I'm from a small town in SouthWest Nova Scotia, Canada. I enjoy computers, and computer games of many varieties. Basically, the reasoning as to why I run Seti@home is that I wanted my AFK(away from keyboard) time to be productive in some way.
Cheers,
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.