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Andy Online
Thursday, April 15, 2004

I did a bunch of This Book Will Change Andy's Life entries. And the crowd rejoices.

More catching up next time.

Posted by Andy at 10:45 PM EDT
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Wednesday, April 7, 2004
Roses really smell like poo-ooo-ooh

Yeah, I rearranged the place. You know, to go with the new "AO Interaction" goal that's been SO successful so far. Oh, that was sarcasm. :)

Multiple new TBWCAL entries there, and a new Andy-full Five by Five there.

News of the day: surgeons who play video games mess up less.

I never want to read a headline that says Bob Dylan sells panties again ever. Eww. And really, the thought of his face showing up in Victoria's Secret commercials kinda kills it all.

The Hardest Working Man in Showbiz has asked his wife to leave his current tour.

"Simpsons" voice actor Yeardley Smith (Lisa) has her own one woman show. No updates on the voice actor strike.

I have now read it all. Stolen: one lawn gnome. But look at the ransom note! And in a somewhat related story, I give you this story that was actually on CNN.com. Wow.

This just in from New Scientist magazine, which proclaims themselve to be "The World's No. 1 Science & Technology News Service": Teenage lesbians have worst rates of smoking. Very scientific.

Did you know... teeth cells may grow in other body parts.

Wow... that's some hair Pink has going on. I kinda like it.


Posted by Andy at 1:41 AM EDT
Updated: Wednesday, April 7, 2004 1:56 AM EDT
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Tuesday, April 6, 2004

Here, have a complete version of my fabulous LA Times appearance.

You might've also missed my appearance as an old guy in one of these pictures.

It's kinda fun to Google your name, except when you've done one "listmania" thing on Amazon.com and it shows up on 900 pages.

Posted by Andy at 1:36 AM EDT
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Saturday, April 3, 2004
Andy Fame
Yeah, YOU weren't quoted in the Los Angeles Times!

Flashback to 2002, when I was quoted in the LA Times in an article on... SpongeBob SquarePants. The actual article is subscriber only on the LA Times site, but if you go here and scroll to the next to the last article at the bottom, my quote is one of the highlighted parts of the article.

Posted by Andy at 10:57 PM EST
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Friday, April 2, 2004
It's alright, it's alright, it's alright, yeah
Mood:  cheeky
Now Playing: 'Lonesome Day' by Springsteen
Angelfire doesn't offer nearly enough mood options.

The banner at the top of the page was submitted by "Anonymous" via a comment thread further down this page. I still think they should anonymously e-mail me so at least I know who they are, so I can think of them as being that much cooler.

Alright, let's halfway launch this new interactive thing. It's not up to it's full power (or full look yet), but here we go... the Andy Online BB! That's right, your very own message board. It's there for you to talk with me and talk with each other. Give me feedback. Let me know how great the latest Book entry was, or how much it sucks because I didn't do it again. Participate in the latest Five by Five. Recommend an album (or a cereal) for me to review. Invite your friends! Let's make this a success!

This Book Will Change Andy's Life has been updated with Day Ninety-Three (Humility Day), Benrik's third Flashmob, and details on my quest to get Books-A-Million to be Book-compliant.

It's a double update in the Five by Five, as I do the Friday Five (sorta) and I give you a rundown of my favorite t-shirts.

Naturally because there's that new banner, the Banner Bonanza (on second thought, I don't like that name anymore) has been updated. You are always welcome to submit a banner! There's plenty of ideas listed on the banner page (well, the second page of it). I'd love some more Norah, and I'd probably fall over dead if someone brought me a good lookin' Michelle Branch banner. And hey, I'm all about Dr. Zoidberg on Futurama these days.

There are four or five new shots in Photos That Didn't Make The Cut #2. Nothing exciting, really. Just as an FYI, there will be no new original Andy pictures for the next week, as I've loaned my camera to the family for use on their vacation. They better bring me something back this time, darn it. :)

And now, the news and links that I haven't brought you in forever. Hence the long entry.

The voice actors for "The Simpsons" are on strike, which could end season sixteen early. They're asking for about $360,000 per episode (or about $8 million for a season), as they currently bring in $125,000 each an episode.

I think the yawning boy behind Bush is great. Bush, and the kid's supposed support of Bush... not so much.

The solution was there all along... police can solve crmes with bananas.

Here's the link I've mentioned to a few people that gives you the names of people in your town (neighbors, at that) and who they've given campaign donations to in your town. It's also an easy way to find out celebrity addresses, if you're a stalker.

X-Entertainment takes a look at the classic action figure that was Krang's body! I had this (and possibly still do in a box somewhere). It was one of the best figures ever.

Here's a nice little article on Tracks magazine, probably my favorite of the new music magazines. It makes me feel really old though, as it talks about the artists in it appealing to "boomers." Strange how I like most of these artists and I'm an ancient 23 (no hair jokes).

Lollapalooza is hitting the road again with a two-day format this year. I do like two of the artists announced (Flaming Lips, String Cheese Incident) thus far.

