{"id":497,"date":"2006-01-23T14:11:10","date_gmt":"2006-01-23T22:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/wp\/?p=497"},"modified":"2006-12-04T13:09:36","modified_gmt":"2006-12-04T21:09:36","slug":"inspiration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/inspiration\/","title":{"rendered":"Inspiration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UPDATED:<\/p>\n<p>I rewrote some portions to make it more closely follow the original&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>R: Kickoff Saturday, wake up in the early mornin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122<br \/>\nR: Call Bobby just to see how he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s doin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122<br \/>\nB: Hello?<br \/>\nR: What up Bob!<br \/>\nB: Yo Elroy, what\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s cracking?<br \/>\nR: You thinking what I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m thinking?<br \/>\nB: Kickoff<br \/>\n2: Then it&#8217;s happening<br \/>\nB: First the robot needs control with odometry<br \/>\nR: Lets google sourceforge and utilize some ANSI C!<br \/>\nB: No doubt that website is all about sharing!<br \/>\nR: I love open source like a wheel loves a bearing!<\/p>\n<p>B: It&#8217;s two,<br \/>\nR: No six,<br \/>\nB: No twelve,<br \/>\n2: Pounds overweight!<br \/>\nR: That robot&#8217;s needs to diet<br \/>\nB: I&#8217;m drilling through that metal plate!<\/p>\n<p>Where&#8217;s the kickoff playing?<br \/>\nAt International dude<br \/>\nWell, lets hit up Yahoo maps to find the dopest route<br \/>\nI prefer MapQuest (Thats a good one too)<br \/>\nGoogle maps in the best (True that)<br \/>\nDouble True!<\/p>\n<p>R: To the TRC headquarters<br \/>\nB: What&#8217;s the game gonna be?<br \/>\nR: Lets get moving now, man.<br \/>\nB: Like Stack Attack, maybe?<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u201cChorus (repeating, switching off)\u00e2\u20ac\u201c<br \/>\nIts the kickoff (What!) Of the F.R.C.!<br \/>\nDone by FIRSTWA (Who?) and the T.R.C.!<br \/>\nIts the kickoff (What!) Of the F.R.C.!<br \/>\nDone by FIRSTWA (Who?) and the T.R.C.!<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u201cEnd Chorus\u00e2\u20ac\u201c<\/p>\n<p>R: Hit of Laird Plastics, TAP is overpriced<br \/>\nB: Got the purchase order,<br \/>\nR: gonna spend it all thrice!<br \/>\nB: Don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want the judges to get suspicious<br \/>\nR: Aluminum and polycarb equals totally auspicious!<br \/>\nB: Walk up to the counter, pull out the P.O.<br \/>\nR: Girl actred like she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d never seen the T.R.C. before!<br \/>\n2: Its all about the drill press baby<br \/>\nB: Throw the goods in the trunk and we off like crazy<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u201cChorus (repeating, switching off)\u00e2\u20ac\u201c<br \/>\nIts the kickoff (What!) Of the F.R.C.!<br \/>\nDone by FIRSTWA (Who?) and the T.R.C.!<br \/>\nIts the kickoff (What!) Of the F.R.C.!<br \/>\nDone by FIRSTWA (Who?) and the T.R.C.!<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u201cEnd Chorus\u00e2\u20ac\u201c<\/p>\n<p>R: Roll up to the IPAC. Grab two crates full of good times.<br \/>\nR: You can call us R&#038;B from the way we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re throwing down the rhymes<br \/>\nB: Parked in out seats, robotics trivia is key<br \/>\nR: What award did we win out-of-state in \u00e2\u20ac\u02dc03?<br \/>\nB: We answered so fast and then we let it slip<br \/>\nR: Now everyone knows it was entrepreneurship<br \/>\nB: Turn off our cell phones<br \/>\nR: We won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t talk to our clients<br \/>\n2: We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re about to learn of an engineered world of science!<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u201cChorus (repeating, switching off)\u00e2\u20ac\u201c<br \/>\nIts the kickoff (What!) Of the F.R.C.!<br \/>\nDone by FIRSTWA (Who?) and the T.R.C.!<br \/>\nIts the kickoff (What!) Of the F.R.C.!<br \/>\nDone by FIRSTWA (Who?) and the T.R.C.!<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u201cEnd Chorus\u00e2\u20ac\u201c<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>While reading my Introduction to Digital Design Textbook this morning before class, I was hit with a flash of inspiration. To understand, you must first watch Saturday Night Live&#8217;s Diginal Short &#8220;Chronic (what) cles of Narnia.&#8221; My version is called the &#8220;TRC Rap.&#8221; It was originally written for a cast of Bobby and myself, but it would also work well with Dan (Marsh or Moretti) or anyone else whose name has one- and two-syllable versions. <\/p>\n<p>R: is a line I say<br \/>\nB: is a line Bobby (or whoever) would say<br \/>\n2: is a line both say<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nR: Kickoff Saturday, wake up in the early mornin&#8217;<br \/>\nR: Call Bobby just to see how he&#8217;s doin&#8217;<br \/>\nB: Hello? R: Whatup Bob! B: Yo McElroy, what&#8217;s crackin&#8217;?<br \/>\nR: You thinking what I&#8217;m thinking?<br \/>\nB: Kickoff (2: Man its happening)<br \/>\nB: But first my mini sumo needs to control its electricity<br \/>\nR: Lets google sourceforge and utilize some ANSI C!<br \/>\nB: Man that website is all about sharing!<br \/>\nR: I love open source like a wheel loves a bearing!<br \/>\n&#8212;<br \/>\nR: Hit of Laird Plastics, TAP is overpriced<br \/>\nB: Got the purchase order, R: gonna spend it all thrice!<br \/>\nB: Don&#8217;t want the judges to get suspicious<br \/>\nR: Aluminum and polycarb equals totally auspicious!<br \/>\nB: Walk up to the counter, pull out the P.O.<br \/>\nR: Girl actred like she&#8217;d never seen the T.R.C. befo&#8217;!<br \/>\n2: Its all about the regional champs dude<br \/>\nB: Throw the goods in the trunk, now we&#8217;re in a good mood<br \/>\n&#8211;Chorus (repeating, switching off)&#8211;<br \/>\nIts the kickoff (What!) Of the F.R.C.!<br \/>\nDone by FIRSTWA (Who?) and the T.R.C.!<br \/>\n&#8211;End Chorus&#8211;<br \/>\nR: Roll up to the IPAC (B: Give a shout out to the Titan Times)<br \/>\nR: You can call us R&#038;B from the way we&#8217;re throwing down the rhymes<br \/>\nB: Sit down in the theater, robotics trivia is key<br \/>\nR: What award did we win out-of-state in &#8217;03?<br \/>\nB: We both knew the answer, because we are so hip<br \/>\nR: But other teams didn&#8217;t know that it was entrepreneurship<br \/>\nB: Turn off our cell phones, we won&#8217;t talk to our clients<br \/>\nR: We&#8217;re about to learn of an engineered world of science!<br \/>\n&#8211;Chorus (repeating, switching off)&#8211;<br \/>\nIts the kickoff (What!) Of the F.R.C.!<br \/>\nDone by FIRSTWA (Who?) and the T.R.C.!<br \/>\n&#8211;End Chorus&#8211;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>How&#8217;s that for creativity?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UPDATED: I rewrote some portions to make it more closely follow the original&#8230; R: Kickoff Saturday, wake up in the early mornin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 R: Call Bobby just to see how he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s doin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 B: Hello? R: What up Bob! B: Yo Elroy, what\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s cracking? R: You thinking what I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m thinking? 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