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"Last Lecture" CMU Professor Randy Pausch Dies
Many readers are sending in word that Randy Pausch has died at 47. The charismatic young college professor celebrated life despite a death sentence from pancreatic cancer in a remarkable speech widely known as the "Last Lecture." The video went viral and has been downloaded by over 10 million people.
Is it possible to organize a minute of silence on the Slashdot? Oh well, I know the answer.
In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is. - Yogi Berra
Or, failing that, if only they could die as quickly as he did.
(Apologies for the inappropriate humour, I was deeply moved by his lecture and even more so by his passing away. On behalf of ACs all over the internet, I wish him much success in the great lecture hall in the sky.)
...then I think his video must have metastatized, instead of going viral.
Well that would probably kill him.
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Way to ruin it for me, you insensitive clod!
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