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Haa, hello to all, and sad enough, I have been refreshing the page for a while.
cool!
We have the same kind of contest in France: it is called Trophée E=m6.
At least there is no downside like what caused the demise of model airplane building. Model Airplane Glue sniffing! One would hope! Definitely fun for kids from 8-80 here. I wonder what a geezer robot would look like? I’m going to show this episode to my Roomba, maybe it will get an adrenilaine rush and clean the floors faster.
Nice to see that the robo-carnage is still alive and well. I wish it were televised. Well done, Bre. :-)
Boy, this brings back memories. We produced a series for the DIY Network called “Robot Rivals”in which we supplied a fully equipped “lab” and each week two Universities would each send a three person team that would build a robot from scratch to perform a task we had given them. The competition at the end was fun, but it was really cool to watch the thought process that went into building those machines.
(I don’t think it was very nice for Mr. and Mrs. Pettis to name their son after a cheese.– Yes, I know it’s spelled Brie).
It might not be typical for the packages themselves to start with the correspondent’s face, but in all TV news the reporter’s always there to introduce the package. That’s kind of how I look at this format, even though obviously the correspondent isn’t live, as with TV news.
Hi ‘Manda . . . I’ve been watching your show for months now but for about the last week or so the sound is garbled like you’re speaking from the bottome of a fishbowl! Today I tried dl’g the media player version and that worked just ok, with a little bit of audio sync tecnical difficulties. Keep up the good work. A fan.
I am a robot.
Steve Brudniak
The first rule of robot wars is you dont talk about robot wars!
Are you sure bre pettis isn’t a bot himself, drone, drone, drone….
Amandology does not permit the exploitation of bots. Rule #1
(what ever happened to good old fashioned gladiators, boy I sure miss 34 BC)
AC,
You could have come back and closed the piece. Interesting piece but I wish Bre had gotten his cameraman in a more advantageous position to watch the carnage…reminds me of the seats I got at a U2 concert recently.
Jajajaa. This was fun!!!!
Nice report.
Dear Amanda,
Todays RB was so refined. Easy to watch.
And very interesting.
Not like last Friday…which was shake, rattle and roll!
As Ever
Eyeball
the battle robot community? give me a break,
whats with the connection today? sounds like a skipping record?
I don’t mean to be the odd man out here but I would have liked to have heard from some people in Seattle. Maybe seen some places. Had some fun. (beyond just the bots) Oh well… Ya can’t always get what ya want… I’m still here for you anyway.
NEW CONSERVATIVE VLOG RELEASED TODAY http://hotair.com/ (I can’t imagine the folks at Democratic undergound having that type of sense of humor about themselves) Anyway Amanda they do link to you. Liked the robots.
Amanda-
I want to draw your attention to something. This was posted on the preeminent conservative blog in America:
http://powerlineblog.com/archives/013854.php
It Beats the Heck Out of Rocket Boom
Michelle Malkin has unveiled a new video site called Hot Air. The site includes what’s intended to be a daily newscast by Michelle, delivered in Flash. (A lot of work has obviously gone into the debut video. It will be interesting to see whether Michelle can keep that up on a daily basis!) There’s more to Hot Air than the daily newscast. The site will also feature “original video, photography, audio, photoshop parodies, and investigative reporting.” So there is some overelap between Hot Air and what we’re doing with our video site.
Which makes me wonder: should we start doing a daily newscast, too? Probably not. Somehow I don’t think people would be as interested in watching Paul, Scott and me deliver the news.
Congratulations to Michelle and her collaborators. Hot Air looks like a valuable, and fun, contribution to the conservative side of the web.
Now Amanda sweetie- You are saying to your self the Butch Cassidy question “Who are these guys?” Well the Powerline blog guys were the people that shut down Dan Rather from lying about Bush’s national guard service and put him out of a job. These guys were the people that demonstrated the power of the blogosphere vs. the MSM. Amanda I may never convince you of my point of view but nonetheless from this headline you are throwing spit in these people’s eye to the point where they may never even want to tune in. And I have stated on previous occassions there just aren’t that many liberals out there. You do good stuff like the Dave Winer interview and we learn stuff from that but when you are tilted far to the left and throw no bones it gets in the way of the “broadcast excellence” you do.
Not to be rude or anything, but was that guy retarded or did he lack social skills? I honestly couldn’t tell.
RF: Definitely a conservative site, their headline story is misinformation about the CIA Leak.
Did you know that Karl Rove was named as the leak, yet he still has his job?
That right, Republican stooges are allowed to leak confidential information that ruins careers and jeopardizes the safety of honest Americans. Makes you wonder who is running this country.
RF –
Politically, I’m not into the liberal side or the conservative side of things; I’m into thoughtful truthful analysis and nearly all political satire.
Hot Air with Malkin is definitely on the conservative side. Her snapshot analysis of China’s President Hu’s visit criticized tech companies, but not the Republican White House or the Republican Congress, which have both had a lackadaisical approach to China.
Maybe Malkin didn’t mention the Repbulicans view on China becasue she was too embarrassed to mention that the Republican backed $8 trillion dollar federal debt has allowed China to investment heavily in our government, which helps to keep our interests rates from rising. If China wasn’t buying up treasury bonds, the interest rates would need to increase to create more demand. Republicans need China because China’s purchase of treasury bonds buffers us from the devastating effects of the Republicans failing economic policies. Thanks China we owe you one, I mean we owe you billions.
Hot Air did not provide thoughtful analysis, but it may eventually be good fodder for satire – I’m optimistic.
Heya. The pink thing won the rumble because rumbles are decided by audience vote. The winner isn’t necessarily the bot that kicks the most bot, but the one with the most style. I mean, it was pink! And had googly eyes! ; )
-Piece, Pteryxx (ref/judge)
The question has been posed: Did you know that Karl Rove was named as the leak, yet he still has his job?
The answer is the following: VALERIE PLAME WAS NOT COVERT! A unamous bipartisan Senate Intel report said she and her husband lied. If she and her husband believed differently about WMD she should have resigned rather than misuse taxpayer dollars to send her husband to Niger. The momment her husband decided to talk to the New York Times the Bush adminstration had a duty to tell us who and why was putting out a different story. Many Journalists in the Beltway knew she was a source about WMD. Her neighbors all knew she worked for the CIA. Patrick Fitzgerald the prosecutor is backing off on the case. So to all of you libs out there who are thinking “Gee we’re going to get Rove” got news for you it isn’t going to happen.
* It Beats the Heck Out of Rocket Boom *
I don’t get it. Hotair is a political site, and RB is… RB. So because someone wishes RB to be a rightwing political vlog site but RB is not very political nor rightwing so that’s why Michelle Malkin started her political vlog site and that’s why Hotair is better than RB?
How about some more lumb (lame + dumb) comparisons: Oranges beat the heck out of bubble wraps; a solid oak desk beats the heck out of a water heater; … :roll:
Those robots! Man, no mercies!
I need some Advil, stat!
Keep up the good fight, RF. You and Rush Limbaugh will spred the “truth”, and if you repeat it enough, a few people might even be fooled.