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Making the Most of It

Since September 2007 I have been keeping tabs on one Mr. Randy Pausch who was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer the year before.  On September 18, 2007 he gave a “Last Lecture” at Carnegie Mellon University, where he had been a professor of Computer Science, Human-Computer Interaction, and Design since 1988.
If you’ve not seen this 76 [...]

24: The Unaired 1994 Pilot

We were reminiscing the other day about “When we went to college…” (oh so long ago):

Mobile phones were briefcase-sized car phones
We were only able to access The Internet while sealed within the thick glass walls of the computer lab during set hours with a monitor watching over you the entire time
MP3s were a fantasy that [...]