SETI@home is a passion I've had since around 2000 when I heard about the project. I've been running it on every computer I could get my hands on since then.
I'm a software developer and hardware enthusiast. I like tinkering in my lab into the wee hours of the morning with nothing but the smoke from a soldering iron and the hum of a portable heater to keep me company. :P
My wife wont let me run SETI@home on her laptop. Men, be sure to put that in your pre-nup :P
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
I think ET is out there, but I feel he'll probably find us before we find him (her?).
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.