Be Careful. It's a Dangerous World Out There. Always Carry Your Piece.

What if you had to give your last ever lecture?

Randy Pausch is a Computer Sciences Lecture at Carnegie Mellon University who is dying from Pancreatic Cancer. He gave a talk billed as his last ever lecture. It has become an Internet phenomenon, watched, so far, over a million times. The Telegraph link gives a summary of the news story so far. The CMU links to the recording of the lecture.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/12/02/wdisney102.xml

http://www.cmu.edu/randyslecture/

So if you knew your time was drawing to a close, what would be in your last lecture?

vi.cis.si.tude

noun

1. a change or variation occurring in the course of something.
2. interchange or alternation, as of states or things.
3. vicissitudes, successive, alternating, or changing phases or conditions,
as of life or fortune; ups and downs.
4. regular change or succession of one state or thing to another.
5. change; mutation; mutability

Usage

He remained steadfast through the vicissitudes of life.

vi.cis.si.tude