Baylor has always been on top of the Big 12

See!!!!!

-Drew

For the longest time, I didn’t know what “Happy Holidays” meant. . .

Being 19 years old I spent many of my “growing up years" (when I didn’t know everything that older people knew about yet but I would soon learn on my own) growing up when everybody was trying to say things politically correct. So around Christmastime I would always hear people saying “Happy Holidays” and I would be like.. “Oh thanks , Santa’s coming!!” then my dad or mom would say back to them, “Yeah MERRY CHRISTMAS!” . . It didn’t quite click in my head that they were trying to be politically correct and not offend the Jews or the Muslims or the people celebrating the positioning of the sun. Yet, happy holidays always made crystal clear sense to me. Because, I would get out from school, and during this time off from school there would be two big events. These events were Christmas and New Years day. So, I thought that these were the holidays all the nice people saying “Happy Holidays” were referring too. Not this politically correct crap everybody is throwing in our faces. Now I know the truth about this horrible saying and now join in the fight against religious oppression and shove “Merry Christmas!” down the throats of the oppressors!!

-Drew

One week down. . . three to go

Well, my break has felt like it's been very long so far with all the events that have happened to me. Upon arriving home I found out that we had received a Christmas gift thingy in the mail and it contained dry ice. . and who lets dry ice go to waste without making a bomb? So with being reunited with my brother, my random part of my brain went up, and the good decision part went down. . . So, we made a few bombs, and filmed one.



Of course one wasn’t going to cut it. So we then got the bright idea of strapping a bomb to a few big rocks, then chunking it in the pond down the street. So we duct taped them together and then threw it in, and well.. if there were any fish in there.. they aren’t alive anymore. . . it was quite spectacular..a day or two after that we made our way up to Tulsa for a Wedding. . I think I took more pictures of this lady that was sitting across from me on the plane ride up there than at the wedding.. she was like mid 40’s and I guess it was her first flight cause she was taking pictures of everything and everyone, even a video. And the whole plane heard her breathing when we were taking off. . . It's kinda weird being at a wedding and only knowing four people, two of them being your parents and the other one your brother . . . After spending a few hours in Tulsa, I determined that it is just like Waco: Deserted, old gray buildings, and the only people you see are homeless. . . Tulsa is just bigger…

After arriving back home my brother and I were bored again.. so we put on some sweaters, athletic shorts, knee high tube socks, and brightly colored visors.. and headed out at 11:20pm to play tennis at one of the many tennis courts in the Woodlands…. After about 2 minutes we realized tennis is nothing like ping pong and we suck terribly at it. . so then we just tried to hit each other

We leave for Florida soon. So, more interesting stories will be produced very soon. Which might include but not guaranteed: Fireworks, beaches, ocean, really big fish, dry ice, cops, and alligators.

-Drew

Its Christmas break . . .

Which means there is really nothing that I am procrastinating from anymore .. . . so the posting will be light for awhile...

Merry Christmas!

-Drew

Questions while studying

Why does Penland food leave a bad aftertaste?

What have they been digging for, for the past 4 weeks in fountain mall, next to Mars McLean science building, south Russell field, and next to north Russell?

Why is green tea yellow?

Can people with snake bites put water in their mouth and then puff their cheeks out with out spewing water?

When Asian people squint their eyes, can they see?

Why are peoples profile pictures on facebook cartoon characters?

Why are books typically in black and white?

Why is the snake game on facebook so popular?

Why is it 70 degrees outside?

Why are finals on Saturday?

Why is there not enough time to sleep?

Yesterday I dropped out and became a professional Nascar driver. . . but then I had to quit

After having a pet penguin I needed something else this week to do that was totally awesome and would make me totally popular.  My dream occupation was to become a Nascar driver and well, a once in a life time opportunity came my way.  Few weeks ago I was watching the local dirt track races at The Heart O Texas Speedway here in Waco and I met this really nice older gentleman named Bobby Hendrix Jr.  Bobby jr spent his younger years racing stock cars out in North Carolina against some of the big names of Richard Petty and Dale Earnhardt and once he retired he made his way out to Texas (And ended up in Waco. . . ? I know right?).   And we got to talk'n about how I've always been a fan of racing and that I would really like to get into it.  He then said that he has a friend look'n to put a team together and would like a young driver that no one has really ever heard of, and he'd give me a call if they would be interested.

Well, few months later Bobby jr called me up tell'n me that they would like to see me give a few hot laps up at the Texas Motor Speedway in one of their prototype stock cars.  So I did what any other weekend warrior Nascar fan would do with this opportunity, and that was drop everything that I was doing and get my butt up to the Texas Motor Speedway cause I get to freaking drive a Nascar!

Theres me sitting in my car (Didn't think it was legit huh?)

So after putting a few laps down around the speedway, Mr. Jimmie Hamlin really like what he saw in me.  And he wanted to sign me right away as a starting driver in the 2011 season.

Me rocking the front stretch 

Of course I wanted to sign!! So right there in there standing in the race suit right next to a car still hot from a few laps I signed becoming apart of the 2011 Jimmie Hamlin's #07 Jack Daniels race team.  Then right from the get go I already had a ton of fans wanting my autograph!!!

It took a little time getting used to all this new attention (about 30 minutes) then I finally felt like I have accomplished my goal, except for winning of course, but heck.. I'm a Nascar diver! But being Baptist and driving the #07 Jack Daniels car is kind of contradicting. . . So, I asked Mr. Jimmie Hamlin if there was a chance that we could get a new sponsor instead of Jack Daniels, something like Lifeway Christian Bookstore or American Eagle? He then told me that Mr. Daniels was a really good friend of his and he has helped him with a lot of problems though out his life, he really put emphasis on problems with his wife....., and that he owes it to Mr. Daniels to have a racing team with his company on it.  I then decide that I was not going to race for Mr. Hamlin and that I would wait for other racing opportunities down the road. (pun intended.... )

Right then and their I went down in Nascar history, as being the shortest signed career driver for a full 5 hours. . . I then had a nice trip back to Waco with the feeling that I had made the right career move, guess that means I still have to take my finals. . .. . but hey, I got to drive a Nascar!

-Drew

Today I got a pet Penguin

The other day I was thinking to myself that a penguin would make a great pet.  They're cute,  cuddly, and I'm pretty sure they are a chick magnet. So, I decided that I would go out and get one.

