Randy Pausch, a prominent computer scientist at Carnegie Mellon, yesterday gave his farewell lecture. He is 46 years old, and he is dying from pancreatic cancer. Read this remarkable article, by Mark Roth, about a remarkable man. I will give you a dollar if you make it to the end without crying. My condolences and best wishes to Pausch’s family and friends, especially his three young kids.
‘We All Run the Risk of Getting Hit By the Cancer Dart’
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Yes, but I won $2 by betting someone else that one of the first 5 commenters would say that I owed him a dollar.
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Yes, but I won $2 by betting someone else that one of the first 5 commenters would say that I owed him a dollar.
I created a derivative product out of the dollar I would be owed and sold it on the open market, but then I teared up.
I created a derivative product out of the dollar I would be owed and sold it on the open market, but then I teared up.
Would that we all could face death with that sort of dignity, making videos for our children, embarassing our wives at our jobs, laying foundations for others futures. He’s like the guy in Stranger than Fiction: “the sort of man you want to keep around”
Would that we all could face death with that sort of dignity, making videos for our children, embarassing our wives at our jobs, laying foundations for others futures. He’s like the guy in Stranger than Fiction: “the sort of man you want to keep around”
You owe me a dollar too, I’m afraid, and I’m relatively weepy for an XY sort. That said, might have cried had the middle third of the article not been there (or been vastly shortened); at least for me, the list of accomplishments took away from the taut emotionalism of the rest of the article.
Still, very sad and (sorry to disagree, Dr. Pausch) unfair.
You owe me a dollar too, I’m afraid, and I’m relatively weepy for an XY sort. That said, might have cried had the middle third of the article not been there (or been vastly shortened); at least for me, the list of accomplishments took away from the taut emotionalism of the rest of the article.
Still, very sad and (sorry to disagree, Dr. Pausch) unfair.