Hobbies (other than programming): Ham radio, fishing.
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
Seti distributed analysis: like chicken soup for a cold.... it can't hurt. And if a signal is detected, well that would be the biggest news of the 21st century, no matter what else happens for the rest of the century.
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.