My first stop in my quest for a penguin was the pet store in the mall, which always have the sickest best pets, and I asked the girl setting behind the desk filing her nails if they had any penguins in stock? And then she said "no" and pointed to the cat on the desk then said, "we have cats though, their furry too."

So after being slightly disappointed that the pet store did not have any penguins I thought about my next two options to get a pet penguin. Which are fly to Antarctica, or jack one from the zoo.  So, being finals week, I decided I'd head over to Cameron Park Zoo and "acquire" a new pet.  

Once I got to the penguin exhibit, I saw my new pet for the first time.  Just chill'n by the fake rocks and swimming pool.  

I quickly snagged him up and brought him back home and officially named him Petter.  Once I got home I couldn't decide what to keep him in when I wasn't playing with him or strut'n him down the street.  Because since penguins are birds, do I keep him in a bird cage? 

Then I decided that the bird cage was not real fitting, and his water bowl wasn't big enough for him to splash around it and catch fish in. So, I got him a fish tank to swim around in and a big ice cube because penguins like water, fish, and ice and this is just the place to contain everything.  

After he got used to his new home I decided to go on a walk with my new friend.  And he was quite the attention getter.

But after while, Petter was starting to get tired of all the attention and he started looking tired.  So I took him back home.  Then after watching him sleep on his ice cube I felt sorry for the little guy that he was not in his natural environment.  So I came up with a plan.

I was going to bring him back to Antarctica! Since nothing has changed yet and it is still finals week I could not personally take him to Antarctica, so I got this big box, and cut holes in it so he can breath. And then I shipped him off to Antarctica! 

So, I would imagine UPS would drop him off close to some other peeps he'd know so he wouldn't totally be alone out there.  Then he'd be living the true hardcore life of a penguin with world traveling experience.  

So there is my story about Petter. What an exciting time we shared together. Next week I think I'm going to go get lady or joy to bring back to my room and hang out for a bit... till chamber gets a little ticked off about it......

Theres me with Lady, or Joy.... I cant tell the two apart......

-Drew

Studying at McDonalds for finals. . . with homeless people

Last week I was sitting in the McDonalds across the street from campus and noticed that they had free wifi, I then thought this would be a great place to study for finals cause you got wifi, free refills, interesting people, and crappy food... great place, ha.... So, I'm here sitting at Micky D's with my friend Alex studying for finals... at McDonalds.  I was looking forward to "trying" their new Caramel Mocha but I had a feeling that they were going to tell me that their coffee machine is broken because for some reason every coffee machine or ice cream machine always seems to break after about 7p.m. at every fast food place.  Turns out this coffee machine is right on time and is broken... So after having already swiped my card and paid for it (dang mcdonalds sucking me in to buying something) I was forced to either take an ice coffee or a frappuccino, and being 20 degrees below zero outside I chose a frappuccino (is that how you spell it? well, i dont care anyways, you get what i mean). Expecting this to be an explosion of flavor of caramel and the best coffee in the world, I was instantly unimpressed.  You know when you take a drink of something and right after you swallow you get that little "after swallow taste," well this after taste tasted what I would imagine the bathroom here at McDonalds to taste like if you were to lick the floor.  I dont know why my mind connected cheap coffee, Waco water ice, and bad caramel to the McDonalds bathroom, but it did.  And I'm pretty sure this crap caramel is stuck in my esophagus.. I can feel it not going down... So after powering through this bathroom flavored drink I started to actually do some work, and whats a trip outside the "Baylor bubble" with out getting approached by a homeless person... Yup, just like I knew the coffee machine wasnt going to work, I knew Jerry J-walker would come up and ask me for change, so I planned ahead and had some change ready... these encounters never fail.  Its past 10, I'm surprised an armed robbery hasn't happened yet... Oh wait!, no.. a travel bus from Mexico just got here....


While deep in study I glanced over at another table and a question arose in my head.

Why are chairs at fast food restaurants usually connected to the ground? Like they can swivel, but you cant move em back. Are they there to laugh in the face of really fat people who cant sit there because their stomach circumference will not allow them to fit? Like, "Ha your too fat to sit here, you cant move this chair back! ha, the fat seats are over there ----> *pointing to the bathroom*." And I guess they have a mean sense of humor too.... 

Well, its finally dead week.... yay!...... uh oh another homeless person. he has a legit orange backpack and tan trench coat though, with some tats from back in Nam. 

Current Homeless count: 5 

-Drew 

My group and I procrastinated on doing our project.... which happens to be on procrastination

So with only a few days left to complete, we sat down at the library.. awkwardly stared at each other till someone said they have an idea... then we filmed some stuff.  This literally took like an hour to do. I got like 5 minutes of footage and I smashed it all together and added some words-n-junk.

hurr it be(its even in HD too!! and I'm not in it...):

I hate the library. . . with a passion

I've never been a fan of the library, probably because I'm not a fan of reading boring stuff but thats besides the point, so when I'm finally forced to go, I do not enjoy it.  It's always super quite and the people there all spread out in junk always seem like they are experts at being in the library, and when I walk through the doors they stare at me and I can see that caption bubble above their head that says, "OMG look at that noob, who does he think he is.. a good student? he looks soooo cluelessssss about, lifeeeeeeeeee... I'm going to text Katy about thisssss " So I causally, but quickly, walk away from everybody until I'm out of site except from the passed out frat boy in the corner, and then I can collect myself and figure out what I'm trying todo and asking myself over and over again, "Why am I here?" Once I find a secluded cubicle far enough from the people who look like they know what they're doing, one with the least amount of male genitalia drawn on the walls, and far enough that the snores of Freddy the frat boy are only small distractions from the beat of my music, so then I start to pull the chair out ever so slowly. Because the slightest movement of these chairs makes the loudest noise on the floor and I bet those library experts up at the front are like, "great its that noob freshman who doesn't know what hes doing, he needs to get a life...." and I'm a sophomore! So after 10 minutes of trying to sit down ever so quietly I pull out my laptop and turn this bad boy on. Well, genius me was previously watching a youtube video with the volume all the way up, because thats the only way to experience HD video on a 13' macbook pro, and that famous mac "bongggggg" blares out of my computer... and once again those experts are like "Dang freshmannnnn!!!!" (even though I'm still a sophomore) and Freddy frat boy wakes up from his deep slumber to then carve on his cubicle walls, "∆∆∆ are the hottest" and "KΩT has the best parties and gets all the girls" (No joke, thats written next to me right now).  Then once everybody starts to calm down after I have disturbed them from studying I finally start working.

