Profile: Jim Catman

Personal background
I'm the middle of five kids, the two older are my brothers and the two younger are my twin sisters. My folks are still together after over thiry years of marrige. I'm originally from the middle of the red-neck state of Georgia. It got a little warm there, but I didn't seem to mind that too much. At the ripe old age of ten, my folks decided they would like to move back to New England, and closer to all their kinfolk. Us kids didn't have any say in the matter. So we loaded up the moving truck and hauled it up the road a ways to New Hampshire, yank country... It got cold there, barely stayed warm, and the winters were even worse. The snow was fun for about the first two years, but soon the flakey white stuff became a pain in the rear. At the even older age of 18, I decided it was time to do my patriotic duty and serve my country. I joined the easiest, most layed-back branch of the service there is - The U.S. Air Force. Once I joined, I figured I'd get moved back to a warmer part of the country, and placed on my "dream sheet" Georgia, or anywheres south. The Air Force sent me to Colorado, where I've been for my entire stay in the military. Colorado's strange, ya see; the weather can't decide what it wants to do. One minute it'll be blaze'n hot, and the next, blisterin cold and snowing. Did I mention that this happens in the summer?
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
Well, I have mentioned I'm in the U.S.A.F., I'm actually a space weenie whose been working with the same satellite program for seven (plus) years. SETI@Home seemed like an interesting idea, because like some wise old professor once said, the sheer mathematics of the question "Are we alone...?" state there is a good chance we aren't. I figured it don't matter much to me if we are or aren't, I'm just curious to know, I figure I'd like to be the first to find out. But if there isn't anything out there, heck, that's o.k. too, I just needed to give all my computers something to do, while I'm not home.
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