Thursday, March 23, 2006

Episode Twenty-Two



Ravi and Sonia rejoice in a new running character: "Enna The Coffee Gal". They then welcome Marc Hodosh, chairperson of FIRST Boston, who describes the upcoming Boston Regional Robotics Competition -- and assures Ravi that the robots will not rebel. And "The Woz" is duly honored.

(QuickTime, 08:13)

14 comments:

Justin said...

Enna the Coffee Gal should have a jingle, or at least a familiar greeting like "NORM!". Or at the very least, a robot claw.

Ravi said...

justin -- first out of the gate to open the floodgates ;-) where are you when I put these together?! A jingle is *brilliant*! We'll gather the DriveTime Musical Elves for the next appearance of Enna.

Anonymous said...

i know people from my highschool who went to that! :D
it was very nice to feel connected to one of my favorite vidcasts in some small way..
great show

Ravi said...

thanks alice -- we're going to try to pop over tomorrow. I feel its my duty to make sure the robots don't rebel...

Steve Garfield said...

Why is Enna giving you coffee?

Who is she?

Where does she come from?

Is she attached to a coffee shop?

How did she know what type of coffee you wanted?

Ravi said...

The mystery of Enna the Coffee Gal will certainly unravel in future episodes. What motivates her? Is she in the coffee industry? Does she do tea?!

Ramanan Sivaranjan said...

My high school used to send teams to the US First competition as well (I'm from Canada, eh). Strange to hear it mentioned on your show.

Ravi said...

joe blarnystone -- we didn't just mention the Robotic competition. We celebrated it! I did indeed go check out the action this morning, I posted some pics on Raviblog.

And a DriveTime "How's it goin' eh?" to our friends in Canada.

To show how Canada-centric I've been in the past 24 hours:
-- I just got the new R30 Rush DVD/CD set yesterday; watched some last night and am listening right now
-- we watched some SCTV last night (3D House of Pancakes)

Dave H. said...

I just thought I would add my name to the list of people who really like DriveTime! Thanks for this groovy vlog :-)

Ravi said...

dave h -- is "groovy" refering to my shirt?! I wore that shirt at the Cream reunion at the Royal Albert Hall... talk about groovy!

thanks for dropping by. Maybe we'll do a special "90 Seconds of DriveTime" in your honor. ;-)

Anonymous said...

Ravi
I am on the a FIRST team in Boulder CO.
It was really cool seeing this on your show

Ravi said...

joe -- how did you guys do? And more importantly, did the robots ever rebel?

Anonymous said...

No the robots didn't rebel :( However some did go crazy. (Ours did when we were working on it nearly took off another guys leg!!!)
We were about in the middle of 48 teams.

Anonymous said...

The Woz needs to be a guest on DriveTime. I bet it could totally happen too! :D