I'm an iconoclast grumpy ol' man (well, according to my wife, not REALLY a curmudgeon), with plenty of spare cycles and a machine full of speedy little electron not doing all that much just lying around, let’s put it and them to some good use. I’ve been doing SETI@home for years, got burned out on the fierce competitiveness of Folding@home, dabbled a little with other BOINC team efforts, now doing something for RCC. You couldn’t get me to live in SoCal on a bet, but Riverside and environs were a great place to be a kid.

Doing science, well, as much as possible living an empirical existence, is what interests me. Always has. My earliest hero in science was Isaac Asimov. People like Louis Leakey and his wife, Don Johasson and Tim White, Steven J. Gould, Sir David Attenbourough, etc., et al, personify the joy of science to me. And doing Einstein@home is a small way of paying back and being involved.

I mean, think about it, degenerate matter, at megatons per spoonful, rotating with periods measured in milliseconds, emitting gravitational and magnetic energies, these gargantuan cyclotrons, massed energies, flooding local space with sheets of electrons emitting in every known wave form, what's NOT to love about that?