Steve Killen
Hi, I'm a nerd. 
I write, and sometimes I publish those writings on my blog, 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.
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: Resume2017.pdf
Things I need to do
Fix my wiki
- Style?
finish editing Winterswatch so I can publish it
Goals for 2015
Finish MAT - Find teaching work in MD
- build a TINY HOUSE
- Write 50 letters to people
- January: 4
- Write 1 novel OR 3 short stories
- Read/listen to 50 books
Augustus Anthony Everitt
De Profundis Oscar Wilde
The Secret Garden Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Common People of Ancient Rome Frank Frost Abbott
De Bello Gallico Julius Caesar (tr. W. A. MACDEVITT 1915)
The Source James Michener
Meditations Marcus Aurelius (tr. Casaubon 1634)
Suggestions for the Reading Stack
- The New Jim Crow (Michelle Alexander)
- 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.
