Quentin Smith

RHS '19|Purdue University ‘23 🚂| 6th Grade Social Studies teacher @Rossvilleschool! 🐝| Assistant JV/Varsity Baseball Coach ⚾️

[Quentin Smith @qesmith00]

We were 9-39 in four years 2016. Darrell Hazel had put the program in disarray. No light in sight.

Fast forward 6 years later: back to back 8 win seasons, our 4th bowl game in 6 seasons under Brohm, and a trip to Indy. What a damn good job he’s done rebuilding this program

[Dan Schneier @DanSchneierNFL]

Arguably one of the funniest camp clips I’ve ever seen

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

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.

[John Hoey @JohnnyHoey]

My wife survived a school shooting in her first year as a teacher and kept teaching, and is still teaching 15 years later while being a Mom of two. She very much lives in the real world. You do not. What a completely ignorant and stupid thing to say.

[Big Tucson Dad @BigTucsonDad]

If we’re sharing baseball Onion articles, can I submit my personal favorite

[ʇuᴉɐS📍 @saint_cloudy]

“Okay I drew two Dalmatians. Are we set?”

“Brother, not even close.”

[Super 70s Sports @Super70sSports]

Yogi Berra. 3 MVP Awards, 13 World Series rings. Machine gunner at Omaha Beach on June 6, 1944.

[Zaid Jilani @ZaidJilani]

“A family from Mexico arrives this morning legally has as much right to the American Dream as the direct descents of the Founding Fathers.”

Bob Dole accepting the Republican nomination for President in 1996.

[Today in History @TodayinHistory]

Landing on Omaha Beach, 6:30 AM

June 6, 1944

[Eddy Elfenbein @EddyElfenbein]

John Eisenhower graduated from West Point 82 years ago today. His father was unable to attend due to a prior engagement.

[nascarcasm @nascarcasm]

We're not stopping with the Bears. We're heading to Cincinnati tomorrow to see how the Batesville Bengals sounds to them. We are Indiana. We are a football state. We are unstoppable.

[matthew. @iAmTheWarax]

thinking about how, canonically, snoopy hit the beaches 82 years ago today to spearhead the liberation of europe

[Jomboy Media @JomboyMedia]

Rays pitcher Jonathan Heasley puked on the mound in his team debut

[World Cup Papi 🇨🇴 ☕️ @FenwayAttendee]

Holding it like 4-seamer

[Quentin Smith @qesmith00]

Another year of Purdue baseball, another year of disappointment

[Quentin Smith @qesmith00]

Back to back errors to cost you the game isn’t ideal

[Nick Gambill @NickBGambill]

Absolutely remarkable comeback given the incident in Dallas.

[RedditCFB @RedditCFB]

You can’t love college sports enough.

[Mads @europemaxxed]

"Your generation is so poor because you spend money buying food and-"