Then the unthinkable happens.... I have to go find a book...... Oh snap!  So after searching for the book on my computer, I have the call number texted to my cell phone (because the baylor library is legit) and then I have a number and a general location of where its at.. and that general location is somewhere in this building.  Since I'm a man, I'm not going to ask a librarian for help.. psh, I just jump in and do it! So after walking the aisles aimlessly for about an hour I then realize that my book is on the third floor.  Once I get to the third floor I find that there are even more aisles to wonder aimlessly in, you would of thought God is punishing me and I'm wondering aimlessly in the wilderness of Moody Library. So then being the smart person that I am, I start to figure out how these aisles work; and I find the row that my book is on.  Now the challenge is finding the book that I need.... Well, soon after finding how the aisles work I also find out that every call number isn't the same... and this angered me.... My call number was D756.5.N6. N45 1944B... What the heck right? How in the world am I suposed to find that? Cant they just order them by number, like start with one and go all they way to ∞... it makes much more since...So I find all the D756 and start going throw all those books until I finally find the book I want. I hope the librarian doesn't mind me pulling all of them out, but I at least stacked them in a pile.  Anyways, now its off to copy certain pages.... oh boy..

When I was walking in I knew I was going to have to copy something, so I started to scope out all the copy machines in hope of finding one in a secluded corner that no one could watch me for 15 minutes pushing random buttons in hope of copying one page.  So after only noticing one on the floor I was on, and the only other one I am comfortable with using is on the second floor and I dont want to bring this book down to the second floor with me because I know that the library swat team would repel down out of the ceiling and beat me with really big dictionaries, so my only option was the one next to all the people.. who already updated their facebook statuses in my misfortune. So, I now had a new challenge. Copy this book... with out using that copy machine or getting flogged by the library swat team. Being the creative person that I am, I devised a plan.. I was going to pull the fire alarm so then I would be all by myself, but then that might get me in trouble. So I devised another plan, I was going to take a picture of the page I wanted with my cell phone and then email it to me to print out as a picture... brilliant.. I know. (I actually did this too, for that exact reason......).

So, after spending most of my day at this place of books I now decide that I am finished.  I pack up all my stuff, take ten minutes to move my chair back to not wake Freddy frat boy who has fallen back asleep, and then high tail it out of there hoping the next time I have to come back is forever away.


This is why I'm not a fan of the library, the people are intimidating, the cubicle graffiti is distracting, and finding a book is near impossible.

-Drew

Oh, and when I was coming to the library tonight.. apparently they lock all the doors after 10 so I tried opening all the doors and failing on every single one... while half the school was in the lobby staring at me and updating their status in my misfortune, once again.. then finally Timmy the frat boy saved my day by showing me you have to swipe your card to get in.... I feel like I should know this by now.....

You know how they put a bible verse on the back those "Rise up" shirts that were $5.... Do you know what that bible story is about?

In our attempt to make Baylor look more Christian and make us all seem like were good people by putting a Bible verse on what is supposed to be our, "Beat the heck out of a&m" shirts, We took a bible verse completely out of context. I also hope that who ever started this "Rise up" motto didn't take it from this verse, yes it makes sense (Rise up; this matter is in your hands. We will support you, so take courage and do it. Ezra 10:4)  But still, I'm pretty sure its still just added so people can say, "Oh isn't that cute, they put a bible verse on the back of these shirts. Baylor is such a good school, oh we all such good people, unlike these heartless aggies screaming their chants with bad words in them..." So if you haven't taken the time yet to go read what context this verse is in, I'll tell you!  Alright, (this will kinda be in a more modern interpretation) so Erza was laying face down in a church crying while praying and confessing (thats the way to do it). And then a whole bunch of people showed up from Israel, and they were weeping bitterly as well.  So Erza was like, "Yo, why all yall crying in junk out here?" then their leader Shecaniah (Son of Jehiel, one of the sons of Elam) said to Ezra, "I think we've made God upset at us..... We've married chicks from other countries and made kids with them and stuff.. So what we need to do is send all these gurls and our kids away.... so um Ezra, Rise up; this whole deal-e-o is in your hands now.. were getting out of hurr. The chicks and the kids are waiting outside. We still go your back yo, you can do it".. So after Erza got this news nothing happened for like a few months, but he got them back together and said this, after he "rose up" that is, "Hey all you people that got foreign wives and added to the guilt of Isreal, you have been unfaithful!! Dawgs, you don't marry foreign girls! Now honor God by separating with your families and send em back where they came from!"... then the crowd responded to this with, "Your right homeboy Erza, Lets do this!" .... so thats the meaning behind rise up. They married wives from a different country, had a family, then divorced them sending them back to their motherland :|

Well after thinking about this story some more, I think the person who coined this phrase might have always known what they were doing....So lets now apply it to our football team shall we? Ok, this is how it when down.

Art Briles was chill'n outside Reliant Stadium while the basketball team was playing Duke in the Elite Eight basketball game weeping that he can not win more than four games of college football, reminiscing about how easy coaching high school football was, and praying that Robert Griffen's new ACL will hold out.  Then, after Baylor's lost against the devils from Duke, 48,000 upset Baylor fans walked out of the stadium with the next football season on their minds and approached Briles weeping, and then representing the angry Baylor crowd, Ken Starr came out of the crowd and approached Briles laying on his face weeping.   Ken said, "Art, I think Baylor nation has been upset at our performance in athletics in the past 20 years... and every other sport is starting to get better except... football. And if you didn't know, thats what you coach...So, I was thinking we do this. This next football season how about you put together about four plays and keep running them over and over again and lets hope they will win us some games, and then we might make a bowl game... Shoot we might even beat Texas!... lol, yeah right.. whose going to beat Texas this year.. anyway. Briles Rise Up gosh dangit and get those football players putting the right shoes on the right foot!! We support you, you can do it.... or send in your resume to Texas Tech..."... So we did end up reaching our goal of making a bowl game, and we sarcastically said we'd beat Texas at the beginning of the year and when we did that I guess there was nothing left for us to do... and then we lost out the rest of the season......

