Profile: Eingang

Personal background
Favourite Song Quotation #1:

"You gotta make your own kind of music

Sing your own special song

Make your own kind music

Even if nobody else sings along"

-- _Make Your Own Kind of Music_, as sung by Mama Cass

I love to *BoUNce* but not while I'm migraining. My favourite thing is to be the one, the only Ein! I live on the south coast of England, in Brighton, with my EinSweetie.

Favourite Song Quotation #2:

And we'll fill in the missing colours in each other's paint by number dreams.

And then we'll put our dark glasses on,

And we'll make love until our strength is gone.

When the morning light comes streaming in,

We'll get up and do it again.

-- _The Pretender_, as sung by Jackson Browne

I work for an Internet design firm that I co-own with my EinSweetie and another friend. I'm also an associate lecturer for some courses at the Open University (in England) and working on my Ph.D in artificial intelligence/cognitive science -- your basic, run-of-the-mill boring stuff.

Favourite Song Quotation #3:

We belong to the light

We belong to the thunder

We belong to the sound of the words

We've both fallen under

Whatever we deny or embrace

For worse or for better

We belong, we belong

We belong together.

-- _We Belong_, as sung by Pat Benatar

I live in a happy home filled with EinThingsâ„¢: books; Apple laptops; Kitty 1 and Kitty2; more books; a comfortable bed; a decent sound system; even more books; and my EinSweetie. We belong together.
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
"Spock: It's life, Jim, but not as we know it,

not as we know it,

not as we know it.

It's life, Jim, but not as we know it,

not as we know it, Captain."

-- StarTrekkin' by The Firm

"If there's no other life out there, that's an awful waste of space." ~roughly from Contact, the movie, based on the book by Carl Sagan.

While some people might have issues with the way Contact juxtaposed the rigourous testing of scientific hypotheses against religious faith and a belief in other life in the universe, it does seem rather unlikely that we are completely alone in this reality. Even if we are unique and alone, however, the search for other beings is far less inherently destructive than many of our other pastimes, and is completely in keeping with our historically recent tradition of seeking out knowledge. What do we have to lose? Potentially nothing. What do we stand to gain? The universe.
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