On September 18, 2007 Carnegie Mellon Professor Randy Pausch gave what he expected to be his last lecture. You see, he’s dying of pancreatic cancer. He spoke to a packed auditorium on ‘Really Achieving your Childhood Dreams’. You can read more of the lecture at www.cmu.edu/randyslecture.
Since he gave this lecture the video of it has gone viral. Just today he talked about it again. He has lived longer than he expected when he gave that lecture last September. He says he has enjoyed the extra time he’s been granted. He’s spent more memorable time with his family and has testified before Congress requesting more funding for finding a cure for this deadly form of cancer.
Diane Sawyer of ABC News is doing a TV special on Wednesday, April 9th at 10pm. Click for promo.
h/t: PA Pundits
April 9th, 2008 at 4:15 am
The facts don’t matter, Just the feel…
Reposting this from 2006.
The world of politics is never pretty and often very ugly.
One of the most ugly features is how the politicians switch facts around to protect their argument. They determine a conclusion that fits their needs, …
April 9th, 2008 at 9:06 am
LET THERE BE NO CONFUSION: OBAMA WOULD BE THE END OF AMERICA AS WE KNOW IT…
OBAMA’S RED MENTOR PRAISES RED ARMY
By Cliff Kincaid
Barack Obama’s childhood mentor, Frank Marshall Davis, a member of the Moscow-controlled Communist Party USA, wrote a poem dedicated to the Soviet Red Army. “Smash on, victory-eating Red …
April 10th, 2008 at 12:41 am
LightS ouT KidS!…
No thanks Big Government.
I’ll take my soft, romantic lighting with a dimmer any day of the week.
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April 10th, 2008 at 4:01 am
Reverend Eric Lee Belittles Jewish Philanthropist…
Blacks continually claim racism is still alive and undaunted in America.
They should know….
From LGF via the Jawa Report
Barrack Obama’s friend and minister Reverend Wright appears not to be the only one claiming oppre…
April 10th, 2008 at 11:07 am
War News: Vets On The Hill 4/8/08 PART 1…
Yesterday on 08 APR 08, a group of men and women - Patriots - both currently serving in the United States Armed Services and those of service past, gathered in a Ballroom at the Sheraton Hotel in Arlington, VA. The Gathering began - per orders - at 0…..
April 10th, 2008 at 12:07 pm
Help Me Win!…
Please go vote for me!
Enter the Make Ur Lolcat Famous Contest
Help me win and I promise I’ll get back to more inane political commentary! Actually I’ll get back to it soon anyway, if I can get five minutes when I’m not having to s…
April 10th, 2008 at 9:47 pm
DRUG HELPS PROTECT MICE & MONKEYS FROM RADIATION DAMAGE…
Luckily I’ve been fortunate enough to never be closely associated with anyone with cancer. I do know that the radiation treatment is sometimes worse than the disease. And G-D forbid we make marijuana easily available to them…
I saw thi…
April 10th, 2008 at 11:15 pm
Obama: “That’s Just How White Folks Will Do You 
Gateway Pundit has more links but that should wet your appetite
Trackposted to Outside the Beltway, Rosemary’s Thoughts, WayWard Fundamentalist Christian, Right Truth, DragonLady’s World, Leaning Straight Up, A Newt One-punking the global …
April 11th, 2008 at 1:47 am
Jeremiah Wright is the least of his problems…
as for the ultimate foreign policy test, the one John Kerry called, “passing the Global Test,†Obama proposes a diplomatic Manhattan Project of sorts, with Iran’s Mahmoud Amadinejad.
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June 4th, 2008 at 2:36 am
How inspiring Randy Pausch is! If you liked “The Last Lecture”, another fantastic memoir I just read and highly recommend is “My Stroke of Insight” by Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor. Her TEDTalk video (ted.com) has been seen as many times as The Last Lecture I think, and Oprah did 4 shows on her book, so there are a lot of similarities. In My Stroke of Insight, there’s a happy ending though. It’s an incredible story! I hear they’re making it into a movie.