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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.   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.)

My [[/AluminumFalcon|Car]].
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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.'')
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Twitter: [[http://twitter.com/#!/elvestinkle|elvestinkle]]
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Resume: [[attachment:Resume-2012.doc]]
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 * <<Color2(red, Get the [[/AluminumFalcon]] inspected and plates updated)>>
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 * Start looking for teaching jobs
  * Build up my resume -- doing what?
 * Install [[http://www.status.net/]] for calefaction.org
 * Install [[http://www.status.net/]] for calefaction.org [[http://gitorious.org/statusnet/mainline/blobs/master/INSTALL]]
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=== Goals for 2012 === === 2013 Goals ===
 . {o} Read 2 items in Latin
  1. {o} Cicero's letters (Shackleton-Bailey)
 . {o} read 25 new books
  1. {o} __Freud's Couch, Scott's Buttocks, Bronte's Grave__, by Simon Goldhill
 . {o} volunteer 50 hours in the local community
 . {o} write 50 letters (actual, printed and/or hand-written correspondence)
 . {o} write, edit, and submit one novel OR three short stories
 . {o} brew beer for people
  . {o} get regulator hose and propane tank for new burner
  . {o} clean and oxidize kettle
  . {o} acquire Sanke kegging equipment
  . {o} clean kegs for use (with industrial cleaner)
  . {o} brew a cream ale in the party keg for Bill
  . {o} brew 30 gallons of wedding ale for Matt & Maggie
   . {o} 10 gallons of Persephone
   . {o} 20 gallons of Steve's Extra Special
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 . {o} write, edit, and submit one novel OR three short stories
  . Status: nil
 . {o} read 25 new books
  . Status: reading GK Chesterton's ''Orthodoxy'', Jim Butcher's ''Captain's Fury''
 . {o} brew 12 distinct styles of beer on my stove
  . Status: brew #1 (English Best Bitter) conditioning, planning brew #2 (brown porter)
 . {o} find paying work in the teaching/tutoring field
  . Status: nil
 . {o} volunteer 50 hours in the local community
  . Status: nil
 . {o} write 50 letters (actual, printed and/or hand-written correspondence)
  . Status: 3 letters written. Correspondences begun with Rob, Tim, Vanessa
[[/OldGoals]]
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=== Reading list ===
 * {o} [[http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/16769|Orthodoxy (GK Chesterton)]]
=== Suggestions for the Reading Stack ===
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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

    • 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

  • 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)

  • Install http://www.status.net/ for calefaction.org http://gitorious.org/statusnet/mainline/blobs/master/INSTALL

    • integrate status.net and the wiki
  • Update WordPress to 3.0 on calefaction.org

2013 Goals

  • {o} Read 2 items in Latin

    1. {o} Cicero's letters (Shackleton-Bailey)

  • {o} read 25 new books

    1. {o} Freud's Couch, Scott's Buttocks, Bronte's Grave, by Simon Goldhill

  • {o} volunteer 50 hours in the local community

  • {o} write 50 letters (actual, printed and/or hand-written correspondence)

  • {o} write, edit, and submit one novel OR three short stories

  • {o} brew beer for people

    • {o} get regulator hose and propane tank for new burner

    • {o} clean and oxidize kettle

    • {o} acquire Sanke kegging equipment

    • {o} clean kegs for use (with industrial cleaner)

    • {o} brew a cream ale in the party keg for Bill

    • {o} brew 30 gallons of wedding ale for Matt & Maggie

      • {o} 10 gallons of Persephone

      • {o} 20 gallons of Steve's Extra Special

/OldGoals

Suggestions for the Reading Stack

  • {o} Death on a Friday Afternooon (Neuhaus)

  • {o} 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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