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. It's a way to fight my ferocious ADHD. Hey, it works. (Sort of.)

My /Chores. (No, you don't get to see them. They're boring.)

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 nearly 2 years.)

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

Crap I need to do

• Finish setting up thor as a fileserver

  • crystallize mount points

  • throw all data on /media/depot (magrathea, older hard drives, rebecca's windows lappy)
  • de-cruftify the installation
  • install nfs

• design & build floor-to-ceiling bookshelves

• Change the oil in the

  /AluminumFalcon

• Fix my damned 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

  (CreateSpace coupon good until 1 Jul)

• Get new tires:
  • 2 more tires and (a spare wheel?)

  • Kumho KR21s at Brown's Collision.

  • Net cost ~$300 for the final 2 tires and the spare.

• 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

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

• Prep next War of the Ring board for play.

• Install http://www.status.net/ for calefaction.org

• Update WordPress to 3.0 on calefaction.org

Reading list

• the Silmarillion

• Orthodoxy (GK Chesterton)

• Death on a Friday Afternooon (Neuhaus)

• Pride & Prejudice

• Jennifer Government
• Gods Behaving Badly (Phillips)
• Alcestis (Beutner)

Projects on the back burner

• a wooden, folding 4'x3' game table

• a laser pen!

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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