Quoggling Sand

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• Host: Dan Hugo
• Summary: Once upon a time I was all about time. Current time, that is. I set my watch every day not to some atomic clock somewhere, but the bell system in use at my high schoo…

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• Host: Dan Hugo
• Summary: Broadcast Television, so often consumed via the so-called Idiot Box, was for quite some time a substantial driver of US Culture. We all watched the same things at the…

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• Host: Dan Hugo
• Summary: It has never been easier to keep in touch with most, if not all of the people you know, with instant and nearly-instant video, audio, or plain old text flying around …

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• Host: Dan Hugo
• Summary: I may have mentioned before, my participation in a reality show called America´s Greatest Makers, produced by Intel Corporation and Mark Burnett and focused somewhat …

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• Host: Dan Hugo
• Summary: For as interesting as everything has been up until today, things will probably become yet more interesting as of today, and into some ever-less-clear future. This is …

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• Host: Dan Hugo
• Summary: Somewhere early on I became a fan of Stand-up Comedy and the people who do that, whether they were hosting Saturday Night Live or appearing in a Comedy Special compil…

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• Host: Dan Hugo
• Summary: Cars are very convenient and very problematic, and over the years I have come to rely on not having one, choosing instead to go all in on public transit and, more tha…

• Host: Dan Hugo
• Summary: Before I went car free and care free in 2019 or so, I was always ready to jump in whatever car I had at any given time and hit the road to wherever, usually driving f…

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• Host: Dan Hugo
• Summary: Some years ago I came up with a truism that may or may not work for you, it is this: “Manager and Leader, one is a title, the other a skill, why can´t I find both?” w…

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• Host: Dan Hugo
• Summary: A long time ago, the idea of a Personal Digital Assistant was novel and appealing, and so the Advanced Technology Group at Apple turned out the Newton, and it was ama…

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• Host: Dan Hugo
• Summary: If you have ever watched someone, or been someone, who requires a curious amount of cream or sugar or both in order to consume a cup of coffee, you must know that thi…

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• Host: Dan Hugo
• Summary: Getting up in front of a crowd is often alleged to be in the top three activities that scare people the most. Snakes and Spiders are often in that part of the list, a…

• Host: Dan Hugo
• Summary: Once upon a time I was a huge Apple Fan, eagerly waiting to get that Apple //e, hoping some day to get a Macintosh, and eventually working as a contractor in diffe…

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• 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 w…

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• 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. …

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• 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 ho…

• 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, t…

• 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…

• 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 o…

• 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 i…