-Drew

Finally!! No more aggie football statuses cluttering my news feed!!!

Football season is over!! And Baylor actually did better than texas this year!!!! What is going on? Idk but Texas has been pretty much winless against Baylor this year... it really is the "Year of the Bear."... lets hope its not only the year though... or the decade.... or the century... or the millennium..... Anyways, Yeah, now there wont be those annoying, "BTHO of whoever" statuses all over the place.. and those random aggies popping up commenting on my statuses... lol.....  yes, football season is over, now time for sports Baylor runs shop in!! Get excited Bear nation!

Cause remember!

We have Lace back!

David Crowder wrote a song about how awesome we are!

And we have Ken Starr!!

Have I made my point... I think so

-Drew

I no I kant spel. . . Just reed it and leve me alone about my speling!!

My whole life i havnt ben able to spel gud. Why?... becase i dont fel puting forth the efort is wroth it. Com on, its a blog.. not a research papper.  I meen lok at wat your reading now... u kan read it right? so my point is geting across.. evn though most words r mispeled... Its my blog, I kan spel how evr i want!!

Here is my reasoning for not spelling good, or using the correct word sometimes. Because someday, im going to have someone working for me, that will correct what ever it is that im writing that has to be formal.. so, if my misspelled words on my blog and it bugs you, wana work for me? you can be my proof reader and grammer correcter.  for a whopping salary of $0.  Send me a message if your interested...


-drew

*note the new added caption below the header up top

Whoever decided the set length of a semester, got it wrong...

It should have ended, in September last week... Cause with Thanksgiving approaching, or already here for you high school punks! and other colleges who don't value education o.O, we students are already starting to "throw in the towel" on our classes...(not give up, just give up on doing anything.. till the night before finals (you know you do it)).  Procrastination has set in, in just about everyone, and everything that has to get done is piling up high enough to be able to call it a mountain.. cheesy. So what do we do about this problem?....... Don't procrastinate? Pshhhh. are you kidding? What do you think I'm doing right now!!..... lol..... darn, I have a quiz tomorrow.... Anyways, no. Stopping procrastination is impossible and not going to happen. So, the only solution would be to make the semester shorter!! Shoot, finals right before Thanksgiving, then you can have more things to be thankful about!! Like being done with classes and school work! It will totally be worth it.. Whose with me! Lets "Rise Up" like Baylor football!... ok, maybe not like Baylor Football... But lets rise up and make our semesters shorter!! It will make Christmas + Thanksgiving break longer, and the summer will be longer for more summer school and internships....right?.... Everybody who is interested meet me out front of Pat Neff with your signs that say clever things at around 12 tomorrow, but we'll have to end around 2:15 cause I have class...See ya there!

Baylor-Semester-Shortening-Revolution-Leader
-drew

Its that time of year again!!! (not Christmas...thats coming later..)

Yeah! Its time for the holiday of the Four F's!!! aka Thanksgiving.. Yes, my new nickname to thanksgiving besides the whole being thankful part is the Four F's.  You might be asking.. "What does the Four F's stand for Drew?.. Well, they stand for Family, Food, Football, and the Fear of approaching Finals. (I guess it could really be the Five F's.. cause four and five still have an F and it would be Family Food Football Fear and Finals.. We'll stick with Four to keep it simple..).  Yes, this next week will be full of awkward family reunions with family members that your might not remember their name but they grab your check and say, "Oh look how much you've grown," and your 19, the Dallas Cowboys getting their butts kicked (idk this one is up in the air.. after Wade Phillips got the boot... I wonder if this will get me more views because I said Wade Phillips... well then, Iraq, Afghanistan, Obama, Proposition 19, TSA...Britney Griner... views up 10%!!)  loads upon loads of food (Why to people say, "I'm going to eat a ton!!! NOM NOM NOm...".... no your not, you just think your are... I say that every year to myself.. never happens) and finally, next week will be filled with the fear of those dreaded approaching finals......(sorry if I reminded you of them)... but yes, they are coming.. FAST! Holy crap, if your in college, we only have like 3 class days after the break and then boom! dead week.... ugh..... Well this is depressing... You high school kids enjoy your extra two days off...punks... On a brighter note, we get Lace back Monday!!!! (Not to jenks us or anything, but watch Monday he comes back and gets a season ending injury... o.O  lol)


-Drew

I know I've been slacking...

Well, the truth is... College is hard and takes up a lot of time.. and when you add that to being sick and having pretty busy weekends it kind of takes away from the time that I'm sitting at my computer thinking of funny pointless stuff to write about... Have no fear, Thanksgiving break is coming, and I've been saving and idea for thanksgiving too. So just wait... more is coming. .. if anybody still pays attention....

-DREw

Just when you thought your phone could do everything..... boy were you wrong...

I think cell phone companies, application software companies, or a bored college comp sci student are running out of ideas for cell phone apps.  Its like, "Oh, what do we do now... create an app that lets us walk and text at the same time?" Cause now, there is a company working on an app and cell phone add on that will tell you if you have an STD by peeing on this little micro chip and putting it in your cell phone....  Yeah, you pee on a micro chip and place it in your cell phone... then it tells you if you have an STD or not.... The UK Clinical Research Collaboration has dumped about 4 million in to the development of this.. 'tool'.  I guess STD's are spreading around the UK faster than rumors of a shooter at A&M, so then the smartest thing to do would be to create a self testing kit for your iPhone so you can do it anytime you want and then tell your friends and tweet about it on twitter. "@lonelygurl13<3 I don't have gonorhea!!! and I'm not pregnant!!! (with a British accent, cause it seems this problem only exist in the UK.....)". I guess this could come in handy when you meet this really awesome person and you think, "maybe this is the one" and your not quite sure of their past because maybe they are a "born again Christian" and you could ask them, "hey, could you pee on this for me?", "ummmm, what?", "yeah, can you pee on this for me. I want to make sure your clean before we take this relationship to the next level." ... "but we met yesterday", "I know, you can never be too careful"..... This will either make or break that relationship. And hey, if they never talk to you again because if it, then it wasn't meant to be.  With all this said, looks like another worthless app (to me anyways, some people might find this very helpful for them... and their career as an "escort") that I will not be wasting money on.


Hey look its Friday!!

