Profile: René Bouman-Emmen

Personal background
I'm a 41 y/o (12/09/06) Dutch software engineer form a town of 200k citizens, Tilburg. Professionally I work with Progress 4GL, in my spare time I like to experiment some (but only some ;-)) with building web sites using plain HTML and trying to understand Linux a bit. I think it's best I don't tell you about my main hobbies, because there are probably underaged kids around here. I am married to the most wonderful woman that ever lived (or ever will live for that matter) and we have three kids, all of them not biologically mine. I am a fan of Star Trek TOS, I like British comedy and movies like Dead poets society, Good Will hunting and I very much enjoy French cinema. I can read and speak a tiny bit of Russian and hope to some day find the time and energy to actually study the language. I like a load of different music, ranging from 70's band like the Rubettes, The Sweet and Mud, via more cerebral bands like Pink Floyd and Yes, and some heavy stuff like NWOBHM, Metallica-when-Cliff-Burton-was-still-alive, watchtower and Hexenhaus, all the way to bach (who I suppose was the sort of king of heavy metal of his time), beethoven, Sjostakovitsj. I like to read a good newspaper and some (science) fiction, but most of all I like to read some light non-fiction.

I think I'm a caring, social, intelligent, but also lazy and somewhat arrogant person. My favorite heroes in my youth were Mr Spock and John Lennon.

I suppose this would be enough for starters?
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
I am interested in science. When I was young I dreamed of being a scientist. But I reckon I'm just too lazy to actually become one. This is a way of being able to do at least some contribution - perfect for a lazy person like me :).
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