http://www.sixthman.net/blog/2009/06/09/i-want-to-be-like-pixar-when-we-grow-up/ Live Loud Mon, 06 Feb 2012 15:40:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 http://www.sixthman.net/blog/2009/06/09/i-want-to-be-like-pixar-when-we-grow-up/comment-page-1/#comment-1480 The Sixthman Blog » Blog Archive » A Contest: Paul Revere, Neil Armstrong…and Biff Columbus? Tue, 14 Jul 2009 14:34:41 +0000 http://www.sixthman.net/blog/?p=2048#comment-1480 [...] Moving beyond the specifics of Paul Revere, I started thinking about all the other poor suckers in history who had a chance at greatness but due to some circumstance never quite made it over the hump.  Two hundred years from now, everybody will remember that Neil Armstrong was the first man to walk on the moon.  How many people will know that Buzz Aldrin was the second?  According to Wikipedia (obviously not the most reputable source, I know), the reason Armstrong was picked over Aldrin to be the first on the moon was because they thought Armstrong had way less of an ego.  Just think, if Buzz Aldrin hadn’t been such a jerk playing cards at the NASA space station years earlier, he’d be the one in the history books.  Now, the only Buzz anybody cares about will be staring in Toy Story 3 next summer (wooo Pixar!). [...] [...] Moving beyond the specifics of Paul Revere, I started thinking about all the other poor suckers in history who had a chance at greatness but due to some circumstance never quite made it over the hump.  Two hundred years from now, everybody will remember that Neil Armstrong was the first man to walk on the moon.  How many people will know that Buzz Aldrin was the second?  According to Wikipedia (obviously not the most reputable source, I know), the reason Armstrong was picked over Aldrin to be the first on the moon was because they thought Armstrong had way less of an ego.  Just think, if Buzz Aldrin hadn’t been such a jerk playing cards at the NASA space station years earlier, he’d be the one in the history books.  Now, the only Buzz anybody cares about will be staring in Toy Story 3 next summer (wooo Pixar!). [...]

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