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Hi, I'm a nerd. :) I write, and sometimes I publish those writings on my blog, [[http://pursuing.calefaction.org/|Pursuing Calefaction]]. More often I'll write trivia here.   Hi, I'm a nerd. :) I write, and sometimes I publish those writings on my blog, [[http://pursuing.calefaction.org/|Pursuing Calefaction]]. More often I'll write trivia here. I brew (award-winning!) beer on my stove and also with my friends; details are on the HomeBrewing section of the wiki. Also an elected member of the [[http://www.hcoop.net/|HCoop]] Board of Directors, serving as the treasurer.
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My [[/Writing]] prompts. Feel free to add!

I last bit my fingernails on Nov 12th, 2008. (That's right, I haven't bitten my nails in ''three years.'')		 I last bit my fingernails on Nov 12th, 2008.
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Resume: [[attachment:Resume-2012.doc]]
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 * Start looking for teaching jobs
  * Build up my resume -- doing what?
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  . Status: Fragments of a short story
 . {o} read 25 new books
  1. {*} __Captain's Fury__, Jim Butcher
  1. {o} ''(Reading)'' __Orthodoxy__, GK Chesterton
  1. {*} __Pride and Prejudice__, Jane Austen
  1. {o} __Freud's Couch, Scott's Buttocks, Bronte's Grave__, by Simon Goldhill
  1. {*} __Princeps' Fury__, Jim Butcher
  1. {*} __First Lord's Fury__, Jim Butcher
 . {o} brew 12 distinct styles of beer on my stove
  1. {*} English Special/Best Bitter (Danstar Windsor) [Status: drunk]
  1. {*} Gluten-free Sorghum (Danstar Nottingham) [Status: drunk]
  1. {*} American IPA (reusing Nottingham) [Status: drunk]
  1. {*} Hefeweizen (Danstar Munich) [Status: drunk]
  1. {*} Dunkelweizen (reusing Munich) [Status: drunk]
  1. {*} "Session" Saison (T-58) [Status: drunk]
  1. {*} Hard Root Beer Brown Ale (Windsor) [Status: drinking]
  1. {*} Russian Imperial Stout (US-05) [Status: bottle conditioning]
  1. {*} Belgian Pale Ale (T-58) [Status: bottle conditioning]
  1. {o} Smokey Amber Ale (Windsor) [Status: primary fermentation]
  1. {o} "Sriracha" Pepper Porter (Windsor)
  1. {o} Belgian Winter Warmer (T-58)
 . {*} find paying work in the teaching/tutoring field
  . Status: teaching Latin at Middle Creek High School!!
 . {o} volunteer 50 hours in the local community
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 . {o} read 25 new books
  1. __Captain's Fury__, Jim Butcher
  1. ''(Reading)'' __Orthodoxy__, GK Chesterton
  1. ''(Reading)'' __Pride and Prejudice__, Jane Austen
 . {o} brew 12 distinct styles of beer on my stove
  1. {*} English Best Bitter (Danstar Windsor) [Status: bottle-conditioning]
  1. {o} Gluten-free Sorghum (Danstar Nottingham) [Status: primary fermentation]
  1. {o} American IPA (reusing Nottingham) [Status: planning]
  1. {o} Table-strength Saison (T-58)
  1. {o} Belgian Pale Ale (reusing T-58)
  1. {o} Hefeweisen (Danstar Munich)
  1. {o} Dunkelweisen (reusing Munich)
  1. {o} Hard Root Beer Brown Ale (Wyeast London Ale)
  1. {o} Pepper Porter (reusing London Ale)
  1. {o} Bourbon-Oaked Oatmeal Extra Stout (reusing London Ale)
  1. {o} Smokey Amber (Wyeast Irish Ale)
  1. {o} Scotch Ale (reusing Irish Ale)
 . {o} find paying work in the teaching/tutoring field
  . Status: had a phone interview with a private tutoring place (1/19), sending info
 . {o} volunteer 50 hours in the local community
  . Status: Signed up for 5 hours
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  . Status: 4 letters written. Correspondences begun with Rob, Tim, Vanessa   . Status: 9 letters written. Correspondences begun with Rob (2), Tim (2), Vanessa (2), Yi, Anderson, Kathy
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=== Reading list ===
 * {o} [[http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/16769|Orthodoxy (GK Chesterton)]]		 === Suggestions for the Reading Stack ===
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 * {o} John McWhorter -- Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold Story of English, Language Interrupted: Signs of Non-Native Acquisition in Standard Language Grammars