-Drew

For the people who think I'm lying about this (you know who you are), here's the link to the article: http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/nov/05/new-test-mobile-phones-diagnose-stds

Apparently, I'm a pretty big deal in Pakistan...

Since creating my blog back in late September I have had over 12 hundred views (thats 1,200).  Yesterday, I added my blog to this website similar to stumbleupon.com that just randomly finds blogs. So since then I have became a global internet sensation! Taking over the world one awesome pathetic blog post at a time! I've scored hits from India, Colombia, Canada eh, Netherlands, Singapore, Bangladesh, Denmark, Romania, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, and a whopping 21 hits from Pakistan just yesterday!! I'm huge! Right now I want to give a shout out at my peeps over seas checking out my blog, even though you more than likely don't speak English, so all this is nonsense to you, I'm going to add a funny picture we all can laugh at.

Humor- When something funny happens.. everyone laughs. Even if you don't know how to say "hi" to each other

My next target goal for world domination total internet popularity would be to reach out to China, but we're going to either have to wait till China allows Google in to China (blogger is a Google product) or we reach the lost people from China through proxies.  I guess if I'm going to appeal to the mass population of China I'm going to have to start making post with a slight communist aspect to them.  Such as, tell a story about how the government took two of my chickens and gave one to my neighbor, let me have two eggs from it, and only allow me one drum stick. And some how tie this story to the story of Jesus feeding the 5000 so I can share the love of Jesus Christ to all Chinamen through the use of communist humor. Brilliant.  Either it will work, or I will become an enemy of China and will never be able to travel to China... darn.


Heres another picture for my non-english speaking friends.

Happy Wednesday

-Drew

Why living in your car during college just might work out

It seems that the common joke everybody says and gives a small chuckle about is that all college students are poor... "I can't go to the movies I'm a 'poor' college student"... "Hey man! Do you have the new call of duty yet?"... "No broski, I'm a poor college student." ... In all reality, your not poor.. your just choosing to spend your money on school (or your parents money) and then you tell your parents you need money for books, pens, and paper when really you want to go skydiving with your friends next weekend.... but thats besides my point.. My point is that I think I've found a solution to save some extra money while at college, and it will make a great story after college. This is that your live in your car! Its so simple and you'll save soooo much money on housing! This is how it will go down:

First your need a car like this

(Hardcore paint job not required, but recommended for style points(and a better story))

After you acquire the above sweet ride, you now rig the inside of it to have a twin bed, a 50 inch tv or larger and a satellite dish for tv plus and xbox. You will then need to find a close power outlet to plug into so you can power the lights, tv, computer, ac/heater, and vribating bed (if you must).  Now your probably thinking, But Drew where will you go to the bathroom and take a shower and eat and study and make friends? At your schools recreation/gym center thingy there are public bathrooms at your disposal for daily usage.. so given a small walking distance its really not a big problem.  Eating is pretty simple, meal plan... restaurants, friends refrigerators. Then studying.. come on.. the library? Oh and making friends, lets just say don't be that creeper that lives in his van.. and then you'll do fine.  

See, that seems pretty sweet.  Think of the positives: no roommates, you can make as much noise as you want after 11:30pm, no visiting hours to follow (or if you view them only as a suggestion), you can move where ever you want to, and your saving money... for things like books and supplies....!!! So there you go, a way to save money in college... I should tell Dave Ramsey about this....

You could be like this guy!

Peace out

-Drew

A story worth telling..

Not only did he win a bunch of money, he got a line of girls wanting to marry him! and he picked the prettiest one... or the one with the largest chest.....See, money does bring love and happiness, Just look at his face! 

Do you find your self running in to things while texting?

Not anymore you wont!  LG has created a solution to the accident prone act of texting while walking! It's called the Look n Type app and its coming to a LG Optimus 7 near you!  What this crazy app does is lets you see whats a head of you on your texting screen by using the camera, and you get to see what your texting! Brilliant!

This will be perfect for people who have to shoot off a text message to their BFF while they are driving, and who already have poor driving skills and adding a cell phone just makes it deadly, cause now you can see the road and your pointless lengthy  important message!  Cause we all know texting while driving is sooooo important.... This is also good for dads who are constantly glued to their phones "checking emails" 24/7.  Now they can see their emails over their families faces at the dinner table! (but actually listening and engaging in conversation might not take place) The possibilities of this app are endless! You can now text in class, text at sporting events, text during movies (with the brightness turned down of course), and even text while on facebook on your computer and not miss a thing!! Oh boy!  This app is already available on the iphone, its called "Type n Walk".  Also look for in the app store! "Text n Drive," "Text n Class," "Text n Cheer" (for sporting events), "Text n TURN YOUR BRIGHTNESS DOWN," and "Text n Facbook'n it".  Coming soon to the app store: "Text n Eat'n," "Text n Halo" (Also works for Call of Duty), "Text n Read..a book," "Text n sleep," and finally "Text n Text" because sending a text message while your watch your self send another text messages is so important! Aint technology great!

-drew

How computer scientist rule the world...

