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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 |
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=== Reading list === * {o} [[http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/16769|Orthodoxy (GK Chesterton)]] |
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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
Read 2 items in Latin
Cicero's letters (Shackleton-Bailey)
read 25 new books
Freud's Couch, Scott's Buttocks, Bronte's Grave, by Simon Goldhill
volunteer 50 hours in the local community
write 50 letters (actual, printed and/or hand-written correspondence)
write, edit, and submit one novel OR three short stories
brew beer for people
get regulator hose and propane tank for new burner
clean and oxidize kettle
acquire Sanke kegging equipment
clean kegs for use (with industrial cleaner)
brew a cream ale in the party keg for Bill
brew 30 gallons of wedding ale for Matt & Maggie
10 gallons of Persephone
20 gallons of Steve's Extra Special
Suggestions for the Reading Stack
Death on a Friday Afternooon (Neuhaus)
Pride & Prejudice
Jennifer Government
Gods Behaving Badly (Phillips)
Alcestis (Beutner)
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
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.