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Andy

Your First Line Of Defense Against Your First Line Of Defense

About Me

I am just like all the other pragmatic curmudgeons you know, only more so.

My Interests

Philosophy, religion, politics, vegetarianism, not being murdered by robots, games, Pistons, Tigers, Lions

I'd like to meet:

Bill Simmons, Dutch, Barack Obama, El Guapo, Chauncey Billups, Joe Dumars, Rasheed Wallace

Music:

Metal, Folk, Musicals, Classic Rock

Movies:

Casablanca, Chinatown, Karate Kid, Karate Kid II, Rocky IV, Swingers, Three Amigos

Television:

House, NBA, NFL, MLB

Books:

Anything wordy and unapproachable... like me!

Heroes:

Mark Twain, Martin Luther King Jr, Joe Dumars, Groucho Marx

My Blog

Farmers Decide Food Production Should Be Controlled By Robots

There are a few things that robots are fantastic at controlling. For instance, I am never too sure when my toast is ready to pop up from the toaster, but due to modern space aged technology, I never h...
Posted by Andy on Tue, 27 May 2008 07:27:00 PST

Mummy Labs

There are certain things that I prefer to not know about. Specifically, worldwide threats that I can do little to stop. I know you're thinking pollution here, unless you read the title of this blog, w...
Posted by Andy on Tue, 19 Feb 2008 06:38:00 PST

Baby, It's Not Cold Outside

It isn't enough anymore that Michigan's two seasons- Winter and Bug Swarms- are difficult to predict. Now, we are slowly getting rid of Winter. I am sure you have seen a movie or two about global...
Posted by Andy on Tue, 30 Jan 2007 05:14:00 PST

Uncivil Rights

Throughout our nation's history, we have bent over backwards to be as discriminatory as possible. From the time the first person who you learned about in school set foot in the western hemisphere...
Posted by Andy on Thu, 25 Jan 2007 08:31:00 PST

The Big Apple of Fried Cheese

In case you haven't been scouring the web recently for a reason to get annoyed at the world around you, let me be the first to tell you that the city of New York (motto: fuck you) has banned restauran...
Posted by Andy on Wed, 06 Dec 2006 02:46:00 PST

New Robot Designed To Allow You To See Your Own Pain

In a step deemed necessary but several insane robot scientists, Brunel University has developed a robot that can display exactly where you feel pain, and the intensity of that pain. Scientists did not...
Posted by Andy on Sat, 11 Nov 2006 06:31:00 PST

English Scientists Decide Evil Robot Death Better Than Slightly Longer Wait Times

(The following is copied word for word from news.bbc.co.uk) A Leicester hospital has installed a robot in its pharmacy to help dispense drugs more efficiently. Officials at Leicester Royal Infirmary ...
Posted by Andy on Mon, 09 Oct 2006 08:26:00 PST

Going Deep South

It just occured to me that people in Canada refer to people in Michigan as living "in the south". Quite frankly, that makes me like us a little less. The south has such an incredibly negative associat...
Posted by Andy on Tue, 29 Aug 2006 06:41:00 PST

Several Excellent Articles I Didn't End Up Writing

The following were the articles I had thought about writing, but didn't. I offer no explanations for the lack of recent contributions, other than I am lazy. Here are the articles I would have written ...
Posted by Andy on Mon, 10 Jul 2006 07:56:00 PST

Bush Plans To Ban Gay Marriages; Also: Picture of Angry White People!

President Bush called on the US Senate to formally define the marriage as the union between a man and woman. On his weekly radio program ("Singing Bush" would be a sweet name for it), he stated that&n...
Posted by Andy on Sun, 04 Jun 2006 06:03:00 PST