I graduated from UC San Diego sometime around July 1996, with a degree in some computer-related field. (Computer Science & Engineering, Computer Engineering, or something like that...) My diploma now resides on my dartboard, along with pictures of some of my "close" friends. I also went to Stanford although I'm not sure that they would eagerly admit the fact. I graduated from Stanford in June 1994 with a Bachelors in Computer Systems Engineering. (And that would explain why I get to serve a home page at Stanford even though I am no longer a student.)

I grew up and live in the Bay Area, which is nice, except for all the damn traffic!! I attended Monta Vista High School in Cupertino... (pretty cheesy, huh... Anyway... High school sucked. So did junior high, for that matter. And elementary school and kindergarten, I guess... OK, not really... kindergarten was sort of cool... playing with blocks is fun... I like playing with blocks... yeah, whatever...

Other meaningless details nobody really cares about:
I've got two brothers, one older (David) and one younger (Christopher). As brothers go, they're actually pretty cool... (of course, I have to say that or they'll beat me up... ok, not really... I could take them with one hand tied behind my back, and I have, several times...A..H..:)) In his spare time, David's a neo-nazi skinhead psychotic mass murderer, but we love him anyway. (I just put that in to embarrass him because CYS lists this page as "David Dufour's" web page...) Christopher is currently a landscape architect so that he can adeptly landscape over David's mass graves so nobody will notice. I love my family...

Interests

I have no interests... Basically, I'm just not a very interesting person... (ha ha ha, I'm so punny...) I have been active in music for as long as I can remember... (yeah, since yesterday...) I play flute (and piccolo) and the piano, and have even tried composing, though without much success. In high school, I performed in the

My favorite composer is Gustav Mahler, who is an absolute god... Nothing else needs to be said... Other great composers who fall just short of god-status are: Tchaikovsky, Shostakovich, Copland, Brahms, and Beethoven. (not necessarily in that or any order...)

My favorite groups are Pearl Jam, Toad the Wet Sprocket , Nirvana, Live, Green Day, Smashing Pumpkins, Depressed Mode, U2, REM, School of Fish, and, yes, even the Cure... (yeah, pretty much anything on the radio...)
While we're talking about meaningless stuff like favorite groups, etc... My favorite color is blue, and my favorite cartoon strip was Calvin and Hobbes until Bill Watterson retired. Oh, and my favorite shows are Friends , er, Party of Five, and the Simpsons. Yeah, I watch way to much tv.

My favorite hobbies are:

• Mountain biking..
• writing random HTML pages that nobody's going to read...
• writing random computer games that nobody's going to play...
• playing games