I grew up reading Asimov, Heinlein, Clarke, and Sagan. I've since moved on, but with that background, I couldn't help but be fascinated by the SETI project
I am an avid electric guitarist (pretty good), a chess player (not very good), and I work and play with Photoshop.
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.