Grendel Hall

Welcome to Grendel Hall

02.17.10

Hello. My name is George Casler; Grendel Hall, in Nassau NY, is where I live with my wife and my "aged feline" Brandoch Daha.

Many people I know who are my age (63) are considering retirement. I am not. I enjoy being busy and productive; I have confidence in my ability to accomplish a great deal and have evidence that I bring value to whatever enterprise I am involved in.

Since 1968, I have been involved in various aspects of communication:

writing programmed instruction books;
reporting, reviewing, and editing for a newspaper;
developing and delivering courses on computers, programming languages, and computer applications for local colleges and school districts;
exploring new technologies to find and to report possible classroom applications for the State Education Department;
programming billing and payment systems for a provider of international telecommunications enterprise support systems; serving as editor for their 36 volumes of documentation, users guides, and administrator manuals;
creating online help systems for a State agency;
writing and publishing user and administrator guides for a time and accrual system, a human resources information system, and a learning management system, then delivering training to clients on those systems;
translating a 12,000-page mission-critical document from Word to FrameMaker for a State agency;
assisting a State agency in preparing a Request for Proposal for a website redesign;
coordinating a five-person team in the preparation of deliverable documents for a mission-critical State agency project;
translating resumes written by people whose native language is not English, but who will add value to employers because of their technical skills, not their writing ability, and
designing, producing, and delivering marketing materials (including graphics).

In fact, my academic work (B.A. and M.A. — all but thesis) is in Rhetoric and Communication.

To download my complete résumé in PDF format, click here.

To view the résumé online, click here.

About this Site

Throughout this site, no effort has been made to make the "look and feel" of the pages and subsites consistent.

This is intentional.

This has been done to show the variety of website designs I can work with. Some of them are from templates, freely available on the web; others are my own design. See if you can determine which is which.

The Personal Side

In the sections below, you will find links to many of the pages I have created for my avocations, for courses I have taken, and explorations I have undertaken.

Oh, yes, there are links to some personal things, too. If I didn't want them to be looked at by The Public, rest assured that I would not link to them on this page.

Grendel Hall Press

One of my largest current projects is Grendel Hall Press, which makes works which have gone out of copyright available in PDF format at no charge.

You can view the catalog in Author order or in Accession order. You can even view the "Slush Pile" from which I select items to publish.

I'm working on a way to have visitors notify me if they find something on the Slush Pile that they would like moved up in priority.

LVS Online

Over the years, I have taken, enjoyed, and — most importantly — learned a great deal from courses at LVSOnline.

For most of these, I have created a webpage to display the assignments. I do not have certificates for any of the courses, because — quite frankly — I never thought I would need them. The websites show the results. The piece of paper would indicate only that I completed the minimum assignments. Here are a few:

Photos Into Art
Photoshop Special FX
Photoshop Starting with a Blank Canvas
Filter Frenzy
Filter Frenzy II (incomplete)
Poser 4
Poser 6
Digital Photography (incomplete)

Family and Friends

In April, I married a woman whom I have loved for decades. We lost track of each other for most of that time; this is a large collection of our wedding pictures.

During summer 2008, at a family picnic, I resumed a relationship with a cousin, who has done extensive research into my mother's side of my family. I have done some dabbling (by comparison with her work); these are the results.