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| Personal background |
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I am an alumni of Washington State University which is located in the middle of wheat fields in Pullman Washington. Eight miles away in Moscow Idaho is the University of Idaho. I received a bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering (Computer emphasis) with a minor in Computer Science in 1992. I was one course shy of a minor in Math. Although, I believe a Math minor should have been automatic with my degree. Math majors do not study the type of math we were doing until graduate school. I have not been able to find work with my degree though. I also have an Associate of Arts degree from Shoreline Community College in Seattle Washington.
I used to volunteer as a host for a depression support chat room on About.com. My nickname was RastroHOST. I have hosted for over two years. Right now I am taking a sabatical from hosting while I get some personal issues resolved. I have talked to and helped people from all over the world. The ages range from teenagers to the elderly. Depression can be a chemical imbalance in the brain, situaltional, or both. I believe that it takes both medication and therapy to treat depression. I have insight into depression as I suffer from dysthymia which is a mild on going type of depression.
I own four ferrets. The two pictured are Panda and Podo. The other two are Pounce and Bear. The kids can be a handful (arm full ?) at times, but they are fun to play with as well as watching them playing with each other.
By the way, aliens aren't the only thing I am looking for. So I want to tell the ladies that I am single and available with no kids. Heheheh. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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I believe that our planet is not the only one in the universe that has life on it. We have achieved space travel although it is still primitive for any travel to planets beyond our moon. We can send satellites to other planets, but we are not quite ready to send humans. Mars will probably be the first planet that we will send humans too. NASA is conducting experiments to achieve this end. We have a scientist working on a plasma engine that would allow travel to other planets in shorter times which could includes humans on those missions.
I have been running SETI@Home on my computer 24/7 for the past two years. I turn the monitor off on my computer when I am not using it to conserve power. Currently I am returning about 5 workunits every 2 days. I have completed over 1,000 workunits.
I believe that it is a worthwhile endeavor to search for signals from other planets as a means to detect other life out there. The search for these signals is still in a primitive phase even with the improvements to the SETI@Home software. Running the program is a way that I can contribute to the search. Maybe one day I will see a face on the power graph. :o)
I switched to the command line version in mid February 2002, and is allowing me to process workunits faster than the screensaver version. I am also running SETI Driver to cache workunits during the current bandwidth problem at Berkley so that my computer won't sit idle. Additionally, I am using SETI Spy to monitor my progress.
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