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By blobaugh, February 12, 2010 8:39 pm

My buddy Kevin sent me this picture. I thought it was great. I need to get one of these for my house!

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By blobaugh, January 12, 2010 1:09 pm

I went to see the Cirque Polynesia while I was in Maui and the drummer astounded me. I must have watched him for the first twenty minutes at least. He totally made the show. He reminded me of a cross between Kiss and Michael Jackson, leaning heavily towards the Joker. Check it out and see how much you like him too!

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By blobaugh, April 18, 2009 3:04 pm

Momma Ducks eggs finally hatched and she now had a proud little flock following her around!

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By blobaugh, March 29, 2009 9:51 pm

Spring break this year was a much needed relief. I was incredibly ready for a break. School just really isn't my cup of tea when I do not feel like I am learning anything and it makes me just want to get away. Anywho, I had fun over break. My father picked up my grandfathers old hunting rifle, shotgun, and competition revolver. My grandfather used to be one of the best competition quick draw shooters in the northwest. I feel honored that he has entrusted us with the care of his old guns.

Since the guns had been sitting for probably 15 years, and my father had some other guns that needed cleaning, we had a cleaning party. I spent 3 hours alone on that revolver. It is in pretty good shape, but it was dirty. The shotgun wasn't too bad. Though I am not much taken with shotguns so I probably did a subpar job on it. The worst parts were the spider nests in the barrel and all the rust on it. Cleaned up pretty nice. But then comes the gun I have become really attached to. 1951 Savage 99E .308. She is not the greatest gun to look at, but the knowledge that this gun used to be my grandfather's hunting rifle, along with the fact that I have wanted a .308, caused my to become more and more attached to it as I took it apart and cleaned it all out. The .308 is in remarkable condition for being so old. It looks like it has had a long life, but she still shoots true and is all prettied up. I forgot to take pictures of it after cleaning, but you would be amazed at the change. It also has a really nice Leupold 3x9 scope.

Went shooting with friends a couple times, played wallyball, worked, and slept. Slept a lot. Overall it was nice and relaxing, but getting my grandfather's guns was definataly the highlight of my week.

Only 5 more weeks to go!

Below are some pics. Click any of them to see the full gallery!

The Revolver

Part of the .308

Random Bike in Portland

Box Fish

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By blobaugh, March 3, 2009 9:20 pm

I currently have an external hard drive in my posession. It went from the owner to another guy. That guy did something with it, then it went back to the owner. The owner then handed it to me to copy the data off of it. Knowing how sensitive external laptop drives are, I babied it all the way back to my computer. Plugged it in an guess what? 'tick tick tick tick' Not a good sign. I finally got it to recognize today and I am pulling everything off it right now. It is taking me a little time. Check out these readings from hdparm.

[blobaugh@yomotha ~]$ sudo hdparm -Tt /dev/sdb

/dev/sdb:
Timing cached reads:     2 MB in 52.41 seconds =  39.07 kB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads:    2 MB in 16.37 seconds = 125.11 kB/sec

Yippee! I wish they could bottle that kind of speed!

I think I'll die of old age before 103gigs of info copies off here!

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By blobaugh, January 31, 2009 2:54 pm

I have created a modern engineering marvel!

The desks that NNU provides have really deep drawers. While this can sometimes be good, every time I close the drawer stuff rolls to the back. Pretty soon I do not even remember what is in there.

Long has my best friend, Jordan Beaver, been a master designer of box creations. Since I had a box handy that I was going to toss out I decided to take a page right from his book. And thus began the marvel of modern engineering!

The box was cut up and partitions were made for the drawer. Now nothing important rolls to the back! Take a look, but try not to be too jealous of my. God has obviously gifted me with a highly intelligent brain(sarcasm). If you feel the urge for your own engineering marvel, please use high amounts of caution. A feat like this is not for the faint hearted. One miscalculation and the world may come tumbling down. And remember, box cuts are more powerful than paper cuts. Please seek immediate medical attention if you receive a box cut. Known effects of box cuts are extreme amputation and even death!

Click for a larger view!

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By blobaugh, January 31, 2009 10:58 am

Less than a month ago I had no idea how to golf. Sure when I was little I would follow my father and his friends around the course, but I really had no idea how to play. I used to smack balls in the back yard with a putter when I was a kid, but that really does not count now does it?

