Lecture of a lifetime - Achieving your childhood dreams

I got this (sad, funny, entertaining, moving, motivating, you name it...) video clip from a friend. Randy Pausch a CMU professor dying of pancreatic cancer delivering his last lecture. If you find it good, watch the whole 2hour lecture here.

Best thing about this lecture is its finale. I think I never have seen (or attended) a lecture with such intense ending that made me think over and over again. I wouldn't say that this lecture changed my life though it for sure made a huge impact. At the very least, it made me think seriously, whether I do what I always wanted to do?

Talking about childhood dreams, I don't think it'd be easy to achieve my childhood dreams, except for a few. Mine are not as specific as Randy's, they usually are more generic in nature. However, it is not the time to reveal them yet (huh! topsy krets). Hopefully, I would someday be able to blog (or do the equivalent of blogging then) on my childhood dreams and how successful I was in achieving them.

The whole lecture was full of food for thoughts, but one clue in particular on achieving childhood dreams:

Brick walls are there for a reason. They let us prove how badly we want things.

What's my blog rated?

Browsing around randomly - well, I was using google, so it was not entirely random - I found this funny web site which claims to provide a "Film Rating" for any blog.

Huh! my blog is rated PG-13. For 10x use of "crap" (can't help it when the blog it self is named "Random Crap") and 1x use of t i t.... What? Where did I say that? I searched through the whole blog, couldn't find where that is. Probably in html format only.... so I opened up a page source window and searched for the three letters followed by a space. Hmm, strange, I still can't find it. Could it be that their analysis is faulty somehow?

Anyway it's nice to have such a badge on your blog. Looks cool...

PG-13? who writes for children under 13? CRAP once more!!! Gimme an R.


Update (25/09/20007): As Yasith pointed out in his comment, after this post, my blog is rated R (isn't that great?):



For once I thought it would be a hard thing to achieve such an honor. Oh! it's just 13 craps and one word which happened to truncate in a totally unintended way, over which I have no control. Shame on blogger ;)