Web Page of Kevin A. Geiselman

Knight Errant

Heroing done reasonable. No job too large. No job too small. Dragons exterminated by contract. Questing, maiden-rescuing, Golden Fleece located night and day.

Help Desk Specialist, Alternative Resources Corp.

As part of a long-term contract with PNC, I am doing phone support for their PCs and other information technology. I'm also doing training of help desk staff.

Klingon

I serve the Klingon Assault Group as Capt. Kordite, head of KAG's E-Corps and Commanding Officer of the IKV Dark Justice..

I maintain The Authorized Klin Zha Homepage. Klin Zha is a Klingon game, much like Chess, created by John Ford in the novel "The Final Reflection." My friend and comrade Korath wrote rules that became the standard in Klingon fandom.

I also maintain the webpage for the Camp Dover Peace Conference, one of the best attended, fan-cons of the year.

Kevin's Webpages Kevin's Mountain of URLs Kevin's Resume Ingenium: Trebs & Paintball Ninja Burger RPG Homepage GPS/Geocaching Adventures Webcam Experiment Page Captain Kordite House Tasighor ELINT Fleet IKV Dark Justice Kordite's Metal Things Klin Zha Homepage Soldiers of the Quake Empire Dover Peace Conference

Metalsmith

At the science center (a former employer), I learned the art and skill of metal casting. While I no longer have access to the full scale foundry facilities I once cast aluminum with, I am working towards the goal of building such a thing. You can see some of my work here at Kordite's Metal Things.

Siege Engineer

For a science center project (again, my former employment), I built several trebuchets, medieval siege engines. I've posted detailed construction plans and they are very popular on the web.

Science Fiction Author

I enjoy writing and am told I write well. Here are some examples:

• The Magus Chronicles of Geradi Ivanovich Ruzhkov: Tales of a Contemporary Magus in White Wolf's World of Darkness
• Any Magic Sufficiently Advanced: A Mage/Werewolf crossover.
• Goodbye, Mister Bond: A 007 short-short story.
• That Which Eternal Lies: Gamera vs. Cthulhu
  
  
• An Untitled Deep Space Nine Teaser
• Dear Kordite: A Klingon Advice Column
• Stormbird
• The Outsiders: A Tale of Klingon First Contact
• In Remembrance
• Through a Glass, and Darkly
• A Night at the (Klingon) Opera
• Point of Impact
• An Imbalance of Power

Sitting on a publisher's desk somewhere

• Olympia
• The Klingon Encyclopedia

Artist

"This is a spear. . ."

"Express Delivery"

"Alien vs. Klingon"

"Self Portrait"

"M'Lara, Daughter of Kroft"

Costumer

Dr. Strangelove	Klingon Warrior	Pirate	Idea Man, arch villans from "The Tick"
Professor Chromedome, also from "The Tick"	Orc	Ninja Burger Delivery Shinobi

Paintball

I own a vintage Sheridan KP-3 pump rifle with a 4 power scope (pictured at right), a Sheridan PGP as a backup sidearm and a Spyder Compact. View my armory here.

Other things I do

• PARSEC: The Pittsburgh Area Realtime Scientifiction Club
• Life Member of the National Rifle Association, Pennsylvania Gun Collectors Association. Visit my list of 2nd Amendment Quotes: Support for the right to keep and bear arms.
• Role-Playing Games; RoleMaster, Middle-Earth Role Playing
• Bike riding; Annual MS150 Bike Tour, Rails-to-Trails Pittsburgh to DC
• World Atlatl Association

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My Family

• Heidi Pilewski: Consort, mate, wife, most significant other, wench, ice demoness, etc.
• April Geiselman: Daughter, little one, demon spawn, etc.

Favorite Movies and Television

• The Lord of The Rings, I've been waiting for this movie all my life.
• Babylon 5, Farscape
• The heisai "Godzilla".
• Gamera: Guardian of the Universe.
• The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, The Magnificent Seven, The Wild Bunch, Unforgiven, Tombstone And, of course, John Wayne in The Shootist (Heck, I even own The Conqueror, John Wayne as Genghis Khan)
• Hard Boiled, Once a Thief, The Killer, A Better Tomorrow all staring Chow Yun-Fat and the other Hong Kong action films of director John Woo. You can't find better gunfights.
• A Chinese Ghost Story, The Bride with White Hair, The Heroic Trio, Iron Monkey, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Avalon, Big Trouble in Little China and The Matrix
• Anime (animation) and Manga (comics): Gunsmith Cats, Ranma 1/2, Iria, Ghost in the Shell, Cowboy Bebop and Princess Mononoke.
• The Seven Samurai, Yojinbo, Samurai Assassin (Lone Wolf and Cub).
• The Sea Hawk, The Adventures of Robin Hood (Hey, I'm talking Erroll Flynn here, not that Costner guy), Captain Blood
• Casablanca, The Maltese Falcon, The Big Sleep.
• . . . and for lack of a better category: Aliens, Blade Runner, Das Boot, Braveheart, Dr. Strangelove, The Professional, Buckaroo Banzai (did you know that the script for BB2 was reworked to become Big Trouble in Little China?), The Fifth Element, Patton, Saving Private Ryan, any Bond film without Roger Moore or Timothy Dalton, and Farscape.
• . . . and also: The Powerpuff Girls, Johnny Bravo, Samurai Jack and Kim Possible

My Record Shelf

• Return to Forever "Romantic Warrior"
• Loreena McKennitt "The Mask and the Mirror"
• Richard Wagner's Ring Cycle
• Gustav Holst "The Planets"
• Adiemus "Songs of Sanctuary"
• Ottorino Respighi "Pines of the Appian Way"
• Pat Metheny "Secret Story"
• Combustible Edison "I, Swinger"
• David Arkenstone "Quest of the Dream Warrior"
• Christopher Franke "Babylon 5", "The Celestine Prophesy", "Tenchi: The Movie"
• Soundtracks, soundtracks, soundtracks

A peek at my bookshelf

• "The Call of Cthulhu" by H.P.Lovecraft
• "Coup d'Etat: A Practical Manual" by Gregor Ferguson
• The Uplift Series of David Brin
• "Gates of Fire" by Steven Pressfield
• "The Lord of the Rings" by J.R.R. Tolkien
• "Starship Troopers" by Robert Heinlein
• "Leadership Secrets of Attila the Hun" by Wess Roberts, PhD.
• "The War of the Worlds" by H.G.Wells
• "In the Gravest Extreme" and "StressFire" by Massad Ayoob
• "A Princess of Mars" by Edgar Rice Burroughs
• "The Dinosaur Heresies" & "Raptor Red" by Robert Bakker
• "The Art of War" by Sun Tzu (Four different translations)
• "Sex and Zen & A Bullet in the Head: The Essential Guide to Hong Kong's Mind-bending Films" by Stefan Hammond & Mike Wilkins
• "The Case for Mars: The Plan to Settle the Red Planet and Why We Must" by Robert Zubrin

Comics

• Gold Digger
• Knights of the Dinner Table
• Dork Tower
• Neotopia
• The Tick
• Top 10
• The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
• Buck Godot: Zap Gun for Hire
• Girl Genius
• Scud: The Disposable Assassin
• Xxxenophile

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