While I was in Maui with Kevin Nelson and his family I was introduced to golfing. For some reason Kevin's mother had it in her crazy mind that I should at least try. I thought it was going to be a waste of money, but I did rather well. Quite surprised myself actually. Duly impressed Kevin and his father and uncle as well. Now I am hooked.

When I got back to school I found out that ONE of my books cost $150! I was not too happy about that as it was the only book I needed, but I found it on amazon.com for $60 with 2 day shipping. I was quite happy about that.

The same day I was looking on ebay.com for the price of a set of Taylor Made Burners. I used a full set of those in Maui. Holy smokes they are nice clubs! I still have not priced out an entire set, but I know it is well over a thousand dollars. Looking at sets less than $200, just to see what was out there, I ran across a set of Wilsons that had only been used for one golf season by a gentlemen on his work golf team. I had been emailing Kevin with various sets and prices so I could get a feel for quality/price ratios. When I found the Wilsons he said that he would pick up the set, and that it was a great beginner set. So seeing as the entire set was only $60 and I had saved $90 on that book, I decided to use some of that money to pick up the set.

It arrived a couple days ago. It is not the fanciest set on the planet, but it was cheap and it will work real good for me until I am able to buy a really nice set. The only thing I am disappointed about is the 1 wood. The head is tiny compared to others I have seen, and at least half the size of the Taylor Made Burner. It is about the size of the 3 wood. Oh well. We will see how well I get by with it. I have my eyes set on getting the Taylor Made 1 wood this summer sometime so I can go out and smash Kevin.

Click on the picture to see more.

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By blobaugh, January 30, 2009 6:25 am

My buddy here at NNU, Jeff Nicol and I have been toying with the idea of doing a fast. For those of you not familiar with what this is, fasting is a sometimes silly Christian tradition where one abstains from food for a given period of time and instead uses the hunger, and fills the time, with another activity designed to bring you closer to God.

In the past I have participated in group fasting for events like the 30 Hour Famine, during the 30 hours of which I learned about the great needs in areas of the world, and how the Bible directs Christians to respond to it.

This time it will be a little different. Jeff and I have formed a strange, but strong, bond in my time here at NNU. The idea for the fast originally came from Jeff. Him and I were sitting in the cafeteria talking about ideas to help further our relationships with God. This is the part that will scare you. Jeff wants to do a week long fast. A whole week! My previous max is 30 hours. Jeff has tried it on his own twice, but only lasted 2 days each time. This time when he tries it there is going to be support and purpose. We are going to be getting together probably during normal meal times and studying the book of Galatians. There are 6 chapters in Galatians so I figured it would be a good book to use, plus I read it last week and am intrigued by it's contents. This fast is going to be hard, and I am not sure if I will be able to make it the full week, but I am going to try. My desire through this time is to definitely come closer to both God and Jeff.

Right now the plan is to start Monday February 2nd, and break our fast Sunday February 8th. If you support our actions, I ask you to please be in prayer for us as we attempt this fast. Pray for protection over our bodies, and growth and understanding of God and his word.

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By blobaugh, January 22, 2009 6:48 pm

I bought a new coat today and I just cannot resist telling you all about it! Living in Nampa as I do now, it tends to get real cold. I had a jacket at my parent's house I really wanted to bring back, but my sister's cat peed all over it which kinda ruined my enthusiasm over the jacket. I really like the jacket, but at the time I did not have the money to get it cleaned so I left it home. It has been pretty cold here in Nampa lately(though that may be because I came from 80 degree temps in Hawaii!) and since I only had a sweatshirt, and I have to walk around outside a lot, I figured I should get myself a jacket. A buddy of mine here, Josh, has a really nice winter jacket so I went hunting for one similar to his. I had to travel all over town to many shops to find one, but I finally did. It is a Columbia Bugaboo. They are expensive jackets too! Part of the reason I am writing this is cause I am so excited about the deal that I got. The jacket was normally $230, but was on sale for $170. Because I spent over $100 I was eligible for the special discount they are doing now and it dropped down to $110!!!! That is the absolute most I have ever spent on a jacket, but it was worth every penny. This jacket is so warm and toasty that I could go lay in the snow and be warm.

Now I may need to buy some pants with my upper half being so warm.......

Click on image to visit Columbia's website

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By blobaugh, November 19, 2008 1:08 pm

I normally like to keep original content on here, but occasionally I run across really cool article or website and I just have to tell you about it. Any of you ubergeeks out there will love this new datacenter. A ISP in Sweden recently bought a nuclear bunker and turned it into a high tech datacenter. You have to check this out. Click on the picture to see more.