| Personal background |
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| I started my career long ago with an AAS in industrial automation working at a major food & beverage research facility. While there I went back to school and got BS' in EE and CS and switched careers to IT. I have been a developer, in over 1/2 dozen different languages, software designer, project manager, tech sales guy, IT consultant and IT Architect. Now I'm a few years from retirement but I am still, and think I will always be, a geek at heart. (I am running Seti@Home on 4 Raspberry Pi Model 3 B+ computers) I try to stay abreast of the latest developments in IT security, development and hardware. I last ran a Windows as my primary workstation in 1998, so am a 20 year veteran of Unix/Linux in many flavors. Hobbies: I try to read a book every two weeks on anything from sci-fi, fantasy, biographies, philosophy, military history or fiction, American western history or fiction, to science and technology. I also travel a bit. I have spent the night in all 50 states, only a few less than a week. I have traveled through out Europe, some of South America, some of Africa, all of lower provinces of Canada and have plans in the near future for several countries in Asia. The Australian outback is also pretty high on my bucket list. For exercise, I walk. A lot. One recent year I made it over the 500 mile mark for hikes (not everyday steps). |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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I was a supporter of Seti@Home back in the late 90's when it was a new thing. (I still have my original coffee mug!) Myself and a coworker set it up on some servers at work that only ran batch jobs about 2 hours a day and sat idle the rest of the time, ran it on our desktops over night. I'm not a "little green men" kind of person, I'm not a "God only made us" kind of person, One of my favorite moves (as hokey as it seems now) is Contact. I don't know if the line was stolen from someone/where else but when the father it talking to his little girl and explaining how BIG the universe is and says (paraphrased) ... If only 1 in a million starts out there has plants, and only 1 in a million of those planets have life, and only 1 in a million of those have intelligent life .... there would be millions of other planets out there with intelligent life, so if we are the only ones. Doesn't that seem like a terrible waste of space? ... I'm not one to stand up and say "There are aliens out there" ... but you will never hear me say there isn't. Having been around science and technology my entire adult life and be a bit of a philosophy fan I find that whenever someone make a boundary statement (all, none, everyone, no one, etc) ... they're "most likely" wrong.
I became separated from Seti@Home in a series of random events that just kind happen on the pathway of life but last weekend I was talking with that coworker and the topic of us sneaking the software into work to run off hours came up. We laughed (could have gotten fired for it, not something I would do today, with age come wisdom ... if your lucky too) but I do have some Pi that pretty much sit idle unless I'm building out a proof point for something, writing code to have something to do, or trying go build a gadget. So I looked you up again, and here we are.
Views: Love the whole concept.
Suggestions: Would love to be able to see my own contributions in terms of things found, from a local perspective. The easy option would be to copy the stderr.txt file where results are stored in slots out to an accessible location on the hard drive with a timestamp in the name. |
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