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Oh, To be a Big Red Can...
The Big Red Robot and its proprietors leave today for Acapulco, where they will spend 2 weeks tanning, drinking, and enjoying the Mexican nightlife. Well, either that or programming and competing in a robotics competition of some sort. All the robot has to do is act like a grad student: use an elevator, avoid running into people, and give a presentation.
I would like to enter myself in this competition. I can operate most elevators, I don't run into people outside of the basketball court, and I've given a few presentations in my day. Not only that, but I bet I can do all of these things better than any robot in attendance, even one from Carnegie Mellon.
I haven't had a vacation in a long time, not since spring break. I'm going home for a couple of days next week, but I could use 2 weeks of drinking brown water and being sold funny shirts and fake jewelry. Plus, michael, Ashwin, Joe, and Nik wouldn't have to spend most of their hard-earned vacation trying to get me to work properly.
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Actually they're not taking Lewis down to Acapulco, because it'd cost 3 grand to do so. The people who made Lewis are going to be at the conference, demoing a Lewis clone, so the M&M lab is going to be borrowing that one in the evenings. I really don't see why a three hundred pound "robusteza roja" can't fly down on the plane, however. I'm sure Lewis would behave better than half of the other passengers, and wouldn't complain about the food.
Posted by: jim at August 8, 2003 12:15 PM
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