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Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: I talk about this a lot on my FFS Talk audio program, the various points of view we can find online and how informed they may or may not be, and the impact some have via so-called influencers. Links Quoggling Sand Home https://quogglingsand.com/ Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: CES 2026 is in effect this week in Vegas, I think this makes thirteen for me, and while the show floor opened yesterday, I am going to head down there today, Wednesday, to Eureka Park, the only part of the show I find valuable. Links Quoggling Sand Home https://quogglingsand.com/ Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Another Eve of the New Year has arrived, I have been around for a few at this point, here are a couple of interesting recollections… Links Quoggling Sand Home https://quogglingsand.com/ Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Not a retrospective of stories told, but the year gone by, and what might come of it, maybe. Links Quoggling Sand Home https://quogglingsand.com/ Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Probably not literally idiosyncrasies, surely others will have similar traits and others mingled in some combination, but sometimes I think about these and make some connections of my own, here is part 2. Links Quoggling Sand Home https://quogglingsand.com/ Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Maybe not literally idiosyncrasies, surely others will have similar traits and others mingled in some combination, but sometimes I think about these and make some connections of my own, here is part 1. Links Quoggling Sand Home https://quogglingsand.com/ Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo Idiosyncrasy https://en.wikipedia.org/wik...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Restaurants are fine, I was once a nearly-exclusive patron of any number of them, barely cooking at home. Over the years, especially recently, that has flipped almost entirely, and I think it is unfortunately obvious why. Links Quoggling Sand Home https://quogglingsand.com/ Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo Kitchen Confidential...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Social Media and worse, Social Networking, have become completely corrupt and empower laziness and contempt and worse, all for the sake of platform owners and profit. Luckily, we still have email and a few other things from the good old days, and I am not alone is thinking we should be swinging back in that direction. Links Quoggling Sand Home https://quogglingsa...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Before I went off to college I had a pretty simple menu of food items on my goto list. Working at McDonald’s and Fuddruckers didn’t help so much, and I really didn’t branch out until my final year at Mudd, but then we did. Links Quoggling Sand Home https://quogglingsand.com/ Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo Sanamluang cafe http...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Gaming, the playing of computer games on high performance computer hardware, drives technology in some ways, and undoes society in others. I am merely a spectator. Links Quoggling Sand Home https://quogglingsand.com/ Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Way back in Episode 17 I talked about Building Things, today as we end Season 1 and jump next week into Season 2, is a great day to talk about Systems. Links Quoggling Sand Home https://quogglingsand.com/ Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo Systems https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System Laplace Transforms https://en.wikipedia.org/wi...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Every once in a while I look around at things like accomplishment and interestingness, and sometimes I look back for those things, and there are a few, which you will learn about now. Links Quoggling Sand Home https://quogglingsand.com/ Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Still a lot of stuff going on day-to-day lately so how about another unstructured wander through time and notions to satisfy today’s curiosities, a follow-on to Episode 0098. Links Quoggling Sand Home https://quogglingsand.com/ Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: I cannot say that I am a true believer that anyone can be self-taught, but I do okay most of the time, and I like to know everything if possible, about everything. Links Quoggling Sand Home https://quogglingsand.com/ Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo Autodidactism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autodidacticism Polymath https://en...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: We have all seen the memes, about how young people today would not have survived what we went through, the norms and expectations what they were then versus now. Links Quoggling Sand Home https://quogglingsand.com/ Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Who among us doesn’t remember high school chemistry class back in the day? Do they still have that? I always liked lab classes for chemistry, physics, biology, and later engineering and more of those pure sciences. Links Quoggling Sand Home https://quogglingsand.com/ Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: A lot of stuff going on day-to-day lately so how about an unstructured wander through time and notions to satisfy today’s curiosities. Links Quoggling Sand Home https://quogglingsand.com/ Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: A long time ago I had a variety of things I found interesting. Maybe too many. At some point I settled on becoming an Engineer of some kind, with the non-specific Engineering major at Harvey Mudd College a pretty good match. It turns out what I was really interested in was and is, Innovation. Links Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danh...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: I have talked about coffee in a previous episode, mostly my enjoyment of not only consuming it, but also making it, but this time we add in the backstory, the why. Links Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo Buy Me An Update https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo/posts KoFi Solo https://ko-fi.com/danhugo/posts Quoggling Sand Home http...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: I have spoken before about my odd sleep schedule and of course about my winding career path, but every once in a while these have collided for reasons that are ultimately disappointing, but oh so important at the time. Links Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo Buy Me An Update https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo/posts KoFi Solo h...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: I entered the job market in 1993, in 2001, in 2005, in 2008, in 2013… when you think about it, the job market is not really a pipeline from the first day on a job to retirement forty years later, and that does appear to be something anyone wants or is looking to get back to. These now though, are certainly interesting times. Links Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buy...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: I have come to prefer the apartment life, which I know will make anyone with any financial savvy cringe, but what can I say, houses are not for me. So where have I lived? Links Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo Buy Me An Update https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo/posts KoFi Solo https://ko-fi.com/danhugo/posts

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: The old Digital Equipment Corporation, also known as DEC, had back in the day a PDP-11 successor for minicomputers known as VAX. On entering college back in those days, I was introduced to our computing services department computer systems on which we would be completing our first year computer science homework. It was named HMCVAX, and it could crash at some ino...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: I moved from Silicon Valley to Las Vegas 12 years ago August 1, why not reflect on those early days, which have lead me, inexorably, here. Links Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo Buy Me An Update https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo/posts KoFi Solo https://ko-fi.com/danhugo/posts

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: College is a great time to learn, to grow, and to try out dumb ideas, or to help others do the same. This was just such a bad idea. Links Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo Buy Me An Update https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo/posts KoFi Solo https://ko-fi.com/danhugo/posts