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I, for one, welcome our new nerdborg governator overlords [Sat, 8-Jan-2005 4:29 AM]
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Ironmen: "Dan Rupert crouches inside a 180-pound frame of chrome-myolybdenum steel alloy like a man wearing the bones of a robot gorilla. Metal bars cantilever over his shoulders and down along his arms, terminating in menacing, knuckle-dragging hooks. At his feet, an industrial screw drive hums quietly. Rupert, a high school engineering teacher from San Diego, isn't trying to look like a supervillain. He is trying to lift a 650-pound barbell in front of a crowd of several hundred people. The exoskeleton - nicknamed Technotrousers - is supposed to make it happen."

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[User Picture]From: [info]hepkitten
Sat, 8-Jan-2005 4:31 AM (UTC)

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how very aliens.
[User Picture]From: [info]sneakums
Sat, 8-Jan-2005 6:26 AM (UTC)

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The one in Aliens was yellow, though.
[User Picture]From: [info]hepkitten
Sat, 8-Jan-2005 6:38 AM (UTC)

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sam b&y caution stripes tho. obvious reference.
[User Picture]From: [info]weev
Sat, 8-Jan-2005 4:43 AM (UTC)

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This + this = teh win!
[User Picture]From: [info]drreagan
Sat, 8-Jan-2005 5:10 AM (UTC)

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I get the feeling he doesn't quite "get" the idea behind weight-training.
[User Picture]From: [info]inhumandecency
Sat, 8-Jan-2005 10:05 AM (UTC)

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For a lot of people, the idea is to get onlookers to say "oh my god, he's so cool!" In which case I'd say he understands fine.
[User Picture]From: [info]kirinqueen
Sat, 8-Jan-2005 7:15 AM (UTC)

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Help me Grommet! These are the WRONG TROUSERS!!!!
[User Picture]From: [info]tfofurn
Sat, 8-Jan-2005 7:36 AM (UTC)

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And they've gone wrong!
[User Picture]From: [info]patrick
Sat, 8-Jan-2005 10:04 AM (UTC)

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Watch out, next he will be stealing a large diamond!
From: tregoweth
Sat, 8-Jan-2005 11:02 AM (UTC)

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Wallace and Gromit and powerloaders, together again!
[User Picture]From: [info]ajshepherd
Sat, 8-Jan-2005 7:22 AM (UTC)

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Rupert, a high school engineering teacher from San Diego, isn't trying to look like a supervillain.

He's trying to look like a dork. And succeeding!
From: doilywipple
Sun, 9-Jan-2005 1:38 AM (UTC)

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I was thinking of a dressed-down phil collins.
From: [info]j4k0b
Sat, 8-Jan-2005 9:50 PM (UTC)

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I'm pretty sure that guy teaches at the school I used to go to in San Diego. There was a Mr. Rupert (Rupe) who taught engineering who looks strikingly similar to that man. And my school was really rich and into robotic competitions.