Washington DC Open 2010

Evan Liu said:
CitricAcid said:
Ah well, it was great guys.

Although I chocked, as my FII's caps kept popping off, so I was stuck using someone's FI, I +2ed once, and that totally screwed my sub-30 av. I am pretty angry. But I got to get KOII stickers. :p

But yeah, it was nice meeting everyone again, I hope to see some of you a CMU Spring and Discovery Science.

(Also, I was the fail-noob in the black fedora wearing the "I Reject Your Reality And Substitute My Own." T-Shirt.

But yeah, it was great. Even though it stopped early, I enjoyed it more than CMU.
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*choked
That may be true, but the experience definitely matters much more.

We hope to have another competition in the summer or fall of this year (hmm, what will nature give us this time... hurricane?)

Also, I forgot to mention, I got my first two sub-20 competition solves :D
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You'll have to excuse my ignorance being from California, but why did the library have to close? Does the snow make it difficult for people to get to and from the library? I just don't really understand the mechanics. The only time I got to skip school was during El Nino in 1998 when wind and rain took down the power lines.

So is closing the library a regulatory thing? Would there actually have been a problem if the library had stayed open? Like, would people get trapped in the library, and then have to drink their own urine to stay alive?
 
Tyson said:
Evan Liu said:
CitricAcid said:
Ah well, it was great guys.

Although I chocked, as my FII's caps kept popping off, so I was stuck using someone's FI, I +2ed once, and that totally screwed my sub-30 av. I am pretty angry. But I got to get KOII stickers. :p

But yeah, it was nice meeting everyone again, I hope to see some of you a CMU Spring and Discovery Science.

(Also, I was the fail-noob in the black fedora wearing the "I Reject Your Reality And Substitute My Own." T-Shirt.

But yeah, it was great. Even though it stopped early, I enjoyed it more than CMU.
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*choked
That may be true, but the experience definitely matters much more.

We hope to have another competition in the summer or fall of this year (hmm, what will nature give us this time... hurricane?)

Also, I forgot to mention, I got my first two sub-20 competition solves :D
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You'll have to excuse my ignorance being from California, but why did the library have to close? Does the snow make it difficult for people to get to and from the library? I just don't really understand the mechanics. The only time I got to skip school was during El Nino in 1998 when wind and rain took down the power lines.

So is closing the library a regulatory thing? Would there actually have been a problem if the library had stayed open? Like, would people get trapped in the library, and then have to drink their own urine to stay alive?
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The city ordered all branches of the library to close at 1:00pm. The organizers requested an exception just for us,but it was denied. The roads were quite horrible, and I don't blame them for closing the venue. Things were getting bad as we were leaving, and continued to get worse for the next few hours. As much as I am annoyed by having driven 12 hours for a 4 hour contest, the decision to shut down was by far the safest option.
 
Tyson said:
You'll have to excuse my ignorance being from California, but why did the library have to close? Does the snow make it difficult for people to get to and from the library? I just don't really understand the mechanics. The only time I got to skip school was during El Nino in 1998 when wind and rain took down the power lines.

So is closing the library a regulatory thing? Would there actually have been a problem if the library had stayed open? Like, would people get trapped in the library, and then have to drink their own urine to stay alive?
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When the snow is that bad, and it's only going to get worse, they close the library so the library workers are able to go home before the roads are impossible.

Not everyone has 4 wheel drive vehicles. And if the roads are bad where buses can't go, people using public transportation are stuck.
 
It was 100% the correct decision. The county shut down non essential services for good reason. The roads were absolutely atrocious. The employees and the people there would have been done no favors by making them wait just to drive through worse conditions to come. Obviously I wasn't happy that we weren't able to continue, but the right decision was definitely made.
 
joey said:
You guys in the US are wimps.
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Come on. Don't generalize the whole nation. Growing up in North Dakota, I think school was cancelled just a handful of times. It was usually, "If you live in the country and can't make it in, you won't be counted absent."

Minnesota cancels a bit more frequently. It's usually, "It's too cold and the diesel engines won't run, so we don't have buses", but sometimes for snow.
 
Bryan said:
joey said:
You guys in the US are wimps.
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Come on. Don't generalize the whole nation. Growing up in North Dakota, I think school was cancelled just a handful of times. It was usually, "If you live in the country and can't make it in, you won't be counted absent."

Minnesota cancels a bit more frequently. It's usually, "It's too cold and the diesel engines won't run, so we don't have buses", but sometimes for snow.
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+1. We WVians are never afraid of snow! WOOT! SNOW EPIC FAILZ.
 
Kian said:
It was 100% the correct decision. The county shut down non essential services for good reason. The roads were absolutely atrocious. The employees and the people there would have been done no favors by making them wait just to drive through worse conditions to come. Obviously I wasn't happy that we weren't able to continue, but the right decision was definitely made.
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Although, it wasn't so much of a decision on our part. We really had no choice.
 
Bob said:
Kian said:
It was 100% the correct decision. The county shut down non essential services for good reason. The roads were absolutely atrocious. The employees and the people there would have been done no favors by making them wait just to drive through worse conditions to come. Obviously I wasn't happy that we weren't able to continue, but the right decision was definitely made.
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Although, it wasn't so much of a decision on our part. We really had no choice.
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Of course, I was refering to the county's decision to shut down non-essential services like the library. I do realize you were handcuffed.
 
Kian said:
Bob said:
Kian said:
It was 100% the correct decision. The county shut down non essential services for good reason. The roads were absolutely atrocious. The employees and the people there would have been done no favors by making them wait just to drive through worse conditions to come. Obviously I wasn't happy that we weren't able to continue, but the right decision was definitely made.
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Although, it wasn't so much of a decision on our part. We really had no choice.
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Of course, I was refering to the county's decision to shut down non-essential services like the library. I do realize you were handcuffed.
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That was only for show. NO HANDCUFFS CAN HOLD BOB BURTON!
 
DavidWoner said:
Kian said:
Bob said:
Kian said:
It was 100% the correct decision. The county shut down non essential services for good reason. The roads were absolutely atrocious. The employees and the people there would have been done no favors by making them wait just to drive through worse conditions to come. Obviously I wasn't happy that we weren't able to continue, but the right decision was definitely made.
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Although, it wasn't so much of a decision on our part. We really had no choice.
Click to expand...

Of course, I was refering to the county's decision to shut down non-essential services like the library. I do realize you were handcuffed.
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That was only for show. NO HANDCUFFS CAN HOLD BOB BURTON!
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Except perhaps pink fuzzy ones.
 
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