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A Digital Dying
Randy Pausch is a man of his time, a popular computer-science professor who lectures about time management and has done pioneer research in robotics and virtual reality. He is 46 years old, happily married and has three young children. A year ago, he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and now has only months to live.
For almost everybody else, dying is the most private experience of a lifetime. Aldous Huxley once wrote about terminal illness: “We live in one universe and die in another.â€
Not Randy Pausch. He is sharing his final days as a joyous celebration of life, on his web site, in a lecture for his students and a YouTube encounter for the rest of us.
Knowing him is an unforgettable experience.
Cross-posted from my blog.
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It makes the heart ache to know what he is going to leave behind. This man has the heart of a lion and soul of a prophet- would that he could live long enough to enlighten 1000 more lives. And cruel irony still keeps dunderheads like Bush in a position of power to change the world for the worse.
The greatest teachers are the ones who taught us to think for ourselves.
If you look through the book, you'll have the answer. Pausch, who stated that he undertook the project specifically for his children, has added a number of photos, and if I remember correctly, some other memorabilia.
I would imagine that he would have added his report cards and teacher comments, and some of his drawings and musings. Pausch was highly imaginative and supposedly given to doodling and scribbling his ideas.
Thanks for the info. May God have mercy on us all.
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