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| Your personal background. | |
| My nickname is Mush. I live on a hobby farm in Iowa, I'm a network engineer at an ISP, and I build websites on the side. (Update: I live in a small town in Iowa, and I'm unemployed.) For fun, I read sci-fi ebooks. Voraciously. I mean, a *lot* of them. I read mostly on my iPAQ, which I carry with me everywhere. (My iPAQ died, so now I'm stuck with treeware.) It's the latest of a long line of beloved palmtops, starting with a Newton back in the day. | |
| Your opinions about Einstein@Home | |
| I've been running SETI@home since 1999 on every computer I can get my hands on. This means four or five personal machines, and who knows how many employers' boxes - including the occasional Mac. I run it for two reasons. The first is that I love the concept and implementation of distributed computing. I think it's - not to sound maudlin - a beautiful symbolism for what human beings can do when they decide to give up a tiny thing of their own (in this case, processor time) for the good of all. The impact is subtle, but still real: it makes us feel better. This self-same behavior can be applied to absolutely all fields of human endeavor to make human life a more pleasant prospect. We seem to have an aversion to 'sacrifice' in this era, but I firmly believe that giving of oneself on any level is good for the soul. The second reason I run SETI@home is N = R* x fs x fp x ne x fl x fi x fc x L. | |
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