About Me

Well, who am I? I know you are all jumping to learn of my idenity.

My full name is Nicholas Andrew Cash. At the time of this writing I am 21 years of age. I am a graduate of Cedar Falls High School and I attend the University of Northern Iowa as a Computer Science major with an Economics minor and a Certificate in Entrepreneurship.

I have two older brothers, CJ and Dan. My parents are Steve and Cindy. Cindy passed away on April 1st, 2006.

Read a short version of my life story here.

My personality type is ENFJ. (Note: Since that writing I’ve discovered a shift to INTJ. A new post analyzing this will be posted eventually)

Current Employment:
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- Self-employed. Founder and CEO of Book Hatchery.

My Computers
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** Perseus:

Operating System:
- Windows 7 (64-bit)

Monitors:
- ViewSonic Optiquest Series Q20WB Black 20″ 5ms DVI Widescreen LCD
- Acer X203Wbd Black 20″ 5ms Widescreen LCD Monitor 300 cd/m2 2500:1
- Acer Black 22″ 5ms Widescreen LCD Monitor

Video Card/GPU:
- Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 5770 (x2)

Mobo:
- ASUS P5N-D LGA 775 NVIDIA nForce 750i SLI ATX Intel Motherboard

Memory/RAM:
- GSKILL 4GB (4 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) CASL 4, Timings 4-4-4-12

Processor/CPU:
- Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 Kentsfield 2.4GHz 2 x 4MB L2 Cache LGA 775 Quad-Core

Termal Grease:
- Arctic Silver 5

PSU:
- SILVERSTONE ST75F 750W ATX 12V 2.2 & EPS 12V SLI Ready Modular Active PFC Power Supply

Hard Drives:
- 2X Western Digital Caviar Black 500GB 32MB-cache in RAID1

Optical Drives:
- LITE-ON 20X DVD±R DVD Burner with 12X DVD-RAM write and LightScribe Technology
- LITE-ON Combo CD-RW + DVD-ROM

Case:
- Thermaltake Full-Tower Aluminum/Stainless Steel Black/Red, 7x 80mm case fans

** Hermes (Server)
Operating System:
- Ubuntu Server 10.04 (SMP 64-bit)

Processor/CPU:
- Intel Core 2 Duo E6550 @2.33Ghz 1333Mhz FSB

Memory:
- GSKILL 2GB (2x 1GB) 240-pin DDR2 800, Timing 5-5-5-15

Hard Drives:
- 2X Western Digital 37.7 GB 10k RPM SATA1 (RAID1)

PSU:
- Corsair 400W high efficiency

** Andromeda (Laptop)

Operating System:
- Windows 7 (64-bit)

Processor/CPU:
- Intel Mobile Core 2 Duo T7700 2.4GHz 4MB L2 Cache

Model: S96S – Made by PowerNotebooks.com

Memory: Kingston 4GB (2x 2GB) 200-pin DDR2 667 (Pc2-5300) CASL 5, Timings 5,5,5,15

Video Card/GPU – NVidia GeForce 8600M GS GDDR2 256 MB 128-bit PCI-E x16

Other:
- 100GB 5400 RPM SATA2 HDD
- Toshiba DVD-RW/CD-RW combo drive
- 4-in-1 Card Reader

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Why is this blog named “Intelligence is a sword?” Believe me, you would not be the first to ask. It refers to a poem I wrote in Languge Arts Enrichment (honors sophomore english), which can be found at:

http://www.nick-cash.com/2005/09/04/intelligence-is-a-sword/