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This blog is dead!

Aside from clearly losing interest with this blog, I'm going to have to kill it. This, as well as the website I've had up at the homepage.mac.com domain is going to die, because I don't want to pay for web space. I will hopefully have a new home for my random junk and updates before this page expires, and I will do my best to make sure I post the new address here, as well as email the information to as many people as I can. I will also be changing my email address- it will be drew howe (at symbol) gmail (dot) com. spelling it out was to avoid getting spam. There are no spaces in the real address. You get the idea. In any case... I'm shutting my machine down and shipping it to philly- it will be up and running again within a week. If you need to contact me, just call my cell.

Thu - August 19, 2004

The Obituary

Hah- I pressured you all into visiting my blog some 600 times. Awesome. Or maybe I have a stalker that checked 3 times a day. Either way, I feel cool.

In memory of the blog, here's more information than you would ever want about my hit statistics. Not that you all care, but it is interesting to see what happens when you leave a page primarily unattended on the web.

The page has had 90 unique visitors. Which means I had a whole lot of people visiting every once and a while.

Here's a list of the searches that led people to go to my weblog:

Name related:
andrew howe(9), andrew howe ca, andrew howe uk, andrew howe weblog, drew is weird, drew howe blog, andrew howe uk, drew howe

Sodexho Related:
sodexho complaint, sodexho sucks

Pepsi Related:
free pepsi, pesi-cola official web-site

Stuff Related to things I did:
painting his nails, growing a goatee, painted his nails, his nails painted, fire drill suck, dorm fire drill, painted nails site:mac.com (it looks like someone was trying to find the famous dinosaur pic!!!)

WTF?:
dorms suck(3), uk dorms suck, bragging for attention, building whistles, is a complaint

17 visitors came from my brother's blog link. 32 came from google.

I got one visitor was identifiable as from each country: Italy, Switzerland, the UK and Canada. Two people ran into my page looking for a page in italian, and one looking for a page in french. No one was looking for spanglish :(.

Now for the graphs:

This is a great operating system graph to see. If only the world were so beautifully diverse. *cries*. Even some people in the "other" category! Okay, that's enough, I think. Time to pack up my computer.

Posted at 12:19 PM

Tue - June 22, 2004

PUDDING POPS ARE BACK!

Let it be known to the world: PUDDING POPS ARE BACK! Yes, Indeed, Jell-O Pudding Pops are now becoming available under the Popsicle brand. This is a wonderful thing. I have been trying HARD to find where they are in my area, and I found out that Breyers, the parent company of Popsicle now allows you to search for products based on your zip code. So here's the search site:
http://www.breyers.com/locator/
Go find them! Eat them! Enjoy!

Yes, I know I'm obsessed. Actually I'm putting this in now so that people can search for it on google- it too me an hour to find this info.

Oh yeah, I'm visiting Spokane soon!!! Woohoo!

Posted at 08:20 PM

Tue - June 8, 2004

DSL!!!

Drew is no longer a stranger to the world of the internet! And people can call while he's on it too! I have DSL!!! :-D

Oh yeah. And I know stuff about cool movies that you can't know :-P. HA!

Posted at 09:14 PM

Fri - May 14, 2004

Hired!

Thanks to being employed with a temp agency, Drew is now ready to put in some hours at Skywalker SoundѢ. That's right, Lucas Digital LTD is having someone pay me to work for them. What am I doing? Why inventory, of course. Though so far my official title is "slave" to Tim McGovern, the head of engineering there. Not sure how much work will be there, or how long it will last, but indeed I am employed, and will be working for the single most successful and well-known audio company in the world. Now we'll just see how long I last. Want to hire Drew? You're perfectly welcome to send possible employment my way- please no food service. Know of a place that could use a weird techy like me? Let me know! I need hours!

Posted at 03:21 PM

Fri - April 30, 2004

Shut Down

Well, my computer, from this moment on, is shut down for the school year. Time to pack and get ready to get the heck out of here. If you need me, I should be able to check my email on campus computers, or you can call my cell. I'll talk to everyone again sometime Tuesday. See ya!

Posted at 02:16 PM

Wed - April 28, 2004

Finals

So I've got 3 finals tomorrow (Thursday) between 9 am and 5 pm. Yeah, and they're all important. Does this suck? Yes. What can you do? Go protest in front of the dean's office for me. No takers? Fine, I guess I'll just take it, then. With that in mind, I'm shipping my computer home on Saturday, so you very likely won't hear from Drew until sometime next week, unless you call him this weekend. Which, of course, you are encouraged to do. Okay, time to get back to work.

