Quoggling Sand

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Way, way, way back in the day, the web was new, html was weird, and it was indeed the Wild Wild West. Hand-coding web pages was the way. Links Quoggling Sand Home https://quogglingsand.com/ Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo Wayback ReallyCool https://web.archive.org/web/20260000000000*/http://reallycool.com

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: The Def Leppard Hysteria Tour was something of a big deal back then, so why not go to see them when they were in Phoenix in August, 1988? Why not indeed… Links Quoggling Sand Home https://quogglingsand.com/ Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo Hysteria Tour https://www.deflepparduk.com/tour19882.html Compton Terrace https://en.wiki...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: A term of art, when one lives on a phone, especially a phone under active development at a place like Apple or Palm, one uses said phone for real, even if it has all of the bugs. Living on a phone might also happen when the laptop stays in the bag while traveling, for another example. As it happens, I have done both… Links Quoggling Sand Home https://quogglingsan...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: History is one of those topic areas where you do not need to be an expert, you don’t even need to take classes, all anyone really needs is a library card, and that might not even be true anymore (though you should still have a library card). So what is a Thucydides Trap and are we in the Fourth Turning? Links Quoggling Sand Home https://quogglingsand.com/ Profile...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: To avoid special characters in the title, the simple version, but is it a resume, a resumé, or maybe a résumé? Whatever the case, I think we should be done with them… Links Quoggling Sand Home https://quogglingsand.com/ Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo Resume https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%A9sum%C3%A9 The CV https://en.wiki...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Pilot or Engineer, Engineer or Pilot, it came down to glasses and the way the US Air Force worked at the time, so engineering it was and is, and now purveyors of AI want you to believe pursuit of engineering and technology is not worthwhile. Hmm. Links Quoggling Sand Home https://quogglingsand.com/ Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danh...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: I did not focus too much on history electives while I was in college, and while it would have been nice to have time for more, history is one of those things that can be tasted, at least, with reading and taking in modern day media productions by subject matter experts. I took the History of European Unification and it was pretty interesting. Links Quoggling Sand...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: If you know a young person who is building robots or embedded systems or 3d-printed items or any number of other possibilities nobody had thought of, it is likely they are doing it standing on the shoulders of Arduino in one way or another. Links Quoggling Sand Home https://quogglingsand.com/ Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo Ar...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Surely there are many options we come upon through our times, to go this way or that, or maybe a third and more options to select from. However, there is the one big selection, to the left or to the right, that we could probably identify if we really thought about it, and so I have. Links Quoggling Sand Home https://quogglingsand.com/ Profile Page Linking Everyth...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: I think at this point most people in the US have at least one Smart Card in their pocket, or somewhere near, but back in the day they were more a European thing, and a brand new notion here, and so I was working in that space for a minute… Links Quoggling Sand Home https://quogglingsand.com/ Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo ISO...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: I have been in the general tech arena for over 30 years now, and I have to say, This AI Thing does not give me a good feeling. I have opinions. Links Quoggling Sand Home https://quogglingsand.com/ Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: I did not become interested in, nor participate in, Chiropractic for any holistic leanings, but for a car accident when I was in the seventh grade. Links Quoggling Sand Home https://quogglingsand.com/ Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: A practice more commonly known as ghosting to most, for the nerds among us the nodes in our network might respond, they might not, so what to do about the latter… Links Quoggling Sand Home https://quogglingsand.com/ Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: I have been seeing articles floating around about the end of The Mall in the US, which of course leads to reflection on my own Mall experiences, domestic and otherwise. Links Quoggling Sand Home https://quogglingsand.com/ Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo Paramus Park https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paramus_Park Metro Center https...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Today is the day, every year, when people are so clever and also so oblivious that the world actually rotates a bit more slowly than normal. Links Quoggling Sand Home https://quogglingsand.com/ Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo April Fools’ Day https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_Fools%27_Day

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Between Silicon Valley tours, during my respite in Phoenix, I picked up a new skill that has been with me ever since. Links Quoggling Sand Home https://quogglingsand.com/ Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo PostgreSQL Project Site https://www.postgresql.org/

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: There was a substantial window of time where I could not imagine cooking anything more complicated than a sandwich, today I cannot easily imagine eating food prepared in a restaurant. Links Quoggling Sand Home https://quogglingsand.com/ Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: I had just moved back to Silicon Valley for my second tour, I was not fitting in with Salon, so it was time to jump outside the box. Would it be video résumés? Links Quoggling Sand Home https://quogglingsand.com/ Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: I find I am shaking my head more and more lately, maybe a little look back at some of the milestones I have been around for, or my recollections, would be a good thing? Links Quoggling Sand Home https://quogglingsand.com/ Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Assumption is easy, Presumption takes a little bit more effort, or maybe awareness, but often presumption is merely assumption with bad information. So true. Links Quoggling Sand Home https://quogglingsand.com/ Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Networking is one of those things that people do every day, whether for business or whatever else. I used to be good at it, now I am not so sure. Links Quoggling Sand Home https://quogglingsand.com/ Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: I have always been fascinated by these, the way things work in a stream, and while I am no expert, I think I see them as though I am. Links Quoggling Sand Home https://quogglingsand.com/ Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: I am sort of wishing that I had started with the Random Bits 00 binary title numbering now. but as I am feeling ill this morning, I will hope that you, like me, are not really thinking about that one. On with the show… some random recollections strung together for our pondering. Links Quoggling Sand Home https://quogglingsand.com/ Profile Page Linking Everything...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: There was a time when we all had one, they used to be the end all and be all of employment, where are we today? Hopefully we have moved past this era… Links Quoggling Sand Home https://quogglingsand.com/ Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: I have had a mix of working situations, from hourly to full time to consulting to entrepreneur, and while the latter is my favorite of late, consulting can be something else… Links Quoggling Sand Home https://quogglingsand.com/ Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo