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As I mentioned in my last post, Randy Pausch’s book The Last Lecture has become a runaway success. (And Randy has was named to Time Magazine’s 100 most influential people, which is an honor he absolutely deserves.) The day after Finals week ended I read the book cover to cover.
It is […]

For those of you who don’t know, Randy Pausch is a Professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. He is also dying of cancer. He is 46 years old.
As many other people, I have been following Randy Pausch’s battle with pancreatic cancer for a while now. You can read my […]

Allison passed me a link to a video about the comparisons between Barack Obama’s campaign for President of the United States and the fictional Santos Campaign on the TV show The West Wing via email today. I have mentioned that I’m a fan of The West Wing before. I didn’t necessarily agree with […]

Fox News is reporting that some lost documents and artifacts relating to the assassination of JFK were found in a Dallas courthouse. As someone who has been fascinated with the JFK assassination for years, this is obviously interesting news for a variety of reasons.
My first reaction was the sort of comic imbalance […]

I have talked about some of the things I would like to see in electronic book readers before. I have a feeling that this is a list that is fundamentally incomplete simply because I haven’t sat down and actually analyzed the problem from an engineering standpoint. However, I read something on Cult of […]

As I’m sure many of you know, I graduated from Purdue University in 2003 with a degree in Computer Engineering. It’s been 5 years since I graduated and I recently had the opportunity to visit Purdue for the first time since graduation. To say that Purdue has undergone a lot of change in […]

I don’t really have the opportunity to watch as many movies as I once did, but I recently saw The Fountain by Darren Aronofsky whom you might remember from Pi or Requiem for a Dream. At 96 minutes long The Fountain is an incredibly descriptive movie that says quite a bit more than movies […]

For many people the idea of reading a book about a mathematical proof right after finishing a semester in a Computer Science graduate program would be an apt definition of torture. First, I am not one of those people. Second, Fermat’s Enigma really isn’t a book about math so much as […]

I am beginning to slowly comprehend the extent to which Randy Pausch is sneaky smart. Maybe. I honestly don’t know, but he’s absolutely got me enthralled in a riddle.
If you don’t know who Randy Pausch is or you haven’t already read my previous posts about Dr. Pausch’s “Last Lecture” and about […]

Slashdot recently reported on an ArsTechnica article on the death of RealID. There are several things to take from this.
First, RealID is horrible from a privacy and liberty standpoint. This is well-known to anyone who actively concerns themselves with these sorts of issues. It is essentially a national ID card. Depending […]