Sat 26 Jul 2008
I’m venturing into semi-sappy-self-help-territory here, but I just can’t help it. When Randy Pausch’s book “The Last Lecture” was released I thought it to be another “Tuesdays With Maurie” live-your-life-to-the-fullest-because-tomorrow-you-may-die kitsch-a-thon. But on Thursday Pausch has died, at the age of 48, and all of the sudden his lecture from September 2007, turned from sermon to testament. Do with it what you will, but seeing this actual lecture, given at Carnegie-Mellon university, is at least a tad more moving now. That’s the way we are. At least I am. The words of the dead ring truer than the words of the living. Here is the entire 76 minute lecture, the one that really actually was the last. Watch it today, for tomorrow you may die:
July 27th, 2008 at 8:19 am
This is extremly sad. Re the mail I just sent you.
July 27th, 2008 at 9:52 am
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