Randy Pausch is not my hero. I don't admire him. At a gut level I dislike him, and the cliched insight is probably true: I fear I have some of him in me. I don't want to be that guy dying the perfectly popular death. He had fun doing the Star Trek walk-on? I would have related to him more if he talked about the various things he had fun doing in his last months, but confided that the Star Trek experiece sucked and that the people that worked there were real assholes, for example. But of course I would have related to him more if he cared much less about achieving his random G-rated as good as poll-tested list of childhood dreams, than about maximizing his persistence odds. Unless of course he's doing all this to maximize his constituents for a future technology-based ressurection. But barring that hypothetical (what I call the Jesus strategy) Randy Pausch is not my hero.
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D924VKDG4&show_article=1
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