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Christopher Hogue Ph.D. @cwvhogue.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

Oh Hey. UNPLANNED UPGRADES EPISODE 001 is up. VAIO ships a new laptop. I Dissect & Upgrade one. Come for the patio lanterns. Stay for the bubble machine. The videos will continue until morale improves. youtube.com/watch?v=eMPJ...

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2025 VAIO SX-R 14" SE Laptop: Unboxing, NVMe SSD Clone, Teardown & Upgrade. Ep. 001

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Christopher Hogue Ph.D. @cwvhogue.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Oh hey, Episode 0 of Unplanned Upgrades is up on YouTube - an intro to the channel. youtu.be/dYUZdTjjH_A?...

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Episode 000 SPOILER ALERT - Unplanned Upgrades Channel Intro.

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Christopher Hogue Ph.D. @cwvhogue.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Oh hey, Episode 0 of Unplanned Upgrades is up on YouTube - an intro to the channel. youtu.be/dYUZdTjjH_A?...

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Episode 000 SPOILER ALERT - Unplanned Upgrades Channel Intro.

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Christopher Hogue Ph.D. @cwvhogue.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Cable management in 3 perspectives.

My clean Desktop with a a book, an Elgato Stream Deck + and USB hub, a laptop with several cables attached neatly, a microphone arm with headphones, another notebook and monitor. Few cables are visible.

A view underneath the desk of the floor, an HP workstation to the left, an Elgato pedal, and a small red file cabinet at an angle. 5 cable drops to the workstation and pedal unit. No cables on the floor.

A look from below at the underside of the desk. A peg-board is attacched to the desk underside with wing-nuts. It is loaded with a network switch, power bar, several transformers, and cable bundles - power, network, USB. All are attached to the peg-board with cable ties. This keeps it all out of sight and off the floor.

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Christopher Hogue Ph.D. @cwvhogue.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Chekhov's parade was just last week.

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Christopher Hogue Ph.D. @cwvhogue.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

At the Celebration of Life for Dr. Atul Butte.

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Christopher Hogue Ph.D. @cwvhogue.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Discount microphone arm spring silencer. LTT store dot com sent me a bonus gift of 3 shoelaces. I figured out how to use that 3rd one.

Cheap spring style microphone arm with a shoelace wrapped cross cross and inserted into the spring coils to silence the annoying sound it makes

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Christopher Hogue Ph.D. @cwvhogue.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Welcome to the heel turn spin cycle. Don't forget to rinse and repeat!

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Christopher Hogue Ph.D. @cwvhogue.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

On June 12 2025... I will be launching a new YouTube channel... "Unplanned Upgrades" Behind the scenes... Studio setup in progress... (crap - I have used up my ellipsis quota!)

Camera, lights, speqkers, mounts, isolated on Ikea Lack tables. Because I might pound on the desk a lot. Hockey stick for focus, light colour testing.

Elgato Prompter, Studio Monitors, 4K Razer Cam.

Testing camera, promoter and microphone setups on OBS. Dark Mode ftw!

Testing the lighting. Getting a good 4K image without lights reflecting in the glasses is tricky.
Tricky tricky tricky tricky. Just need to fix the face. Shave, eye bag masking, teeth whitening, would help.

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Christopher Hogue Ph.D. @cwvhogue.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

The void in Computer retail stores left by the demise of Fry's in NorCal ends tomorrow morning. Micro Center - Santa Clara grand opening!

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Christopher Hogue Ph.D. @cwvhogue.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

ANZAC Day Ceremony on the USS Hornet.

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Christopher Hogue Ph.D. @cwvhogue.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Detroit post-punk band Protomartyr's Windsor Hum, 2017 seems appropriate for these times. 🇨🇦 🎵 The old Windsor humming Across the river From the U.S. of A Saying, "everything's fine" It says want, want, want, want, want what you are given... thelisteningpostblog.wordpress.com/2017/10/01/s...

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SONG OF THE DAY Protomartyr – Windsor Hum

Detroit’s post-punk 4-piece Protomartyr released their fourth full-length album and Domino debut a couple of days ago and from what I’ve heard so far, it promises very good things. Afte…

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Christopher Hogue Ph.D. @cwvhogue.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

What prompt to use as cover page for my weekly TPS work report to Grok? Asking for a friend.

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Christopher Hogue Ph.D. @cwvhogue.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

When you are unemployed - volunteer your time. It makes things much brighter, no matter what cause you choose. I got this today from the San Francisco Branch 25 of the Royal Canadian Legion.

Legionnaire of the Year award plaque, Christopher Hogue 2024. Royal Canadian Legion Crest in bronze on walnut.

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Christopher Hogue Ph.D. @cwvhogue.bsky.social · 08/09/2024

Fiddling around with Alphafold3, ama. Let's see if this gif spins first.

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