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 (or whatever) board 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

  Done!

• Fix my damned wiki

  • Add textcha
  • Relocate certain pages to appropriate sub-pages
  • Design a more comprehensive security policy

• Prep next War of the Ring board for play

Reading list

• the Silmarillion

• Orthodoxy (GK Chesterton)

• Death on a Friday Afternooon (Neuhaus)

• Pride & Prejudice

• Jennifer Government

Projects on the back burner

• a MythTV machine
• a wooden, folding 4'x3' game table

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