The World Through My Eyes

Randy Pausch, the charismatic young college professor who chronicled his battle with pancreatic cancer in a remarkable speech widely-known as the "Last Lecture," has died at the age of 47. [Source]

Apparently Pausch passed away last week; truly a sad day for everyone. Randy...you will be missed. My prayers go out to his family and friends.

Now I usually don't post pictures like this, but I felt like this was interesting. Jacquelyn Soprano who is in her thirties and is a lawyer who in her spare time has decided to start modeling. Now I have to say that she is very beautiful. Now I have always been told not to judge a book by its cover, but I would have never guessed that this women is a lawyer. So more power to her, she got the brains and the looks.

Paulette stared opposite Charlie Chaplin in "The Great Dictator." She was also married to him. All I can say is wow, you don't see this kind of beauty much anymore.

A while back I posted a link to a you tube video of Charlie Chaplin talking. (Well at least I thought I did, appearantly I didn't so I posted it below. It's an excellent speech.) It was from a movie called The Great Dictator. This movie written and directed by Chaplin himself was satire on Nazi Germany, dictator Adenoid Hynkel has a double... a poor Jewish barber... who one day is mistaken for Hynkel. The movie was great, I found it to be very funny at times and the same time it had some emotional substance to it. Apparently it was pretty controversial when the movie came out since Germany and the U.S.A. were at peace. Though looking back on the movie Chaplin did a great job bringing notice to what Nazi Germany was doing. I would recommend this movie to anybody who like older movies.

So as I mentioned earlier we are having a photo contest at my work and right after we announced the contest one of my co-worker who is an excellent photographer brought in a picture that he on the fly took. We all were thinking it was his way of throwing the knife into the ring. So since then I have been trying mimic his pictures to see if I can get the same effect. I haven't been able to yet, but I have taken some really great pictures. I will say this, I do miss the macro ability on my point and shoot camera. I hopefully will be able to add a macro lens to my camera soon...well probably not soon since they are so expensive, but I hope to have one soon or later. But I did lean that I can get closer pictures with my 18-55mm lens rather than the 55-200mm lens. Below I have put a few of the pictures that I have taken this weekend. I hope to do another photo walk soon. I would like to start getting more urban photography soon.

So the wife and I went to a lugnuts game this weekend. I am starting to think that every time I go...the lose. The game started out great, but in the end they lost 5-4 to the Clinton Lumber Kings. What is a lumber king anyway. But I was able get my soon to be 4 year-old nephew a ball signed by Big Lug. He is just nuts about him. So I am looking forward to giving that to him, though I'm not sure he will really understand what it is just yet.