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Dr. Andy

I try to talk to girls and I keep thinking of World War III!

About Me

I'm a software developer for a project at the University of Arizona 650 that involves beetles and evolution (it's complex, I don't really understand it all). I used to be a cog in the giant mechanism of a large company primarily associated with sticky notes and tape. Before that, I was an adjunct instructor in the Computer Science dept. of University of Arizona.

650 - none of the thoughts, ideas, concerns, or revelations shared here are supported nor endorsed by the University of Arizona or any state body.

My Interests

Hockey, Travel, Independent Movies, Music (Punk, Indie, Grunge, Alt, etc), Teaching, Photography, Computer Science (Object-Oriented Programming, Web Development, Nerd Stuff),

I'd like to meet:

Raven-hair swedes, Myf Warhurst , Canadians, Australians, death programmers, unicorn-hunters, Daniel H. Wilson , Robert Fisk... and people that know which Ernest this quote is from: "Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know."

Music:

Nirvana, Fugazi, Tool, Black Flag, Minor Threat, Stooges, Ramones, Birthday Party, Bad Seeds, Dillinger Four, B.B. King, Johnny Cash, Jonathan Richman, Minutemen, Hüsker Dü, Jello Biafra, Against Me!, Richard Hell, Angry Samoans, New Bomb Turks, Weakerthans, The Constantines, Riverboat Gamblers, The Cramps, Chango Malo, The North Atlantic, Knockout Pills, Weird Lovemakers, Swing Ding Amigos, Toys That Kill, Death From Above 1979, Hum, Far, Regurgitator, The Saints, Oh My God, Rites of Spring, One Last Wish, Cosmic Psychos, Sham 69, Dead Kennedys, Descendents, Bob Log III, Doo Rag, El Guapo/supersystem, Architecture In Helsinki, Gang of Four, Coltrane, Miles Davis, Sebadoh, Screeching Weasel, Gunmoll, Grabass Charlestons, Western Addiction, New Mexican Disaster Squad, Fucoustic, Modern Machines, Bent Outta Shape, and soooo many more...

Movies:

Barfly, Strange Brew, Apocalypse Now, American Splendor, Vertigo, Amelie, Usual Suspects, It's All Gone Pete Tong, The Big Red One: Reconstruction, Forty Guns, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Ghost World, Fear & Loating in Las Vegas, Brazil, 12 Monkeys, Greetings, Pickup on South Street, Punchline, Hal Hartley's film (Simple Men, Trust, Henry Fool, Book of Life, Flirt), Insomnia, The Whole Wide World, Dog Day Afternoon, One Crazy Summer, Me and You and Everyone We Know, Better Off Dead, Shaun of the Dead, Chinatown, House of Bamboo, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, and a gang more that would come to mind if I spent more time thinking...

Television:

IFC, Life and Times of Grizzly Adams

Books:

[Hell's Angels, Proud Highway, Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas, Great Shark Hunt, Generation of Swine, Better Than Sex, Rum Diary | by Hunter S. Thompson][Zen and Art of Motorcycle Maintenance | by Robert Pirsig] [Motorcycle Diaries | by Ernesto Che Guevara] [Women, Post Office, Ham On Rye, Factotum | by Charles Bukowski] [Subterraneans, On the Road, Dharma Bums, Tristessa | by Jack Keroauc] [Please Kill Me | by Legs McNeil & Gillian McCain] [High Adventure in the Great Outdoors, Bang!, Black Coffee Blues, Do I Come Here Often?, Smiling - You're Traveling, Broken Summers | by Henry Rollins] [Requiem For A Dream | by Hubert Selby Jr.] [Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo | by Oscar Zeta Acosta] [Generation X, All Families Are Psychic, Miss Wyoming, Microserfs, Shampoo Planet, Hey Nostradamous! | by Douglas Coupland]

Heroes:

Henry Rollins, Hunter S. Thompson, Mike Watt, Ian MacKaye, Dave Letterman, Charles Bukowski, Chuck Dukowski, Robert Fisk, Edward Teach

My Blog

Roundup Redux

I haven't posted a "roundup" in a long, long time - so I thought I'd throw something together. Don't park outside a boxing weigh inFriday I was trying to seek some motivation to attack my work. I fou...
Posted by Dr. Andy on Mon, 02 Jun 2008 09:49:00 PST

Wisdom From Phil Niekro

The most important lesson Phil Niekro learned he said was "losing without feeling defeated." Epic....
Posted by Dr. Andy on Sun, 25 May 2008 10:11:00 PST

’08 == ’88 or ’08 == ’72 ?

I read an article in The New York Times Sunday edition prior to this week's primaries that predicted that this year's election may boil down to the candidates bashing each other with symbols (a la Geo...
Posted by Dr. Andy on Fri, 09 May 2008 07:33:00 PST

Operation Twinkie

After Rush Limbaugh took credit for helping throw the Indiana primary to HRC (I like using that because it makes Hillary sound sinister), I thought we need to repay Mr. Limbaugh some how. I'd like to...
Posted by Dr. Andy on Fri, 09 May 2008 07:09:00 PST

Willie Horton anyone?

Clinton would end mandatory prison sentence for crack cocaine users.It's Dukakis all over again! McCain's camp is going to have a FIELD DAY with this. After they're done, they'll even hand out RIBBO...
Posted by Dr. Andy on Fri, 11 Apr 2008 11:04:00 PST

Signs of the APOCALYPSE!

Looks who's still touring!!!!!!! Gotta love the name of their supporting act...
Posted by Dr. Andy on Thu, 07 Feb 2008 07:59:00 PST

Triple J Discovery: The Scare, "Bats! Bats! Bats!"

Okay... in the spirit of writing about things that Jen cares about - I give you one of my absolute favorite songs I discovered thanks to Triple J[1]. The Scare was originally out of Adelaide and, lik...
Posted by Dr. Andy on Wed, 06 Feb 2008 09:45:00 PST

Music Potential: Santogold

Apparently the rumor is that no one cares about my various thoughts in the area of hockey (source: Jen/Doll). I know for a fact that at least three people read my hockey posts... so I will continue t...
Posted by Dr. Andy on Wed, 06 Feb 2008 09:32:00 PST

Goalie Gone Wild!

Lanny McDonald - The Moustache - is one of my favorite hockey players.  He played for the Calgary Flames when I was a kid.  Anyway, I was looking for the epic Steve Smith fight versus Bob Pr...
Posted by Dr. Andy on Fri, 25 Jan 2008 05:42:00 PST

Classic Hockey Fight

I used to watch lots of hockey at the Veteran's Memorial Colliseum ("The Madhouse on McDowell" ... and home of the State Fair) where the International Hockey League's Phoenix Roadrunners played (a far...
Posted by Dr. Andy on Fri, 25 Jan 2008 05:35:00 PST