Wrong. The lecture demonstrably was about his primary values — children and students — and the virtues necessary to sustain and nurture them: truth, love, integrity, communication, honesty, independence, freedom, productivity, respect (of self and others), gratitude, humor/fun, et. al.

It’s “everyday heroes” like Randy Pausch, despite being among that shrinking minority, who continually cut-through convoluted confusion with clarity enough to — at minimum — balance “the growing masses” whom daily define dignity downward with deviancy.

Were his lecture to positively influence even a small fraction of parents and mentors … though unlikely, it’s inspirational (and fun!) to think that it could possibly positively impact — and perhaps even revolutionize — the rapid decline of the irrational, primitivistic, morally and economically bankrupt, infantilized, and emasculated remains of Western Civilization (formerly valuers of reason and justice, technology, self-reliance and accountability, self-respect and independence, and individual sovereignty/liberty).

- Shain

Thank you!

Michelle

Nope, this isn’t about cloud computing gems, nor gems for web programming applications such as Rails or Grails and not even Java….

That’s what I love about the web. Inspirational men and their stories get a fair share of the headlines as compared with newspapers which are mostly sensationalist ‘downers’.

Felt every word he said and I can say that he indeed had a life well spent.

Best.
alain