Before he died in 2008, Carnegie Mellon Computer Science professor, Randy Pausch, gave a now famous talk called the Last Lecture. He wrote a book with the same title. Both are about achieving your childhood dreams. Although he was dying, his book and lecture were all about the role and the power that dreams play [...]
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The Stuff of Dreams
Posted in Musings, Performing Arts, Science, tagged music, Science on December 3, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
two videos for a rainy sunday morning…
Posted in Musings on September 12, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Two videos from our good friend youtube to entertain you this rainy morning. First Off – an example of the kind of entertainment i don’t think you’ll ever see at a BURKE pep rally: Part I: And A Caveat on the second video: This writer, nor the Edmund Burke School is promoting the drinking of Beer by posting this [...]
On Your way in….
Posted in Musings on September 1, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Welcome Back! As students, faculty and staff return to school for meetings, orientations, and preseason, here are some doormats you won’t see on your way in to the building.
Materials Are Not Important – Have Fun With Your Work
Posted in Literature, Musings, tagged comics on August 3, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I’m a big fan of the website Letters of Note – which posts actual letters from the famous and the not-so-famous from deep in history up to today. There are letters ranging from Churchill to Paul Newman, from Gandhi to Iggy Pop, every one of which will produce a smile and/or pack a wallop. The [...]
Spotlight on Google – we use it every day…so why not learn more about it?
Posted in Education, Musings on July 6, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Recently on Reddit.com bloggers asked some google employees anonymously what it’s really like to work for them. It’s a pretty interesting interview – definitely worth a read. Check It Out Here Rumor has it that google is developing a site [...]
Scissor Lift Ballet
Posted in Musings on July 5, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Ever Seen Cory or Eddie driving around the building in the scissor lift? Ever thought to yourself – I wonder what it would be like if we owned two of them, and created a dance piece using the two scissor lifts? Well, now you don’t have to wonder anymore, here’s what it might look like:
LEGO® Architecture: Towering Ambition
Posted in Art, Community, Education, History, Musings on July 3, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
This summer the featured exhibition at the National Building Museum is, LEGOs!! [...]
Teen Talk Buster – Decoding your teens language.
Posted in Community, Musings on July 1, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Defining Privacy
Posted in Community, Musings, tagged technology on January 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
In December, Facebook made a number of significant and controversial changes regarding the nature of its users’ privacy. Facebook began and grew exponentially, in part because it placed the idea of privacy at the core of the user experience: users relied on the promise that their information was by default visible only to people they [...]
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