Friday's Pearls Before Swine is great, if nothing else just because it found a way to get the "mother" comment in newspapers.

Posted by Andy at 11:32 PM EST
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Thursday, April 1, 2004
Update of sorts
Alright, so I'm behind on my updates. I should've never said big things were coming. :)

The big "interactive" thing is coming. Soon. Next week, when things slow down.

With the exception of the new flashmob that's sitting in my e-mail, This Book Will Change Andy's Life is updated. Check out that bicep! Peel potatoes!


Posted by Andy at 11:27 PM EST
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Monday, March 29, 2004
Well...
Now Playing: 'She Wants To Move' - N.E.R.D.
And by tonight/tomorrow, I meant sometime hopefully this week. Some other slightly more important (but good) things have come up, and I have chosen to not sit at my computer and neglect actual human interaction. Sorry. :) It'll all be up at some point this week.

Posted by Andy at 10:42 PM EST
Updated: Monday, March 29, 2004 10:56 PM EST
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I'm as frisky as a squid on Tuesday
Do you need something to entertain yourself bright and early on Tuesday morning (or the "bright and early" equilavent of whenever you're going to be online)? Come right back here to AO!

Late Monday night, a few things ready to go up will be updated. I'll give you a taste of what the 2004 Andy musical tastes include in a big way. I'll do some more "This Book Will Change Andy's Life" and "Five by Five" stuff. I might even do more. I hope you're ready!

Tomorrow's update is also a big step in something I've tried hard for since the big January 1st relaunch of AO, but haven't had much success with... viewer interaction. Back in 1997, I christened Andy Online as "The People's Website." It was a take on a local hip-hop station calling itself "The People's Station," though people are more likely to tell you I was ripping off The Rock ("The People's Champion"). Either way works for me. I didn't call it that for nothing back then, and it's still not unofficially the People's Website for nothing now. I don't do this website for my own entertainment. It does help pass the time, but I do it because there seems to be a few people (an average of 34 different people a day, according to site stats for the last week) who want to read the zany things that I post. The blog format definitely helps. I didn't update AO much at all in the last few years because I didn't want to bother with HTML much (or, in the last year, because I was distracted by something far better than a computer). Now I can just type and voila, there it is. That's why I have all of these features. I want feedback on "Book" entries. I especially have "Five by Five" here to be an interactive feature. I give my answers, you give yours. Total answers for "Five by Five" entries since it's inception... two.

The first part of this is a plea to you to give me some feedback. There's 30-40 of you here a day. Post a comment and let me know what you think. Drop me an e-mail (andy1278 at yahoo.com) and let me know. IM me (AIM: andybear1278, MSN: andy1278@hotmail.com). Comments can be posted anonymously, if so desired. I'd love to hear what people think of the various things that I do here, and which ones I should do more of and which ones need to be dropped.

Part two of this is to ask you to pass along the good word about AO to a friend. Multiple friends, if you desire. You come here for a reason. Maybe you know me personally. Maybe you're one of my online buddies. Maybe you've just found me online somehow, whether it's through Benrik stuff, searching, or you were looking for andyonline.com, which is a porn site that popped up after one of AO's original popularity waves to capitalize on the hot name back when I was getting 200 hits a day(for the record, andyonline.com has no Andys involved, and you're better off for that). If you keep coming back, you're probably doing it for a reason. Why not share the site with a friend? They'll either do one of two things... a) think it's incredibly lame and, in the process, think I'm incredibly lame, which is a common thing in life for me, or b) think it's kinda funny and come back. This site is not a secret. Spread the word. Post it on your site. Post it in your journal. Write down the address and post it on a bulletin board somewhere, and that goes for both online bulletin boards and real ones. Get it tattooed on your forehead. Just e-mail it to someone or tell them to check it out during an IM session. Just let me know what you did, so I can give you the proper publicity back.

Part three is saying that tomorrow, I'll be introducing another way for mass interactivity here, both with me and with each other. Despite getting the couple of hundred unique hits a day back two years ago, this feature never worked before. Nobody tried. I'm giving it another shot. You've been warned.

Posted by Andy at 3:11 AM EST
Updated: Monday, March 29, 2004 3:31 AM EST
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Sunday, March 28, 2004

Quickie update, 'cause I've got other stuff to do.

I started redoing the About Andy page. There will be more thumbnails as I get pictures to actually work.

There's two new entries for This Book Will Change Andy's Life and a MIGHTY new entry in the Five by Five.

Posted by Andy at 1:22 AM EST
Updated: Sunday, March 28, 2004 1:22 AM EST
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Saturday, March 27, 2004

Coming sometime Saturday after I get off work and probably nap:

* I'm going to regrade the first CD review with the grading scale I originally planned. It's hard to rate stuff on a 0-100 scale, as seen there.

* New Book stuff.

* New Five by Five.

* Probably a new entry in the random music blog.

More!

In the meantime... I FOUND IT! I present to you, in MP3 form, The Mountie's theme song! Yes!

Posted by Andy at 12:52 AM EST
Updated: Saturday, March 27, 2004 1:04 AM EST
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