During construction on the OC at OU, I and a female friend weaved through the construction, and were able to get to the roof on the addition, and just look over the campus.

One of the coolest and weirdest professors I had while attending Oakland was Prof. Mathieson. I took a database class with him as well as I got my first insight into PHP by taking an advanced web design class.

His favorite word in the whole world was DUDE.

One class I remember he picked up someones cell phone that rang and started talking to some random person.

Another time around this time of the year in 2001 or 2002, he had a controversial session where he was trying to explain that terrorists are heroes. (From some peoples perspective.)

He loves Zena the warrior princess and he also does lots of research on psychology.

We had a lot of fun classes together building applications for hippo events (a text based application to buy tickets), two up (a australian gambling game built in javascript) and much more. I miss oakland.

Anyone who knows me, knows that I love Karaoke. And it all started with this....


My senior year at Oakland, everyone in my full ride scholarship program
needed to compete with each other by developing some kind of new
technology or business idea. The competition was called the Innovative
Competition and I worked with one of the smartest people I knew in
college ( Andy Baker). It had a 1st prize of 1000 dollars and was
judged by faculty, alumni and people from corporations.


I had been thinking about this project for more than a year before I
came up with the final idea. I crossed out a proof of concept that
would send emails via voice phone calls as well as crossed out some
other ideas before coming up with this. An ONLINE KARAOKE DJ MACHINE!


It was totally insane. I remember sitting down with Andy and being
entirely passionate about how cool of an idea this was. I had already
found an open source java applet that will play MP3's on a website on
the fly and he decided it was a . . . Read More..

One winter night when Kevin lived above a business in a sweet apartment in downtown rochester. He and a bunch of C-Town gangstas had me, Kev and Robin (my cousin) come over for a "flowing session".

For those of you who dont know what flowing is, just see the 8 mile movie about eminem.

So we all were at a bar that night hanging out and playing pool. The snow was coming down lightly and then we all went upstairs to their apartment.

Kevin had this buddy who was a white boy, but absolutely amazing at rapping. He even had rap CDs and stuff. And this guy could spit out rhymes like you wouldnt believe.

We had beats in the background and we all . . . Read More..

Dave and I had our first date on January 17, 2004. Initially, we were going to go to an OU basketball game, but he cancelled on me so we decided to meet the next Saturday and do something else. I think we had been planning on going to go get drinks after I got out of work (at 8:00) but I got out of work early that day because it was super slow and I decided I would rather go home and make myself look cute for my date than stand around staring at my co-workers picking their noses.

Dave picked me up around 6:00 to go to dinner. The first thing I noticed when he arrived was his cute curly hair! He had been wearing a hat when I first met him and I had no idea how rad his hair really was. ;) We decided to go to Cooker by OU, but when we got there the building was pitch black and the neon sign was off--it was closed. (Side note--I've always been a little upset that Cooker went out of business because they had awesome food. I think Carson's is technically supposed to be the new . . . Read More..