Well, folks....
The time is drawing near.

Since I auctioned off the services of my crunching farm last April, the kitties and I have been crunching our hearts out on behalf of SETI.USA....

They have been a great bunch to crunch for, and have lent an ear to me when I have had some troubles to discuss.

A great team no doubt, and I have been proud to add to their achievements.

But my year of indentured servitude is coming to a close, and the kitties and I shall be running another auction around the 4th of July to offer a year's worth of the crunching services of my farm to the team that proffers the highest donation to Seti on my behalf.

My RAC when my last auction was run was approaching 40K.......
It is now a little over 90K....that's a lotta kibble over a year's time, eh? A bit over 32 million kibbles, if I got my math right......

So.........
No bids yet, just start to get together with your teammates and get yer ducks in a row. There was much interest last time around...I hope there still is now, even though times are a little tougher for us all these days.

The auction will probably kick off on July 3rd and close on the 12th.....
For team crunching until the same time next year.

Any questions, feel free to ask them now, but keep your bids close to your chest......

Meow meow.

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"Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster

Update...........

More horsepower is on the way.....

And to sweeten the pot.........

I will try to compose a kitty poem along the subject lines proposed by the winner (no promises, poetic license.....}

And extra points will be awarded to any donations of Cuda cards to the Seti farm......{hey, I gotta beg, eh?} LOL.

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"Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster

My bid will be a new ball of string for the kitties.
Don't tell though, otherwise my kitties will be jeleous! :)

What type of bids did you receive last time?

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SETI@home since 1999
"Set it, and Forget it!"

My bid will be a new ball of string for the kitties.
Don't tell though, otherwise my kitties will be jeleous! :)

What type of bids did you receive last time?

These were the bids from the last auction......copied from my post at that time.....


"OK folks.....the results are in......and the Winner is.....

Seti USA
Bids...
zeitgeistmovie.com.......1720.00
Carlos....................100.00
Jason A. Countryman........75.00
Blurf......................25.00
Dr. C.E.T.I................25.00
Total....................1945.00 (plus Andy Worth's bid of 50.00 for the winner}

US Navy Team
Bids...
yank......................500.00
gomeyer....................50.00
Total.....................550.00

Boinc Synergy
Bids...
John McLeod VII...........100.00
Luke......................100.00
Total.....................200.00

KWSN
Bids...
KWSN Ekky Ekky Ekky........25.00

TheDVDForums
Bids...
Andy Worth................150.00

And David has offered to join with me on the winning team.

Sooooo it looks like Seti USA is the clear winner here......
And that was a mighty fine offer from the US Navy folks as well....
As well as everybody else that was willing to make an offer....
Your support of my effort is very much appreciated......"




And many of those who bid at the time followed through and made their donations even though they had not won the auction....very generous on their part.

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"Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster

. . . $25.00 [BOINC Synergy TeAm] Dr. Zain Upton

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Per my first post....
I am not actually accepting bids yet....
I will start a new thread when the auction actually kicks off.

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"Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster