Sunday, April 13, 2008

The Politics of Lies



Obama will lose only if the American people are stupid enough to not want to hear the truth, but would rather wallow in their only self-denial. Since the American people have demonstrated this capacity previously (twice elected Bush), there's a good chance Obama will lose.

An Engineer's Guide to Cats

The Last Lecture: Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams



Professor Randy Pausch delivered the Last Lecture at Carnegie Mellon University on Sept. 18, 2007. The Last Lecture series asks preeminent individuals to give a lecture on things that really matter to them -- to imagine that it is the last talk they would ever give, because they would die afterwards. For Randy Pausch, the last lecture was not just a hyperbole -- he has been diagnosed with terminal pancreatic cancer. In August of 2007, he was given six more months to live.

As of today, Randy Pausch is still alive.

The lecture is over an hour long, but give it a try. Full transcript can be found here [PDF].

Updated: July 25, 2008
Randy Pausch is dead.

Monday, April 07, 2008

Saturday, April 05, 2008

Mathmaticious vs. Fergalicious

I don't like this song. I don't even like Fergie. Silly. No redeeming quality. But, here's Mathmaticious ... funny ...




And this is the context.