I read about Randy Pausch last year when InformationWeek ran an article about him. That single page of text was so inspiring, I ripped it out of the magazine; it's still floating around the apartment somewhere. Fast forward about seven months, and what do I catch but a special on television about him (a series of interviews with Diane Sawyer). His story is so inspiring and so sad at the same time. I think that's because it is all our stories, in time. Haven't heard of Randy Pausch? Watch the video from his last lecture at Carnegie Mellon University. It's time well spent.