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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. 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. Hi, I'm a nerd. :) I write, and sometimes I publish those writings on my blog, [[http://pursuing.calefaction.org/|Pursuing Calefaction]], or I'll write trivia here. I used to brew (award-winning!) beer on my stove and also with my friends; details are on the HomeBrewing section of the wiki. Now I'm a dad and a teacher, still trying to find the time to brew and write and game.
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My [[/Chores]]. (No, you don't get to see them. They're boring.)

My [[/AluminumFalcon|Car]].
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I last bit my fingernails on Nov 12th, 2008.
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Twitter: [[http://twitter.com/#!/elvestinkle|elvestinkle]]
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Resume: [[attachment:Resume-2012.doc]] Resume: [[attachment:Resume2017.pdf]]
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  * Design a more comprehensive security policy
  * Upgrade to 1.8 (9?) -- and detail steps taken for HCoop users
  * Style?
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 * <<Color2(red,Recover data from a stack of old hard drives)>>
 * Consolidate my data so that most of it is accessible to me via [[http://www.hcoop.net/|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
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=== Goals for 2012 === === Goals for 2015 ===
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 . {o} write, edit, and submit one novel OR three short stories
  . Status: draft of 1 short story, fragments of many others
 . {o} read 25 new books
  1. {*} __Captain's Fury__, Jim Butcher
  1. {*} __Pride and Prejudice__, Jane Austen
  1. {*} __Princeps' Fury__, Jim Butcher
  1. {*} __First Lord's Fury__, Jim Butcher
  1. {*} __Rubicon__, Tom Holland
  1. {*} __Orthodoxy__, GK Chesterton
  1. {o} __Freud's Couch, Scott's Buttocks, Bronte's Grave__, by Simon Goldhill
 . {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: bulk conditioning]
  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
  . 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
 . {o} Finish MAT
 . {o} Find teaching work in MD
 . {o} build a TINY HOUSE
 . {o} Write 50 letters to people
  . January: 4
 . {o} Write 1 novel OR 3 short stories
 . {o} Read/listen to 50 books
  1. __Augustus__ Anthony Everitt
  1. __De Profundis__ Oscar Wilde
  1. __The Secret Garden__ Frances Hodgson Burnett
  1. __The Common People of Ancient Rome__ Frank Frost Abbott
  1. __De Bello Gallico__ Julius Caesar (tr. W. A. MACDEVITT 1915)
  1. __The Source__ James Michener
  1. __Meditations__ Marcus Aurelius (tr. Casaubon 1634)

[[/OldGoals]]
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 * {o} The New Jim Crow (Michelle Alexander)
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 * {o} Pride & Prejudice  * {*} Pride & Prejudice

Steve Killen

Hi, I'm a nerd. :) I write, and sometimes I publish those writings on my blog, Pursuing Calefaction, or I'll write trivia here. I used to brew (award-winning!) beer on my stove and also with my friends; details are on the HomeBrewing section of the wiki. Now I'm a dad and a teacher, still trying to find the time to brew and write and game.

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

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

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

Phone: 919.949.6966

Resume: Resume2017.pdf

Things I need to do

  • Fix my wiki

    • Style?
  • finish editing Winterswatch so I can publish it

Goals for 2015

  • {o} Finish MAT

  • {o} Find teaching work in MD

  • {o} build a TINY HOUSE

  • {o} Write 50 letters to people

    • January: 4
  • {o} Write 1 novel OR 3 short stories

  • {o} Read/listen to 50 books

    1. Augustus Anthony Everitt

    2. De Profundis Oscar Wilde

    3. The Secret Garden Frances Hodgson Burnett

    4. The Common People of Ancient Rome Frank Frost Abbott

    5. De Bello Gallico Julius Caesar (tr. W. A. MACDEVITT 1915)

    6. The Source James Michener

    7. Meditations Marcus Aurelius (tr. Casaubon 1634)

/OldGoals

Suggestions for the Reading Stack

  • {o} The New Jim Crow (Michelle Alexander)

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

  • {*} 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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