My Bio

Hi, my name is Andrew G. Watters. I am a radically honest, category-defying polymath based in Redwood City, California, USA. I am primarily a lawyer, with a law degree from U.C. College of Law San Francisco (formerly known as U.C. Hastings College of Law), a bachelor's degree from UCLA, and seventeen years of professional experience. I have had my own practice since 2012, and my own law firm since 2016. I have offered legal services since being admitted in 2005, including complex private investigations; and a custom software platform for attorneys called Slash since 2017. I am married to Mrs. Right, with whom I welcomed our daughter Jennifer in 2022. In my limited spare time, I manage to produce independent music and build custom guitars, which are for sale to fellow fans of my guitar heroes, Prince and Eddie Van Halen. My personal trademark, which I'm very proud of, is my carbon fiber briefcase from Tecknomonster, a combined aerospace/luggage company in Italy. I sell these from my office, so please inquire below.

News

September 29, 2023: It's gratifying when I build a product and get photos like this from the end user. Ian Docherty of July Talk sent me this photo of himself playing my custom Prince tribute guitar, "Purple Rain," at one of July Talk's recent shows. Love that color! I like the photo so much that I purchased prints from the photographer.

© Robert Georgeff Photography, used with permission.

Ventures

These are my current business ventures:

Attorney - general civil litigation and complex family law, with seventeen years of experience and twenty-eight trials (plus three JAMS arbitrations). Also available for complex private investigations, including missing persons/homicide and cyber/corporate espionage. Software platform Slash for licensing to fellow attorneys who want a non-Clio solution.

Rællic - special projects, guitar projects, and my music hobby.

Tutorials and Articles

Here are my popular tutorials/articles/videos:

Linux tips and tricks - random tips learned the hard way. 🔥

Run your own email server Howto - have you ever wanted to take full control of your email? Not for the faint of heart.

Andy's Connections - my effort at behavioral science-based matchmaking.

Privoxy on macOS Howto - have you ever wanted to block ads on the web on your Mac without having to install MacPorts? This is for you.

Lattice™ - next-gen user interface for slash.law, featuring a novel technique for focus detection and raising.

Andy's Dashboard - a free charting solution for server administrators.

Introduction to microexpressions - my guest lecture at Stanford.

Unboxing a new IBM Model M keyboard - travel back in time to 1988.

Andy's Hardware - market research on the concept of a Made in USA hardware store.

100G office network Howto - the fastest, most reliable office LAN that money can buy.

10 gigabit networking - a howto on my 10 gig office setup, which rocks.

The Forever War - my superfan-level tribute to the greatest science fiction novel of all time.

A fractal crystal lattice of Gaussian primes - research on the fractality of prime numbers in Mathematica.

Hall of Shame: if someone gets me to the point of posting a whole web page about them on here, you know they went way too far in whatever they were doing wrong.