Note: This is not necessarily the views expressed by me

1. You'd rather get an easy one.
2. You get in a lot of trouble if you get caught cheating on one.
3. If you are drunk when you do one, it takes a lot longer to finish.
4. The less they have on them the better.
5. They suck and/or blow.
6. When you finish one, you have to immediately start preparing for the next one.
7. If you have more than one scheduled at the same time, you have a problem.
8. You have to put in a lot of effort for very little reward.
9. Nothing about them makes any fucking sense.
10. They just lie there and you have to do all the work.
11. When you are done you get up and leave.
12. Good curves make for a more enjoyable experience

APRIL FOOLS DAY!!!ROFL...

Ok.. so like I came across this one website right.. and it essentially changes your name by a script to another name... and it is fucking hilarious cuz its soooooooooooo true... well.. maybe cept for Skinners...

Yuhao Ding - Intellectual Ambassador
Ashley Craig - Crazy Demon (You're demonic LOL)
Michael Skinner - Thunderous Lover
Michael Kao - Arrogant Beggar (LOLOL)
Pete Wallace - Amateur Knight
Anthony Narcisso - Fanatical Prophet
Andrew Cho - Violent Killer (HAHAHAHAHAHA)
Wenhao Sun - Drunken Killer
Sarah Lam - Intellectual Dominator
Ashleigh Gage - Phantom Dominator (HAHA)
Jeff Bachman - Bitter Dreamer
Clayton Chang - Quiet Enchanter
Alexa Cabellon - Fearless Conqueror (Eh.... dunno bout this on :-p)
Kevin Ma - Fanatical Desperado
Ninning Liu - Annoying Contender (CAN THIS GET ANY MORE TRUE LOL)
Daniel Sun - Smiling Knight
John Wang - Misunderstood Genius
Asiya - Arrogant Menace

LOL... ok.. so the site is:
http://www.blazonry.com/scripting/wuname.php

Well... I know this is a bit old.. and whatnot but uh..... imagine this is 4 months ago :-p (And for all the anal people out there about giving credit.. This is from BASH)

For those of you planning on seeing the third LOTR movie at the theater her are some survival tips.

1. Stand up halfway through the movie and yell loudly, "Wait... where the hell is Harry Potter?"
2. Block the entrance to the theater while screaming: "YOU SHALL NOT PASS!" - After the movie, say "Lucas could have done it better."
3. At some point during the movie, stand up and shout: "I must go! Middle Earth needs me!" and run and try to jump into the screen. After bouncing off, return quietly to your seat.
4. Play a drinking game where you have to take a sip every time someone says: "The Ring."
5. Point and laugh whenever someone dies.
6. Ask the nearest ring-nut if he thinks Gandalf went to Hogwarts
7. Finish off every one of Elrond's lines with "Mr. Anderson."
8. When Aragorn is crowned king, stand up and at the top of your lungs sing, "And I did it.... MY way...!"
9. At the end, complain that Gollum was offensive to Ethiopians
10. Talk like Gollum all through the movie. At the end, bite off someone's finger and fall down the stairs.
11. When Shelob appears, pinch the guy in front of you on the back of the neck.
12. Dress up as old ladies and reenact "The Battle of Helms Deep" Monty Python style.
13. When Denethor lights the fire, shout "Barbecue!"
14. Ask people around you who they think is the next "Terminator" sent from the Middle Earth of the future to assassinate Frodo Baggins
15. In The Two Towers when the Ents decide to march to war, stand up and shout "RUN FOREST, RUN!"
16. Every time someone kills an Orc, yell: "That's what I'm Tolkien about!" See how long it takes before you get kicked out of the theatre.
17. During a wide shot of a battle, inquire, "Where's Waldo?"
18. Talk loudly about how you heard that there is a single frame of a nude Elf hidden somewhere in the movie.
19. Start an Orc sing-a-long.
20. Come to the premiere dressed as Frankenfurter and wander around looking terribly confused.

Ok.. as everybody knows already, I bet.. there was a FIRST robotics competition at portland. It was like 3 days, and the first day was all practice, the second day and first half of the third was all qualification rounds, and the last half of the third day was the elimination finals. Well.. the first and second days, we basically either got dominated and/or hosed with our teammate (all matches are 2 on 2) making ten point penalties and costing us the win by like 5 points or so... and at the end of the 2nd day, our record was 2 Wins, 4 Losses, and 1 tie, and we were in 27th place out of 37.

Ok.. soso on the third day we were supposed to have 2 qualification matches before finals start. Our first match, our partner was the #1 team at the time (Team 360 Revolution). Basically what happened was like we dominated the other 2 teams, but got penalized, and we ended up with a tie, 70-70. And so now they are ranked 2 instead of 1. Our second match that day, we were playing AGAINST Team 360 and a crap team, and basically what happened was our arm got caught with their arm when they tried to get in a pushing war with us, and so we were like dragging them around for half the match until they tipped over on their side, and we were able to get away. So we ended up tie-ing again, 20-20, BUT Team 360 got disqualified for "Entanglement", and so they get an automatic loss, and so now they are ranked 3 instead of 1, all because of us.