Welcome to the wonderful 'secure' world of computers and internet.  You come into contact with them at least once, if not more, everyday.  You pay your bills, buy stuff, transfer money in to your poor college students bank account, look at your friends pictures on the book of the face, send messages to your "friend" your girl friend told you to stop talking to,  and use message boards to bash a certain sports team because they never had a good football team an now all of a sudden they are leading the big twelve south (Sic' Em). But what if your identity you thought was safe all of a sudden became public, like your bank account numbers, your credit card numbers, your address, every message you sent to your mistress, and your actual name from that sports forum.  Then you might find yourself missing a large chunk of your money, find out all the raunchy messages you sent to Crystal get posted everywhere, and a fan and his two friends Lady and Joy show up to your Austin apartment.  Well, the truth is... this can all happen.  You are not safe in this world of technology.. if someone wants your stuff.. they can get it.  To keep track of everything, all your online purchases, bank information, ip addresses, all sent and received messages, wall post from like 2005, and your address on your espn.com account are all saved on a database somewhere out there. This information is all accessible to people that we have to trust, and these people are the programmers of this software.  With out these trusted bunch of people the internet would be full of lies, scams, and thieves(more than it already is).  For instance, say I worked for a bank and I had to make it where my bank could do online transfers from one account to another account over all the different banks in the nation.  So in order to do these transfers I need to be able to process all of these account and routing numbers.  Then say I am the only programmer that works for this bank, so nobody is checking my code.  I could then log every account number that runs through my money transferring program, so then I have access to all these accounts.  Then I could take one dollar from every account that I get, and I could make millions on this. Plus, it might even be hard to catch me on this too.  If I only take a dollar from you, would you really notice that it is gone? Or care enough that it is missing?  And being the smart people we computer scientist are, we will find a way without getting caught too... remember the movie office space? Exact same concept.  Then lets say after getting fired from this bank for stealing 200 million from people (but I didn't get arrested because I invested it in a online stock trading program I made that makes trades in milliseconds making pennies and I eventually made say.. 10% profit off the 200 mil... so I paid everyone back with interest... everyone was happy.. and I kept my 5mil that was unaccounted for) so, I then get a job at facebook. And lets say its getting close to a presidential election... and this certain presidential candidate I didn't like had a facebook in high school and college... well, let me just tap into the database and take a look at every picture he was tagged in and every picture he uploaded and pretty much everything he said.... uh-oh.. that could cause problems for him if he did things that are a little more intense than chopping down a cherry tree.....  and now its floating all over the internet....  Kinda, makes you a little more afraid of what you say and what information you put up on the internet.... Oh, btw some peoples passwords for facebook and their email are so easy to break... all they have to do is look around on your profile and they will find out enough information to guess your security questions to your email. So they can change your emails password and then change your facebook's password.. and then you aint never getting in to it... And another thing... I have this tool on my mac that when I'm sitting in a non secure wifi zone, I can pull it up and it tracks every cookie going out from that router (google what that means).  So then if you are on facebook, I have the ability to get on your facebook and change anything I want, except the password.... crazy huh?  Enough telling you our secrets, Have a happy week!!





Halloween impressions 2010: Well it appears that everyone has uploaded their halloween pictures up to their facebooks for public screening, and your mom calling you asking why you were not wearing much cloths.  It seems the most over used costume was Mario and Luigi. They made an appearance at every party that had pictures on my news feed... let me take this time to dog on these two.... Ok, I still don't understand why people just love super Mario and say its the greatest game to ever come out... Have you played Halo?.... Come on, Super Mario on the original Nintendo sucks!! I played it the other day and it held my attention for a full 1 minute, then I went to work on a puzzle cause it was more entertaining.... So, why not dress up as Master Chief or Soap or Ghost from Call of Duty.. at least those games are fun...  Then for pumpkin carving, why does every party that has Mario and Luigi always have a pumpkin that appears to be drunk and throwing up?  Way to be different... it was funny once (Like being Mario and Luigi)... be original... copy kats..


-drew

I cant predict wins.... but I know whats lucky

I said the other day that we would lose against Texas to fulfill our winning and losing pattern. I then said that if we wore the gold helmet that we would win... So, turns out. The bears played with their Gold helmets tonight and defeated those longhorns... First time since 1997 to beat those horns.. and first time to beat them in Austin since 1991.. It basically took my whole life for Baylor to beat the horns in Austin...

It was destined from this point (roughly 1993) that when I will be a Sophomore at Baylor, we would beat Texas again on their home field and then dunk all over them in basketball once again.  Cant you tell by the look on my face, laughing at a longhorn joke that involves an aggie in a pig pasture being invaded by a red raider.

So next week will meet those cowboys with our gold helmets, and Ill be sporting my lucky shirt, undershirt, socks, shoes, and underwear.  Sic' EM Bears!

-drew

Quite possibly the best marketing campaign for anything.... ever

Models




Guidos




Seniors



Surfers




Toddlers





Glam Rockers





your welcome

-Drew

My english research paper I felt like sharing

This is my research paper!! Dont steal it!








You can be Muslim, but you can’t build a Mosque there

            After the 9/11 attacks Islam has been given a bad name in America.  Most of American citizens now associate Muslims with acts of violence and extreme religious practices.  When in reality those extreme Muslims only exist in a handful just like Christian extremist.  As a whole they are considered the enemy, because these attacks were done in the name of Islam and most of the US opposing forces are Islamic.  So when Americans hear the Muslim tag attached to something they are instantly against it, just because Islam is associated with 9/11 and the evil in the Middle East.  The First Amendment of the Constitution states that we as citizens are guaranteed the freedom of whatever religion we want, so does that not mean we can build a place of worship for our religion on our private property?  A few months ago El-Gamal proposed to get a building permit to build a new Islamic multipurpose center, which includes a Mosque, in downtown New York City, a plan that has been in the making for many years.  Since then he has faced not only opposition from the United States about it, but from the whole world; and the site is not really at Ground Zero.  Many feel that this is the Islamic nation sticking its tongue out at Americans who have suffered losses on 9/11 by placing their house of worship just a few blocks away from Ground Zero.  Political figures, media voices, and small church Christian pastors have all made their strong opinions against this Mosque, which is fueling the anger of Americans against the building of it.  Most of them feel that it’s just insulting, which others feel that Muslims are being insulted by being rejected the right to build what they want too.  The other side feels that since this is their property to build what they want, and then if they want to build a Mosque, so be it.  It’s their land to do what they want with it.  If El-Gamal is denied his right to build his multipurpose Islamic center, does this mean that more and more people will begin to lose their First Amendment rights. Or, is there something that we can work out on both sides about this new center.  

            The problem that exists with this proposed plan is not that it is a Mosque or Islamic center, but it is the location that it is being placed.  The Location is just two blocks from the site where the World Trade towers once stood now known famously as Ground Zero, where attacks from Islamic extremists occurred almost ten years ago.   New Yorkers are taking offence at the fact that Muslims are erecting a Mosque within two blocks from the site that was attacked by people who shared the same beliefs.  Lisa Miller interviewed two New Yorkers who both lost their firefighter sons on 9/11 and one was quoted as saying, “The core conflict of the Ground Zero mosque is not about racism, tolerance, paranoia, or even politics—through each of these has come to play in important part. It’s about the appropriate place of private pain in the public sphere and how to hold memory sacred when the world, in all its craven momentum, moves on” (2).   So the people who are opposed to this plan just do not want it because they feel mocked and see it has a harsh reminder to what happened.  Leo McKinstry said in his article “the reason the hijackers were determined to destroy the Twin Towers was because they were seen as a graphic symbol of American enterprise” (1).  He then went on to say that building this Mosque “will become a symbol of Islamic triumphalism, an assertion of Muslim power over the West” (1).  It appears that the oppositions to building the Mosque is all focused around the idea of people feeling that it is Islamic terrorists laughing in the face of Americans suffering loses, and that this Mosque would be a harsh reminder to what happened almost ten years ago.  This is understandable because if someone lost a loved one on 9/11 and Muslims have been hard coded in to their mind as being evil, then this Mosque will bring back horrible memories and possible hatred from people who will walk by this Mosque daily.  Building this Mosque also brings up the possibility of violence towards the Muslims that go there, and the building itself.  Violence against Muslims in the United States is generally very low, but if this Mosque is built then violence might become more common.  The outbreak of violence is also another reason why people do not want the Mosque to be built, because strongly opinionated individuals, especially in New York City, might start acting out against the Muslim people and their building.  Which on both sides, nobody wants.  

