Andy attended Kalamazoo College earning a Bachelor's degree in Psychology.
He is married to Erin with a daughter Riley and son Will. Andy appeared in the 1988 feature film Eight Men Out starring Charlie Sheen.
Andy is related to Kevin M. Miller, founder of Super Bowl Houses For Rent, LLC.
Early years and education
He spent most of his childhood studying at St. George's School, a missionary school located in the heart of Brunei's capital, Bandar Seri Begawan. He later went on to study at Murdoch University, Perth, where he graduated with a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Studies.
Swimming career
Sei Wee's swimming career began with the National Swimming Scheme Training Programme for junior swimmers where he was coached by Victor Tan, who had previously been the coach for the Malaysian State of Sarawak. He became the first Bruneian to medal in swimming at the South East Asian Games when he won the gold medal in the 100m Breaststroke in 1999. He later went on to win three consecutive medals in the event, while at the same time breaking the event record at his second attempt in the 2001 SEA Games in Kuala Lumpur.
The hand hug is performed by the three following steps:
1. Put your hands in a high five motion
2. Touch hands as if to high five, but place palms together.
3. Wrap thumb around opposite hand. *
* To ensure this is done properly, both persons will need to use the same hand (both left or both right).
Tri-Hand Hug
This is done similarly as the regular hand hug, except that it is done with three people.
The Insulting Hand Hug
If a person who you do not like attempts to Hand Hug you, you can simply put up a conflicting hand (they put left, you put right and vice versa). This is called the 'Clash of the Thumbs'.
The Creator of the Hand Hug
The hand hug was created by Arian Faurtosh. The exact date of creation as well as how it came to be is still disputed today. Many people think the hand hug was invented around 2003 but this has since been proven wrong as Hand Hugs were written about in books prior to this date.
Other sources speculate that the Hand Hug was created in the 1970s by a group of hippies.
Cultural Views
The Hand Hug may be seen by some cultures as a sign of jest and fellowship
National Hand Hug Day has been designated to be on December 11 of every year.
Death from a Distance and the Birth of a Humane Universe (2009) is a book by Paul M. Bingham and Joanne Souza that argues for a simple answer to what is variously called the 'human uniqueness question' or 'Darwin's unanswered question'. "How and why did humans evolve to become so radically different than all other animals." This simple answer is suggested to represent the long-sought theory unifying all the social sciences and joining them to the mature natural sciences.
The authors argue that the simple answer to the human uniqueness question has four elements. First, conflicts of interest between non-kin members of the same species (conspecifics) limit all social cooperation in all animals at all times. Second, humans are the first animals in Earth’s history to control these conflicts of interest. Third, humans are able to control conflicts of interest because the first proto-humans roughly 2 million years ago evolved the capacity to project potentially lethal threat remotely, from a distance of many body diameters away. This capacity for conjoint remote threat renders social coercion adaptive and opens the door to the evolution of a new logic for social behavior, kinship-independent social cooperation. If liars and cheaters can be credibly ostracized, cooperation can emerge as the best available option. Fourth, all uniquely human features, like our elite language, ethical sense and powerful minds, emerge simply from our control of conflicts of interest. Moreover, all the major events of our 2 million year history — like the agricultural revolutions, the rise of the first states and the contemporary emergence of pan-global cooperation — result from the application of the ancient evolved human strategy of coercive enforcement of kinship-independent social cooperation at ever increasing scales, on this theory.