Profile: Sparrow

Your personal background.
Born: Roswell, NM 1945 (with the bomb)
Died: (tbd)

When I was 12 I wanted to be a physicist, but my math skills ran out sometime during quadratic equations. I became a newspaper reporter, a wandering minstrel, a ham radio geek, a bartender, and eventually a phone company nerd and UNIX sys admin. I retired early, in 1998. These days I work part-time and play bass occasionally with a local band. I live with my partner and her young son, plus three dogs and four cats. (I’d put the cats in Schrödinger boxes, but I’m trying to be a good Buddhist.)

I’m currently crunching for three @home projects; SETI, Cosmology, and Einstein. I use two PCs; a 2-core and a singleton, both AMD, running XP. (Better dead than Vista!)

Seriously, I’m excited and grateful to be able to contribute to real science in this small way.


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This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under Grant NSF-0200852 and by the Max Planck Gesellschaft (MPG). Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the investigators and do not necessarily reflect the views of the NSF or the MPG.

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