Quoggling Sand

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: I described my general motivation for pursuing a career in Engineering, which itself is rather broad. While I have focused on technology, mostly computers, there were two general problems I always felt should be solved, that I have always had on a list somewhere… Links Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo Dan´s Ko-Fi https://ko-fi.com/danhugo

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Back in 2018 I decided to try out some different dietary schemes to see if I would feel better, more healthy, have more energy, become rich and famous, and so on. I settled on the keto diet, and I discovered that that is something of a loaded term, especially getting started, because nobody seems to know what a keto diet actually is. Links Buy Dan A Coffee https:...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: We have all had mobile devices in our pockets for a while now, have you ever pondered just how many phones you´ve gone through in your travels, and how much, or how little, phones have changed since your first one? Links Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo Dan´s Ko-Fi https://ko-fi.com/danhugo Mobile Phones https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_p...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: I have always been interested in just about everything, and while there was a long period of time during which I really wanted to be a pilot in the US Air Force, the underlying an unifying theme of my path into my own future was always going to be something nerdy. And so this has been the case… Links Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo Dan´s Ko-...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Another week, another year, the first of all of my audio programs published in the new year in fact, how about a random collection of things to kick off 2025… Links Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo Dan´s Ko-Fi https://ko-fi.com/danhugo

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Do you know what hypocognition is and have you ever experienced it? Well, if you don´t, you are, and if you do, you aren´t. Actually, whether you know what it is or not, you have surely experienced it, what is more interesting is what you did about it. Links Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo Dan´s Ko-Fi https://ko-fi.com/danhugo Why Ignorance...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: My first trip to Ireland on behalf of my employer was a one-way ticket and a five week stay across three hotels and three modes of transportation. Oh, and Dublin is the next city if I have another house fire. Good times, here is one day there. Links Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo Dan´s Ko-Fi https://ko-fi.com/danhugo

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Modern technology is amazing, is it not? This is always true, so far, such that what we have today seems to be so far beyond the imagination we may have had yesterday or a decade ago or whenever, that we cannot possibly imagine will come tomorrow or a decade from now. I almost don´t want to. Links Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo Dan´s Ko-Fi...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Some people love computer gaming in these modern times, such that tremendous amount of money are spent on the development of products, and the eventual purchase of products, to elevate the gaming experience to ever-higher levels of realism. That type of gaming is not for me, but games are still fun… Links Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo Dan´...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Holidays are, with many exceptions, dates on calendars. Some time ago there was something of an epiphany, wherein holidays could be celebrated, even with family and other groups of people, any time, so long as a consensus might be reached on when and probably where. This makes the standard holidays into… Links Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Anyone who knows me out in public would likely believe that I am a super-socializer, in addition to being a super-connector. In fact, the former is untrue, and the latter is less and less true with time. Links Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo Dan´s Ko-Fi https://ko-fi.com/danhugo Extraversion and Introversion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ext...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Welcome Season 1, a nice time to transition from the old to the new, along with the future of our beloved country perhaps. Still not going into politics so much here, not to worry, so what will this next season have in store? Links Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo Dan´s Ko-Fi https://ko-fi.com/danhugo

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: This is the final episode of Season 0 of the Quoggling Sand audio program, perfect time and perfect timing to recall my journey to Dubai in 2016, on November 8 in fact, landing just as the winner of the Presidential race that year was called, for the world to hear. Links Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo Dan´s Ko-Fi https://ko-fi.com/danhugo D...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Election season 2024 is about to come to an end—of the beginning—but is it the beginning of the end? We may all know soon enough, this time around, in the mean time it is worthwhile I think for each of us to ponder how we got here, and why, by taking a look at our own politics. I´ll go first. Links Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo Dan´s Ko-Fi...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: There was a time when being online was some ethereal notion, like a physical journey to a mysterious land, requiring a noisy modem and a second phone line, not to mention a phone number to call. Such a journey to reach our always-on present. Links Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo Dan´s Ko-Fi https://ko-fi.com/danhugo Modem https://en.wikipedi...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Another college story, sort of. Harvey Mudd College was many things, some good, some bad, most an academic challenge unexpected but not insurmountable. For some reason I had not for a moment considered, on selecting HMC and living on campus in West Dorm, that there would be an entire staff of people to do this… Links Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: I have been Car Free for about eight years now, and at this point I cannot imagine purchasing a vehicle simply to have a vehicle. Awful ride share business models, rentals, public transit, bicycles and bike-share if you can get it, and walking are all there for me, and for you to whatever degree where you are, so here is my occasional update on why I remain free...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: The Dot Com Boom was a big thing, and I happened to have been in Silicon Valley for it. For better or worse, though, I only worked at one actual Dot Com during my time, and it was during my Second Tour! An interesting time at Salon.com… Links Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo Dan´s Ko-Fi https://ko-fi.com/danhugo Salon Today https://www.salon....

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Harvey Mudd College is where I went to college. A very small school, with my graduating year sizing up at 151 in, 118 out. Famous for a few things including these two for today, the Honor Code, and E-54. The latter faded away to some different engineering class, the former Links Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo Dan´s Ko-Fi https://ko-fi.com/d...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: If you saw the Movie, or perhaps watched the series, Limitless, you may have heard of this fictitious nootropic substance, NZT-48, which brings about substantial cognitive powers. This is how I describe the way I think, when asked… Links Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo Dan´s Ko-Fi https://ko-fi.com/danhugo NZT-48 https://limitlesscbs.fandom....

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Some twenty three years ago, a wildly impactful event took place that we all probably remember, if we were around back then. Links Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo Dan´s Ko-Fi https://ko-fi.com/danhugo 9/11 Memorial & Museum https://www.911memorial.org/ The 9/11 Commission Report https://dpcld.defense.gov/Portals/49/Documents/Civil/911Rep...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Food Trucks are cool and fun and often quite tasty, but they are also often a single, fingers-cross small business taking a chance sometimes in an environment where they are not always loved nor appreciated by their competitors stuck in the ground. Let us speak of Mobile Vendors and Vegas! Links Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo Dan´s Ko-Fi ht...

Show notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: They say we spend 30% of our lives asleep, more or less, but I don´t know if I have had that same experience just yet. Links Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo Dan´s Ko-Fi https://ko-fi.com/danhugo Polyphasic Sleep https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyphasic_sleep

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: I arrived in Silicon Valley in July 1993 and caught the beginning of a truly chaotic culture shift where money was handed out for bad ideas on napkins and the best people were tucked into crowds of opportunists and actors. Ultimately it was a bad idea, but a good learning experience. Links Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo Dan´s Ko-Fi https://...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: The Upland Quake, or as we called it the Mount Baldy quake, on February 28, 1990 at about 3:43pm on that Wednesday. My first earthquake, quite an adventure, let´s talk about it… Links Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo Dan´s Ko-Fi https://ko-fi.com/danhugo Upland Quake 1990 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1990_Upland_earthquake REM from the Earth...