Hello from the Bean!

There's this fantastic sculpture(?) in Millennium Park in Chicago. From far away, it looks like this. Close up, it looks like this.

Last Lecture

Have you guys seen that Youtube video of the last lecture of Randy Pausch, the late computer science prof at Carnegie Mellon? Advisory: heartstrings will be fluttering. Here's the link, but don't go there unless you're unashamed to weep openly:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji5_MqicxSo