Dr. Pausch Part 2

I caught the special on Wednesday, then today my copy of "The Last Lecture" arrived. I couldn't put it down and finished it in one sitting. Rarely does a book have such an impact on me that I would recommend it to absolutely ANYONE, regardless of age or background, but this is the book.

For those of you who don't know the back story, Dr. Randy Pausch is a professor at Carnegie Mellon University who is dying of pancreatic cancer. He was signed up to deliver a 'last lecture' - a hypothetical talk where professors imagine what they would tell their students if they knew they were going to die. The twist is that a little while before he was scheduled to speak, he got the news that his cancer had returned and he had 10 tumors on his liver that would be fatal. He went ahead with the lecture, and I've posted the video below from Youtube, but it's also available on Google Video and from CMU. It's heartbreaking and motivating at the same time.