{"id":474,"date":"2007-09-25T10:53:35","date_gmt":"2007-09-25T17:53:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/?p=474"},"modified":"2007-09-25T10:53:35","modified_gmt":"2007-09-25T17:53:35","slug":"software-tools-the-human-side-of-alice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/2007\/09\/software-tools-the-human-side-of-alice\/","title":{"rendered":"SOFTWARE &#038; TOOLS: The Human Side of Alice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"drop\">S<\/span>tumbled onto a <a href=\"http:\/\/video.aol.com\/video-detail\/dying-professors-last-lecture\/450759514\">video<\/a> via <a href=\"http:\/\/writersgroupblog.blogspot.com\/2007\/09\/life-lessons.html\">The Writers&#8217; Group<\/a> and just can&#8217;t come to terms with it.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/ZQtwEKlUutA\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\"><\/embed><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cs.cmu.edu\/~pausch\/\">Randy Pausch<\/a>, a professor at Carnegie Mellon and one of the main brains behind <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.alice.org\/\">Alice<\/a><\/em>, is dying of cancer.&nbsp; Inspirational above and beyond the very depressing fact that this young man&#8217;s life is being cut short and that his wife and three young sons will not have his physical presence in their lives. <\/p>\n<p>Every one of us is given life with the caveat of its inevitable end.&nbsp; One life is no more valuable than another.&nbsp; And yet, sometimes you just can&#8217;t help but feel the pain of loss. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"drop\">S<\/span>tumbled onto a video via The Writers&#8217; Group and just can&#8217;t come to terms with it.&nbsp; Randy Pausch, a professor at Carnegie Mellon and one of the main brains behind Alice, is dying of cancer.&nbsp; Inspirational above and beyond the very depressing fact that this young man&#8217;s life is being cut short and that his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software-tools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}