Blog for One

Randy Pausch is a professor from Carnegie-Mellon University who has been diagnosed with terminal pancreatic cancer. This is likely not a news bulletin since his “Last Lecture” (check it out on youtube) has been turned into a book and he has been all over the MSM.

Here’s a Q&A from the CNN web site:

Time/CNN 10 Questions for Randy Pausch

I read through the 10 questions and I came upon the last one, which I will quote below:

What’s your favorite book? —Zora Brozina, Zagreb, Croatia
I loved A Wrinkle in Time. I dearly love Flowers for Algernon. There is an unpublished manuscript that I think is going to soon be published. It’s by a guy named Rich Gold who died way too young. It’s called The Plenitude. It’s an obscure reference, but one that I hope will become less obscure over time.

I read A wrinkle in Time in 5th grade, and it left a mark on me. Ditto Flowers for Algernon, which I read later in life.

His lectures are worth watching.

This guy is inspiring me to dream, something I thought I had lost.

Thanks for that, Randy.

Well, my flight will have to wait until mid-may. We had to cancel yesterday due to weather.

Pictures to follow — much later

Weather permitting, tomorrow I will be taking a “fam flight” in beautiful Ottawa, Ontario.

After attending a short ground school course, I will be in a single engine plane with a licensed, and I would guess fearless pilot who will hand me the controls.

This should be fun – pictures to follow.

What’s wrong with this picture?

Tonight, while I am upgrading to Wordpress 2.5, my wife is attending UFC 83

She just called to say she has great seats, “Really close to the cage”

Hmm, I think I need to go and bake something.