I am fondeling with computers since 1979 at the age of 16. You may call this geeky. Meanwhile, at age of 41, programming computers (Master of Computer Sience, TU Berlin) happens to be my job.
SETI@home and Astropulse are funded by grants from the National Science Foundation, NASA, and donations from SETI@home volunteers. AstroPulse is funded in part by the NSF through grant AST-0307956.