Steve Killen

Hi, I'm a nerd. I write, and sometimes I publish those writings on my blog, Pursuing Calefaction. More often I'll write trivia here. It's a way to fight my ferocious ADHD. Hey, it works. (Sort of.)

I last bit my fingernails on Nov 12th, 2008. (That's right, I haven't bitten my nails in over 1.5 years.)

Email: <steven.f.killen AT SPAMFREE gmail DOT com>

Crazy ideas I come up with

• A frisk (or whatever) board display server with a handheld API that hooks up to a projector suspended over a table surface!

• An Appalachian Trail wiki (really? Nobody's thought to do this yet?) Well, there's http://www.walkipedia.org/.

Crap I need to do

• Get new tires:

  • 2 more tires and a spare wheel mid-June

  • Kumho KR21s at Brown's Collision.

  • Net cost ~$300 for the final 2 tires and the spare.

• Recover data from a stack of old hard drives

• Consolidate my data so that most of it is accessible to me via HCoop

  • Then set up afsclient on my machines
  • maybe write an easy script to install on new computers

• Set up iFuse so I can access my iPod Touch in Linux

  • Jailbreak my iPod?

• Take the rest of my hardware to the electronics recycling depot

  • http://www.co.orange.nc.us/recycling/centers.asp

• Reseal my hiking boots (Shoe Goo: $7)

• Decide on an itinerary for my Perseids backpacker

• Start looking for teaching jobs
  • Build up my resume

• Fix my damned wiki

  • Design a more comprehensive security policy
  • Upgrade to 1.8 (9?) -- and detail steps taken for HCoop users

• Prep next War of the Ring board for play

• Upgrade freya to a better version of

  Eeebuntu -- in process: downloading EB4 via torrent.

Reading list

• the Silmarillion

• Orthodoxy (GK Chesterton)

• Death on a Friday Afternooon (Neuhaus)

• Pride & Prejudice

• Jennifer Government
• Gods Behaving Badly (Phillips)
• Alcestis (Beutner)

Projects on the back burner

• a MythTV machine

• a wooden, folding 4'x3' game table

• a laser pen!

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