Now.. the finals start. Basically what happens is the top 8 teams get to pick 2 partners, and so there are a total of 8 "Alliances", and each matchup is basically the first alliance to two wins (or best 2 out of 3). The matchups were basically seeded 1vs8, 2vs7, 3vs6, 4vs5. Well.. we ended up getting picked by the 6th alliance in the 2nd round of picking, so we were matched up against Alliance 3. (Remember what place Team 360 was?) So basically, in the first game of the match, we started ramming Team 360 and generally causing interference, while our partner herded balls and went for the pull up bar (50 points). We ended up tipping them over, and they were essentially out of commission for most of the game, and we held up their partner, and so we got a clear win. The 2nd game of the match, Team 360 decides they want to ram us this time, and so we get in a ramming war, but there is a mobile goal (basically a big basket on wheels) between us, and what happened was the mobile goal got pushed up, and it got caught on 360's wheel, and so they were stuck for the rest of the match. We were like HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHA OWNED!!!!! and so we won that first matchup and were in the semi-finals.

In the semis, we were matched up against Alliance 2, and in the first game, they beat us 85-90 cuz they had this big basket robot that basically caught like 15 balls every time they were dropped, and we were like, damn. In the second game, we had our partner basically wait by their robot.. and 5 seconds before the balls dropped, they just RAMMED the big basket bot, and pushed it over on its side. We were like YES!!!! and so we beat them, and it was 1-1. Then it was a pretty clean third game, cept the other team tried to call us for entanglement, but there was none, and so we beat them in a 2-1 match, so we advanced to the FINALS!!

Ok.. so now we're in the finals vs the #1 seed in the tournament, and basically, in the first game, our partner and one of our opponents both fell over, we ended up getting a tie, 40-40. But it's the first to two wins, so basically we had to play this game over. The second game, one of our opponents basically fell over (we didn't even ram them this time), and so we got a win, by a landslide. The "third" game, the autonomous period started (no controlling by humans, robots had to go on their own power), and one of our opponents touched the outside of the arena, and so had to be disabled, and so the referee pushed the button to disable them... BUT THEY PUSHED THE WRONG FUCKING BUTTON AND DISABLED OUR PARTNER. So... we had to redo the third game, and as soon as it started, our partner basically ended up spinning in circles, cuz when they got disabled by the referee, it shattered something on their robot. Basically, one side of the robot was going forward, while the other side was broken, and so it kept spinning in circles. So basically, we had one robot running against two because of stupid referees, and we STILL almost won.. but ended up losing 70-80. ok.. so now our partner has a broken robot.. and tried to fix it. They replaced the whole motor within 10 minutes, and then placed it back on the field for the fourth game. The game started... and our partner started going in circles again. Tyler finds a gear on the floor where they were 'fixing' their robot. What happened was the referee shattered the gearbox on our teammate.. but they thought it was the motor that was broken. And.. we had to run 1 robot against 2 again, and so we lost another game, and ended up losing finals 1-2-1 due to running only 1 robot, and so we got 2nd place.

All in all, I suppose it was pretty awesome, since at the end of the second day we were ranked #27 out of 37, but we finished in 2nd place... but think about it.. when we had TWO WORKING ROBOTS.. we tied the first place alliance once and beat them once.. and the only times they beat us were when we had a non-working robot on the field DUE TO THE REFEREES INCOMPETENCY AND CAN NOT DISABLE THE RIGHT ROBOT... We should have EASILY won, cuz that third game should have been us running 2 working robots against their 1, since one of them SHOULD HAVE BEEN disabled.

So yeah.. we got 2nd place... and here are some other finishes:
International (Bellevue) - Team 492: Was 1st Alliance - Finished in 1st place (I sure hope this victory feels hollow...)
Bellevue - Team 949: Was 8th Alliance - Knocked out in 1st round of finals.
Newport - Team 948: Was 4th Alliance - Knocked out in 2nd round of finals.
Bellarmine Prep (Tacoma) - Team 360: Undefeated after Friday, Didn't win a single match on Saturday, seeded 3rd Alliance - Knocked out in 1st round of finals.

The Competition Rules, for anyone interested are here:

http://robotics.nasa.gov/archive/video.htm and then click on "FIRST Frenzy"

A 70-year-old Texas rancher's hand was lacerated when he got it caught in a gate while working cattle. While a doctor was suturing the laceration, he and the old man got to talking about George W. Bush being in the White House. The old Texan said, "Well, ya' know, Bush is a 'post turtle.'

Not knowing what the old man meant, the doctor asked him what a post turtle was. The old man said, "When you're driving down a country road and you come across a fence post with a turtle balanced on top, that's a post turtle."

The old man saw a puzzled look on the doctor's face, so he continued to explain, "You know he didn't get there by himself, he doesn't belong there, he can't get anything done while he's up there and you just want to help the poor stupid bastard get down."