oh, PHEW, this post was by Harry. I was really worried about Ace for a minute there.

So is that good or bad for me?

Hey whatever floats your boat.
My husband liked those battlebot shows too.

It's still good flame-war material though.

Harry, Ignore 'em.

My kids and I loved that 'Bot show (especially the fact that no BLEEPs were requried). And like you, I've gotten hooked on the "We Can Build It Better" shows, even occassionally watching MTV for that Pimp My Ride a few mintuess at a time (until some chump with his pants half falling off comes on-screen or some other inarticulate human embarrasses himself).

But the best part of all that came when I watched Charlie the Painter on American Hot Rod tell Mr. "I'll-So-Spiffy" Boyd and Mr. "I'm-So-Tough" Duayne that he was quitting. And then Boyd said "You're not going to Foose, are you?" Yes!
And just a few days ago I saw a show (on the latest car shows I think, I was clicking) with Chip Foose and there was Charlie. Awesome!

I love seeing people get what they deserve. Treat your employees like crap and they will leave you high and dry!

Okay, enough geek crap.

I don't like that show much. I think inclined planes and flipper robots should be outlawed. They're boring. I want to see damange.

Also, is it just me, or does anyone want to see shotguns mounted on these things? Make the glass around the arena bullet proof and let the robots have some projectiles and flamethrowers.

I used to love Junkyard Wars, until that really cool girl hosting the show left.

I just pull up a lawn chair at a couple of the intersections near where I live. Within the hour there's guaranteed to be real live carnage.

Humans in SUV's are dumber and far more destructive than robots.

Also, is it just me, or does anyone want to see shotguns mounted on these things? Make the glass around the arena bullet proof and let the robots have some projectiles and flamethrowers.

ace: The Koreans are working on it. We could watch the fights on CNN.

The only thing better than watching those shows/competitions, is diving in and trying it yourself. Way fun.

Who goes to Rochester on purpose?!?!

Seek help.

Speaking of geekiness and robots... if anyone is into Java (or wants to learn to be) IBM has this cool thing called Robocode... www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/robocode/

You get to code the behavior of a robot and drop it into an arena to fight other peoples' robots. Pretty cool... if you like that sort of thing.

Who goes to Rochester on purpose?!?!

Seek help.

As one who grew up there, spent over 25 years there, I can only say Good call. If the sun shone more often and it wasn't infested by canadian weather it would be a nice place.

That goes for Buffalo and Syracuse too.

If only Battlebots and American Chopper could have gotten together for some truly stylish carnage!