            Through all of this opposition of people saying that it is offensive that they want to build this Mosque and that it will cause an outbreak in violence are missing a key element.  If you are reading this and you are a teacher than it is stolen off of drushappyplace dot com, so give them a zero for plagiarizing!  This is that they have the right to build this Islamic community center where they want too.  Also, most people think that it is solely a Mosque that they are building and that is not true.  El-Gamal envisioned to improve the facilities for Muslims in New York City and said, “They would demolish the existing building and put in its place a deluxe, multipurpose center big enough to house a swimming pool, a gym, exhibition space, conference rooms, a day care, a senior center, and a 500-seat auditorium” (Miller 2).  So really, they want to build a community center for the people in downtown New York City that Muslims can also pray at on Fridays, which is like Sunday for Christians.  The people against the building of this center call it the Ground Zero Mosque because it is close to Ground Zero, not even visible from the proposed building spot, and people think that any Muslim building is a Mosque. Anny Bakalian and Mehdi Bozorgmehr said in their journal, “Furthermore, mosques and Islamic centers provide a public space for meeting and facilitate networks of activism, fundraising, and dissemination of information” (3).  Then in Geneive Abdo journal they said, “ The role of the Mosque has indeed changed for many Muslim Americans, who now seem to view it as a setting to bond with other believers and as a place for education and social gathering” (4).  So really what El-Gamal wants to build in downtown New York is just a community center for like minded individuals who are all Muslim and seeking a place to interact with other Muslims.  There is absolutely nothing wrong with what he wants to do and he has the property already paid for, he only has to raise more money for the new building to be built.  If you are reading this and you are a teacher than it is stolen off of drushappyplace dot com, so give them a zero for plagiarizing!  He also has the right to build this here and the government cannot stop him, “The Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution provides that neither the national government nor the states may enact a law prohibiting the free exercise of religion” (Gedicks 1).  Not letting him build would be the government denying a U.S. citizen’s right, and this might cause protest in itself and might cause violence from Islamic extremist.  Another small problem that has come out of this is how the media has completely blown this out of proportion and making it seem that a Mosque is going to be built on Ground Zero its self.  Only filling American’s heads with one side of the story and not facts about what is happening on both sides, and doing this is making the opposition to building the Mosque much larger.  Some politicians are even voicing their opinions about this in order to get votes, which they are using the idea of a Mosque on Ground Zero and not a community center in New York City.

            This is a messy situation for both sides.  If you build the community center then you might get violent New Yorkers starting trouble with Muslims, or get more people like the pastor in Florida wanting to burn Qurans.  Which then might force Muslims to start acting violent against Americans.  Then if you do not build the Mosque then what does that say for First Amendment rights of people down the road in the United States?  Will people not be able to build a Baptist church in a predominately African American neighborhood who in years past suffered from torment of the Ku Klux Klan in the name of Christianity?  Also, what if Muslims take this as an action against Islam and then allied Islamic countries turn against the United States and Islam fueled violence breaks out.  Neither of these we want, so we need to find a solution to please everybody.  One possible solution is that the location of this planned community center be moved somewhere else, in order to please the people who do not want anything near Ground Zero.  This is similar to what happened in the late 1980’s in Germany.  Catholics wanted to build a convent at Auschwitz so nuns could pray the souls of the dead in to Heaven.  Then Jews argued for them to move it because it “Christianized the Holocaust” (Miller 3).  Then eventually the convent was moved away from the former camp to please the Jews.  Some people claim that they’re plenty of Mosques already in New York City, but there are no community centers.  This option would be helpful for both sides because the planned center would not be near ground zero and the center would also get built, but that is not quite what the planners had in mind.  Khan said in Millers interview regarding the location, “We want to provide a counter movement against extremism. We want peace and we want it where it matters most. That is where it matters most” (2).   So moving the center would make one side happy, but it would take one of the motives to build the center away from the supporters.  The next possible solution would be to build a community center that is available to everybody’s use and only has Islamic roots, very similar to how the Y.M.C.A is rooted in Christianity.  Then they could have non-denominational prayer rooms and certain groups, such as local Mosques and Churches, could use the conference rooms and auditoriums.  This way New Yorkers will not think of this center as an Evil Muslim Mosque, and the Muslims will still be able to build their center.  

            It is disappointing how this small issue has turned in to a global debate just over the location of a certain building.  Yes Muslims will build the center, and yes it will feature a room for Muslims to pray; but people are missing a few important details on the opposing sides.  If you are reading this and you are a teacher than it is stolen off of drushappyplace dot com, so give them a zero for plagiarizing!  Then on the supporting side they are not taking into the fact that that location is too close to what a majority of New Yorkers consider sacred ground.  In order to get through this difficult situation both sides will need to come to an agreement about what should be done.  The to best options would be to relocate or to build a community center that has a different appearance than a Mosque.  Or, the major problem in all of this might be that the greater population might not be fully educated on what they are planning to build, which also might solve some problems.   

           

           

Works Cited

Abdo, Geneive. “Islam in America: Separate but Unequal.” The Washington Quarterly 28. 4                        (2005): 7-17. Web. 15 Oct 2010 <http://muse.jhu.edu/>.

Bakalian, Anny. Mehdi Bozorgmehr. “Muslim American Mobilization.” A Journal of             Transnational Studies 14. 7 (2005): 7-43. Web. 15 Oct 2010 <http://muse.jhu.edu/>.

