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| Personal background |
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Just a normal, common-or-garden Rocket Scientist, here in Canberra, Australia.Typical Scientist/Engineer type, into SF, Wargaming, Military History, and as spiritual as a housebrick.
Politically well to the right of mainstream Australia, but that makes me a Liberal. Pro-Bush and neo-Con, but also Pro-Gun Control, Anti-Abortion, Pro-Same-Sex-Marriage, in favour of minimal universal Healthcare, I just think the US Democrats are run by a bunch of Idiotarian Moonbats with Anti-Semitic tendencies.
Born 1958, Happily Married since 1981, Son Andrew born 2001.
Currently engaged in the most difficult project of my life. Due to a common developmental anomaly that happens at the end of the first trimester, I ended up with a female-pattern brain in a somatically male body. Mind of a cheerleader, body of a Quarterback, a bit of a problem, that. Like many such "transsexuals", you just have to live with it, and many can. Due to the blood chemistry screwup (female mind, male hormonal mix), I was asexual/lesbian, so able to marry happily and "fake male" reasonably well for 47 years. Boys? Ewwwww.
But it turns out that I'm one of the few whose bodies start changing without treatment. That turns your life upside-down, you can't ignore your transsexuality any more, and the change is only partial and very erratic without treatment. But is irreversible. So I end up having to do what I should have done at age 15 - have gender re-assignment. But unplanned, and in a hurry.
For me, it's great - the body is starting to fit my body-image. I'm healthier, happier, and realise now that not everybody on the planet feels uncomfortable in their bodies all the time. How was I to know I was different?
But for my partner - having your husband turn into a woman before your eyes is shattering. And what do I tell my son? This is miraculous, and wonderful, and hilarious, and terribly tragic too.
Very Funny, Mother Nature. Ha Ha. Still, if I'd transitioned earlier, my son wouldn't exist. And if I'd had 46xx chromosomes, I wouldn't have married my partner, the love of my life. And if I'd had a guy's brain, I wouldn't be me. So I guess it all turned out for the best.
Project Startup : August 5th 2005, when Hormone Replacement therapy commenced. Next Milestone, November 2006, with SRS, aka "The Op". Estimated Delivery Date August 2007, when 75% of hormonal change will be complete.
Oi Ve. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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Why run SETI@Home? It's a long-shot. High-Risk, High-return, Low-investment.
But even negative results will tell us something about the scarcity of civilisations of comparable technology in our part of the Galaxy.
It could be that the Universe is a far more hostile place than we imagine, and evidence of that might give us time to prepare, after the Singularity. |
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