Made me cry…
It is a condensed version of the original lecture: http://www.cmu.edu/homepage/multimedia/randy-pausch-lecture.shtml
Entries from October 2007
October 18, 2007
Top 10 things to do when I’m bored
I….
1. visit all 3 of the social networking sites I belong to. Yes 3 is excessive.
2. experiment with makeup and give myself assorted alter egos (ie, Gothic Swati).
3. throw spontaneous fashion shows by trying on various outfits and posing in front of the mirror.
4. discover new artists through Pandora and then legally and illegally download [...]
October 9, 2007
horse sense #2
Swati-sage’s grammar tirade:
Poor grammar or spelling is in bad taste. The readers of what you write need to be treated with more respect.
There is a huge difference between:
there, they’re and their
you’re and your
it’s and its
who’s and whose
affect and effect
continual and continuous
passed and past
Abbreviations (ppl or bc or u) should be used sparingly outside [...]
October 8, 2007
HPV isn’t really all that common
I’m sick of hearing that HPV is so common. “By age 50, 80% of women will have acquired the genital infection of HPV.” Hearing these types of statistics can be misleading. The high prevalence of this virus somehow desensitized me to the true reality of it.A recent tragedy led me to delve further [...]
October 3, 2007
Breast Cancer Favor
A favor to ask, it only takes a minute….
* I * 6 * Y
The Breast Cancer site is having trouble getting enough people to click on their site daily to meet their quota of donating at least one free mammogram a day to an underprivileged woman. It takes less than [...]
