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| Personal background |
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Hi peeps.
I was born in Texas, but that doesn't necessarily mean I'm "from" there. When I was a tot I decided that I wanted to do nothing for a living. Yeah, that's right, just lounge around and watch the clouds fly past and sip a tall, cool lemonade. Mmmmmmmm.
Later in life I actually graduated high school, and I thought this event marked a wonderful time to try my hand at doing nothing and see how it went. Unfortunately, it was a colossal failure. I soon discovered that my rent and other bills were due! I required money! Damn!
I started working a bunch of crummy jobs (like managing a Sam Goody store in a slum they call Baltimore) and traveling around a lot, and through the random series of misadventures which results from blundering through life utterly without direction, I ended up in an internet cafe in Glasgow's west end (that's Scotland, y'all!), where I had gone after work one day and stumbled upon the web pages for the National Academy of Railroad Sciences in Overland Park, Kansas.
Now here was a place where they teach you to be a freight train conductor. Weird! Since I was fairly certain that train conductors pretty much did nothing for a living, I decided to return to the United States at once and check it out. My job at ScottishPower in Scotland was a drag anyway. (Hey, I should look and see if ScottishPower has a SETI@home team!)
Nowadays I am a Locomotive Engineer for BNSF Railway. While I can't really say that I do nothing for a living, my job is a lot like playing a video game, which can actually be an improvement over doing just nothing!
I live in Flagstaff, Arizona and on my days off I like to just lounge around and watch the clouds fly past and sip a tall, cool margarita.
Well, there is also hiking and biking and whatnot. After all, it is Flagstaff. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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I run SETI@home cause it's neat! I play a lot of videogames also, most notably EverQuest (stop laughing), and I leave a trader character in the Bazaar in the game selling his wares while I'm at work or sleepin or whatever. This requires the use of a computer which runs all the time, and that computer might as well be doing something besides just trying to make my EverQuest toons some cash.
Plus I tend to leave my other computers on doing various things, so it's good that they have something to do rather than just sit around and do nothing.
My views on the project are that it was a cool as hell deal to come up with, as far as the distributed computing screensaver idea. Every day they discover that the universe is filled with more interesting crap than we previously thought, so why should we be the only ones here to enjoy it?
Personally, and don't tell nobody I said this, I hope to one day trade some aliens a ride on my freight train for a ride in their saucer. |
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