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| Personal background |
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How's it going? I'm Bjorn, I'm 26 years old and currently between studies - I'm saving up to study in Ireland next year. I'm a bit of a slouch and a ne'er-do-well, so although I successfully finished an arts degree majoring in Literature and Drama I still just earn my crust as a barman. That said, I'm planning to study writing at the university of Galway, so hopefully I can add to the qualifications I've got that are going to waste!
I have a very broad range of interests, covering a large chunk of the arts and science. Naturally I'm fond of literature, and I prefer staying with classics in that regard, but often branch out into Tolkien, Pratchett or anything else that catches my eye. But I also read a lot of popular science, particularly on the topic of Evolutionary biology. I often think I may have missed my calling as a biologist!
But the rest of the sciences tend to interest me as well, particularly cosmology and astronomy.
When I don't have my nose tucked into some book or other I like to play dodgeball (yes, there are serious leagues out there that aren't played in High School Gyms!), do some home brewing, play the Great Highland Bagpipes or write some of my own fiction.
I drive a big red 1973 VW kombi van. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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I recently built myself a new computer after using a woesully sluggish fossil of a machine for way too long - I think it was at one time an unsuccesful competitor to the abacus. This new beast of mine has some fairly decent specs - quad core and 4GB of RAM - and so while it may only just pass as a gaming machine, it should still be reasonably future-proof. But since I don't really use my computer for gaming, I was particularly keen to install Boinc and do some good for the scientific community so my computer wouldn't be going to waste!
Basically I think distributed computing projects like Seti@home are a great idea. People like me can actually get involved in the progress of science, and all with very little consumption of resources for the faculty. In this case, though, the progress of science is somewhat arguable. I just want to find some little green men! |
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