Gedicks, Frederick. “Religious Exemptions, Formal Neutrality, and Laicite.” Indiana Journal of             Global Legal Studies 13. 2 (2006): 473-492. Web. 15 Oct 2010 <http://muse.jhu.edu/>.

McKinstry, Leo. “Putting a mosque at Ground Zero is a grave insult.” The Express 16 August             2010, Edition 1: p12. Web. 15 Oct 2010 <http://muse.jhu.edu/>.

Miller, Lisa. “War Over Ground Zero; A proposed mosque test the limits of American             tolerance.” Newsweek 16 Aug 2010: 27. Print.

I've found a pattern in Baylor football wins... Maybe I will be able to predict the rest of the season like I can predict the Stock Market*

If you haven't noticed already, there is a pattern in Baylor football wins.

Same Houston: WIN
Buffalo: WIN
TCU: loss
Rice: WIN
Kansas: WIN
Texas Tech: loss
Colorado: WIN
Kansas State: WIN

So I'm predicting that Baylor will lose to Texas. Win at OSU. Completely-Flat-Out-Destroy the Aggies. And then lose gracefully to OU by one point.

Now I've also found another reason that Baylor wins football games, and this is that we win games when they wear the Gold helmet.. and lose when they were the White helmet.

Baylor Vs Tech = loss

Baylor Vs KState = WIN

Baylor Vs TCU = Super loss

Baylor Vs KU = Super WIN

So see, in order to win games they need to wear the gold helmet. It is good luck.. just like my lucky shirt.

Also, I almost died twice this weekend. Once in an out-of-control bonfire on campus. Then in a mass exodus at Floyd Casey stadium. Lessons learned... Stand up wind of a really large fire... And when the football announcer says to get under the stands.. get under the stands the first time and find something tall to stand on...or get ready to get to know the ten people squished next to you REAL well....

Anyways... lets hope I'm just as good as predicting football games as I am predicting the stock market and lets plan to beat everyone here on out.

-Drew

Sic' Em Bears!

*I will blog about predicting the stock market another time

Why driving a Tiburon brings you mystery, excitement, and love....... and a crap ton in costly repairs..

(sorry about the link thats in the center)




Yes, this is what happens everyday I drive my car... I speed around town... Drop my boss off at some sketchy illegal business deal.... win a car race... and drive off in to the sunset with some pretty girl... magic dream book comes standard! What they forgot to ad in the movie was the car breaking down all the time....

-Drew

My Tiburon is for sale FYI. Make me an offer!

One of the many reasons I go to Baylor....

.... cause at least the general population is smart

I just love the "wreck' em Tech" at the end...

Facebook investigating is not Facebook stalking. . . . but what your parents do on Facebook, is stalking..

I think the term "Facebook stalking" is thrown around too often and used out of its context like the phrase, "Be quite, I'm studying!" So I want to make a distinctive difference between what facebook stalking is, and what facebook investigating is.  Because they might seem similar, but they are completely different.

Lets take for instance Guy 1, Guy 2, and Mother of 3. (Guy 1 and 2 could also be female, but for my example they are dudes).

Lets start with Guy 1, and he is our facebook investigator.  Now guy one is what you would describe as a "kool" guy.  All his friends thinks he's funny and he's had no creepy relationship issues.  So this is what his use of facebook looks like.  Guy 1 meets girl A and girl B at *Social Event*. He then leaves said *Social Event* with two new phone numbers and the girls saying, "Hey, I'll add you on facebook." So right now Guy 1 is feeling pretty good that he is still on top of his game and he proceeds home to get on his computer (or heads to bed depending on what *Social Event* it was).  When he gets on facebook he finds three new friend request from Girl A, Girl B and Girl B's BFF Girl C.  Now the investigating begins and Guy 1 starts with Girl A.  He notices that she is single and then procedes to look at A FEW of her pictures to sorta get an idea of what kind of girl she is.  He notices that she recently went on a mission trip to South America with her church, +1.  Picture of her cooking at Thanksgiving, +1.  And a picture of her sitting in her dads Porsche, +3.  After looking at some of her pictures he sorta has built and idea of what type of girl Girl A is and for this example we score her at 5.  Now Guy 1 moves on to Girl B's profile.  While looking throw Girl B's pictures he notices that she usually parties hard and makes out with a ton of guys and likes to take pictures of it. This gives Girl B -2 points in Guy 1's book.  He also noticed that Girl B sometimes swings from both sides of the plate with Girl C (They might be close friends.. but still).  So Girl B's final score is at -4.  With this investigating Guy 1 now knows which girl he will begin to purse more, and which he will not.  This is totally not stalkerish at all... just investigating.

Now for Guy 2, and he is our fb stalker.  Guy 2 is sorta the quite type who does not partake in many *Social Events*, and usually has less than 250 friends on facebook.  His game is not quite as good as Guy 1's and is usually not practiced as much, or at all.  So Guy 2's attempt at conversation might seem awkward at first, mainly because  robots might not be your favorite thing to talk about.  When Guy 1 finally becomes friends with you he will then start to visit your profile daily.  He will comment on most of your statuses and might say to start a conversation, "it took forever to look through all your pictures last night."  Which he then liked about three pictures which are about two years old.  Also, if you make a change to your favorite actives or favorite movies he might ask you, "Why did you take the notebook off your favorite movies, I love that movie!" or "I saw you added curling to your favorite activities, I was on the team that won the curling competition at my county fair in Montana last year!" These are the signs of a facebook stalker, he's seen all your pictures and knows everything about you on your facebook page.

The Mother of 3 persona is starting to become more frequent as Facebook becomes easier to use for old people, and the older generation of people that first start using fb usually have kids in high school or college.  Commonly used by MO3 for "checking up" on their precise baby off away at college, or letting other parents know their little angel was partying hard the other night and posted pictures of it.  Although some high school and college kids embrace that fact that their parents are on facebook and write on their mommas wall all the time ( :) ), but other kids don't like the fact that they are being spied on.  Now MO3 sometimes acts the same as Guy 2 and they will ask you about your statuses and why you added car surfing to your favorite actives.  Also, they will not only like your two year old pictures, they will comment on them and your four close friends that had already commented on them will get the notification that your momma commented on it as well... So the over obsessive commenter MO3 and questioner is usually the stalker mom.. not the soccer mom...


I hope this clears up the confusion between FB stalking and FB investigating...

-Drew