cleaning up the shop and is about to throw out a bunch of track balls, you take 3 of them home with you.

[BrendanB]

Track balls or orbit balls? Cuz if it is track balls... how much do you want for one of them?

[BEEKMAN]

you take more notes on the robot design, and make more drawings on your robot, then you do notes for the class your in

your robotics notebook has more notes then any of your honor classes combined

anytime the word "first" is mentioned in converation, you think about your robot, and eventually start talking to random people about FIRST

almost everything you hear somehow relates to robotics

you hear the word "pot" from your school resource officer, and think "why is he talking about potentiometers???"

you feel bad for people pulling trailers when you're driving on the highway

you're mom tells your dad that she wants to buy a roomba so you can take it apart, when she's just looking for an excuse not to vaccume

when someone ask's you what you're drawing and you reply "nothing" you wind up explaining for 10 minutes whats wrong with your robot

you spend more time posting on chief delphi than you do doing your math homework

chiefdelphi is bookmarked and facebook isn't

[delsaner]

Originally Posted by Ryan Simpson

When your team is cleaning up the shop and is about to throw out a bunch of track balls, you take 3 of them home with you.

I forgot to take mine out of the car...

[Chris is me]

Originally Posted by Ryan Simpson

When your team is cleaning up the shop and is about to throw out a bunch of track balls, you take 3 of them home with you.

If my team ever throws our ball out, I'm taking it. Wonderful chair if deflated.

[J93Wagner]

Originally Posted by Chris is me

If my team ever throws our ball out, I'm taking it. Wonderful chair if deflated.

Quite unfortunately, last year a couple weeks after labor day, someone was an idiot and popped one of ours. Now we only have one... We never did figure out who did it anyway. Ah, well, nothing can be done now...

[KarenH]

Originally Posted by BEEKMAN

you feel bad for people pulling trailers when you're driving on the highway

If you ever stop being O.D.'d on FIRST, keep on feeling bad for people pulling trailers. In many states (including California), they can only go 55 mph while everyone else can go much faster, legally. And the horror stories my dad can tell! He has driven with a trailer for thousands of miles--with no serious incidents, thank the Lord!

you're mom tells your dad that she wants to buy a roomba so you can take it apart, when she's just looking for an excuse not to vaccume

Vacuuming is supposed to be the kids' job. So what's YOUR excuse?

P.S.: Tell your mom that Roomba needs its dust chamber emptied after every use, and after every 3 uses, the brushes must be disassembled for cleaning, and the sensors must be cleaned, and the person who does this chore will get dirty. Just did this today myself.

Last cleaning, Roomba vacuumed like a little kid: ran around the room a few times, missed spots, twice attacked his enemy the carpet sweeper, then announced "I'M DONE!!" prematurely. He usually does a better job.

[EricH]

Originally Posted by KarenH

P.S.: Tell your mom that Roomba needs its dust chamber emptied after every use, and after every 3 uses, the brushes must be disassembled for cleaning, and the sensors must be cleaned, and the person who does this chore will get dirty. Just did this today myself.

Especially those cliff sensors--that's what got the last one.

When you notice that the Mythbusters got an Airtrax forklift (AKA mecanum-drive forklift)-- and remember that one of them at least used to mentor an FRC team. (And then you remember that said Mythbuster can probably give a status update on that himself if he wants--and probably won't, remembering what happened last time he did.)

[Chris is me]

Originally Posted by EricH

When you notice that the Mythbusters got an Airtrax forklift (AKA mecanum-drive forklift)-- and remember that one of them at least used to mentor an FRC team. (And then you remember that said Mythbuster can probably give a status update on that himself if he wants--and probably won't, remembering what happened last time he did.)

When you know who he's talking about and what team he appeared in public with last.

(No, I'm not stalking the man, I just follow that team)