Old Posts - April 2003

	Saturday Apr 26th 8:37pm by Brian -

Professional Football Draft Board School BPM Studio Pro 4.6 code Round 1 Round 2 Round 3 Total Total Entries Baylor 0 0 0 0 1 Colorado 1 0 2 3 8 Iowa State 0 0 0 0 3 Kansas 0 0 0 0 1 Kansas State 1 1 0 2 6 Missouri 0 0 0 0 1 Nebraska 0 1 0 1 10 Oklahoma 1 0 0 1 7 Oklahoma State 1 0 0 1 3 Texas 0 0 3 3 5 Texas A&M 2 2 1 5 7 Texas Tech 0 0 0 0 3 The first three rounds of the NFL draft were held today. Although the amount of players drafted from a team can vary from year to year due to the overall age of a team, I would say that A&M did pretty well this year with 5 players, including 2 first rounders, picked in first three rounds of the draft. Texas Tech, of course, had none of its three players drafted in the first three rounds. For a complete breakdown of the players drafted by school, team, position, and children out of wedlock, head to ESPN.com. P.S. Happy Birthday to Mel who turns 22 today. P.P.S. I'll see the Mighty Ducks in hell if the Stars don't rebound from this 0-2 deficit in a best-of-seven series. P.P.P.S. I am ready to see the Mavs complete the sweep of the Jail Blazers tomorrow night in Portland.

It was my best idea; it was my worst idea. From the makers of...this website...comes a game so pointless and debauched. We bring you Fantasy Drinkin'. I can't really say much more about the game that isn't listed in the rules. Head to the Fantasy Drinkin' homepage and enjoy.

I wonder if anyone celebrated Easter and 4:20 simultaneously by getting really stoned in a big bunny costume while listening to Jefferson Airplane's "White Rabbit."

Yea, it looks like I had a good time at our party last Friday (April 11th), but I wouldn't be able to tell you for sure. My last memory is about 15 minutes after the above picture was taken. But people tell me I (and the party) was quite a riot. After drinking more than half a handle of Bacardi (had to since it was my birthday) I think anyone would have been quite a riot. My roommate accounts that I fell into the shower curtain in the bathroom and got tangled up. It took him 5 minutes to get me untangled. My friend Amberly accounts that I was standing on the couch and tell into the window curtains and pulled those down too. How that all happened, I don't know.

But I do know for sure is that in the same night, someone STOLE my digital camera. This is the last known picture of me and my camera together. I must have set it down at one point and someone stole it from there. It really pisses me off when people steal from me. I hope we find out who stole so I can cut their balls off with a rusted butter knife. This is also why it took me so long to get pictures up and there are so few. Thanks to Krystal for giving me copies from her digital camera. If you have any more pictures from the party, let me know.

So even after all the drunkenness on Friday night, I made it up bright and early Saturday to the Melrose Apartments block party. Got there at about 10:30am (when there was only 2 other people out there) and partied strong even into the late afternoon. This year's party definitely topped last year's. My favorite part of the day: manning my 3-man water balloon slingshot. Let me tell you two things about this activity. 1.) You can launch a water balloon over 100yards and 2.) When someone gets hit with a water balloon from 100 yards away, they are PISSED. Needless to say we almost started a couple of fights. But man was it worth it.

I partied straight into the night and went downtown in my swim trunks and a tank top. I don't know why I thought I could wear that downtown. I guess 24 hours of drunkenness impairs your judgment. Luckily I got a free b-day t-shirt and put that on so I could get into the bars. I still wasn't quite in dress code, but the bouncers knew me well enough to let that slide. Hopefully I'll get some pictures from this night.

More drunkenness

As if that wasn't enough drinking, this past Saturday I got equally as drunk as I did at my party. So did I lose another camera and get tangled up in another shower curtain? Well not as bad, and worst at the same time. While I didn't lose another camera, I did lose the battery to my cell phone. This is an interesting story of being out by the shore of the lake and thinking a floating piece of wood is a deck, then jumping on the wood, then sinking in the water. With my cell phone in my pocket, when I got out of the water the first thing I did was take the battery out so it wouldn't short out. Well my dumb ass decided to do this while sitting on the shore and I drop the battery into the water. Yea, smart. But that's not the bad part of the night. Here's the bad part.

