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.

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: Resume-2012.doc

Things I need to do

• Fix my wiki

  • Style?

• finish editing Winterswatch so I can publish it

Goals for 2015

• Finish MAT

• Find teaching work in MD

• build a TINY HOUSE

• Write 50 letters to people

  • January: 4

• Write 1 novel OR 3 short stories

• Read/listen to 50 books

  1. _Augustus_ Anthony Everitt
  2. _De Profundis_ Oscar Wilde
  3. _The Secret Garden_ Frances Hodgson Burnett

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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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