I'm a computer programmer who lives in Southern California. I'm married with two grown daughters and am a member of the Baha'i Seti Group. For relaxation I collect Napoleonic medals and coins and put them up on my personal website.
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
It would be an awful waste of space if we were all that managed to emerge as intelligent life in this vast universe. Because of that I run Seti@home on all my machines in the hope that I can help locate the pin in the haystack. Besides, I like the idea of a grand collective effort that cleverly uses the otherwise wasted resources of all the computers involved.
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.