So apparently I got really messed up (what's new there) and I guess I decided that sleeping (passing out) on the hood of a 4-Runner was a good idea (not a good idea). Well I don't remember any of this but eyewitness reports note me passed out on the hood, then 30 minutes later they saw me passed out on the ground next to the car. Putting the pieces together you can easily assume that I drunkenly rolled over and off the car, landing on the ground. And how does a passed out person break their fall? They don't. So I landed on my left side gashing my knee, toe, and even worse, my face. With half my weight landing on the side of my face and the distance from the ground to the top of a 4-Runner's hood being about 4 feet, I now have a pretty mean asphalt gash on my cheek and a black eye. And a really bad black eye at that. So if you see me wondering around don't punch in my eye jokingly. Damn I hate black eyes b/c they take so long to go away.

The Conclusion

So this morning I have come to a conclusion: I don't have the tolerance of superman and need to ease up on the drinking. I'm happy that I lived through the rolling off the car thing and kind of woke me up of how bad it is to explain that I was passed out on a car, rolled off of it and busted my face. Some say I won't be able to ease up on the drinking after the past year that I've had. Which might be a good assumption. But I can tell you, there will be no more losing wallets, cameras, or cell phone batteries. And definitely no more passing out and rolling off of cars. Don't get me wrong, there will still be drinking, just no more downing a 1/5th in 45-minutes style drinking (which I've done 3 times in the past week). We will see what actually happens.

The College Station Police Department is well known for handing out tickets to students under legally questionable circumstances. Usually, students just pay these tickets because they don't want their parents finding out and/or don't have the legal resources to battle the crime. But what kind of way to do business is that? You got to keep tabs on the man. How do you do this? Research the law. Head over to the State of Texas website. They've got more than enough information online for you to find the specific wording of a law. If you're still unsure, contact a lawyer or the closest Lionel Hutz you can find. His methods may be questionable, but he'll kindly offer you a belt of Scotch in the morning and has degrees from Harvard, Yale, MIT, Oxford, the Sorbonne, and the Louvre. Also, many universities offer help for students with legal problems. I sure know that both A&M and UT do. Why am I telling you all of this? Because I fought the law and the law lost.

When I returned from the Christmas break, I "accidentally" backed into a poorly marked handicapped spot at my apartment. The parking lot was mostly empty, and I had never seen anyone park in it before. The spot provided easy access for unloading a car, and I saw no harm. Of course, I forgot to move my car afterwards and returned the following day to find a ticket attached to my windshield wiper. Since parking in a handicapped spot is a $300, I was quite upset. I could just mail in the fine, but $300 could fuel my laudanum habit for quite sometime. Since pleading insanity to a parking violation didn't seem like a viable option, I decided to investigate the matter further. It turns out that a handicapped spot is not a legal handicapped spot unless it is marked both on the ground and accompanied with a vertically mounted or hanging sign. Since the spot I parked in was lacking the latter, I printed out a stack of Texas statutes and some pictures of the spot and headed to court. And what did they tell me? That's state law; come back for this pre-trial conference in mid-June(later bumped up to last week) to argue your case. I figured I should take that time to take more pictures, instead of the ones I took with my digital camera and printed on regular paper, and also investigate the matter further. Despite these good ideas, I followed through on none of them. I briefly considered bringing my own brand of "sans pants" civil disobedience into the courtroom, but I decided instead to arm myself with the same old stack of evidence and...a passion for justice. I spent a few minutes with the city prosecutor, and it was dismissed without having to go through a trial and an inevitable contempt of court fine when I somehow worked "blow me" into my defense. It was a good day for justice and College Station black market laudanum sales.

In the past we have tried to bring justice upon those who, the night before, forgot how to hold their liquor. For sometime on this site, and for ages in generations long before ours, there has always been "That Guy," the one person at the party who drinks a little bit more than everyone else. They have been ridiculed many times here at Tamut.com and unfortunately it is time to point fingers at one of our own. You guessed it Matt has turned Wednesday Night into a moonshine rodeo and gone balls to the wall. Did he have a good time? After downing 700 mL of Vodka, how could he have had a bad time? But it is about damn time that I got my vengence for the notorious Fun with a Drunk prank, among other things. Don't forget to wish him a Happy Birthday this weekend, in all his glory, Matt, your trusted leader, at his finest!!!

