Piles Of Rock

April 16, 2008

I know lots of cynical people who forget the world is a wonderful place.

First, from Sarah, the best commercial ever: I love the world. (I'm a pretty good fan of the shows on the Discovery Channel too.)

And I've been meaning to link to this for a while. Its a video of Prof Randy Pausch of Carnegie Mellon's last lecture. He's dying of cancer. He gave this lecture called "Achieving your childhood dreams". It is really inspiring when/if you have 76 minutes to devote to this, you should:

Posted by becca at April 16, 2008 08:23 PM |

Piles Of Rock

A little bit of hope for the places I'll go, a few memories of the places I've been, and some humdrum in between to fill the white space.
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