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. I brew (award-winning!) beer on my stove and also with my friends; details are on the HomeBrewing section of the wiki. Also an elected member of the HCoop Board of Directors, serving as the treasurer.

A moment of shame: sidhe-Rog-Orc-Fem-Cha died in the Dungeons of Doom on level 1. Killed by a carnivorous bag.

My /Chores. (No, you don't get to see them. They're boring.)

My Car.

This forum post is how I got our Brother HL 2240 laserjet printer working in Linux.

I last bit my fingernails on Nov 12th, 2008.

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

Twitter: elvestinkle

Phone: 919.949.6966

Resume: Resume-2012.doc

Things I need to do

  • Fix my wiki

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

  • finish editing Winterswatch so I can publish it

  • 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

  • Reseal my hiking boots (Shoe Goo: $7, or that boot place that ClintonEbadi used)

  • Install http://www.status.net/ for calefaction.org

    • integrate status.net and the wiki

  • Update WordPress to 3.0 on calefaction.org

Goals for 2012

  • {o} write, edit, and submit one novel OR three short stories

    • Status: Fragments of a short story

  • {o} read 25 new books

    1. {*} Captain's Fury, Jim Butcher

    2. {o} (Reading) Orthodoxy, GK Chesterton

    3. {*} Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen

    4. {o} Freud's Couch, Scott's Buttocks, Bronte's Grave, by Simon Goldhill

    5. {*} Princeps' Fury, Jim Butcher

    6. {*} First Lord's Fury, Jim Butcher

  • {o} brew 12 distinct styles of beer on my stove

    1. {*} English Special/Best Bitter (Danstar Windsor) [Status: drunk]

    2. {*} Gluten-free Sorghum (Danstar Nottingham) [Status: drunk]

    3. {*} American IPA (reusing Nottingham) [Status: drunk]

    4. {*} Hefeweizen (Danstar Munich) [Status: drunk]

    5. {*} Dunkelweizen (reusing Munich) [Status: drunk]

    6. {*} "Session" Saison (T-58) [Status: drunk]

    7. {*} Hard Root Beer Brown Ale (Windsor) [Status: drinking]

    8. {*} Russian Imperial Stout (US-05) [Status: bottle conditioning]

    9. {*} Belgian Pale Ale (T-58) [Status: bottle conditioning]

    10. {o} Smokey Amber Ale (Windsor) [Status: primary fermentation]

    11. {o} "Sriracha" Pepper Porter (Windsor)

    12. {o} Belgian Winter Warmer (T-58)

  • {*} find paying work in the teaching/tutoring field

    • Status: teaching Latin at Middle Creek High School!!

  • {o} volunteer 50 hours in the local community

    • Status: nil

  • {o} write 50 letters (actual, printed and/or hand-written correspondence)

    • Status: 9 letters written. Correspondences begun with Rob (2), Tim (2), Vanessa (2), Yi, Anderson, Kathy

Suggestions for the Reading Stack

  • {o} Death on a Friday Afternooon (Neuhaus)

  • {o} Pride & Prejudice

  • {o} Jennifer Government

  • {o} Gods Behaving Badly (Phillips)

  • {o} Alcestis (Beutner)

  • {o} John McWhorter -- Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold Story of English, Language Interrupted: Signs of Non-Native Acquisition in Standard Language Grammars

Projects on the back burner

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/. But the guy's just sitting on it for now, apparently.

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