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| Personal background |
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I was born in Mexico in 1960 (yeah baby!)and moved to Los Angeles in '82. I met my life partner (his name is Phil) in '96 and we've lived together since. After almost seven years I was (wrongfully) fired from my job three years ago because I have AIDS (the best thing that could have happened to me,being fired that is...hehe!. I sued and won and after the lawsuit was over ( I represented myself in court) I found that I liked the judicial side of life. I enrolled at Los Angeles Community College (Go Cubbs!) and will have earned my A.A. and will be ready to transfer for my B.A. (B.S.?)this Summer. I am also taking courses towards getting a paralegal certification ( I intend to donate some of my free time to Legal Aid Foundation) and I think that eventually I will "gravitate" towards Law School. However, I have always been interested in science, little did I know that some of my pondering had been already been pondered upon by many others and that they were covered by fields such as Astronomy, Physics and Cosmology. I have taken some Astronomy and Physics courses at LACC but I like to learn on my own. For some reason I still find the knowledge imparted nowadays as rigid and almost as stale as when I was younger,but that's another story. I like reading papers at astro-phi,etc, and though I don't understand the math, I get the picture (kinda like understanding some Italian when you only speak Spanish). I am a dummy when it comes to manual tasks but I am good at analytical thinking (I think... hehe!).
Although I like to speculate on what lies beyond whatever we think we know, I don't like sci-fi reading but rather fact-based material. Boring as it may appear to everyone I know (including Phil who thinks I'm nuts!) I preffer it to watching the same re-hashed and superficial "news".
About the AIDS thing, I just hope they find a cure some day and that people get information to prevent it and treatment if too late; I think that having a positive attitude with your feet set on the ground works for me. No reason to negate the innevitable but after all it does not bother me more than suffering from migraines (which I do hate BTW..hehe!)or any other health condition. What is done is done and there is nothing we can do to change the past.
Oh yes, about ET intelligence out there...if you are still wondering, all you have to do is look into a mirror.
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| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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I am also running Einstein@home in addition to S@H to perhaps be able to write the true story of us.
I like the idea of being able to participate in a project that if anything comes out of it we all can be proud to have participated in it (that is without going into an ego trip).
My only suggestion is that there should be a call for sponsor(s) to be able to place full-feature adds in TV and other media to get more people involved; therby increasing the computer power and reducing the wait time between data gathering and processing. |
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