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== Steve Killen ==
Hi, I'm a nerd. :)  I write, and sometimes I publish those writings on my blog, [[http://pursuing.calefaction.org/|Pursuing Calefaction]], or I'll write trivia here. I used to brew (award-winning!) beer on my stove and also with my friends; details are on the HomeBrewing section of the wiki. Now I'm a dad and a teacher, still trying to find the time to brew and write and game.

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

[[http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1627516|This forum post]] is how I got our Brother HL 2240 laserjet printer working in Linux.

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

Phone: 919.949.6966

Resume: [[attachment:Resume2017.pdf]]

=== Things I need to do ===
 * '''<<Color2(red, Fix my wiki)>>'''
  * Style? 
 * <<Color2(red,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
  1. __De Profundis__ Oscar Wilde
  1. __The Secret Garden__ Frances Hodgson Burnett
  1. __The Common People of Ancient Rome__ Frank Frost Abbott
  1. __De Bello Gallico__ Julius Caesar (tr. W. A. MACDEVITT 1915)
  1. __The Source__ James Michener
  1. __Meditations__ Marcus Aurelius (tr. Casaubon 1634)

[[/OldGoals]]

=== Suggestions for the Reading Stack ===
 * {o} The New Jim Crow (Michelle Alexander)
 * {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 ===
 * design & build floor-to-ceiling bookshelves 
 * a wooden, folding 4'x3' [[/GameTable|game table]]
 * a [[http://lifehacker.com/287252/turn-a-flashlight-into-a-handheld-burning-laser|laser pen]]!
 * Prep next [[Games/WarOfTheRing|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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