About the author

Andrew Butters

<p><strong>Potato Chip Math</strong>&#160;is the brand name for writer and creator&#160;<strong>Andrew Butters</strong>. He is a 40-something married father of two living in New Brunswick, Canada and he will tell you that his first published work was Losing Vern as part of the Orange Karen: A Tribute to a Warrior anthology. In reality, it was a 500-word anecdote about the time he lit himself on fire. That story made it into the third installment of the Darwin Awards books.</p>&#13; &#13; <p>Fire is not the only foe for Andrew. He has received several severe concussions and a few &#8220;minor&#8221; ones, the last coming in the summer of 2011. It goes without saying that he is one hundred percent on board with head protection and brain health.</p>&#13; &#13; <p>Not all his distinctions are as dubious as appearing in a Darwin Awards book. There was the time he participated in a trick on stage with Penn &amp; Teller. He had a solid minute of screen time on the Super Dave Osborne Show. He scored a game-winning goal at Maple Leaf Gardens and even &#8220;sold&#8221; music to filmmaker Kevin Smith. He was also given a whole three seconds of non-speaking airtime in a TV commercial, and who could forget when he appeared as a fighting homeless man in a rap video.</p>&#13; &#13; <p>He writes, creates, eats snacks, blogs, toils over his next novel, creates videos, and is a huge fan of golf, hockey, science,&#160;<strong>EQUALITY</strong>, and the Oxford comma. Andrew sometimes lets his love of attention override common sense. You can find evidence of this pretty much anywhere you can find him.</p>