High-Level Programming

Rick Thues January 15, 2026 Uncategorized No Comments

Episode #885 January 17, 2026 Programming has evolved from configured toggle switches to natural language programming.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbOTkDn49qI&list=RDwbOTkDn49qI&start_radio=1 The simplest (low-level) programming was the setting of banks of toggle switches. Each toggle switch in banks of four (nibbles) on the front panel of a MITS Altair 680 computer represented one bit. Across the bottom where sixteen switches representing a 16-bit memory address. This address, combined with eight switches representing an 8-bit piece of data (byte), gave the computer one line of machine code. The results of such toggle switch programming configuration were the data stored at a given address. If...

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Dad

Rick Thues January 6, 2026 Uncategorized 3 Comments

Episode #884 January 10, 2026   By Ricki T Thues - 2025     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRS1JqUjJ28&list=RDHRS1JqUjJ28&start_radio=1 Bob was always in charge of who he was. He was born Carol Jewett. When he was ten years old, he walked into his parents’ living room and announced, “I’m Bobby!” His parents replied, “OK, Bobby. That’s a very nice name.” And so he was Robert Jewett. There is a picture taken in San Francisco of Bob and two friends dressed in white T-shirts, chinos, and leather jackets. Bob had chino clips on his pants, having just ridden his bicycle. He was not wearing his...

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Red Rock

Rick Thues January 3, 2026 Uncategorized No Comments

Episode #883 January 3, 2026 To celebrate my brother Walt’s birthday his wife Tina, Paula, and I decided to meet  at Red Rock Canyon California State Park.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKprTcCeh_s&list=RDgKprTcCeh_s&start_radio=1 In preparation for the four-hour drive, I checked the motor home for water, propane, and startup. The RV would not start. The factory battery was dead. Using the marine battery emergency start switch, I drove the RV to Walmart. A new battery solved the problem. While in town, I stopped at America’s Tire to check the tire inflation. The right rear inside dually was flat. Two hours later, with a new...

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Quantum Conversation

Rick Thues December 24, 2025 Uncategorized 1 Comment

Episode #882 December 27, 2025 Every conversation begins like a universe before creation  — silent, suspended, full of unspoken potential.    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BgF7Y3q-as Nothing in the universe exists but the possibility of meaning. Then the mind speaks, the universe listens, and the cosmos of understanding starts to unfold. When we talk about quantum mechanics, as in the movie What the Bleep Do We Know!? dares to do, we hear that observation changes what is observed. The act of looking, thinking, or feeling seems to coax the universe into form. Replace raw energy with ideas, and something similar happens every time we...

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One Element One Moment

Rick Thues December 16, 2025 Uncategorized 4 Comments

Episode #881 December 20, 2025 Everything in the universe is really only one element, vibrating in a single, timeless moment.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osmzwWw4RYM&list=RDosmzwWw4RYM&start_radio=1 That moment is not a sequence of events, but a single breath endlessly held. Time is how we feel the pulse of that one vibration—stretching the eternal into something we can live inside. The universe is not a collection of separate things, but one continuous field of energy, perceived as experience. Every atom hums the same song in 4:4 time, each with its own verse, yet all returning to the same refrain. Separation is an illusion created by...

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Thermonuclear Radiation

Rick Thues December 9, 2025 Uncategorized 1 Comment

Episode #880 December 13, 2025 My red-headed, light-skinned, Irish friend says, “I’m allergic to thermonuclear radiation.” So he always wears a wide-brimmed hat with a neck flap to shade against the sun.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmBTYK7XZQk&list=RDTmBTYK7XZQk&start_radio=1 When I wear my usual floppy boonie hat to the dermatologist, she always says, “I love your hat.” Recently, scientists have pointed out that resuming ground and surface fusion and fission nuclear explosive testing is dangerous and unnecessary. Releasing the radiation from a hydrogen bomb into the atmosphere and onto the Earth makes the sun seem like a microwave oven. Thermonuclear radiation can be harnessed. In...

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