Jeff Bezos's Speech to the 2010 class of 2010

A superlative speech by Jeff Bezos to the class of 2010 Princeton Grads. It is very moving and highly inspirational. I don't think I ever saw this side of Jeff Bezos while I was at Amazon (But then I skipped many of the all hands...). Here is the link to the speech
http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S27/52/51O99/index.xml

Take time to read it. If you are a toastmasters fan, you'll recognize all the elements of a good speech.

Did you know he was a tinkerer and inventor in his younger days?


Also, now we know where all the need for metrics comes from !!!! Note Bezos's passion for estimating various kinds of measures.

Extra Time -- Second Half -- 2010 World Cup final--Netherlands/Spain

Replacement by Spain. New guy Torres. Supposedly the golden boy for Spain.

Very good action in this second half.

Red card to John Heitinga of Netherlands. That means he goes off the field. Bad news for the Dutch. They are now down to ten. Spain has a free kick just outside the Dutch goal as a result of the red card. No goal for Spain.

Neither of the teams look like they can score a goal.

6 minutes to go. Free kick for Netherlands. No joy.

Fantastic. Spain nets the goal! What a goal! Real classic. The Dutch look really angry. Was the Spanish striker off side? The dutch seem to think so. The replay also hints that this was an off side.

118 minutes. 2 minutes to go. This is it, I think. Spain should be the World Cup winner, barring surprises.

Must be heartrending for the Dutch. This is the third time they have been beaten in the finals. '74, '78 and now in 2010.

45 seconds to go (2 min of added time).

That's it. Spain are the World Champions.

Extra Time -- First Half -- 2010 World Cup final--Netherlands/Spain

92nd minute. Quite a melee at the Dutch goal. Spain gets a corner. They should have gotten a penalty kick.

Lots of spirited tackles, though. How can these guys have so much energy after 90 minutes!!! How can they not be exhausted?

100th minute.  Great action. Good dribbling on both sides. Spain almost gets the goal! Hits the goal on the outside--deflected by the Dutch defender. Spain get the corner--but doesn't result in a goal.

First half of extra time ( a minute added for stoppage) over.

2010 World Cup final--Netherlands/Spain

The closing ceremonies were quite impressive.

Starting to watch the game. It's 25 minutes into the game; both teams are evenly matched. Lots of fouls and free kicks. Not exciting play so far.

Disappointed so far.

Half time and no goal. Not even any clear runs towards the goal. Let me re-state that. There were runs towards the goal, but all of them dissipated.

Second half is good so far. Plenty of attacks and counter attacks. Considerable number of 1-1 encounters.

69th minute. What a miss! Anyway Spain gets a corner. But they can't convert it...

Free kick (near the goal) for Spain. 73rd minute. What a useless attempt by Spain. No conversion...

Looks more and more like this will go to the penalty phase.

Spain is more and more on the attack, but they can't beat the Dutch defense.

80th minute. Attacks from Spain quite intense now.

If either team scores now, that's it. They win the championship. 10 minutes to go.

82nd minute. Holy smokes! The Dutch almost got their goal. Fantastic save by the Spanish goalie.

84th minute. Netherlands attacking now. No goal though.

1 minute to go. Will there be a goal? Will this go into extra time?

90 minutes over. Game continuing on added time because of stoppages.

Looks like there's going to be 30 more minutes...Yes there is going to be play in extra time.