Posts in category “Brainwork”

Going BOINC-ing

Well, having just past my 5th anniversary with SETI, I'm now moving on.  Not quiting, but moving to BOINC -Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing.  They have finally begun to move the SETI project over to BOINC as had been announced long ago.  So my SETI stats page will be converted to a static page containing my final stats as of today.  I will likely be unlinking it from the navigation menu at some point in the future and adding a new BOINC stats page.  All in good time…  According to my new BOINC stats, I had completed 4522 SETI packets at the time my account was migrated.  My current stats show that I've actually completed 4530.

One of the cool things about BOINC is that it's designed to do distributed computing not just for SETI, but for pretty much anything.  Thus if you decide to you can switch to another project or split your time between multiple projects.  If you are a current SETI user who would like to migrate to BOINC, or are new to all of this and are just looking to getting started with BOINC using SETI, the temporary home page is here.

5 Years of SETI-ing

The SETI project was made publically available on May 13, 1999.  Just over a month after it started I joined the project.  And, at about 3:22pm yesterday I reached my fifth anniversary of churning SETI packets and I continue to do so as I write this entry.  At this moment I've processed 4506 packets and have donated 6.456 years of computing time to find E.T.  Although I currently only do processing on my one machine, previously I had multiple Unix machines that I could also utilize.  Thus that is how I've donated almost an extra 1.5 years in a 5 year timespan.  We haven't found E.T. yet, but we're going to keep looking.  He's out there…somewhere…to be found sometime.

The Man Thong

With our up coming trip to Hawaii, someone was kind enough to share these very disturbing and scary photos with my sister.  Apparently these were taken on a beach somewhere in California.  So here you go, what I've termed the "man thong":

Scary man's bathing suit #1

Just as scary: Scary man's bathing suit #2

And downright disturbing: Scary man's bathing suit #2

The missing missing link

From the "No Shit" department comes word that there was no connection between Iraq and al Qaeda on the 9/11 attacks.  Duh?  Anyone outside of George W. Bonehead and company with half a brain surely figured this out long ago.  But then again, I guess we'll all be eating our words when they find bin Laden sitting in his cave on top of a pile of Iraqi chemical and biological weapons.  What can I say other than "bring 'em on".

7/7/2004
Shortly after the 9/11 Commission found no "credible evidence" that Iraq cooperated with al Qaeda, Vice President Chenney pretty must insisted that it was not so.  His feelings being that "probably" had information the commission didn't.  But after reviewing transcripts of his remarks, the commission believes he knows nothing that they don't.  Hmmm…go figure.

7/9/2004
The saga continues with even more damning evidence…or the lack there of!