Note before reading: this is obviously a joke, no such thing as RAhS
Robotics After-hours Syndrome (RAhS) is a recently discovered disease that is baffling scientists everywhere. While the symptoms are easy to spot, a permanent cure has not yet been discovered. Some symptoms include, but are not limited to:
Talking to oneself
Spontaneous Dancing
Naming individual parts of robot
Calling your ball feeder a Bagel Slicer
More information on this disease can be found at http://rahs.tk
If you have identified any RAhS-like symptoms, please contact us via this thread so other robotics participants can be diagnosed and, hopefully, cured.
How about naming the minibot after a guy who you met at a Taco Bell during MARC?
Or constantly quoting Office Space?
Or singing the same songs for the past 6 weeks?
Or going up behind a programmer working on his laptop and going “Soooooo whatcha doin’?”
I’m in school right now and doing an assignment that was due back on monday and a major project due tomorrow… I should stop spending time on CD… but being a second semester Senior doesn’t help.
How about willing to walk a mile through the snow to reach a 3 hour build session? Or writing love poetry to your robot on Valentines Day? Or when you wake up one morning, in your bed, wearing safety goggles?
Complete absence of or recollection of the last time sleep was a mandatory activity, while carefully balancng excessivly long raw materiel in the last bit of space that is not occupied by WIP.
Complaints about how 42 is NOT the answer.
A burning desire to see a contraption thrown thrown together in six weeks work better than many years of proven expectations.
I will be adding some of these to the website later tonight. Because you know, build session. Edit: The site’s been updated with more symptoms and photographic evidence.
Just remember, if you have been experiencing any of these symptoms, you need help. Even if its “just for fun,” or “isn’t a problem,” it might be more serrious than you think.
Talking about your problems is the first step to stoping them. Share your storries at http://www.chiefdelphi.com. There are other people just like you who want to help.
