The Cast of Tonight’s Show
by Nathan
Welcome to the Awesome Australian Adventure Blog! This hourly* updated blog will most likely feature pictures, details, and rescue requests from our most likely adventurous travels! Failing that, we'll post funny stuff that happens. First, I should introduce our intrepid team of highly-trained bloggers and partially trained Stanford Solar Car junkies. They are, in order of relative hunger:
- Marvin! (Marvin will always be listed in this way, with an exclamation mark. Note: he just ate dinner.) Marvin! hails not from any specific team, but from the Marvin! team, which has the primary responsibility of being Marvin!. all the time.
- Ben (Ben's humor is more subtle and British, obviating the need for such punctuation.) Like Marvin!, he also just ate some dinner. Unlike Marvin!, he is no longer hungry. Ben hails from the Electrical Team, which prides itself in finding Mechanical solutions to electrical problems. They also make the solar car run. on occasion. Ben likes to spend as little time on the ground as possible. He does a good job of this.
- DC (Whose first name is not Daniel.) DC is part of every team, but mostly after everyone else has gone to sleep. It's an important role. DC is very meta, as you can tell from this meta photograph.
- Matt ("MARVIN!?!?!?") Matt is part of the mechanical team, and so enjoys long walks on the beach immediately after disassembling/reassembling the suspension for the third time tonight. Also, for the record, Matt: 0 Carbon Fiber: 4
- Nathan (still dumbfounded that wordpress is not a mill, but remains undeterred.) I'm part of the mechanical team. My role is somewhat limited to finding mechanical solutions to every damn problem everyone else comes up with. This is a picture of me pretending to be Marvin!. However, I'm not particularly good at being Marvin!, especially when it comes to eating**
*by hourly, we mean whenever we send carrier pigeons to the internet with the appropriate data. This is known to be necessary in South Africa (http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSTRE5885PM20090909) as sending large amounts of data by carrier pigeon will be faster than the internet in some countries we will visit.
**Marvin! and Ben may have consumed twice the amount of burger than I did in one sitting. In the interest of fairness, Marvin had already had dinner.
That being said, we will try to update and post pictures of what happens when these five people encounter these five countries: Australia, New Zealand, Thailand, Nepal, and Japan (just me :p). Until then, a shoutout to our esteemed team leader.
SASHA!!!!!!!