Quotes
Chase checking the batteries, "Something's wrong, one of these batteries has 13 volts"
Gabe explaining why he was disassembling a marcanium wheel "It was wobbly so we started to loosen the wheel and it started puking out ball bearings"
" That was awesome! but, in a bad way" Jacob Bandes regarding the kicking mechanism shearing off a quarter twenty bolt when it test fired.
Jesse: “Just because I'm a woman doesn't mean you can't be a woman. ... I meant I'm not a woman, but I don't think it came out that way...”
“We’re hoping that if we make the website nice enough, people won’t look at the robot.” - Jesse
Jesse: “You know, four is almost two times two. In fact, it is two times two.
Jacob: “Is there anyone here who’s not Greg?”
Pat: “Give me a hammer that’s not expensive and breakable!”
Pat: “There’s a time for science, and a time for hitting things with hammers.”
Pat: “How are you, Cameron?”
Cameron: “Pretty good. I have a huge drill bit and a bloody hand.”
Jesse: “So, now the robot has cruise control.”
Jacob: “Jesse, you’re failing at being light.”
Jesse: “Maybe I’m just really good at being heavy.”
Alex: “Okay, so, like, hot-chocolate warm?”
Pat: “Metric or imperial hot chocolate?”
Pat [looking at bits of pneumatic tubing]: “For some reason, that makes me hungry for mac & cheese.”
Jesse: “Just because the can is dented up doesn’t mean it should taste like ranch dressing!”
Jesse: “No, see, we have both axes - X and Y.”
Jacob: “No, there’s…”
Jesse: “OHHHH, right, the robot can’t go up and down.”
[Jacob has his 7x7 Rubik's Cube out and is reading move sequences off his iPhone]
Jesse: “Wow, you’re such a geek.”
Jacob: “I’m not that much of a geek. These are just the ones I don’t have memorized.”
“I figured out why blood is red, it’s so you can see it when you get hurt.” - Cameron
“It’s refusing to not work” - Jesse in a state of delerium
“I’m totally operating my touchpad with a sandwich right now…” - Jesse
“Generally I’m bad at art that involves creativity.” - Jesse
“It’s like trying to stare through a window full of snot to try to find the problem.” - Pat
“Give me a screwdriver or a scissors. Both will work.” - Cameron
“Are you feeling up his Rubik’s Cube?” - Alex
“You know, the mustache isn’t as weird as I’d thought it would be.” - Pat commenting on Danyelle’s fake mustache
“Alec, at this point it might be more effective to stuff ground coffee in your mouth.” - Alex to Alec
“There’s no syrup in this syrup!” —Alec
“Now I have a really sharp fork and a really wide chopstick” —Jesse
Pat: “Why does it smell like mangos?”
Greg: “I don’t think you realize how many people are in this room.”
Pat: “That doesn’t give them the right to smell like mangos!”
“No, don’t you yell at me in Mexican!” - Jesse to Alex
“Jacob, go get drill that doesn’t stink!” - Chris
“Just use C, Jesse… You need a semicolon… Dvorak has semicolon in the wrong place!” - Jacob
“I’m developing my own language!” -Jesse
“Team need drill that don’t stink when you use it!” — Chris
“No two pieces of metal are right thick” — Alec
“No, two pieces of metal do not equal the thing” — Chris
“It’s powered by radioactive hamsters” — Greg
(At the competition, Jesse is not in the pit)
Other team: [Points at piston] “How does it work?”
Team1432: [dramatic pause] “Well, it doesn’t work… yet. But we have a variety of interesting theories about what it might do”
[The team confers over the robot]
Team1432: [variety of responses, involving how far it might be capable of going, how strong it was, what might happen if it hit something, how it might respond to being run into, how the programming might change, etc.]
Other team: “Umm…. yeah.” [Wanders off...]
“Why is this wire labeled ‘Don’t Ask’?” — Jesse
“Thanks again for the giant rusty metal plate you gave us.” — Team 2550
Nathan: “We’re going to be staying later than normal tonight.”
Deme: “This IS the new normal!”
The kids: “Wheel-arm-things,” “those net thingies,” etc.
Alan: “Wow! I love all the technical terms you guys are using!”
“That’s not hydraulic fluid, it’s blood” — Chris
“It’s not worse, it’s just a different kind of bad.” — Pat
“Jacob! I found the problem! The robot is sideways!” — Jesse
Jesse: “Just because he's Jewish doesn't mean he can't eat bacon! Well, uh...”
Jesse: "Hey Cam, did you get a hair cut?"
Cam: "No, I just haven't taken enough showers."
Jesse: "Alright, WHO BUMPED THE INTERNET?"
[The wiring powering the wireless adapter was a little loose at the time]
Jesse: "I'm writing a blog post."
Jacob: "What are you blogging about?"
Jesse: "...What?"
Jacob: "...I said, what are you blogging about?"
Jesse: "How the crap did you know I was blogging?"
Jacob: "You just said it..."
Jesse: "I totally didn't...!"
Cam [to Jesse]: "Are you electrical taping the scissors?"