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| Your personal background. | |
| I own a small business which is involved in providing training and certification in Well Control and Blowout Prevention for people working on Oil and Gas Drilling Rigs, both onshore and offshore. The business owns quite a number of computers and yes, I did ask the boss for permission to use them for worthy causes like Einstein@Home :). The business is based in Brisbane, Queensland, but I spend a lot of time in other places like Perth, Western Australia, and various south-east Asian countries like Malaysia and Brunei, as well as closer-to-home countries like New Zealand. My business shares premises with a company called Uptime Games which runs a couple of computer game playing centres in Brisbane. Can you see the attraction? No, no not playing computer games!! I'm a bit too long in the tooth for that sort of thing. They have plenty of nice boxes that aren't always fully occupied doing silly calculations, that can be pressed into doing useful calculations from time to time :). I would like to thank the nice people at Uptime Games for allowing me to steal some of their spare cycles to crunch BOINC projects. I also stole their logo for inclusion in this profile. | |
| Your opinions about Einstein@Home | |
| Many years ago I did an Engineering Degree at the University of Queensland and Physics was part of the curriculum in years 1 & 2. I did extremely badly at Physics. Most Engineers at the time considered Physics to be totally impractical and just wanted to get on with the real stuff of Engineering. If there was anything that could turn off an Engineer it was trying to get your head around Physics concepts such as "ripples in the fabric of space-time" or "the dual wave/particle nature of light". These days I reckon I might have mellowed a bit and I might just have a degree of respect for people who can get their heads around such concepts. To me, it is quite important to support those who are going to make the discoveries that just might shake this enigmatic universe we find ourselves in. It is too depressing a thought to imagine we are marooned on this speck of dust we call home without a practical means of ever realistically being able to escape from our solar system. Just like in the middle ages where the ultimate in high speed travel was horseback, I reckon that what we consider to be impossibly fast today, might one day seem like just a canter in the park. Unfortunately. I might just not be around to see it. So get a move on you bloody physicists and make some discoveries so we Engineers can build it!!!! :). | |
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