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| Personal background |
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I created the universe, not in 6 days as some believe, but in 3 days. I spent the other 3 days creating a terrible anti-universe, one where evil rules and people use their spare CPU cycles devising new means of torture! But then I got bored with it and destroyed it. Now I'm a technical writer in the software industry, and I live as a mortal in St. Louis, MO.
I used to have a web cam devoted full-time to the YETI@home search (http://www.phobe.com/yeti/). It showed the view out my back window, which was a park inhabited by deer, foxes, raccoons, possum, and non-yetis. My two cats also hung around out there. Puzzle: if my cats,
who spent most of their time hanging around on the back deck, hardly ever wandered into
the range of my web cam, what made me think I could detect alien TV signals? What the hell.
I spend most of my non-work time with my fiancee as we plan our wedding and play house. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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I imagine extraterrestrial life exists, but I doubt we'll get to communicate with them any time soon. SETI is a fascinating project that engages the imagination, sort of like buying lottery tickets. You pretty much know you're wasting your money, but it's fun to imagine what you'll do if you win.
While I don't care if I ever achieve the SETI@home #1 ranking, I enjoy watching my unit total increase. I foresee myself gathering
computers and crunching SETI work units long into my twilight years, long after
we've made contact with extraterrestrials, traded with them, intermarried, divorced,
fought over custody of our one-eyed troglodyte hell spawn, remarried, divorced
again, sworn off aliens forever, and finally settled down on cozy retirement
asteroids with huge, moth-like creatures who enjoy canasta and jigsaw puzzles.
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