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| Personal background |
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I'm one of those rare breeds of Seattlite who actually decided to stay in the city rather than be "from" somewhere. I'm going on 41, and I work as a professional paper-pusher with a view of both the Space Needle, the waterfront and Elliot Bay.
Briefly in high school and through late college on, I've been surrounded by geeks. I'm not actually a geek, myself. I'm barely geek-lite. But I'm geek-friendly, a geek-groupie, a ... geek-hag? Could be, as they seem to find my company pleasant enough. I'm also a science fiction fan of sorts (mainly into urban fantasy books), and was left to piece together my understanding of the world on my own -- my parents never tried to push a religion on me. Instead, they simply insisted that I respect their upbringings.
At present, my hobbies are mixing perfume oils, reading, unpacking my apartment (an ongoing process), armchair psychology, comics, learning kinky stuff and writing.
(If this profile looks familiar, its because I haven't recovered my previous account here. oops.) |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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At some point, the concept of running SETI@home was a big deal among my gaggle of geeks. However, it'd be a long time before I'd have a machine that wouldn't choke at the idea.
The idea of running SETI@home seems like a no-brainer, really. Most of the geeks I knew mouruned the fate of the space program and found it highly unlikely that we're alone here. I've certainly heard and experienced far weirder.
Also, I guess that running SETI@home simply helps me to feel more networthy. I admit that I mainly have a "why the heck not"? attitude about the idea, but ... being left to develop my own ideas about the way the universe works has left the question of extraterrial life quite open for me.
Shortform: I don't know if there's life out there. I doubt that I'll know in my lifetime. For me, the point is to help in finding out. |
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