Former Imagineer Randy Pausch passed away.

Former Imagineer Randy Pausch passed away today (Friday July 25) of Pancreatic Cancer. He was 47.

Randy was best known for his "Randy Pausch Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams" - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji5_MqicxSo given at Carnegie Mellon University. He told the packed auditorium he fulfilled almost all his childhood dreams -- being in zero gravity, writing an article in the World Book Encyclopedia and working with the Walt Disney Co.

The one that eluded him? Playing in the National Football League.

"If I don't seem as depressed or morose as I should be, sorry to disappoint you," Pausch said.

He then joked about his quirky hobby of winning stuffed animals at amusement parks -- another of his childhood dreams -- and how his mother introduced him to people to keep him humble: "This is my son, he's a doctor, but not the kind that helps people."

While working with the Walt Disney Imagineering he was one of the lead on the Virtual Reality attraction found at DisneyQuest "Aladdin's Magic Carpet Ride"

After watching the video he has become a mentor of mine and his teachings will always assist me.
An short version of the video from Oprah can be found here - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BODHsU3hDo4

 

47 so young. :'(
RIP Randy