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.

A moment of shame: sidhe-Rog-Orc-Fem-Cha died in the Dungeons of Doom on level 1. Killed by a carnivorous bag.

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

My Car.

This forum post is how I got our Brother HL 2240 laserjet printer working in Linux.

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 three years.)

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

Twitter: elvestinkle

Phone: 919.949.6966

Things I need to do

• Get the /AluminumFalcon inspected and plates updated

• Fix my 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)

• 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

• Reseal my hiking boots (Shoe Goo: $7, or that boot place that ClintonEbadi used)

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

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

  • integrate status.net and the wiki

• Update WordPress to 3.0 on calefaction.org

Goals for 2012

• write, edit, and submit one novel OR three short stories read 25 new books brew 12 distinct styles of beer on my stove find paying work in the teaching/tutoring field volunteer 50 hours in the local community write 50 letters (actual, printed and/or hand-written correspondence)

Reading list

• Orthodoxy (GK Chesterton)

• Death on a Friday Afternooon (Neuhaus)

• Pride & Prejudice

• Jennifer Government

• Gods Behaving Badly (Phillips)

• Alcestis (Beutner)

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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