false 2318271 21 "We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand."<br> --Randy Pausch <P>A lot of professors give talks titled "<i>The Last Lecture</i>." Professors are asked to consider their demise and to ruminate on what matters most to them. And while they speak, audiences can't help but mull the same question: What wisdom would we impart to the world if we knew it was our last chance? If we had to vanish tomorrow, what would we want as our legacy? <P>When Randy Pausch, a computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon, was asked to give such a lecture, he didn't have to imagine it as his last, since he had recently been diagnosed with terminal cancer. But the lecture he gave--"Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams"--wasn't about dying. It was about the importance of overcoming obstacles, of enabling the dreams of others, of seizing every moment (because "time is all you have...and you may find one day that you have less than you think"). It was a summation of everything Randy had come to believe. It was about living. <P>In this book, Randy Pausch has combined the humor, inspiration and intelligence that made his lecture such a phenomenon and given it an indelible form. It is a book that will be shared for generations to come. 3364076 8 4 2008 The Last Lecture total:21879|5:9237|4:7328|3:4018|2:1072|1:224| 21879 89919 33635 6224 3 43 false false Tue Jul 22 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Jul 09 09:02:51 -0700 2008 Sun Jul 27 10:25:43 -0700 2008
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yeah, everyone is raving about this guy...
Five star attitude... the author gets diagnosed with terminal cancer. He refers to this as "an engineering problem" (understated and true) has 3-6 months to liv...more...]]> 1 38 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Jun 02 22:58:44 -0700 2008 Thu Jun 12 12:44:48 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 13 false false Wed May 28 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Apr 11 07:51:48 -0700 2008 Wed May 28 12:27:51 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 17 false false Thu Jan 29 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Aug 25 14:28:30 -0700 2008 Fri Jan 30 09:24:25 -0800 2009
Randy Pausch, the author, was one of those people who became wildly popular in 2008 thanks to the internet. He was a popular professor at Carnegie Mellon and was in...more...]]> 5 10 false false Fri Mar 28 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Mar 28 12:47:44 -0700 2008 Mon Apr 07 12:35:12 -0700 2008 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08097/870...

I read this because I am doing continuing coverage on the author, a Carnegie Mellon University professor who is dying of pancreatic cancer and who gave a last lecture that has been viewed o...more...]]> 1 9 false false Tue Jun 10 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed May 21 17:51:30 -0700 2008 Tue Jun 10 16:29:20 -0700 2008 more...]]> 2 8 false false Tue Apr 29 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Apr 03 10:38:41 -0700 2008 Wed Apr 30 09:00:54 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 6 false false Thu Sep 04 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Aug 24 08:02:41 -0700 2008 Thu Sep 04 16:20:27 -0700 2008 more...]]> 2 7 false false Sat May 24 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu May 22 07:13:43 -0700 2008 Sat May 24 19:02:40 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 7 false true Sat Jul 19 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Jul 19 06:38:14 -0700 2008 Sat Jul 19 06:52:08 -0700 2008
This book is right up my alley in my latest/favorite reads or movies watched; Animal, Plant, Vegetable (Barbara Kingslover), Into The Wild (movie), and now The Last Lecture.

The book is about Randy Pausch, also the author, who is diagnosed with terminal cancer and has 3-6...more...]]> 4 4 false false Mon Aug 04 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Aug 03 08:37:31 -0700 2008 Mon Aug 04 11:13:59 -0700 2008 CNN.com late last month. The bulk of the story centered around the "last lecture" that made him famous well beyond the halls of the universities where he taught and in the scientific real...more...]]> 2 5 false false Sat Jul 19 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Jun 29 15:31:48 -0700 2008 Sat Jul 19 18:03:30 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 5 false false Thu May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue May 13 14:27:20 -0700 2008 Tue May 13 14:38:49 -0700 2008
I very much like that fact that it is a book basically about being positive and being effective and is by an author exactly unlike the author of the Secret.

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