Profile: Lindsay Prior (assisted by Julie Medway)

Personal background
About me:
A conventional ideology, inverted and mediated downward through social and cultural affirmation, then exported upwards to an uncomprehending official ideological apparatus, reinforcing a transhistorical disaffectation and articulating the innermost self with external reality, thus connecting the dialectic of the id (through its own volition and without subordination) to the concrete, forming a basic compact ego-centric milieu, specific to and complimenting its consequent evolving praxis.

But seriously, I live in Canberra, the capital city of Australia. After Australia was federated in 1901, the governments of Melbourne and Sydney argued about which city should be the formal capital of Australia, each one believing theirs was the natural choice. The arguing continued for over ten years until in 1913 a compromise was finally reached, and the artificial city of Canberra was created, approximately half way between the two. Thus about half of the population of Canberra (currently 310, 000) work for the federal government in the many different departments that make up Australian government. And yes, I work for the government too.

I chose the parts for and assembled my PC myself in December 2001. It has an Asus A7V266 E motherboard, an AMD XP1600 CPU and 512MB DDR-RAM.

I am 35 years old, married and have three cats.
Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home
I definitely believe extraterrestrial life exists and I think we will probably discover it in my lifetime, but if ET has any sense he/she/it will take one look at evil humanity and run/slither/float away as fast as possible.

I love being part of SETI, the greatest distributed internet project ever. As unlikely as it is that the work units I process will be the ones that find ET, there is still a slight chance. It is also fun to compete against my fellow SETI members in the amount of work units we process each week. I use the CLI version of SETI@home and I have the Client Priority set to Low via SetiDriver. That way I can run it all the time and mostly not even notice it is there.
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