DORKTASTIC

[rmd]

So, yeah, I spent yesterday wandering around the BU Agganis Arena for the Boston FIRST robot competition.

It was utterly dorktastic. It warms my heart to see kids wandering around with "$HIGHSCHOOL Robotics Team" shirts for their schools.

I have a pile of pictures over on flickr

Comments

[jmspencer.livejournal.com]

Even dorkier? My varsity letter was for the Quincy High School FIRST Robotics team.

And our team number is 69, which provided no end of entertainment when I was 16

[liralen.livejournal.com]

YAY! Yay! YaY!!!

[babasyzygy.livejournal.com]

Here's my contribution to the dorkvibe:

There's something about that that gives me a 1950's optimistic technofuturism rush, of the kind where high school kids were playing with building radios and such because decades down the road they'd be wielding technology to build a more perfect world.

Fuck the flying cars. We've got cleaning robots, on-line shopping, hand-held GPS maps with live traffic, and a really kick-ass standard of living. We're living in the future, and it's only getting futurier.

[muffyjo]

I see you got your dork on. Nice. Really nice. Warms the cockles of my heart, it does. :)

[smcmullan.livejournal.com]

Is it wrong to be envious of my kids, who have had the opportunity to be involved in FIRST for their entire high-school careers? I have been involved as a parent volunteer, but having to work for a living really puts a crimp in my style during build season...