pic: Its Karthik in 1999

[Kevin Kolodziej]

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[Andy Baker]

What is he doing, some odd bird impression?


Andy B.

[Scott Ritchie]

Not much meat on them bones.

[Beth Sweet]

How does every picture that winds up on these forums seem to catch him mid movement, typically when he's yelling something... hehe...

[tiffany34990]

well he looks like he's having fun so it's all good...

gotta love those fan-spray bottles..lol...

[Travis Hoffman]

I think maybe he was *singing* - he's got earphones on. But then I see that everyone around him is smiling, so that simply cannot be the case....

Lovin the old skool camera.

[Greg Needel]

*pokes billfred so he puts this in the que for caption contests

[Mr. Lim]

The best part of this picture...

Bottom left corner, you can see 188's elevator from the 1999 robot.

I think it worked better 6 years ago than it did in 2005 =).

[Jay Trzaskos]

Going on the basis that everyone around Karthik is smiling, I'm going to have to guess that his dancing really is better than his singing.

JT

[J Flex 188]

If I'm not mistaken, the even better part of this picture is a certain someone with an account on chiefdelphi with a similiarly titled user name as to myself =). Any takers? Remember, this is from quite a while ago!

[Rich Kressly]

Oh man...
20% skinnier, 40% dorkier, ... if that's what turns into one of our best mentors, I REALLY need to find a new hobby.

[Karthik]

I knew the orange hair photos would surface eventually. In my defense I was trying to go blonde, but the peroxide didn't take to my dark hair. Trust me, it was fashionable at the time...

IIRC that picture was taken after Team 188 had just played a match with Beatty. We teamed up to score 496 points, one floppy away from a perfect score of 540. Also in the picture is my long time teammate, Ian Mackenzie. At the time I was in my 1st year of University and Ian was in grade 11. Weird, it seems like it was yesterday.

Kres, you were right on about the 20% skinnier, that's almost exact. As for the 40% dorkier, I don't know.

Actually, now I remember! I know exactly what I was doing in the photo. In 1999, the then WWF was having one of their resurgences. Led by the Rock and Steve Austin, wrestling was actually popular. I'm pretty sure I'm doing the "New Age Outlaws" introduction, except it's modified for Woburn Robotics and Team 188. My version went like this:

Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, children of all ages. Woburn Robotics, proudly brings to you, the FIRST Champions of Canada! The Robot's name is Fury! The school's name is Woburn! --Team! One! Eighty! Eight!


Yup Kres, you were right again. Definitely 40% more dorky...

SlimBo, those were definitely the good old days.