Profile: bense

Your personal background.
I am a mechanical engineering student of clemson university. Well almost (I will transfer in as a junior in fall of 2009.

I like computers, cars, hiphop, welding, math, physics, video games, anything that makes me nerdy :P

One of my best friends is a chemistry graduate that spends all day coding programs in osx to interface with this mass spectrometer, he says I'm the biggest nerd he's ever met hahah.

I recently hot-rodded my sony vaio vgn-n385e. Sony doesn't want you to take that thing apart, I scoured the net looking for a service manual and I finally found one. I upgraded from a Intel C2D T5300 1.73 GHz 533MHz FSB, 2MB of L2 cache to a T7400 with 2.16 GHz, 667 MHz FSB, 4MB of L2 cache. I also upgraded the harddrive to a 7200rpm 320gig with a 16MB buffer, as well as maxxed the memory out at 2GB.

I am running osx on it and it's pretty sweet.
Your opinions about Einstein@Home
I would try to make up some elaborate respectable reason as to which I choose to participate in E@H. But the reality of it is that it simply makes me feel like a badass.

Jocks flex in the mirror and it gives them their confidence. Hot-rodders try to decrease their 1/4 mile times. When I sit down at my desk or cubicle in the library to study or do homework, I enjoy looking at my notebook and seeing the screensaver. It makes me feel like a badass knowing that I got some hardcore nerdy stuff going on at my desk.

So basically what I'm saying is that I am a poser that uses E@H to impress girls hahahahaha.
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