#bloggery — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #bloggery, aggregated by home.social.
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Papa’s Draft Card
Found my Grandfather's draft card in a bunch of my Dad's stuff.About a year before my Grandfather passed away, I visited him and he pulled his draft card out of his wallet. He handed it to me and said "I keep trying to get the shuttle bus driver to drop me off at the post office so I can burn this on the steps. He won't ever stop."
That is some serious joke long-game, this w
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MacRenderMan
Some historical floppy disk fun from old Pixar days.When Pixar decided to sell RenderMan to the public we had to come up with a good name (It was REYES, Renders Everything You've Ever Saw / Seen). You could already buy a version that a ran on the Pixar Image Computer CHAP (Channel Processor) called CHAPREYES. I don't know if we ever sold any, but w
https://flipphillips.com/bloggery/macrenderman/
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Listerine Prank
How to drink a few bottles of Listerine, scare your clients, and ultimately see your clients repeat your prank.I told this story to Penn years ago and he decided it was worthy of a place in their book. There are some great stories in there and I'm proud to have been part of it.
TL;DR - We were making commercials for Listerine, Pete Docter and I gaffed up a
https://flipphillips.com/bloggery/listerine-prank/
#Bloggery #Folklore #listerine #penn #pixar #prank #Teller