OLD-WORLD TACTICS. NEW-WORLD TECH.

Welcome to the Internet home of author, non-profit organization owner, systems engineer, and off-grid homesteader Caleb Huggenberger. Here, you can find a blog-style diary of some of my adventures with my day job, my animation streaming service venture, 'Otaku Central', custom electronics designs from Vengeance Guitar Works, and the hurdles I'm working through with my self-sufficient living project in the Indiana wilderness.

Thanks for checking out my site. Maybe I'll catch you around sometime.

 

Caleb Huggenberger

THAT. GUY. FROM. NEBRASKA.

New Website, New Platform!

TGFN has now been moved onto private hosting, in an effort to circumvent media control efforts from “Big Tech” in recent days. In the process, it’s been given a much-needed facelift! (there wasn’t any leftover budget money for my face, unfortunately…)

SIGNATURE SOUND

It took over three years to fully build, but I’ve been able to fully carve out a custom guitar setup, featuring guitars, pedals, and amplifiers built and hand-designed by yours truly. It’s become the cornerstone of my sound – a sound that’s unique to me.

Running A Business Out Of An Apartment

In lieu of the George Floyd-related violence and vandalism, I was forced to pull the development server infrastructure for Otaku Central out of its former collocated datacenter home in Chicago, and into the operational space of…    my spare bedroom!?

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OFF-GRID WOOD CABIN

In 2020, with many of the local business sectors in the United States in a lockdown-induced gridlock, I made the life-altering decision to begin the process of retreating to the Indiana countryside from the crime- and protest-filled bubble of the big city. My two-year goal with this push was to build a mostly off-grid wood cabin in a wooded acreage, develop a greater degree of self-sufficiency and self-reliance, and live a more peaceable life free from human toxicity (and most bills, too!).