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| Personal background |
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I'm a good ole southern boy raised in the mountains of NW Georgia. I'm reaching my mid 20's... though I still feel like I'm about 17. (look that way too when I shave...) Let's see... happily married to a cute little red-head... been so for over a year now. She hasn't kicked me out yet. :)
I work as a software engineer for a cool research company. It's more like gettin paid lotsa money to play around programming all day than just work. I'm working there full time and finishing up my masters degree... probably finish that at the end of 2002. Hopefully anyway... After that, who knows! I might stay where I'm at or move off to some exotic location for the heck of it... at least for a little while. You never know.
Hobbies: shooting black powder rifles, computer games, reading, programming, Utopia On-line game, just gotten into martial arts, gaming (rpg's), Anime, Manga, Comics, Jackie Chan movies, aquariums (just bought my 3rd for a 2bed apartment.... I'm addicted), etc...
Computer descriptions:
home comp #1: AMD 1.3Ghz w/256MB DDR ram, 40GB Hdrive, 64Mb Prophet 4500, SB Live Value
home comp #2: PIII 450 w/196MB sdram, 10Gb Hdrive, 32Mb TNT2 Ultra, SB Live Value
office comp: AMD 750Mhz w/256Mb sdram, 20Gb Hdrive |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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Ah... I got into seti a little back well over a year ago. Ran the screen saver on my PIII 450... though I didn't often leave it on. Thus, until this summer, I had been doing work units for over a year, but had only completed like 23 of em or something. And those had taken me 30 hours each. When I started working for my current company, I actually took interest in Seti because of a coworker, learned of the command line version, and have now increased that to almost 140 units over the course of just 2 months. For those who don't know.. the command line version cut my work unit time from about 30 hrs to around 12 or 13 average. Big difference!! And I just ordered an AMD 1.3Ghz machine with DDR ram... so watch out seti... here I come! :) I'll be running it on 3 fast machines with the command line version. Hopefully I can get to 1000 units before too long.
Why do I do seti?
1) it has a scoreboard. :) I like rising in the ranks of things. Always a plus... I'm just trying to figure out what group to join now...
2) Aliens... dunno if any exist.. and I kinda doubt it, but the research is cool. And I would imagine that the results can be useful for a variety of reasons beyond that of finding ET.
3) regardless of what it finds... I believe in research. I mean... if we don't search for new knowledge... things are gonna get boring pretty fast. And hey.. what else are you doing with those wasted cpu cycles? |
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