all about perspective...

lost among the o.j., and brit\kfed "news" items is a really newsworthy story that i learned about today on gma. randy pausch is a charasmatic and upbeat 46 yr old computer science professor at carnegie mellon university in pennsylvania. he has pancreatic cancer and has essentially been given 3-6 months to live. he made his last ever public speech entitled "how to live your childhood dreams" regarded by the wall street journal as the "lecture of a lifetime", (see video). it's remarkable the attitude that he has taken while facing this devastating reality. the man has zero self-pity and has approached his destiny in the way i think that we would all like to if we had the same fate. anyway, sort of heavy for a friday, but i thought it was worth sharing.