Profile: Dava

Personal background
I'm not at all like the creature in my photo. Well, according to my husband that's true most of the time...

I was excitedly chatting with my friend, Michelle, about discovering the SETI@home project, and she looked at me with a curious expression, and asked: "Yeti?"

I about fell down.

Searching for a fun photo to eMail, and what do my googling eyes do appear? The first direct hit: the Yeti@home project! Proof yet again, that NOTHING is really new.

I grew-up in the age before TV was consider child-poison. And so being the only child of divorced and working parents I spent every afternoon oogling over Captain James T. Kirk and Mr. Spock. And at the ripe-old age of 10 or 11, that penchant grew into a more mature appetite for pulp such as Slaughterhouse-5 and Stranger in a Strange Land. Needless to say, the great beyond and it's possibilites are fast imbedded in this hairy skull.
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
Contact is one of my all-time favorite films. Carl had great visions - and the social / personal metaphors he used are socially relvant and highly memorable. So much to think about: what it means to being alone vs. being connnected. It's all about choice and belief.

I vaguely remember hearing about this project, but it wafted in my consciousness like other Urban Legends - iffy, half-true things that a working Mom has little time for. I found the site as a link from the Cyan homepage. I'll now give those guys credit for TWO very cool things in my world!

We might trip a bomb. We might be inviting the "whole Vegan Army" here.

Then again, it's about choice. Today I choose to peer into the great beyond!

Thanks!

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