Results of the 10/6 Survey:

Something that you want to know about Idris

The Great Race with Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon, Natalie Wood, Peter Falk - It's about a Car Race from New York to Paris that has a bar fight in a Western theme, a car race, a sword fight, a Viennese Waltz scene, a pie fight, and it's darn funny.

Depends on the Era. Wonder Woman is one of the Golden Age superheros, circa World War II I think, and one of the first heroines to rate her own comic book. However, she was never really as interesting as some of the other heros at the time for some of the same reasons that make Superman kind of boring. In addition to all that, she was saddled with a lot of the baggage that women characters had to deal with at the time. That's why she was usually using her lasso instead of fighting it out like her male counterparts. A relatively good case in point was the way that she was portrayed in the cartoons in the 70's - almost a throwaway character that happened to be female. Around the late 80's and early 90's, when DC comics was changing its image, under new management, Wonder Woman was reconstructed and became a lot more interesting as a character. I think my favorite portrayal now is in the recent series Kingdom Come where she's shown as she should have been portrayed - someone raised in a warrior society who has a Spartan view, in the traditional Greek sense, of how the world should be. She provided an interesting contrast to Superman's Boy Scout morality (leadership by strength of moral certainty) and Batman's cynical realism (justice can only be enforced by strength and fear).

I am sorry to report that I am damn boring on this account. Any inhaling that I did was usually incidental to someone else smoking in an adjacent room. But I'm happy to say that I have no advice to offer to the next generation on this matter.

Cobalt Blue (Any kind of dark blue that reflects the edge of night during twilight).

Evil question. That I'll be in the situation where I'm called upon to do something significant that will affect a lot of people's lives and that I'll fail. Big enough?

The computing network services, accounting, and student services people are top notch! Treat them well.

Agoura Hills, California - Don't worry if you haven't heard of it. We only make the local news when we have brush fires.

Because I know enough about the real world to know that there are a lot of challenging problems have to do with building the software efficiently and well and building the right thing and not just in coming up with next generation things. Also because it's a lot of fun!

Not much. This is one of the most awfully designed and engineered school that I've ever been at. Not just the administration but the architecture, the infrastructure, and the processes. The student body is terribly uninteresting as a whole and 90% of the discussions that you'll dig up around here are technically oriented - good for getting work done, bad for learning about life and boring.
I did like the Fest Center but they've since screwed over the students by raising the ticket prices to unaffordable levels. Unfortunately, this is mostly the fault of certain students who bought tickets in large quantites and scalped them.

The water fountain on the 2nd floor next to the darts lab.

The stairwell by the darts lab - has the best resonance for playing instruments.

My mom showed me the basics but I taught myself over 3 months by standing in a corner and dropping lots of tennis balls - first with two tennis balls for two months then three tennis balls for one month.