Todd Mundt

I’ve been meaning to post this for more than a week, but you may already have encountered it on any number of web sites. Randy Pausch passed away on July 25th, after a battle with pancreatic cancer.

He gave his now famous “Last Lecture” as a professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University on September 18, 2007. It went viral almost immediately. I didn’t watch it at the time… only after his death. It’s amazing, and his argument about how one can achieve one’s goals is all the more poignant in light of his own achievements and his courage. For me, it has had additional power in the days following the death of Tim McLean, the 22 year old man who was so hideously murdered by Vince Weiguang Li on a Greyhound bus near Portage La Prairie, MB. Both Tim and Randy represent potential, lost forever.