Other Interests: pursuing your passion

Achieving your childhood dreams

Randy Pausch's Last Lecture (September 2007) was renamed Achieving your childhood dreams (You Tube video).

He had terminal cancer and listed the things he had dreamt of as a child and how he achieved them.

Modest but inspirational, his favourite saying is "brick walls are there to show how much you want to get around them".

This WSJ video summarises the response to the lecture.

World University Debating Championships Thailand 2008: Final results

Queensland E was knocked out in the semi-finals.

The Semi Final motion was that extreme economic need should be grounds for asylum.

The finalists were Oxford A, Monash A, Sydney A, Cambridge B.

The final topic was "that people who give HIV to others must pay drug support."

Oxford A won.(World Debating Website)

World University Debating Championships Thailand 2008: Queensland in semi-finals

The World Debating website reports that Queensland E (Evan Goldman and Lauren Humphrey) are through to the semi-finals together with 2 other Australian teams.

The Qtr Final motion was: This House would force religious adoption agencies to place children with homosexual couples.

World University Debating Championships Thailand 2008

After the preliminary rounds it appears that Queensland E (including Evan Goldman) has gone into the Octo Finals at the Assumption Worlds in 3rd place. Queensland A and B also made it through.

More at World Debating Website and Global Debate Blog.