Me: “I want to cook the flywheel”
My team: “No food in the la- wait WHAT?”
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“It’s not all men are created equal, it’s all people are created equal” - one of the kids I mentor
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except for the French ofc
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“I think the notebooker escaped its cage!”
“Don’t forget to feed the notebooker.”
“Did you give the notebooker its sleep medication?”
“Hmm, the notebooker’s hourly page rate is slipping this week. Try increasing its caffeine dosage.”
“State is this week, so we’re gonna need to overclock this thing” slaps notebooker’s cage
“Hey how’s your team’s notebooker?” “Oh, it’s alright. It’s a 3rd generation model so it gets about 12 pages per day per gram of caffeine.”
-The Notebookers
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7996D:
“but if the notebook is good…”
“that is an untrue statement”
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“I did a thing…”
“What did you do?”
“A thing!”
“What thing?”
…Looks at a janky intake mount…
“Oh, that thing…”
true story
I came in one day and a teammate had just attached the intake ramp with two screws. The thing could literally rotate around…
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ours is attached with 4 zipties.
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Our bot from around 6 months also had the same arrangement.
… The current one is attached with 2 screws and 2 zipties… a mix of the two methods 
Hopefully will be changing it soon though.
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I person our sister team: “Why is your robot 80% zipties?”
Me: “Shut up, it works.”
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Not me with field control and monitors held together by zipties sometimes
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Dan Mantz walks on stage
“That man looks like a gerbil”
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“if this is your robot…”
draws rectangle
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“No, you can’t cut up our only flex wheel.”
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It’s the best fitting place for a fine-adjustment tool, don’t you think?
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Team-mate: Goofy ahh builder makes bendy ahh drive train.
Me: Goofy ahh plane makes bendy ahh drive train.
We got some really good ones and I am going to spread them out over the next few days 
“What do spleens do?” - Teammate out of the blue
“Just because something works doesn’t mean it should” -Me
PM me if you want to hear the weirder ones
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“and they sacrificed THE CALIBRATIONNN!!!”
we would say this every time during pre-worlds auton testing if we forgot to give time for the inertial to calibrate. which was usually pretty obvious cuz the robot would just spin in circles not doing anything useful
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Day two
“I’m going to boil your sinuses in Pepsi!” -Teammate
“I don’t want your love, I want you eggs.” -Teammate to their partner during breakfast
Teammate holding a soldering iron “ Dylan ready for your lobotomy”
Me- “That’s not a lobotomy, that’s death”
My team needs help
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