Profile: DutchStiphout

Personal background
I was born in Portland, Oregon to a bright doctor and a dedicated nurse, and moved shortly thereafter to Birmingham, a northern suburb of Detroit, Michigan, where I spent my youth.

In the middle of a long run through the education system there that could only be politely described as boring, my parents and I took off for a year. Instead of attending eighth grade in the usual fashion, we took a year long vacation. We bought a large sail boat, moved aboard, and cruised around the East Coast and the Bahamas for a year. Starting in Detroit, moving through the St. Lawrence Seaway and the Intracoastal Waterway, we sailed to Ft. Lauderdale, at which point we left the USA for a bit of blue-water fun in the Bahamas. We got as far south as Great Exuma before we cooled our jets and hung out for a while. Once the year was over, we returned to Miami, sold the sloop, and returned home.

High school never seemed so dull.

Anyway, after four years there, I applied for admission and was accepted to the University of Colorado in Boulder. I moved here in 1997 to attend CU, and graduated with a four-year engineering degree in Computer Science in -- get this -- only four years.

I now work for Eclipse, Inc., a subsidiary of Intuit, Inc. We provide distributors with enterprise software. In English, that means we give people who run warehouses a program that does their job for them.

I'm also involved in a local kung fu school, the Shaolin Hung Mei Kung Fu Association and the Academy of Chinese Martial and Cultural Arts.

Apart from teaching martial arts, the academy is also highly involved in Denver's Chinese culture. During the Chinese New Year, our school is well-known for a traditional lion dance that is meant to scare away the demons of bad luck, bringing good fortune and prosperity.

Moving on to miscellany, I've recently purchased my first home, I still enjoy sailing, I miss the ocean, I love the mountains, all kinds of travel, and I think the Rocky Horror Picture Show is a great way to spend a Saturday night!
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
This could easily be the most significant discovery of the millenium, should it prove fruitful.

Now, it's doubtful that it will, but I'm really inept at pessimism, so it's easy for me to justify -- better to spend those wasted CPU cycles doing something farfetched than nothing at all.
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