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| Personal background |
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I am a fifty-some year old male that has worked in the High Tech business for over 25 years. Between my wife and I, we have nine children and 12 grandchildren (we have no children between us - they are all from prior marriages.) Our family tree looks more like a bowl of spaghetti than a tree.
I got into the high tech industry because I was tried of being laid off from government defense contract jobs. Now, over 25 years later, I find myself being laid off three times in the past ten years. Being out of work brings both worries - mostly about money, but can also bring opportunities. I have taken advantages of the most recent downsizing to complete my BS degree (a promise I made to myself over 30 years), to learn some new technologies like Web Enterprise languages (Corporate America does not see value in mangers learning technology, duh!), to help my wife run her art business, to spend more time with the family (which is always in conflict with high tech jobs), and to complete some home projects (these use to take the lowest priority on the to-do list).
I’m considering doing something I love instead of focusing on making the most money. I would love to teach, solve technical problems, develop software, play the piano and travel more. Anbody looking for a dedicated, experienced, hard working ttechnologist for any of these activites can reach me via e-mail.
I have been involved the SETI project for over five years. I got involved when one of my employees shared with me he had ported the SETI client program to run on an operating system that is not one of the more famous. He was worried that he may get into trouble, since it was not a ‘sanctioned’ project. Instead of trouble, I gave him a reward and publicized just how creative and great he was to port the SETI client to get some viability to our less-that-popular operating system. He is now one of the top 60 SETI users since he. I’m more proud of my support him than I am of my running SETI at home myself. He still works at the same place still |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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I believe that the massness of space and laws of sasticitics lead me to conclude that extraterrestrial life does exist. I'm not sure we humans will recongize it when we encounter it for it is possible it will be so different that we will not see it a 'life'. After all, we do this on our own planet - just look as how we treet plants and trees.
Should we transmit a beacon for others to find? Good question. To some extent we have already done this by sending TV, Radio and space probs out for anything to pick up. Think of it when the first TV signles are picked up by something intelligent to view them. Can you image the impression others will get of our kind of life when the see pictures of 'I love Lucy' and WW II?
I run SETI at home because I believe it is an excellent example of a large scale distributing computing system that didn't take a ack of congress or mega-dollars to implement. Great creative and innovated job! |
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