A Machine Spiritual (In The People's Key)

As I said in the comments at some crappy blog, I ultimately decided that I had a commitment to the FIRST team, but was with the protesters in Madison in spirit, and perhaps they can draw support from my profane ranting.

Some update:  apparently the police would not forcibly eject them from the Capitol Building, as I reported in the FYF.  In fact, a fair number of police joined them in the Rotunda overnight.  And Imperial Walker and his Goontroopers look even weaker.

In any case, we made some progress with the robots:

The IttyBot is designed to ride on the PrimeBot (which shipped on Tuesday; assembled but not debugged) and at the end of the match, must be deployed onto the pole to climb to the top.  No progress had been made on the IttyBot during the Build Season, so we started from scratch on Saturday, after watching dozens of Youtubers of other teams' minibots for concepts and research.  We got to the above proof of concept and will be looking at alternate gearing and switching on Monday.

Regional Competition in 2 weeks!

Also, some people (engineers and artists, what the hell) recently were fucking around with Wordle so I gave it a try.  Unfortunately, when I put in the url of the Empire, it came out surprising mundane.  I even tried pointing it specifically to a Fuck You Friday to see how it came out, but to little avail.

But I found a workaround:  cut and past the text from last week's rage:

That's what I thought.

Late breaking update, from Fux News:

Hey, there's nothing more intimidating than a portly middle aged guy wearing a foam cheese wedge on his head.

Fuck YOU, Fox.  100,000 people.  I don't think the Teabaggers hit that in their TOTAL combined attendance across the country over an entire month.