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I am just very happy that I have never been responsible for the spelling of Karthik's last name on a name tag. Seriously. |
JaneYoung |
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I know I will never be part of an alliance this incredible, ever again (my apologies to all future partners, but you've got BIG shoes to fill.) |
JVN |
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I have to wrap my brain about a robotics team named Dudettes. I can get there but ... I need coffee. |
JaneYoung |
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I was cheering like mad during the last match on Einstein - I think the rest of my team thought I was crazy...or crazier than they thought I was before! |
Sean Schuff |
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Never underestimate the ability of a team of high school students and engineers to break expensive things. |
Alan Anderson |
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Our rookie drivers generally get their first "real match" experience at the Florida Regional which is usually a week 2 or week 3 event. That is a much easier "practice event" than IRI. |
Kit Gerhart |
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I always say find what works best for your team, for your given situation. Why should we rely on someone else to tell me what will work best for our situation? |
JVN |
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I think with 1114 & 217 as our partners we could have won with my refrigerator on the field. |
JVN |
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This is one area where you want an old hand in the room to show you how to work on this thing. .... If you survive it, electricity hurts really bad. |
ebarker |
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Sometimes our greatest failures lay the foundations for our greatest success. |
=Martin=Taylor= |
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Are we really at the point where the only useful thing we can discuss is Dean's choice in timekeeping apparel? The man has a watch. He uses it to tell time. Do we really care how much it is worth, or who made it? I would be much more interested in what he does, not what he wears. |
dlavery |
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These are words on a computer screen, please stop giving the text on this screen such incredible power over how you feel. |
Stephen Kowski |
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Id have to say, that is probably one of the most creative floats i have ever seen. then again, this is coming from a guy who hasn't seen many floats (disregarding the 32-bit ones). |
Uberbots |
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My advice is anytime your intuition tells you something, double check it with physics. |
tennispro9911 |
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Basically, just because you CAN do something doesn't mean you should and being savvy enough doesn't entitle you to being above the law. |
Greg Needel |
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maybe I'm just easily amused. |
JVN |
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We try to limit ourselves only by physics. As the first person on the planet to communicate over a quantum encrypted AOL instant messenger session, I try to ignore those limits as well. |
EricVanWyk |
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It's always better to figure out why a design actually works and the best ways to implement it than to just assume upgrading to a "better" material will make everything work. |
Cory |
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What good will it do to have 10,000 teams who barely have a clue and are just scraping by versus 2,000 teams that are actually sustainable? |
Cory |
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Please excuse his spelling/grammar, he's an engineering student. |
MrForbes |
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Hey... wait... that looks like a LEGAL bumper configuration! You can't post a photo with a legal configuration... we'd have nothing to talk about! |
dtengineering |
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Would all you teams please stop! My chin will be bruised for weeks from dropping on the floor so much. |
GaryVoshol |
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Seriously! I expect to follow what I understand to be the intent of (allow teams more time to work with their control systems) and just look out for anyone trying to bring in greater than half a robot. Or a kitchen sink. |
petek |
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Adding an ounce or two of shields is way easier than filling out the mountains of paperwork for that one impatient person to stick their arm into the robot reaching for who knows what only to have their fingers meet up close and personal with a gearbox. |
artdutra04 |
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To put it simply, its clearly become this. The teams that can score a lot, do well. Rather shocking, isn't it? It doesn't matter if you're a shooter, dumper, power dumper, gravity dumper, spitter, flinger, dunker, shumper, barfer, dropper, or whatchamacallit. Points are points. |
Looking Forward |
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heh...do the math! |
MrForbes |
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Smokey the Fisher Price motor says only YOU can prevent rule infractions. |
artdutra04 |
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Noticed it and mentioned it to all of my college friends, who confirmed for me that I am still a complete nerd. |
Donut |
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Oh great, look what you just did. The GDC will probably find ways to use this to torture teams in 2011. I hope you're happy now. |
synth3tk |
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I would like to extend my deepest, most sincere thanks to the GDC, for bringing alliances to us in 1999. |
Ken Patton |
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sigh, I started wondering why we weren't there than I realized it was in California. Thats a bit of a road trip... |
Raumiester2010 |
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rookie teams are like kids - making them is easy but raising them to maturity can kill you |
Wayne C. |
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but it was late and we were out of cardboard... |
Nuttyman54 |
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What do you do after making a design public? Improve it! What do you do when you give your opponents a weapon? Come up with a better one or a way to beat it! What is Wildstang going to do, you ask? Make their drivetrains better! |
EricH |
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There's a stark difference between bragging and taking pride in your work. While "Ha ha! We're better than you! We won seventeen regionals and you didn't!" would clearly fall in the former, listing your achievements would definitely fall in the latter. |
artdutra04 |
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FIRST already has 494 Martians, plus 70 more. |
GaryVoshol |
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Elevator speeches too - everyone should have one. |
Swan217 |
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I can't believe that I said the CD community could be patient - in December. |
JaneYoung |
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In the absence of a valid game hint, the natives in CD tend to get restless and resort to this sort of pun-ishment of one another. |
David Brinza |
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Everyone needs to please stop now before Karthik starts singing. |
dlavery |
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I wake up at noon on Christmas Eve, and find tweets announcing a game hint. Looks like I won't be seeing much of my family today... |
Karibou |
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You earn what you work for. |
Akash Rastogi |
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Yes ONE blue banner would be nice one of these days, but I've never lost focus of why we as mentors do what we do. It's about preparing the students for "defense" in life, and laugh when your robot gets scored into a goal. |
Chris_Elston |
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I believe that "going home a winner" is more a matter of perception than anything else. |
JesseK |
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I don't know how you can blame a robot getting stuck in the goal on the GDC. The field drawings showed all of the dimensions of the goals. If a team doesn't want to risk getting stuck then they need to plan around it. |
JamesBrown |
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During the day on Thursday, I had to change costumes a few times, being "Andy the inspector", to "Andy the green power ranger drive coach", to "Andy the President of AndyMark, meeting with companies". I am sure some people in the guys' bathroom were wondering what I was up to. |
Andy Baker |
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Gracious Professionalism, it's hard to describe, but I sure know when I'm not living up to it. |
rsisk |
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In real life, you paint the number on your OWN forehead. How you dress, how you look, what expression you have on your face, your body language, etc. You may not see the number but it is there. |
Joe Johnson |
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One of my management professors taught me this: At all times you are holding a bucket in each hand, one full of water, and one full of gasoline. Management is knowing when to throw which bucket. |
Barry Bonzack |
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Along with having good manners, having good judgement goes a long way in life. |
ebarker |
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