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Eighth grade ID card

Jacob — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 07:26:33 +0000

I was looking through on of my old boxes tonight and I came across my old ID card from the 8th grade. I was 13 years old when this photo was taken.

ID Card

I just hope that by posting this online I’m not opening myself up to identity theft.

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Rainy missionary day in Cluj

Jacob — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 17:55:59 +0000

I thought I would continue with posting various photos from my LDS mission in Romania. This picture was taken on an especially rainy day in Cluj-Napoca, from a window near my apartment.

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Cluj-Napoca as a missionary

Jacob — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 15:52:07 +0000

Here is another mission photo. I was with James Nickerson in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, as missionaries, and he took this picture of me. We were contacting people in an apartment building, and thought the view was pretty good.

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Me on a mission in Romania

Jacob — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 16:31:38 +0000

I thought I would share this picture of me as a missionary in Romania. This picture was taken in a little town called Campia Turzu in Transylvania.

From Mission

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My name isn’t Jacob Peargrove

Jacob — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 21:55:38 +0000

My friend Bruce recently brought to my attention that this blog was mentioned on page 8 of the November 2007 edition (PDF) of Schooled Magazine. Here is what they said about me:

BYU student Jacob Peargrove writes a personal blog (jacob.peargrove.com/blog) that talks about everything from student-housing homelessness to compus-wide YouTube ban. “This is my persoanl blog,” he writes. “I put here anything I want to, even though some of it might be strange.”

My name is not Jacob Peargrove, as the article suggested. In fact, I know of no one with the last name of Peargrove. When I think Peargrove, I think of a grove of pear trees. In aspect of blogging, the term Peargrove is mostly meaningless.

I’m not really big on publishing my last name on this blog. For the longest time, I tried really hard to remain anonymous in writing this blog. However, since my identity here becomes increasingly less anonymous, I’m not so worried about it anymore, especially since my name appears on the bottom of every page in the copyright statement.

Please take a look at the about page if you would like more information about this blog. You are also free to read some of my comments about campus homelessness or BYU YouTube bans.

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How could I have been…

Jacob — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 22:48:12 +0000

Today I was thinking about a past situation of mine. For a second I thought:

How could I have been so stupid!?

Then I started thinking about the situation, and I realized that I currently find myself in a very similar situation, making all the same mistakes. Maybe now that I realize this, I can pull myself out of the depths of conundrums and cease making the same mistakes.

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Life Tracker

Jacob — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 08:55:19 +0000

As a software engineer, I use a project management tools like Trac to manage different aspects of my project, such as roadmaps, milestones, issues, documents, and the source.

I wonder, what if these software development tools were to be applied to a different type of project called: life.

We all have issues, although we more commonly call them tasks or to-do items. We need to renew our drivers license, read a book, or prepare a presentation. Wouldn’t it be interesting to keep track of these tasks in an issue tracker? Tasks could be assigned priorities, given deadlines, or placed into categories.

We also have major goals in our lives. For me, some of my goals are graduating, finishing a book, or becoming a better writer. These life goals all of a sudden seem like software milestones.

You could even put general notes about life into a wiki.

What other ideas could be integrated into such a life development management suite?

Of course as a warning to someone who might actually try this: you might want to think about privacy. Best people out there don’t know that you have “getting married” as one of your “high priority” issues.

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Meaning of the name Jacob

Jacob — Sun, 15 Oct 2006 06:50:52 +0000

Jacob has been a very popular name over the last couple of years. Of course, I was named Jacob before it was quite so popular. The meaning of the name Jacob is Held by the heel and has Hebrew origins.

I’m not really sure what that means, “held by the heel.” I mean, I can envision someone being held by their heel, but I’m not really sure what the significance of it is.

Jacob is a biblical name. It is used in the Old Testament, and also in certain translations of the New Testament. It is also used in the Book of Mormon.

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Picture of me

Jacob — Tue, 05 Sep 2006 07:16:43 +0000

This is a picture of me during my homeless days. I shaved about 20 minutes later.

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