An amazing book, an amazing man

I recommend "The Last Lecture" by Randy Pausch (with Jeffrey Zaslow)! I cannot explain how beautiful and inspiring this book is. A great holiday present, and something us, in academia, probably need to read.

For those who have not heard of the book, Dr. Pausch was a professor at Carnegie Mellon University in PA, who had a part in creating the first virtual reality program, did a sabbatical as a Disney Imagineer, and had a hand in creating the computer programming package, Alice.

For those who have never heard of the book, I recommend visiting the website:

http://www.thelastlecture.com/

As an aside, I think that teaching about dreams and life's lessons does not occur enough in university/college atmospheres any more. Good reading, all!