I Just Realized That Howdy is Short for How Do You Do

Hi, my name is Sam Vandiver.
 I love animals, specifically dogs. All together, I have six dogs and two cats, the most recent addition being my puppy that joined the family this summer.
 
His name is Wilson and we got him from a family friend the week he was old enough to leave his mother. Recently, my older dog named Skully jumped on his leg and broke his femur. He is, however, fine and on the mend. Plus, the three legged limping is just pathetic enough to be cute, but not enough to be depressing.
I have a great fondness for the country of Sweden because of the majority of their social and economic solutions to problems that many other countries cannot seem to get right (higher education, prisons, paternity leave, etc).
I love to play video games and I have since I had the motor control abilities to do so. My first game that I can remember playing was the video game adaptation of A Bug's Life on the Playstation 1. Good times. 10/10. 
I am currently reading the third book in the "A Song of Ice and Fire" series (Game of Thrones) and I just tonight finished the first season of the HBO show.
My other interests are incredibly varied, but generally tend to fall along the theme of "things that would get me shoved into a locker if my life was a 90's sitcom."
I enjoy listening to a wide variety of music ranging from Foo Fighters (the band of the musical mastermind that is Dave Grohl) to Adele to Fleshgod Apocalypse. The latter being an Italian symphonic death metal band. I am not a Satanist as some assume when they discover that fact, but I do enjoy symphonic, melodic, and progressive death metal. I also listen to many other genres but they are not as summative of my personality or necessarily as interesting
One thing that geeks me out is in-depth discussion and analysis of pop culture. It is for this reason that I very much enjoy the Cracked: After Hours videos on YouTube. I searched for one of these videos that was appropriate to post in a school setting, but it ended up being in vain due to coarse language.
Instead, my hyperlink is to one of my favorite YouTube channels that puts on a daily morning show about a random topic.
Rhett and Link