Profile: hallux

Personal background
I'm a hardcore nerd from Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada. I'm currently studying business, much to the dismay of all of my friends and family, who expected me to go into computer science. My personal belief, however, is that I want to continue to enjoy computers, not use them for a living.
I started my own computer sales and service business in 1996, at the age of fifteen, in Newmarket, Ontario. From that point onwards, I have been known as the person to go to regarding computer problems. Personally, I claim that I only have a basic knowledge of computers, but nobody seems to believe me.
I work for my school newspaper (The Baron @ UNB Saint John) as the production manager. My job description there can be summed up by the phrase 'problem solver'. I fix all the computer problems that come up (and there are quite a few). I also have a part time job at the Dollar Store Plus as a cashier. It's not a bad job, but when minimum wage is $5.90 it barely covers the bills.

Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
I personally don't know if extraterrestrial life exists, but I hope that it does. I think that if it does that life form will probably be spending a great deal of its time doing the exact same things us humans do: being generally unproductive. I don't know that there would be any dangers in finding ET life because they would probably be just as excited about finding us as we would be about finding them.
I decided to start running Seti@Home because I know that my 850MHz Celeron processor is largely underused. Now I can be somewhat productive with my spare cycles. I leave the computer on 24/7 and use it for about three hours a day, so Seti@home will be using quite a bit of processor time. I think the project is a great way to put my overpriced computer to good use.
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