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 beer with my friends; details are on the HomeBrewing section of the wiki. Also an elected member of the HCoop Board of Directors.

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.

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 and a half years.)

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

Twitter: elvestinkle

Phone: 919.949.6966

Resume: Resume-2011.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)

• Start looking for teaching jobs
  • Build up my resume -- doing what?

• 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

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

  • Status: Fragments of a short story

• read 25 new books

  1. Captain's Fury, Jim Butcher

  2. (Reading) Orthodoxy, GK Chesterton

  3. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen

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

  5. Princeps' Fury, Jim Butcher

• 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: conditioning]

  7. Hard Root Beer Brown Ale (Windsor) [Status: primary fermentation]

  8. "Sriracha" Pepper Robust Porter (reusing Windsor)

  9. Russian Imperial Stout (reusing Windsor)

  10. Belgian Pale Ale (T-58)

  11. Smokey Amber (70/- Scotch Ale?) (US-05)

  12. TBD ()

• find paying work in the teaching/tutoring field

  • Status: nil

• volunteer 50 hours in the local community

  • Status: nil

• 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

• Death on a Friday Afternooon (Neuhaus)

• Pride & Prejudice

• Jennifer Government

• Gods Behaving Badly (Phillips)

• Alcestis (Beutner)

• 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

• design & build floor-to-ceiling bookshelves

• a wooden, folding 4'x3' game table

• a laser pen!

• Prep next War of the Ring board for play.

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!

  • SteveIsrael has built the projector part, based on a design he saw at a local gaming store -- BtTempleton

• 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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