Andy Stuff

There's a video on YouTube of Mitt Romney's son, Matt, back in 2008, calling and 'pranking' Mitt with online sound bites of Arnold Schwarzenegger, so it sounded like Schwarzenegger was calling him. It's pretty funny, check it out.

If you're fascinated by hoarders, which I'm guessing you are, since everyone's fascinated by hoarders, you're going to want to check this out.

In East San Jose, California, a local ABC station is on a mission to help one extreme hoarder. How extreme? He's hoarded so much stuff that it completely fills his yard, and you can actually see the mess on a Google Maps satellite photo.

The guy's name is Richard Baker. He's 58, and apparently he's been collecting stuff at his house for 40 YEARS. His neighbors describe him as eccentric and volatile.

Finally the ABC affiliate stepped in and started making calls, and the city is working to get him some help. The fire marshal declared the scene unsafe, so cleanup is starting and will supposedly take two months.

And Richard is getting treatment for his mental health issues. (ABC 7 - San Francisco)

Justice is finally being served on a lot of the idiots who rioted in London last August. And one particular idiot is now going to prison, all because he can't stop looking at his own nose.

In August, 23-year-old Andrew Burls set fire to a lingerie store in south London. It spread to a bakery and a post office, did more than $1.5 million in damage, and left six people who lived above the shops homeless.

And as the cops reviewed the security footage, they noticed the arsonist had one very distinctive feature, he was incredibly cross-eyed.

They used that information to track him down. He was arrested for arson, and now, he's been sentenced to eight years in prison. (Metro.co.uk)

Do you suffer from nomophobia? If you can't stand being away from your phone, then you probably do.

Nomophobia is a new, made-up term that's short for "no mobile phobia." It started in Great Britain, where they call phones "mobiles."

Symptoms include getting anxious when you don't have your phone, worrying about losing it, keeping an extra phone in case yours breaks, and bringing your phone to bed.

Two out of three people in a recent survey said they have one or more of those symptoms, which is up 13% from a similar survey four years ago.

70% of women say they're nomophobes, compared to 61% of men. And 77% of people under age 25 are nomophobic. (LA Times)

So if NASA could actually go up into space and build the Death Star, from the Star Wars movies, what would it cost?

Students at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania worked out how much it would cost to build the Death Star and came up with a figure of $8,100,000,000,000,000 ($8.1 quadrillion), which is 13,000 times the world's GDP. (ShortList.com)

We've got good news and bad news here. The good news: Scientists have figured out a way for you to lose weight, get smarter, and live longer. And you can start doing it right now.

The bad news: It's going to make three days out of your week brutal.

Researchers at the National Institute for Aging found that if you fast every other day, it's great for your heart, your brain, and your body. On the days where you fast, you actually can eat a little, only between zero and 500 calories,

That sounds awful. But there's another twist. In tests, the people who were fasting every other day could eat pretty much anything they wanted on their eating days. And they still lost weight.

The scientists say this all comes down to insulin production. After high-carb, high-sugar food, your body produces extra insulin. That's bad for your heart, it causes weight gain, and actually reduces your brain function.

Even though people were releasing more insulin on their eating days, the lack of insulin on their fast days more than made up for it. (TruthDive)

Alan Rickman is 66 today. He's in the Harry Potter movies, but he's my hero for playing Hans Gruber in Die Hard. If you're a fan of that movie, as most men are, you're going to love this.

I found a funny video with added sound effects featuring the birthday boy!

If you bought a ticket, you got way more than your money's worth!

The Sioux Falls Stampede played hockey on Saturday night, then got into the most epic hockey fight in the history of the franchise, perhaps the history of the sport. (I know nothing about hockey, so I have no idea.)

You know it's out of hand when even the GOALIES get into. The Sioux Falls goalie lost his fight, and the Stampede lost the game.

This song, and video, is insanely good. Skrillex recording a track with Robbie Krieger, John Densmore and Ray Manzarek.

Ray even drops a "Light My Fire" in there.

Remember when your parents told you they used to walk 10 miles to school in the snow, uphill, both ways?  Yeah, apparently today, that would get your parents arrested.

In another sign that we're raising the softest, most coddled generation of children ever, 34-year-old Valerie Borders of Jonesboro, Arkansas was arrested on Monday for making her kid walk to school.

Valerie's 10-year-old son kept getting in trouble on the bus:  He was suspended from riding FIVE times.  So as a punishment, she told him he had to walk the four-and-a-half miles to school until he learned how to behave on the bus.

Her son only made it a few blocks before the police picked him up.  And then, they arrested Valerie for endangering the welfare of a minor.

She could get up to one year in jail and a $1,000 fine.

To her son's credit, he was more rational than the adults who took his side.  He says: "[My mother] did the right thing.  She knew that I had been suspended off the bus, she made me walk.  They shouldn't have picked me up." (ABC 8 - Jonesboro)