Posted at 04:06 PM

Fri - April 23, 2004

Finals, and Final Papers

Well, Drew's pretty much finished with everything but finals. Why isn't this entry in the "bragging" section? Well, that would be because Drew has 5 finals, 4 of which happen to be worth more than 10% of my grade in the class. Oh, yeah, and 3 of them are on the same day (Thursday) within the same 8 hour period, with only about 2 hours worth of breaks. And they're the most important ones, which will most likely take most of the 2 hour period they give for each final. I love our registrar's scheduling methods.

So what's the good news? Drew has an 11 page paper he wrote that he wants you to read and give him praise for :-P. I wrote this for my sociology class, and I like what I ended up with quite a bit. Unfortunately the final edit was made on a school computer and I forgot to send the new version to myself, so there may be a few bad sentences... in any case, you should read it and make me feel good. Bleh, time to go to class.

termpaper.pdf

Posted at 09:42 AM

Thu - April 15, 2004

Birthday

Having reached the age of 1.9x10^1, I've got a whole lot of really cool stuff.... This is the second recording session Jars of Clay ever did- second only to their first demo "Frail". Frail can't be found, and Drummer Boy can't really be found either...

Having reached the age of 1.9x10^1, I've got a whole lot of really cool stuff.
First of all, and possibly the most shocking, I have Drummer Boy. This is the second recording session Jars of Clay ever did- second only to their first demo "Frail". Frail can't be found, and Drummer Boy can't really be found either... but somehow Stacie managed to. So I have it now.

Along with that, I've got a cool rug mouse pad, and have just put in the order for Mac OS X Panther.

pretty box, huh? I thought so too. I'm hoping what's inside is just as good, too.

Stacie did a really amazing thing... she somehow managed to contact just about everyone I know and have them sign a banner, including my extended family (well, my mom helped), people at school, and old friends. Time to change the email password, eh? :-P. I'd say that's the boldest gesture I've seen a single person carry out on my birthday, and it made me feel all warm and special. So thanks everyone who contributed to that... you're cool. I'll have a photo of the banner up as soon as I have time to set it all up again. That's all for now.

Posted at 12:33 PM

Tue - April 13, 2004

I'm baack

Well, after a weekend with Brian & Becky (and the cutest kid in the world, Elena), I'm back at school. What's next? Some 20 pages of writing, and 5 finals. All before May 3. Here are some pictures from the weekend, though...

(that's supposed to show the whole capitol building... but it got cut off)

Pretty nice dome. Now if only we could fill it with some smart people...

As previously mentioned, the cutest kid in the world.

Posted at 12:16 PM

Mon - March 29, 2004

Photos

So... I haven't had a lot of time to update the blog, but here's some photos to prove that I haven't been wasting all of my time studying (not that there was any doubt)

Outside the philly art museum

Also outside the museum

Outside of the museum from inside the museum

Myself and Stacie outside of the museum

The bug I found in my salad bowl after eating from it.

Posted at 06:10 PM

Fri - March 19, 2004

Front Row

We were in the front. No, not near the front, the front. They (Dan the lead singer and Matt the guitarist) shook my hand. Dan thanked me (for what I know not). The set was awesome. The Mint (a new local favorite of mine who I've seen twice now) opened. The promoters were confiscating cameras, and I managed to get digital photos out. So here, since they harassed Stacie for using a camera they previously said was okay, are some photos of Jars of Clay for your marginally legal enjoyment. Oh, and one of the mint. And no, my camera does not have any zoom on it, I was just really that close.

Sorry about the color- it's indoor stage lights at very low power (they didn't pay for big lighting)
And now The Mint:

They're cool too. So that's my concert update. Want to know more? Email me.

Posted at 01:45 AM

Tue - March 9, 2004

C's

:(
Well, after a long rest that made Drew realize he was most certainly burned-out towards the middle of this semester, Drew got 3 midterms back today. Two of them were Cs (one was a very very high one, but still, I a C). This was a bit of a surprise to him, and he's not too happy about it. On the lighter side, he did get a very high A in the class he really cares about (Sociology). How can you help Drew? Stop being so enjoyable to hang out with! Prayers about focus, and encouragement are appreciated. The course grades are still very recoverable, but the pressure is on now.

Posted at 05:53 PM

Sun - March 7, 2004

Back from CA

I just wanted an excuse to show off the photo. It's good to be back (and it was good to go home, too!)

Posted at 11:20 PM

Fri - February 27, 2004

SPRING BREAK!

Drew's off to California for Spring break, far far away from his best friend... er... computer- so that means it'll be quite a while before you hear from him again. Of course, you could call me or email me like you should have in the first place, couldn't you?

Posted at 03:02 PM

Tue - February 24, 2004

Normal

Along with escaping the grasp of the T-Rex (sorry I forgot to mention that part), Drew now has normal nails- so you all have nothing to worry about now. For a while, anyways.