Yesterday I came home from Kol Nidre (Yom Kippur) services, and found Randy Pausch’s “Last Lecture” entitled “Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams.” It’s similar to Tuesdays with Maurie except with a computer science professor. Martian mentioned this lecture on her blog the other day, and as she is a former student of his, she has much more insightful things to say about Prof. Pausch. I can only simply recommend the lecture as a great way to finish up a day of reflection.
Also, today was the first Yom Kippur ever (I think) in which I didn’t take a nap in the afternoon. Instead, I worked on a math problem while watching the women’s world cup (TiVo’d) and Shaun of the Dead. The math problem is this: imagine you have a grid of 2×2 squares. You drop a 2-inch needle on the grid. What is the probability that the needle does not cross a line of your grid? Good luck! I think I have the solution (a computer simulation resulted in the same probability), but I haven’t been able to verify it.
20 minutes left — almost time to eat!