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| Personal background |
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I graduated from the good old Academy in 1988. I've always said that it was the longest four years of my life.
^My rendition of my Alma Mater's Logo^
Instead of re-typing everything, here is a collection of my on-line profiles.
Classmates.com:
http://www.classmates.com/profile/index.html?regId=320877611&viewSelfProfile=yes&profileType=viewSelf&site=
IMAO.US (Berkeley hippies, beware! You might get punched in the face!):
http://www.imao.us/archives/008914.html
I've got Mad Graphic Design Skillz, Yo:
http://www.photoshopuser.com/members/portfolios/view/gallery/62386
I created and run our local little league website (because baseball changed my life):
http://www.bennettscreek.org
And I have my own domain name, which I haven't really done much with, but will when I have "free time":
http://www.phantom-planet.com
All Hail, Brak! |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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I run SETI@home because I love physics and space exploration. And why not? I was born the same year as when Star Trek debuted.
As others have said, it doesn't run contrary to my religious beliefs at all if ET life were discovered. But more important, the idea of all of us contributing in different ways, part of a vast network (because we want to, not because we're Communists -- ewww! -- and have to) is a concept that is near and dear to me.
After teaching myself BASIC on a TRS-80 Model 1 and buying a TI-99-4a when I was 17, I built my first PC ten years later in 1994. The first machine that ran SETI@home (found out about it from Discover magazine) was a home built rig that ran up a total of 12,000 hours in the "classic" era of SETI@home.
Currently, I have a diverse group of computers running SETI@home. I've got three AMD based Windows XP computers that I built (one with the original OS installed after 4 1/2 years), and two Dual Core machines: one a bargain AMD laptop running Windows Vista (not my favorite OS) and the other running Mac OS X (a gorgeous MacBook Pro -- my only Intel chip, which is the best performer of the bunch).
Once I rack up a few credits, maybe after I hit 200,000, I'll probably participate in another project -- I think Rosetta. |
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