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CmdrTaco Visits Pixar

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the sometimes-my-job-rocks dept.

A couple of weeks ago I scored a visit to Lucasfilm and half jokingly challenged the Slashdot audience to invite me to other cool places. Two brave Pixar employees took me up on my offer and showed me around for Slashdot T-Shirts. It's an amazing campus. Thanks to Mark Harrison and Ralph Gootee for showing me "0% of the render-farm" and making me wish that I was talented enough to have a place in such an amazing world. Soon I'll have a cool story to post about the crazy work Mark is doing with mind boggling volumes of data, but for now I have a picture of me next to a giant Luxo Lamp. Also thanks to Heidi Parmelee who gave me a Woody doll to give to my son and made me a hero. So now the gauntlet has been doubly thrown: Who out there in Slashdot-land works somewhere super cool and can give me a tour in exchange for a T-Shirt?

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  1. Lucky Bastard! by killfixx · · Score: 2

    New plan: Create internet phenomenon and use ensuing "cred" to live my dreams!

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    "Helping to keep you two steps ahead of the Thought Police!"
    1. Re:Lucky Bastard! by Moblaster · · Score: 5, Funny

      I work in my bedroom. Besides code, the only thing I would be rendering is children and my wife has informed me you can see 0% of our render farm as well. Could I still get a t-shirt?

  2. Nice success so far by elrous0 · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm glad to see that the "Invite CmdrTaco to your cool place" campaign has went a lot better so far than its predecessor, the "Come kick kdawson in the balls" campaign.

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    SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
    1. Re:Nice success so far by GameboyRMH · · Score: 5, Insightful

      What the hell happened? People should have been line-camping for that!

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      "When information is power, privacy is freedom" - Jah-Wren Ryel
    2. Re:Nice success so far by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      You can imagine the disappointment, when they realized he had none... ;)

    3. Re:Nice success so far by smelch · · Score: 5, Funny

      There was, that was the problem. When that many people were confronted with the reality of the situation, kdawsons balls are unable to be found, a riot broke out. I think a girl died.

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      If I can just reach out with my words and touch a butthole, just one, it will all be worth it.
  3. Woddy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Also thanks to Heidi Parmelee who gave me a Woody" ...niiiiiice

  4. How 'Bout the Last Shuttle Launch by Frightened_Turtle · · Score: 2

    Nice! Another reason to live my life vicariously through CmdrTaco!

    Any übergeeks out there that could get Rob into NASA for the Atlantis launch?

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    Whew! This water sure is cold!
    1. Re:How 'Bout the Last Shuttle Launch by uncledrax · · Score: 2

      Probably.

      NASA employees can sometimes get Employee-Car Passes to the launches (assuming they don't have to work said launch). I know you can get Causeway 'seating' that way.. someone with more cred might be able to get something closer though.

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      ----- The internet has given everyone the ability to have their voice heard equally as loud.. even if they shouldn't be
  5. Sooo....where's the article? by GameboyRMH · · Score: 2

    Is the summary all there is here?

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    "When information is power, privacy is freedom" - Jah-Wren Ryel
  6. This is news? by Nationless · · Score: 5, Funny

    What do you think this is? Your personal blog?

    (And for those who don't get the joke, yes, i know ;)

  7. MSFT by donutface · · Score: 5, Interesting

    CmdrTaco if you're in the Seattle area within the next two months I can give you a tour of the Microsoft Redmond campus ;-)
    Can't really see that being your scene though!

    1. Re:MSFT by GameboyRMH · · Score: 5, Funny

      LOL I think he'd get killed by a chair that mysteriously fell from an upper floor XD

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      "When information is power, privacy is freedom" - Jah-Wren Ryel
  8. Picture is photoshopped! by tadauphoenix · · Score: 2, Funny

    The light is obviously pointing in the wrong direction. It's a fake!

  9. Re:Virgin America by wrencherd · · Score: 2

    A /.-er visiting Virgin America?

    Busman's holiday, I'd say.

  10. C'mon Taco, give a little back by Triv · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You got invited somewhere awesome by a member of the /. community, and all we get is a thank you and a request to be let into more awesome places? It would've killed you to snap a few pictures, or to have set up an interview, or to have given us something, anything, back in return?

    Either make a big deal out of it when this happens and do some actual, experiential blogging, or keep quiet about it, but this story is just...a smirk.

    I work nowhere remotely interesting these days, but if I did, after this story I wouldn't be inclined to help yo