"Quotes" that were said during build season

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Originally Posted by Vermeulen

"I am Poseidon, god of the sea! See me and tremble!" Me, practicing with the trident before regionals

I've pretended to be poseidon a few times when I was practicing for HP. I love it when field elements are so versititle.

[sashboy226]

"this is not ninja-botics"

[Zach Herbst]

On day two of build season, I made the mistake of saying "We have six weeks, what could possibly go wrong?"

[cheezburger]

The programmers had finished the mechanum drive program and were waiting to test it but the electronics board wasn't ready yet. So our head programmer starts playing starcraft on of the schools computer. Another programmer comes over to ask if anyone was working on building a trident, and at that exact moment, the head programmer randomly yells "STIM-PACKS!!!!" for absolutely no reason. Epic laughter ensued.

[apalrd]

Tuning feedback loop of arm with Jim, Matt(driver) confused:

Jim:"You need to set your gain lower"
Matt:"What's gain"
Jim:"Its part of PID control"
Jim:"Proportional Integral Derivative"
Me:"Its really really low now... Since the other one is 4, this one should be 1 and its .6"
(Move arm to a different position)
Me:"Now the gain is too low." (I tuned it to the deploy position but the other positions wanted different gains) "Gain back up to 1"
Jim:"Then you need a gain scheduler....."
Matt:"Now you confused me.. whats that"
Me:"Cool"
Me:"...More variables...."
Jim:"As long as you don't name your variables "dude" its fine. Back when (someone from long ago) was writing code, he would have things like "if(dude)..." and it was really hard to follow. Don't do that."


Talking to Matt about possible admission of Matt M (different Matt) next year:
Matt:You need to stop putting viruses on his computer.
Me:He needs to make his password not "password". Plus its funny to see what 4 lines of VBS script can do to him.


Talking about movies to watch on bus to Atlanta:
Mom: We should watch the Bee Movie
(grumbles and such)
Someone: We watch it every year....

[Radical Pi]

*Week 3 of Build*

Programmer: alright, the code is done until we can test it on the robot. Hey [other programmer], let's start a DnD campaign!

[FRC4ME]

A student was driving the robot for the first time. After playing with the controls for a few seconds, she finally got it:

"Oh I see...you control it like a robot!"

[Brian Ha]

Ok well this is one of our quotes and it's from a scary guy. He's our driver too. Anyways this is what he says.

"I'll show you gracious professionalism!"

Then we won the gracious professionalism award. Which makes it funnier.

[MishraArtificer]

Originally Posted by cheezburger

The programmers had finished the mechanum drive program and were waiting to test it but the electronics board wasn't ready yet. So our head programmer starts playing Starcraft on of the schools computer. Another programmer comes over to ask if anyone was working on building a trident, and at that exact moment, the head programmer randomly yells "STIM-PACKS!!!!" for absolutely no reason. Epic laughter ensued.

Is this the original, or the current Starcraft II beta?

Quote I overheard from this year's programming squad as I randomly stopped in to deliver my standard box of insanity...

"That's what she said. No, really, that's what she said!"

FIRST needs more lady mentors. Lines like that are too funny to miss out on.

[Kimmeh]

Last night during the the unbag window, two mentors went to McDonalds to go get us all Shamrock Shakes. Our local McDonalds has a deal where if you buy a sandwich, you can get a shake for $1. So they bought everyone a burger too

Ben: It was cheaper this way.
We did the math ourselves!

[Thing2_1723]

All on the bus to Dallas and in Dallas

"I have the sudden urge to take my pants off..." - Candy thinking out loud (she had shorts on underneath)

"Is that a marshmallow?"
"Its a marshmallow with a tail"
"Ughhh! Hook! No! You just scarred me for life! Teachers aren't suppose to say that stuff!" - Me and our mentor Hook while watching Accepted

"Cory Jacks"
"Not at the table Carlos!" - Jacob and I while playing BS!

"I watched 'The 40 Year Old Virgin' with my grandma" - Hook

"Bobby, you sounded like a bear in the bathroom!"
"It's better than a tiger!" - Brystal and Bobby

"Give me the Jesus Pillow" - Many, Many people (I have a lime green pillow that is super soft and it got called the Jesus Pillow)

"Sweet Jesus!"

"Look to tonight's dinner conversations for advice in the next week"
*everyone dies of laughter* - My fortune-cookie fortune after we put a shrimp head with eyes in Candy's rice and in her drink AND Hook ate a baby octopus in front of her. The Chinese Restaurant waitress was in on it with us

"Dick's Last Resort is next to Hooter's. How epic"

[Joaquin Moreno]

Originally Posted by Thing2_1723

"Dick's Last Resort is next to Hooter's. How epic"

haha we[team 2041] were so close to eating there 2 nights ago..

here are a few quotes from 2041

"If you can do a better job, why not do a better job" - Mark
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"The kicker will be pulled back by latex tubing."
" ...like a condom?"
"*sigh* yes Tyree.. like a condom.." - Rich and Tyree, while discussing the design
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"There will be NO beating of any mascots in this competition." - Rich at the Midwest regional
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"Alright, so our strategy for this next match is to harass Wildstang"
"What?"
"That's right, DO NOT let them score"
"uhh.. ok....yeah, were gonna lose.."
"Don't say that" - Rich and me at the Midwest regional; our robot had been dead for the two previous matches.
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"So how have you guys been doing in the competition?"
"well, we uhh... we beat Wildstang" - An interviewer and Me
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DEFEND! DEFEND! - Rich during most of our matches lol

[Karibou]

I posted a link to this picture on our team forums, commenting on how bent up the frame was...

"Mr. L fixed it, though I kind of wish he had left it...Erdos needs a viking funeral"
"there's an app for that..."

[Lee Reid 3136]

Originally Posted by RoseJ

Me to team: We should go to a safety guy after this and POINT it out!
-Back in the stands after our team won the Excellence in Engineering award at Kettering. Has anyone else noticed how sharp the tip of the triangle of the award is?

The winner of the safety award at the Virginia Regional said they were going to file down the point once they got it back to their pit.

Team Captain: "We could use the thingy! Does anyone know where it is?"
Me: "It's in the bottom left drawer."
Mentor: "You know what he is talking about?"
Me: "Yeah it's the thingy! How do you not know the thingy?"

The thingy = the threaded piece of metal, with the black piece of plastic that spins around it, that came in the kit of parts. We never used it on our robot but almost everyone has played with it at one point or another.

[Kimmeh]

"One rolled over, the other played dead!" - In one of our matches on Saturday at West Michigan, one of our alliance partners flipped over, and the other one had communication issues and wasn't moving.