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| Personal background |
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I'm nearly 58 years old and have had a life-long interest in science, especially space science, since the days of Willy Ley (he of the German Buzz Bomb then the US Space program). He wrote a series of books for children on space, rockets, space travel, etc. He hoped to interest us in space - he got my attention. I have also been a fan of science fiction since I discovered the local public library.
I'm a Catholic priest and have served parishes throughout the Boston (MA USA) Archdiocese since ordination in 1972. I am retired on permanent disability and now live about a 20 minute walk from SETI's East Coast headquarters and (self-professed) "World's Best University" - Hahvad.
If you've read this far you may also care that I enjoy music both as listener and (private) performer (piano, classical of course), reading, travel, photography, fine food (on the cheap) and lots of other things. I haven't the time or the energy to pursue them all. Maybe that's what heaven is for. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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The notion of seti has fascinated me since I first heard of it, though I don't remember when that was. I joined the SETI@home project as soon as I heard of it in one of the PC magazines. I think I was doing "Windows" magazine at the time, April 28, 1999. I was intrigued as much by the idea of making my little Pentium II box a part of a huge, networked supercomputer as by the search for seti. At the time I felt like a pioneer. Now, with SETI's huge success, I feel less personally involved.
My gear: a stand-alone box with cable Internet, Athlon Thunderbird 1.4GHz, 512MB pc2100 SDRAM, 80GB Western Digital Caviar HDD. Though I have MandrakeLinux 10.1 on a partition in a dual-boot arrangement, Linux still doesn't do enough of what I require in a PC, at least not with my present hardware. Besides, I usually spend too much time trying to figure out how to do what I want to do to make it worthwhile, though I still hope to get out from behind the w(W)indows. |
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