r.i.p. randy pausch

[porphyre]

via neat-o-rama:
When Carnegie Mellon University professor Randy Pausch learned that he only had months to live, he turned his last lecture in September 2007 into a lesson on life. The lecture, titled Really Achieving Your Childhood Dream, became an Internet sensation. It was viewed over 3.4 million times on YouTube

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[skonen_blades]

Really, really inspiring.

[porphyre]

Yeah, I've been listening to it over again in chunks as I tidy the house. I wish more people would pay attention to the fact that every day is the last day they'll have.

[babykarret]

As I told my friend who posted this on Facebook, best hour I've ever lost to random link-following.

[porphyre]

*nods* It's been a favourite of mine for awhile. I was sad to hear he finally passed on.

[morbid_curious]

Oddly, a matter of hours after posting this in my LiveJournal, I found myself at a barbecue with a bunch of people from NASA/JPL, and a couple from Disney Imagineering who were ex-CMU students. I also saw the little book they made in the bookstore in LAX - it was the first book my eyes fell on.

Certainly some synchronicity there.

[porphyre]

It's strange how close-knit bits of California are, hey? Inspiring, too, if that word isn't over-used in this post.

[morbid_curious]

I find myself wondering if it isn't at least in part because of the drive-everywhere lifestyle. By and large L.A. is set up as a driver's city, which makes people even less inclined to make social links based simply on locality, rather than more... task-focused connections, I guess you could say.

[porphyre]

So people tend to meet in the same way they do on-line, is what you're saying, which shrinks down the degrees of connection?

[porphyre]

You're very welcome. I linked to it before, awhile ago, but I felt a reiteration couldn't hurt.