As a joint birthday dinner for mom and myself we went to Toro Toro at the Four Seasons, which had some delicious stuff going on. A friend with lots of friends in Houston bought us a bottle of wine and arranged a special birthday dessert by calling ahead, a nice surprise.
I saw a sign that there was robot practice going on in one of the conference rooms, and we saw it while we were leaving. There was a bunch of South Asian kids sitting on the floor with a nifty little robot, turns out they were from West Windsor, NJ, just across Rte 1 from Princeton. Very nice young fellas.
Then we saw there was robot action going on in a small room with a glass wall so we went over to check it out. This blonde woman who looked like she played rugby came over and started telling us about it. "We're from First Technology Challenge, not First Robotics Challenge. There's a different philosophy in FTC. We're more start-up people, whereas FRC is more like the culture of a Boeing or Lawrence Livermore Labs. You guys have bigger teams and members can get by without knowing anything about technology. All our kids have to get their hands dirty. I myself started three companies. You guys have a short season but we go on all year..." She would have kept blathering on all night about how FTC was better than FRC if we hadn't realized it was time to move the fuck along. If I had been thinking clearly, I would have said "Have a nice life."
She was from Lexington, MA. Hopefully Google leads her to this someday and she'll realize what a pompous biatch she is.
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