User talk:Dondi
Hi Dr. Dionisio, I noticed that you minored in music! What is your favorite type of music and what instrument(s) do you play? Emmatyrnauer (talk) 20:41, 31 August 2017 (PDT)
The first question is hard to answer—I like all kinds of music! Classical, pop, rock, show tunes, electronic, jazz—at any given moment, I can be in the mood for any one of them. I guess I have a soft spot for early jazz and big band, because I like to dance to those. But really I have favorites across the board.
As for instruments, I mostly dabble, and can probably handle piano and guitar the most (no mastery, just some chords and rhythm).
Hello Dr. Dionisio, you mentioned how your loved for computers started with gaming. What was your favorite old-school video game? Zvanysse (talk) 00:37, 1 September 2017 (PDT)
How old school do you want to go? 😅 I’ve had a few phases even in old-school times, but most of the time I gravitated toward role-playing games; way way back I was captivated by Wizardry (Sir-Tech). A little later I moved to The Bard’s Tale then to the Baldurs Gate series. In between, I also took to the early real-time strategy games like Warcraft (the original series, not WoW) and StarCraft. First-person shooters didn’t hold my attention for very long, but I got deepest in with Bungie’s Marathon series.
Um, I better stop…
Hi Dr. Dioniso, I see you studied mainly computer science in college. Did you ever have an interest in biology before teaching this course? Mbalducc (talk) 14:28, 1 September 2017 (PDT)
I have always liked the sciences in general, but admittedly most of my exposure to biology has been due to my collaboration with Dr. Dahlquist. Before coming to LMU, I did some work in medical informatics at UCLA, so that was the closest prior background before bioinformatics.
