Comments on: Cassini Contest for Kids http://mendicantbug.com/2007/10/23/cassini-contest-for-kids/ Wanderings into computational linguistics, science, social media and life... Mon, 23 Apr 2012 02:02:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Sara Gold http://mendicantbug.com/2007/10/23/cassini-contest-for-kids/#comment-206 Mon, 29 Oct 2007 19:24:30 +0000 http://mendicantbug.com/2007/10/23/cassini-contest-for-kids/#comment-206 Some lessons from Randy Pausch’s last lecture that especially moved me:

1. Brick walls are there for a reason: they let us prove how badly we want things.
2. Experience is what you get when you didn’t get what you wanted.
3. Never lose the child-like wonder.
4. If we do something which is pioneering, we will get arrows in the back. But at the end of the day, a whole lot of people will have a whole lot of fun.
5. Be good at something; it makes you valuable.
6. If you live your life the right way, the karma will take care of itself, and the dreams will come to you.

Check out the tribute quiz on the lecture at http://www.mystudiyo.com : you can add your own questions at the end of the quiz.
http://www.mystudiyo.com/activity.php?act=558

]]> By: Jason Adams http://mendicantbug.com/2007/10/23/cassini-contest-for-kids/#comment-198 Wed, 24 Oct 2007 01:24:48 +0000 http://mendicantbug.com/2007/10/23/cassini-contest-for-kids/#comment-198 Yep, make that 4 Nobelian Turds (at least, I’m open to more).

]]> By: jweathers777 http://mendicantbug.com/2007/10/23/cassini-contest-for-kids/#comment-197 Wed, 24 Oct 2007 01:21:55 +0000 http://mendicantbug.com/2007/10/23/cassini-contest-for-kids/#comment-197 In your list of Giant Turds with Novel Prizes, don’t forget about war criminal Henry Kissinger who was awarded the 1973 Nobel Peace Prize. These prizes are such jokes. Just consider the extreme absurdity of the Nobel Committee’s failure to present the Nobel Peace Prize to Gandhi despite his enormous and widely acknowledged contributions to the ideal of peace.

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