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| Personal background |
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| I'm a linguist by training, a programmer for a hobby, but a full-time beekeeper. Yes, I get stung all the time, and yes it still hurts, but I'm used to it. And I built my first computer this year (01), a feat I've always wanted to do, and finally did. It was fun. I've always been a big sci-fi fan, and by inheritance my kids are too. So it wasn't hard to explain to them what the screen saver is all about, they thought it was interesting. Now I run the CLI and they understand that daddy has to turn off seti before they play any good computer games. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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I don't know if there are ETs, but we'd be stupid not to look since we have the opportunity. For me in the winter, it's free to look, too. I heat my house in the winter, and I leave the computer on 24/7. The heat from the machine just helps heat the house and lets the furnace run a tad bit less, so the electricity to run my computer is basically free all winter.
I was happy to find out about this. In college I had a distributed computing project of my own once. It was a statistical analysis of word patterns in various historical texts to determine authorship. I used a lab of twenty 486s at night for about ten days. If I'd have had setiathome's resources it would have been done overnight. Distributed computing is a great idea. I hope people can find more ways to use this concept. |
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