Lisa Hooper [AVDF Author]

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Lisa Hooper

Lisa is a Senior Programmer and our resident SQL Server and ASP guru, who joined GUI Computing around August, 1995.

Personal Programmer Profile : Lisa Hooper

You're known at GUI as something of a SQL Server Guru. From where does your greatness stem?

It all began when I was an employee on a particular site and my MSAccess queries were killing the network and taking hours to return. I started to look for alternative databases and hence got hold of a copy of SQL Server for OS2. I played with this for a few months (getting majorly upset with the user interface) until SQL Server for Win NT arrived. I liked this one.

I played with that periodically until last year when SQL Server 6.0 arrived. I really like that. After that came SQL Server 6.5 which crashed my whole PC. The end.

Apparently you're also into calisthenics. How does this differ from gymnastics? Does it involve ribbon-twirling ?

Calisthenics is different from gymnastics because it is a team sport. This essentially means that instead of me embarrassing myself alone, I can do it with other people.

There is no ribbon twirling and no batten throwing, and it is very hard to explain what it actually is.

Karl Marx' theory of Historical Materialism has often been criticised for being a form of economic reductionism, lending support to Stalinist rationalisations of dictatorship on the grounds of historical inevitability. On the other hand, theorists of the Frankfurt school such as Horkheimer and Habermas have argued that the works of Marx must still be the starting point of any serious discussion of human emancipation and Critical Hermeneutics. Why is it that German social theorists have names that sound like sausages?

Maybe its because sausages are made from the scrapings on the butcher's floor.

Describe your ideal man. (Keep it clean.)

Ooops! I scrolled too fast and missed a question.

What was your favourite "Get Smart" episode?

I don't think you will know the one I am thinking of, even the most avid fan might not remember it as I'm sure it was on only once and never re-run. It was great, first Max walks some of the way down a corridor and a door closes behind him, he keeps walking and another door closes behind him. This continues on until he reaches a phone box in which he turns around and faces the doors and disappears downwards.

Do you eat the gherkin in your Quarter Pounder or throw it away ?

Definitely throw it.

Your Doctor tells you you've got one day to live. What do you do? (Sorry I'm a day late with the question.)

Isn't this where you should be saying keep it clean???

Interview conducted by Rod Martin