Helen took a pix of me in Hawaii. Actually, she took a photo of her toenails. Whatever. Here are pages about Silicon Valley, travel, words, food, cats, and other stuff.
Popular Stuff at my Website
- My eyewitness account of the Fall of the Berlin Wall (yes, I was there when the Berlin Wall fell).
- Hokusai (1760-1849), the Japanese artist, changed 20th century art. How you see art today came from his work. His inspiration? Dutch wrapping paper.
- Read a few poems by Mary Oliver.
- When did guys start wearing beards? See the origin of the fad for beards.
- A short history of the world, Europe, China, India, and the rest. Global history in three pages.
- Why are Rodin's sculptures so popular? See what I wrote about Rodin's The Thinker, The Gates of Hell, The Three Shades, The Kiss, and Bellona, Goddess of War at Rodin.
- A short summary of the Great Depression.
Travel Stuff
- What to see and do in Silicon Valley.
- What to see and do in San Francisco.
- Our trips to Shanghai and Beijing | Sichuan, China | France, Germany, and Denmark | Saudi Arabia | Bangalore (India).
- Driving the San Francisco Bay Area City Ring.
Photography Stuff
- How to take better photos with your cell phone.
- How to convert Minox slides into digital photos.
- GIF, JPG, or PNG image formats.
FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions) about Computer Stuff
- Click my cat (at bottom right corner) and ask him about anything that's on andreas.com. That's my AI-Catbot. See how I added AI to my website.
- What is all this AI stuff? I have a page with stuff about AI.
- An FAQ on how to teach with online video.
- I'm often asked, "How can I make money with a blog?" Here's my payments from Google Adsense for my blog and Youtube videos.
- Why does Google, Youtube, Facebook, and Twitter allow fascists, nuts, and Russia to post? In 1996, dotcom lawyers added one line to 47 U.S.C. ยง230(c)(1) in the Communications Decency Act. That either launched the web or created the chaos.
- Did you know the Internet once ran on steam?
- Did you know Google was named after Barney Google?
- Although Google is the world's largest ad agency (7X larger than WPP), Google doesn't do much marketing. It has launched over Google 100 products without any marketing and they died.
- What is geodemographics?
- My laws of computering.
- How to prevent Repetitive Strain Injury RSI.
- FAQ on SSI.
- My HTML cheatsheet.
- How to use free cell phones for emergency 911 calls.
- What I did for MIT OpencourseWare OCW.
- How to recharge your cell phone with ordinary batteries.
- What are NFC Tags and how to make one.
- I made one of the first websites for PDAs (Personal Digital Assitants). See what the web was like before smart phones.
Silicon Valley Startups and Jobs
- Build your own Silicon Valley startup.
- The Grandmother Pitch How to write an elevator pitch that really works.
- Photos of Silicon Valley for my book on startups.
- Research into viral marketing, virality, and word-of-mouth.
- How to find jobs in Silicon Valley.
- Writing your resume for Silicon Valley.
- Nick Corcodilos on how to interview.
- How overtime law in Silicon Valley was changed.
- Job opportunities in a Pandemic.
Words, Words, Words...
- How I published my book in Chinese.
- List of my favorite words.
- Top 1,000 words in the English language.
- Top 100 novels of the 1900s | Top 100 novels of the 1800s | top 100 novels of the 1700s.
- Where to get thousands of free ebooks.
- A very funny play by Dario Fo: Accidental Death of an Anarchist. Rarely performed in the US (no wonder...).
Book Summaries
- Capital and Ideology by Thomas Piketty.
- Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman.
- The Big Ball of Wax by Shepherd Mead.
- High Stakes by Charles Ferguson.
- Linked: The New Science of Networks by Albert-Laszlo Barabasi.
- Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson.
Food, Recipes, and Restaurants
- My guide to breakfast in Silicon Valley, Happy Hour in Silicon Valley, and Late Night Food in Silicon Valley.
- Learn how to make Mayan Hot Chocolate, as in the movie Chocolat.
- Enough reading? How about some food? Recipes by Susan Steinsapir and Helen's Miso Salad Dressing.
- We reviewed the nine lunch cafeterias at Cisco. Which one has the best lunch?.
- Ray Bruman's The World Famous List of Weird and Disgusting Foods.
Cat Stuff
- My cat's website at Anaximander-Katzenjammer.com (and his Twitter page @AnaximanderKatz) (he has more followers than me).
- Here’s the CAT Users’ Manual (no, not Japanese robot cats).
- How I brought my cats to the US.
Stuff that Fits Nowhere Else...
- How the police use Twitter.
- Thurston Howell the Third's Teddy Bear.
- The invititation to my Y2K Party.
- The invitation to our funeral for the Dotcom boom.
- And finally, my XML Sitemap and XML Images Sitemap.
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