▲ 47 r/WaltDisneyWorld
Reupping for another fix.
—Uh oh.
—Don't tell me, my wallet's about to go over a huge waterfall.
—Yep.
—Sharp rocks at the bottom?
—Most likely.
—…Bring it on.
u/swb72 — 2 days ago
▲ 11 r/KiaSoulClub
A dose of light humor.
The Kia Connect app, as I'm sure y'all know, works with Amazon's Alexa.
So one day I'm getting ready to leave, and I open Alexa on my phone and say "Alexa, ask Kia to start the car."
Apparently you need to be more specific.
Alexa responds, "I'm not sure which car you're talking about. Would you like me to start your soul?"
(Yeah, Alexa, I'm dead; start my soul.)
u/swb72 — 3 days ago
▲ 382 r/WaltDisneyWorld
The quiet memorial inside Magic Kingdom Park
Inside Magic Kingdom park, in a plant bed near the Mad Tea Party attraction, there is a small memorial that thousands of guests pass by every day.
Randy Pausch co-founded the Entertainment Technology Center (ETC) at Carnegie-Mellon University, one of the first college programs of its kind to integrate computers and computer-generated interactivity into the worlds of animation and entertainment. He spent a sabbatical from the University of Virginia as a Walt Disney Imagineer, helping develop the VR attractions at DisneyQuest, and is the founder of the Alice software project, created to provide an easy entry point into the world of computer animation and 3D modeling. He began the Building Virtual Worlds course at CMU and taught it for ten years.
In 2007, Pausch delivered a lecture entitled "Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams" as part of a "Journeys" lecture series at Carnegie-Mellon that asked top academics the question, "What wisdom would you try to impart to the world if you knew it was your last chance?" The fact that the series was formerly called "Last Lecture" was not lost—Pausch had just been diagnosed with terminal pancreatic cancer and was given "six months of good health left," and in a sense this would indeed be his "last lecture." In it he speaks about his childhood dreams and how they came true, sometimes in ways that were unexpected.
Pausch's lecture became the basis for the book The Last Lecture published by Hyperion (a publishing arm of The Walt Disney Company).
Pausch died from pancreatic cancer on July 25, 2008, at the age of 47. On February 4, 2009, The Walt Disney Company dedicated the plaque near the "Mad Tea Party" attraction with a quote from the lecture. His widow, Jai, published a memoir in 2012,Dream New Dreams: Reimagining My Life After Loss, recounting her husband's life and her time as his caretaker in his final days.
u/swb72 — 2 months ago