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.

I remember my brother used to have this 7 1/2 ' long GI Joe aircraft carrier toy.  The thing took up his entire bedroom and we used to be able to stand on it.  It cost over $100 and was the envy of everyone who came over.  Definitely, check out the pic for this one.  We used to play with our Joes on that for hours.

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Ummm...for those who know Dave- he's just a tad on the competitive side. During this time our relationship had a lot of funny twists and turns. So you would think he would like to get on my good side...no deal. Girls don't always get into video games and I'm no exception, but I tried to play this damn game with him and he would always kick my ass. I tried so hard to stay alive for 30 seconds but that wasn't allowed. I remember being so pissed...but at the same time I kept trying to play and to get better...but he would never let me. I never won. My ass was always grass. No wonder I married someone who doesn't play video games. You suck David Keith.

So one night I had yet another Lavalife girl that I was dating.  This girl was cool, her name was Susan... but she liked to be called Sue.  She was pretty manly and her chin reminded me of Kenny Martin, a guy I grew up with. 

She was kind of older and that night we watched Lord of The Rings and hung out a little.

Anyways, after I left, I decided to go to my favorite bar (JD's Key club) and I called up my best friend neo_trek  and had him meet us up there.

Since my hair was all messed up from a bad hair day, I told Clingan to let me borrow his favorite winter hat.  We were basically wandering around, when I bumped into my friend Luke from Cross Country.

He had brought his grilfriend Kate and Kate brought her Hot sister along.

I immediately fell in love with this girl, she was soo freaking beautiful and I got so excited talking to her.  We had a lot in common and were both about to graduate from Oakland this next semester.

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I can't remember the year exactly but it was the year of my dad's high school reunion. One of his friends came from out of town and brought his kids. His daughter was a couple of years older than me. I think her name was Krista Birkelo or something.
I think Kevin must have been there and I think John and Derek were too but I'm not sure. We were all playing video games in my room. Through the course of the night, I fell in love with her. As a little boy, this happened to me a lot of times with a lot of girls; unrequited love with some random girl and dreaming of her for the next few weeks.
Anyway, nothing happened because I was just a little boy and she could not have possibly had any interest other than to be flattered. But afterwards I went around telling my friends and my cousins that we kissed. I think the lie grew bigger with time and some people were told that I copped a feel.
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