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.