So the posse (see above) is at it again (are we ever not?); hittin up downtown and cleaning out our wallets to make room for more cash from the ATM. And yes I said "the posse", make sure you didn't replace the second word with what you are thinking about, I know at least a few of you read it that way the first time. I've put up pictures from last weekend and this weekend too so I am on top of things this week. Last weekend was "just another weekend" as you could put it. But "just another weekend" in Austin is equivalent to "a bunch of crazy partying with some wild people". I'll hit the highlights.

Thursday night (3/27) was one of the best nights downtown I've had in a long time. Not just because I got to hang out with a lot of hot chicks (also see above), but because I randomly met not one but two groups of girls that I met during my Cancun escapades. Then we hit a little chill after party. Then Friday night I had an awesome time as well. We did the normal downtown thing (with Krystal, Emily, and Jill this time) but then we had a wild after party at my place. See, my roommates were already throwing a party at our place so after the bars closed a group of about 10 of us added on to the party and started playing speed quarters, the single best drinking game ever . . . ev-er. Needless to say we were all kinds of rowdy, no let me rephrase that: I was all kinds of rowdy, and keep my roommate up all night, hence didn't go to work the next morning and furthermore no longer can go to work there anymore. Sorry about that.

So after going downtown 5 times in 9 days I figured I (and my wallet) could use a change of pace. So I hit up a few parties on West Campus. Don't have anything to crazy to talk about, but it was fun watching the kids freak out when the cops came to bust parties . . . ahhh, I remember the days.

Anyway, click here to see all the pictures from the March 28th weekend.

That's right, I'm not done yet. Last Thursday I was definitely at it again going to Trudy's then downtown. What was the highlight of the night? Jenny driving an '82 Suburban.

Then Friday I headed up to Arlington, Dallas, Denton, and Carrolton for some road trip style partying. I am noticing now that I didn't take many pictures, but that's cool. Saturday night I had a not so great time watching UT get whoopped up on in the last 10 minutes of the game while eating at Bone Daddy's. Meanwhile, golf ball sized hail pelted the tin roof of the building and all the cars in the parking lot. An obvious sign from God that he was as displeased as I was with UT's performance. So what was the one good thing about the hail? I was driving a rental car, so only it got the shit beat out of it, not my car. (Poor, poor rental car. It had so much going for it before I got it) So then Sunday I went to see Mesh at the Battle of the Bands at Galaxy Club in Dallas. After suffering through 6 bands of torture, we finally got to hear their kick-ass performance. My good friend David George is the lead singer and guitarist. A great show by David and the rest of the band. So after the concert we hit some good after partying where I apparently took no pictures. But then Monday I hung out at Lone Star bar in Carrolton with the cool group of girls pictured above. Nothing like a few hours at the bar to get you ready for a 3 hour drive back to Austin. (No just kidding, I don't go for the drunk driving act). Anyway, click here to see all the pictures from this past weekend.

Oh yea, new poll.

Over 40,000 Fooled By TamUt.com Prank

On April 1 a link to a fake ESPN article was posted on the homepage of TamUt.com. The fake article claimed that three members of the Longhorns men's basketball team were ineligible to play in the Final Four. The link to the article spread like wildfire via instant messages and e-mails. The link even appeared on Kansas, Kentucky, UCLA, Syracuse, Pittsburgh, Ohio State, West Virginia, Marquette, Wisconsin, Oregon, Louisville, Missouri, North Carolina, Washington State, Northwestern, Michigan State, Texas A&M, and Texas message boards. Below are some of the comments made by those who read the article:

"ive got some KU buddies and they all got real excited when i showed them"

"just wanted to hand it to ya - that was a pretty damn good april fool
had all my friends pissin' in their pants"

"that article scared the living shit out of me.
very funny
i totally fell for it. seriously went looking for proof on all these UT websites. I very much liked it. great work."

"yeah...I'm know my roommate for one will be pissed
thanks for the info"

"woooh, i have had too much wild turkey and sega tennis tonight"

Not all of the statements made about the fake article actually had anything to do with the article. Luckily for UT fans, all of their players will be eligible to participate in the Final Four. What has this incident taught us? It has taught us that TamUt.com is king of April Fools '03.

The Associated Press did not contribute to this report.

I don't mean to take pleasure in a Texas loss, but check out the top headline on ESPN.com. I hope for their sake that this thing goes away.