I'm an Arizona native on my fourth 29th birthday who enjoys astro-photography. After starting my career programming I had to move on after a severe coffee overdose. Fortunately, I found a low-stress occupation. I'm the Support Team Chief for eDigestHosting so I spend my days explaining the intricacies of DNS and FTP.
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
One of the biggest regrets of my life (next to not growing four more inches so I could pursue a career in basketball) is that I will probably never meet ET. I believe "we are not alone," but I really doubt we're going to solve the difficulties of travel over the distances required to meet ET - at least in my lifetime. It would make my day if we could simply get some signals from "out there" that would give us a glimpse of ETs culture.
SETI@home and Astropulse are funded by grants from the National Science Foundation, NASA, and donations from SETI@home volunteers. AstroPulse is funded in part by the NSF through grant AST-0307956.