Profile: elgee

Personal background
I am 48 years old, married, and live in Canada. Currently, I am a classroom-technologist at the University of Alberta. I once worked as an Operations Supervisor for the oldest AV company in North America: Sharp's Audio-Visual Ltd., and have traveled and worked all across Canada. I can remember watching the Apollo moon-landing in 1969 (just before I turned five), and have had an interest in off-planet subjects since 1970. You could say that I was raised by Robert A. Heinlein...but that might be overstating the case.
Besides reading voraciously, I am enamoured with aircraft, ships, history, and science. I also seem to suffer from a deplorable excess of personality.
I highly recommend you all read the collected works of Art Clarke, Isaac Asimov, David Weber, David Drake, Mike Shepard, Bob Heinlein, and Anne McCaffery. Do it now!

As I am at work while writing this, I needs must let this stand as my profile...it would hardly do to waste valuable company time on personal matters, after all.
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
It hardly seems worth stating that someone who runs SETI@home believes in the possibility of other life. Since we have barely begun to explore the greater part of our own planet (I refer to the 336 million cubic miles of water on this rock), it would be folly to decide this issue based on specious philosophical arguments (most of which seem to have a distinct religious taint).
I run the program as a way to contribute to a great experiment. Since I have no higher education, and day-to-day tasks keep me from discovering Anti-Gravity, SETI@home seems to be a good way to leave a small foot-print in time.
It would probably be a moot point to discuss a beacon. We have been screaming electro-magnetically at the Universe for nearly a century. I read a fabulous short story in 1981 (in Omni) about the possible future of Voyager (or Pioneer, perhaps...the mind grows dim...). It was thought-provoking, and entertaining. It dealt with the risks involved with our galactic "coming-out" and sending directions/descriptions into the void. Unfortunately, I seem to have misplaced the author's name, and the title. A quest, perhaps, for the data-miners among you!
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