Steve Killen

Hi, I'm a nerd. I write, and sometimes I publish those writings on my blog, Pursuing Calefaction.

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

Crazy ideas I come up with

• A frisk display server with a handheld API that hooks up to a projector suspended over a table surface!

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.

• Buy new eyeglasses (http://www.zennioptical.com/ or http://www.goggles4u.com/)

• Recover data from a stack of old hard drives

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

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

  • Jailbreak my iPod?
• Freecycle my iPaq hardware

• 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

• Install new Ubuntu on magrathea to fix a bunch of issues

• Fix my damned wiki

• Prep next War of the Rings board for play

Reading list

• the Silmarillion
• Orthodoxy (GK Chesterton)
• Death on a Friday Afternooon (Neuhaus)

• Pride & Prejudice

• Jennifer Government

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