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| Personal background |
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The instructions state, "You could tell us where you're from, your age, occupation, hobbies, or anything else you want." Yeah, sure, I could, but why? Basically, I don't take things too seriously anymore. It's not worth the trouble !
My screen name comes from one of my favorite movies, Fletch, when the police chief asks Irwin M. Fletcher (played by Chevy Chase) what his full name is and he responds, "Fletch F. Fletch." Of course, there are plenty of other great movies out there as well such as Airplane!
I think I best mimic
Wally in the cartoon Dilbert--at least, he's my idol. My "picture" sort of sums up my life at the moment--no direction at work nor do I have any desire to have any! :) Well, I suppose that's enough stream of consciousness rambling for now, so I'll leave you with the "Galaxy Song" from Monty Python's The Meaning of Life:
Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving
And revolving at nine hundred miles an hour,
That's orbiting at nineteen miles a second, so it's reckoned,
A sun that is the source of all our power.
The sun and you and me and all the stars that we can see
Are moving at a million miles a day
In an outer spiral arm, at forty thousand miles an hour,
Of the galaxy we call the Milky Way.
Our galaxy itself contains a hundred billion stars.
It's a hundred thousand light years side to side.
It bulges in the middle, sixteen thousand light years thick,
But out by us, it's just three thousand light years wide.
We're thirty thousand light years from galactic central point.
We go 'round every two hundred million years,
And our galaxy is only one of millions of billions
In this amazing and expanding universe.
The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding
In all of the directions it can whizz
As fast as it can go, at the speed of light, you know,
Twelve million miles a minute, and that's the fastest speed there is.
So remember, when you're feeling very small and insecure,
How amazingly unlikely is your birth,
And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space,
'Cause there's bugger all down here on Earth. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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Personally, I think SETI has done wonders for the concept of distributed computing. Now that distributed computing has become so prolific, not only can we search for extraterrestrial intelligence, but we can also solve such useful things as finding the next largest prime number and cranking a few more digits out of the number pi, both of which will undoubtedly make this world a better place. :)
It seems like so many profiles indicate a certainty that there is intelligence outside our humble abode. I, however, simply don't know, but I certainly support the quest to learn (as long as I don't have to do any hard work)! |
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