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| Personal background |
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I grew in a ski resort in Southern NM. Living up in the mountains away from the city lights, I used to spend a lot of time resting in my parents yard, and looking up at the stars. Even though I was, and continue to be, a major science fiction fan. I would spend countless hours looking through my telescope, thinking that I could find a far off yet undiscovered planet.
I came bursting out of the proverbial closet during high school, and graduated in 1989 with honors. And then 4 years later did the same thing from ASU (transferring from WTSU), earning my computer science degree.
I have been involved in the computer industry in one shape or form or another for as long as I can remember. My first computer was a Radio Shack TRS-80 with a cassette tape as the "hard drive". I owned and managed my own ISP for 6 years until I sold it 4 years ago. I received a job offer that moved my partner (shnbodhi) and I from Phoenix to Dallas in 2001. We have been together for going on 5 years, and we are extremely happy. We are both members of the "world renowned choir - Turtle Creek Chorale (www.turtlecreek.org), which has recorded over 27 CDs as of 2002, and one DVD, becoming the most recorded male chorus in history. If you are EVER in Dallas, please feel free to contact me through chorale office, and my partner and I will show you the town. We are not much into the bar scene, more into shows, theatre, movies, and spending good times with great friends. One of these days I do plan on sitting down and finishing our team website that will have links to all of the team members sites (those who have one), and a profile area, and other unique SETI related material. It is just a matter of finding time between the tons of projects, rehearsals, concerts, and chorale tours I always have going on during my off time.
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| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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With that being said, I would like to first thank all of the current, and future members of our group for their dedication to the S.E.T.I. project. When I first established our group 3 years ago, I never dreamed that one day we could lay claim to being the largest international LGBT group working on the S.E.T.I. project (or any project of its kind for that matter). As of 12/02, we currently represent 29 members from 15 individual countries and/or regions. And we have collectively processed more than 25000 units.
All of that aside, the main purpose I had behind setting our group up was to allow the LGBT (Lesbian/Gay/Bi-sexual/Transgendered) community to work together globally on a large project. So often I feel that our community is never seen, and even sometimes never heard. Please don’t get me wrong, we are not heterophobes (for lack of a better word). We even have a few members who have indicated they joined not because they are LGBT. They joined instead because they wanted to participate in a group that has the international community in mind. And to try to build that bridge between sexual orientations by working on a common goal. My main philosophy is if we build the first half of the bridge, then those who want to know us can build their half. It takes only the first step, whether it is gay to straight, country to country, or galaxy to galaxy.
I often have a wish though that a member of our group will be "THE ONE" to process the long awaited signal from a stellar neighbor. Hopefully when that happens, they will hold to the ideals that regardless of sexual orientation, we here on Earth, are all human beings, and ultimately we are all but just a one part of the cosmic soup that makes up our galaxy.
Peace, Pride, and Process my fellow GIGA (gig-uh)=(Gay International Global Alliance) members.
BunnyBoy
a.k.a Raun |
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