Captain Creech is back 🫡

John Lasseter took time off from Pixar in 2000, packed his family into a car, and drove the old Route 66. The towns he passed had died the day the interstate bypassed them. That drive became Cars. Back at the studio, he called Michael Wallis, the historian who literally wrote a book about Route 66, and asked for a tour. Wallis loaded eleven Pixar animators into rented Cadillacs and took them down the old road twice. They ate in diners that were barely hanging on and talked to people who had watched their main streets empty out after Interstate 40 bypassed the old route. Radiator Springs is built from those towns. The movie's whole idea, slow down and matter to someone, came from places the country forgot, not a writers' room. The animation was the harder problem. Lasseter wanted reflections that actually bent across the paint, because a shiny car shows you the entire world around it. Every Pixar film before this had faked reflections by pasting on flat images. Cars couldn't cheat. So Pixar rebuilt its software to follow each ray of light the way light really bounces around a room. One frame took 17 hours to finish. Even with about 3,000 computers running nonstop, a single second of the movie could take days. Joe Ranft co-directed Cars, had led Pixar's story team since Toy Story, and drew the first sketches of Mater. In August 2005, with the film nearly done, he died in a car accident at 45. He had already recorded his lines. The movie is dedicated to him. Cars cost $120 million and made $462 million in theaters, sixth-biggest of 2006. Then the toys showed up. The merchandise sold more than $10 billion in five years, and over 200 million die-cast versions of the cars have sold. Pixar made a story about a racer who learns the finish line matters less than the road to it, and the toys from that story have outsold the movie more than twenty times over.

I WILL be going and I WILL be cosplaying #kachow

@MSCCruisesUSA how many likes to get shuffle board painted on the promenade deck on MSC Poesia? We have just over a year until we set sail and really need some shuffleboard on the ship!

Boston may be my new favorite airport

Vamos ATL #AtlUtd

The Braves organist is the best heckler of them all #BravesCountry

I miss TFT Hyperroll

It should be illegal to watch baseball in 40° weather. Ballpark 4/30 ✅

They ruined it when they changed the trains

Completely different manufacturers for the new Big Thunder. This is a new credit.

Pictures really don’t do justice to the scale of this ride. Project Purple is going to be insane @SFGrAdventure

If the mashed potato doesn’t have lumps, I’m not eating it.

Just did my last run for this quarter and I’m at 94.22 miles for the year! Definitely hitting the 365 mile goal if I keep this pace, but really aiming to break 500!!

The Braves are BACK

Thank you @jake_ulm

#UOFistBump to Mildred at Dockside Inn and Suites for helping us with some room key issues! She went above and beyond to make sure we were taken care of after a long day! Much kudos!!!

Legend. Icon. History-Maker. @flash_garrett sets a new league record for sacks in a single season

HISTORY! Myles Garrett is the new NFL single-season sack leader! 😤

Just a reminder that it has been 3,269 days since the Pittsburgh Steelers won a playoff game. The longest drought in the AFC North.

This is the least amount of hours I’ve worked on Christmas Day since 2021…