Randy Pausch, who became well known in a WSJ profile — A Beloved Professor Delivers the Lecture of a Lifetime last Sept. with his last Lecture at Carnegie Mellon, died July 25. His speech is inspirational. Here’s his wiki entry and his old web page. Through YouTube, you can view the lecture.
and another including one on time management:
In Saturday’s WSJ’s Weekend Journal was an intereview with Janis Ian.
I liked the last question:
How old were you when you thought you were grown up?
In my 40s, I realized would never be the youngest again, never be considered amazing again, that I was being looked up to by two generations of songwriters. I had to accept that I had moved into a mentoring age, and I could go gracefully or go kicking and screaming. I remember when I was a kid thinking, “When I grow up no one is ever going to tell me what to do again.” How nice to be so innocent.
George Carlin‘s “FM-AM” and “Class Clown” were some of the first comedy albums I heard. As a boy, the hippy-dippy weatherman was a great routine. NY Times: George Carlin, 71, Irreverent Standup Comedian, Is Dead.
It was a shock. NY Times Tim Russert, 58, NBC’s Face of Politics, Dies. For my friends and colleagues, the reaction was. “That’s so young.” Here’s another story from MSNBC.
The audience might have been children, but I enjoyed the books as much as other books I read recently. Finished “A Single Shard” by Linda Sue Park. It was a fascinating story about Korean pottery in the 15th century.
Last week I finished “Because of Winn Dixie” by Kate DiCamillo. I enjoyed “A Single Shard” better.
Sharon McCarthy, who lives in the Charlotte area, plans to hike the Smoky Mountains over the next year to raise money for the Girl Scouts. She will hike mostly on the weekends. She was profiled in the Charlotte Observer, but the article page is no long available. Instead I’ll read of her hikes through her blog — Great Smoky Mountains Girl Scout Challenge.
I enjoy reading Jonathan Clement’s “Getting Going” columns in the Wednesday WSJ. I was surprised to see him writing his last column today, What I Learned From Writing 1,008 Columns. I missed the mention in an earlier column this month, And It All Comes Down to This….
He’s also left an online column of his favorite columns, A Longtime Columnist Picks His Favorites. He also has a web site, JonathanClements.com, where he promotes his books and answers some questions.
He’s going to be director of financial education at Citi. He’s mentioned in a Portfolio.com article about others leaving WSJ, It’s Quittin’ Time at ‘The Wall Street Journal’.
I also enjoy Bob Brinker and Jane Bryant Quinn and the advice from Fidelity, Vanguard, and online bloggers, such as Get Rich Slowly.
Cool Tools is for gadget freaks. Cool tools I’ve enjoyed are write in the rain notebooks, Gossamer Whisper Uberlight Pack, Fiskars PowerGear Bypass Pruner and Access All Areas: A User’s Guide to the Art of Urban Exploration, among other bookmarked links.
Cool Tools is like a trip to the hardware store.
Now Cool Tools, a site created by Kevin Kelly, lists all the tools that run Cool Tools.
