Inspiration, truth and humor.
Dec. 2nd, 2009 03:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
osarabaCame across this little factoid:
(In case you were wondering, he's the crewman on the Kelvin in the very beginning who says, "Captain, we have visual.")
Came across his website here: http://download.srv.cs.cmu.edu/~pausch/
And the video of his "Last Lecture", entitled "Achieving Your Childhood Dreams". It's an hour and 15 minutes of inspiration, truth and humor. I listened to it while working, occasionally clicking back onto the page to view the presentation visuals. It's really worth listening to.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji5_MqicxSo
Randy Pausch — Carnegie Mellon computer science professor, author of the “Last Lecture,” and devoted Star Trek fan — appeared in the 2009 movie Star Trek. He died on July 25, 2008, [at age 47] of pancreatic cancer.
(In case you were wondering, he's the crewman on the Kelvin in the very beginning who says, "Captain, we have visual.")
Came across his website here: http://download.srv.cs.cmu.edu/~pausch/
And the video of his "Last Lecture", entitled "Achieving Your Childhood Dreams". It's an hour and 15 minutes of inspiration, truth and humor. I listened to it while working, occasionally clicking back onto the page to view the presentation visuals. It's really worth listening to.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji5_MqicxSo
