The Sound of Music in an Antwerp Train Station

This is an awesome video of the kind of stuff these folks do on a regular basis. We totally have to do something like this here in Knoxville. I know several Twitterers have expressed interest, anyone else?

A Fine Young Man on a Fine Spring Day

I hope you enjoy this video of my son, Brainyboy, playing soccer.

Not just your typical camcorder footage, this is something special... please take a look and leave comments. It's my first real attempt at video editing...

Creepy Eyes

Childhood Dreams

If there's one video to watch on the web today, it's this:

Dying Professor's Lecture of a Lifetime

Randy Pausch, a 46-year-old computer-science professor at Carnegie Mellon University, has terminal cancer and expects to live for just a few more months.

This week, he said goodbye to his students and the Pittsburgh college with one last lecture called "How to Live Your Childhood Dreams," on his life's journey and the lessons he's learned

The Wall Street Journal called it "the lecture of a lifetime" and those who have seen it have more than agreed.

Dr. Pausch lays everything on the line with grace, humor and wisdom. By telling his life and career story, he explains how everyone can fulfill their childhood dreams (one of which included being Captain Kirk, so Michael, you're one step ahead of the game right there).

He speaks of developing a Virtual Reality simulation with Disney Imagineers, teaching a hugely popular course in Virtual Worlds at Carnegie-Mellon, developing graduate programs in imagination building and finally completing work on a new system for teaching kids how to use computers.

He's given me a lot to think about. A whole lot.

An important point he made that I have to consider deeply involved setbacks and things that block our progress:

Though he achieved most of his childhood dreams, Pausch flashed his rejection letters on a screen and talked about career setbacks: "Brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls aren't there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to show us how badly we want things."

We all have brick walls in our lives. Some happen naturally as a result of circumstances. Sometimes other people put them up to block our way.

Sometimes we raise them ourselves and keep building them, brick by brick, while we try and convince ourselves that they are not of our own making. These are my most challenging walls to overcome, and maybe I can find the strength to overcome them.

Anyway, if you ever had childhood dreams watch the video of someone who overcame them - and see how he deals with death, for some the biggest brick wall of them all.

Videos For Everyone

Here's an assortment of YouTube videos I've come across lately. Something for everyone!


Classic comedy bit, "Who's on First" by Abbott and Costello. If you've never actually seen it, or someone in your house hasn't seen it (like BrainyBoy), here's their chance.



Amazingly, I'd never heard of former Cub Rick Monday's patriotic save in a 1976 game between Chicago and the LA Dodgers. Tell me you don't get a shiver when he explains what the fans did after the excitement had died down...



Beautifully edited look at Star Trek in all it's (pre-"Enterprise") versions. The music is from the movie, "Nixon" but it's amazingly appropriate.

And here's another one:

This was made in honor of Trek's 40th Anniversary. This one's more linear, going from show to show to show and uses an actual Trek score, the beautiful "Inner Light" Suite from TNG.



The Potter Puppet Pals in "The Mysterious Ticking Noise". Has to be seen and heard to be believed.



A plane crashes behind the outfield wall at a minor league baseball game. I've never seen anything like it...


And finally:


Celtic Woman - Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring (live)