Introducing the Elephant
Whether you noticed or not, the address for this page is introducingtheelephant.blogspot.com. Now that I've brought that to your attention I'll tell you where I got it. Last night, I was using stumbleupon.com and "stumbling" around on the internet. I came across a list from Psychology Today entitled "10 Life-Enhancing Things You Can Do in Ten Minutes or Less" . The first thing on the list is "Watch 'The Last Lecture' by Randy Pausch ". I was bored and it was late so I watched it (you should too). The whole point is Randy Pausch was a professor at Carnegie Mellon University and he found out he had 3-6 months of good health left so he wrote and gave his "Last Lecture". Right off the bat he jumps in saying, "So, you know, in case there is anyone who wandered in and doesn't know the back story, my dad always taught me that when there's an elephant in the room, introduce them.", Prof. Pausch is referring to t...