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FIRST Robotics Competition Starts Today

cscx writes: "Today is the kickoff day of the 2002 FIRST Robotics Competition. For those of you that don't know what FIRST (Dean Kamen, Segway, IT) is, it's an organization meant to interest high-school students in science and engineering by giving them 6 weeks to build a complete functioning robot. (By the way, FIRST is what most likely inspired BattleBots) Teams, although they require funding to pay for the kits, receive many different mechanical and electrical (the programmable control system kicks ass! :) parts in the kits, along with full copies (donated by the companies) of Autodesk Inventor, Character Studio, 3D Studio Max, and Reactor, as well as Microsoft Office XP, Frontpage, and Project. There is a live webcast of the kickoff, with an unveiling of the game at 11:00 EST." Update: 01/05 16:15 GMT by T : Here's a link to the webcast information page; the webcast is available in WMF and RealMedia formats, and will be archived as RealMedia.

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  1. hooray! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    fp

  2. i shit myself report for 1/5/02 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    well, last night I was drinking budweiser. A lot of it. I ended up picking up a chick at the dance bar. She was just as inebriated as I. Anyhow, we got back to her apartment. She passes out, so I start fucking her. Fucking usually gives me wicked gas. Not that she'd mind; she might as well have been dead.

    Anyhow, I'm almost ready to shoot my wad, and I squeeze out another stinker. But this was no stinker, liquid shit dribbled down coating my nutsack, and left a big brown stain on her bed. I still blew my load.

    Maybe I'll see her tomorrow night! :)

  3. Whoa by fizban · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Oh my, there certainly were not enough parenthetical statements in that paragraph! You should add some more for our reading pleasure. A few recursive one would do nicely, to allow my mind to completely lose track of the flow of the sentence, rather than only partly losing it...

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    +1 Insightful, -1 Troll. What can I say, I'm an Insightful Troll.

  4. Re:Think Different by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Fuck FIRST, Think FIST