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A Tour of Pixar
Jellybob writes "A little something for those of you who aren't happy with where you work: just go and work at Pixar." This is apparently part of the Finding Nemo hype machine; here's a BBC story talking about deploying metal detectors and night-vision goggles to stop people from camcording the movie.
I read the first part of the article but stopped after "But first comes the sound: a blast of blues-rock from the four-person band playing in a funky bar-lounge area called "The Animation Pit." "
Now I am thoroughly depressed because the closest thing we have to a blues-rock band is the annoying lady here who plays adult contemporary from her one speaker radio.
100% Insightful
That wasn't enough for Pixar's CEO, Steve Jobs. "He thought it was really important that there only be one bathroom in the building, for all 700 people who work here," Greenberg says.
There is no way my bladder could survive the trauma of working there given the amount of coffee I drink
Do not try to read the dupe, thats impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth
What truth?
There is no dupe
Cool, half a soccer field. So they can ... play with themselves?
-- Thou hast strayed far from the path of the Avatar.
Hong Kong?! Phooey.
Night-Vision Goggles? You know, it's bad enough that the movie industry is going bankrupt, but now, thanks to rampant piracy, I won't be able to sneak in a bag of gummi bears! Oh, the humanity!
Ryosen
One man's "Troll, +1" is another man's "Insightful, +1".
I don't know about you, but when I'm sliding into first, and my pants are about to burst, the last thing on my mind is discussing with coworkers what I was doing at the Chinese massage parlor last night.
Get real. Let's not form lines in front of the bathroom and watch the girl from accounting do the funny walk, as we hold ourselves to keep from peeing.
Whatever happened to watercoolers?
So if everybody pirates movies, places like PIXAR will not be able to lavish money on half a football field, nor afford employees timewasting 'creative' breaks. So until I work in an enviroment like PIXAR, I'll be doing all the pirating I can... Bastards!
You are talented enough to work there!
It's just that you smell of onions and wet dog. And then there's that lazy eye thing. And the severe tourrets syndrome. And the whole deal about your lack of arms. And the incontinence. And the constant running into server racks with your helmet on.
I didn't want to be the one to tell you...
Not true!
I still have one arm, and ever since I got back on the meds, I haven't hit a rack in months.
He tried to kill me with a forklift!
Now there's progress!
Just more proof that sound bytes can say whatever you want them too.
"From the company that brought you Win98 and WinXP comes Windows Unbreakable!
That reminds me of an incident many years ago... I worked part time at a computer store in Alexandria, VA. One of my co-workers was a U.S. Navy Master Chief who worked at the Navy Research Labs. One of his lab coworkers asked him to buy a copy of a computer game with his employee discount and bring it to him at work. Pretty harmless, right?
:-)
The name of the game (IIRC) was The Haley's Project, or something else spacey - you flew from planet to planet within the solar system and at each stop you would receive a trivia clue to guide you to the next planet. Anyways, the manual was made up to look like a NASA guide and all the pages were printed with fake 'TOP SECRET' stamps all over everything.
Last I heard, the guy was still smuggling the manual out one page at a time - stuffed in his underwear - since the security checkpoint wouldn't let him take home anything marked TOP SECRET...
A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing -- Emo Phillips
Sources went on to say that unlike in X-Men 2, the night vision goggles in Down With Love were used to identify and apprehend those elusive moviegoes who attempted to escape early.
/syle