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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.  It's a way to fight my ferocious ADHD. Hey, it works. (Sort of.) 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.
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My [[/Chores]]. (No, you don't get to see them. They're boring.) A moment of shame: sidhe-Rog-Orc-Fem-Cha died in the Dungeons of Doom on level 1. Killed by a carnivorous bag.
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My [[/AluminumFalcon|Car]].

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 ''almost 2 and a half years.'')
[[http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1627516|This forum post]] is how I got our Brother HL 2240 laserjet printer working in Linux.
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Twitter: [[http://twitter.com/#!/elvestinkle|elvestinkle]]
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=== Crap I need to do ===
 * <<Color2(red,Change the oil in the)>> [[/AluminumFalcon]]
 * '''<<Color2(red, Fix my damned wiki)>>'''
  * Design a more comprehensive security policy
  * Upgrade to 1.8 (9?) -- and detail steps taken for HCoop users
 * <<Color2(red,finish editing Winterswatch so I can publish it)>> (CreateSpace coupon good until 1 Jul)
 * <<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)
 * Start looking for teaching jobs
  * Build up my resume -- doing what?
 * Install [[http://www.status.net/]] for calefaction.org
 * Update WordPress to 3.0 on calefaction.org
Resume: [[attachment:Resume-2012.doc]]
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=== Things I need to do ===
 * '''<<Color2(red, Fix my wiki)>>'''
  * Style?
 * <<Color2(red,finish editing Winterswatch so I can publish it)>>
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=== Reading list ===
 * A Song of Ice and Fire (rereading to catch up for the 12 Jul release of A Dance with Dragons)
  * {*} A Game of Thrones
  * {*} A Clash of Kings
  * {o} A Storm of Swords
  * {o} A Feast For Crows
 * {*} the Silmarillion
 * {o} [[http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/16769|Orthodoxy (GK Chesterton)]]
=== 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
  1. __De Profundis__ Oscar Wilde
  1. __The Secret Garden__ Frances Hodgson Burnett
  1. __The Common People of Ancient Rome__ Frank Frost Abbott
  1. __The Source__ James Michener

[[/OldGoals]]

=== Suggestions for the Reading Stack ===
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 * {o} Pride & Prejudice  * {*} Pride & Prejudice
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 * {o} John McWhorter -- Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold Story of English, Language Interrupted: Signs of Non-Native Acquisition in Standard Language Grammars

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

  • {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. The Source James Michener

/OldGoals

Suggestions for the Reading Stack

  • {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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