Comments on: Last Lecture http://erikras.com/2007/09/22/last-lecture/ Thoughts and photos from an American living in Spain. Tue, 22 May 2012 13:42:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Erik R. http://erikras.com/2007/09/22/last-lecture/#comment-1211 Erik R. Fri, 25 Jul 2008 19:00:38 +0000 http://www.erik-rasmussen.com/blog/2007/09/22/last-lecture/#comment-1211 Randy Pausch died today, July 25, 2008. <a href="http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/memoriam-randy-pausch-innovative-computer/story.aspx?guid={A01E624E-ED45-4C4E-92F3-E59B7C5CC159}&dist=hppr" rel="nofollow">Read more</a>. Randy Pausch died today, July 25, 2008. Read more.

]]> By: erik http://erikras.com/2007/09/22/last-lecture/#comment-1210 erik Mon, 24 Sep 2007 21:22:15 +0000 http://www.erik-rasmussen.com/blog/2007/09/22/last-lecture/#comment-1210 Here's his <a href="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5700431505846055184" rel="nofollow">full lecture</a>, by the way. Here’s his full lecture, by the way.

]]> By: erik http://erikras.com/2007/09/22/last-lecture/#comment-1209 erik Mon, 24 Sep 2007 14:41:34 +0000 http://www.erik-rasmussen.com/blog/2007/09/22/last-lecture/#comment-1209 Great comment, Alan. Thanks for that. <blockquote>And he also had the same outlook as Dr. Randy… happy until the end.</blockquote>That doesn't sound like such a bad way to go, if you ask me. It sucks to go young, but knowing it's coming and having it be relatively quick at the end would be nice. I was reminded of The Little Prince recently too. I forget by what. That room drawing part was pretty touching, I agree. Seems reasonable to me. Great comment, Alan. Thanks for that.

And he also had the same outlook as Dr. Randy… happy until the end.

That doesn’t sound like such a bad way to go, if you ask me. It sucks to go young, but knowing it’s coming and having it be relatively quick at the end would be nice.

I was reminded of The Little Prince recently too. I forget by what. That room drawing part was pretty touching, I agree. Seems reasonable to me.

]]> By: alan http://erikras.com/2007/09/22/last-lecture/#comment-1208 alan Mon, 24 Sep 2007 14:26:44 +0000 http://www.erik-rasmussen.com/blog/2007/09/22/last-lecture/#comment-1208 I almost stopped the video after I heard what he was dying of. My father died of pancreatic cancer. Like Dr. Randy, he was very much alive until a month or so before he died. He went downhill Very fast at the point and it was tough when he got to the point where he didn't know who I was. And he also had the same outlook as Dr. Randy... happy until the end. As a father of two, these kinda stories just break my heart. I'm more emotional today than usual. I learned last night that one of my cousins was killed in Iraq yesterday. I didn't know him, but for some reason it crushed me. I thought the world of his mother. I guess having kids now put the loss of a kid in a new perspective. The first thing I thought of when Dr. Randy said let your kids paint their rooms and don't crush their creativity was a section of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Little_Prince" rel="nofollow">The Little Prince</a> where he draws a boa with an elephant inside. The picture is mistaken for a hat. A kids perspective on life is a cool thing and we can learn a lot from them. I'm done rambling now. Thanks for presenting the video. I almost stopped the video after I heard what he was dying of. My father died of pancreatic cancer. Like Dr. Randy, he was very much alive until a month or so before he died. He went downhill Very fast at the point and it was tough when he got to the point where he didn’t know who I was. And he also had the same outlook as Dr. Randy… happy until the end.

As a father of two, these kinda stories just break my heart. I’m more emotional today than usual. I learned last night that one of my cousins was killed in Iraq yesterday. I didn’t know him, but for some reason it crushed me. I thought the world of his mother. I guess having kids now put the loss of a kid in a new perspective.

The first thing I thought of when Dr. Randy said let your kids paint their rooms and don’t crush their creativity was a section of the The Little Prince where he draws a boa with an elephant inside. The picture is mistaken for a hat. A kids perspective on life is a cool thing and we can learn a lot from them.

I’m done rambling now. Thanks for presenting the video.

]]> By: Jane http://erikras.com/2007/09/22/last-lecture/#comment-1207 Jane Sun, 23 Sep 2007 17:50:50 +0000 http://www.erik-rasmussen.com/blog/2007/09/22/last-lecture/#comment-1207 They featured him on the news recently and it was, despite the circumstances, really great to listen to him give a lecture about living. They featured him on the news recently and it was, despite the circumstances, really great to listen to him give a lecture about living.

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