Quoggling Sand

By Dan Hugo et al.

This is a casual show about just about any thing, any time, but slanted toward projects, stories, and general thoughts and guests in the technology sector, especially entrepreneurs, makers, and intere... more

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The podcast currently has 151 episodes available.

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June 12, 2024Episode 0031: Local Government is Direct Engagement
Show Notes
Host: Dan Hugo
Summary: The polls closed at 7pm on Tuesday for the Nevada Primaries, and within minutes winners were called, the Nevada Secretary of State website for posting results shows only zeros across the board, and today is another day.
Links
Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo
Dan´s Ko-Fi https://ko-fi.com/danhugo
Nevada Secretary of State Election Reporting https://silverstateelection.nv.gov/
A Lawrence Stone story https://sanjosespotlight.com/santa-clara-county-official-assessor-scolded-for-mass-mailers-fppc/
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1h 16min
June 05, 2024Episode 0030: Rate This Startup
Show Notes
Host: Dan Hugo
Summary: Silicon Valley, the place where any idea seemed to have a chance, and where we made a reasonable go at a novel review scheme, which I think still has a chance this many years later.
Links
Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo
Dan´s Ko-Fi https://ko-fi.com/danhugo
Getting Bayesian https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayesian_inference
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1h 27min
May 29, 2024Episode 0029: Big Homebuilt Speakers
Show Notes
Host: Dan Hugo
Summary: Nowadays they speak back to you, but back in the day speakers were just speakers playing the sounds we gave them; a little practical engineering project in college was actually quite an education…
Links
Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo
Dan´s Ko-Fi https://ko-fi.com/danhugo
The Loud Speaker Design Cookbook https://www.amazon.com/Loudspeaker-Design-Cookbook-Vance-Dickason/dp/0833801945
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54min
May 22, 2024Episode 0028: The Good Old TARGA 2000
Show Notes
Host: Dan Hugo
Summary: Once upon a time, recording video was actually challenging.
Links
Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo
Dan´s Ko-Fi https://ko-fi.com/danhugo
Truevision (Wikipedia) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truevision
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1h 38min
May 15, 2024Episode 0027: Building Computers
Show Notes
Host: Dan Hugo
Summary: Tinker Toys, Lincoln Logs, LEGO products of various kinds, and a Volkswagen Bug were all mile markers along the way toward computer engineering, wherein one knows computers by building computers…
Links
Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo
Dan´s Ko-Fi https://ko-fi.com/danhugo
Tinker Toys https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tinkertoy
Lincoln Logs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln_Logs
LEGO https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lego
Fischertechnik https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fischertechnik
VW Beetle (Bug) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_Beetle
SLiRP https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slirp
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1h 14min
May 08, 2024Episode 0026: Possible Aspect Change
Show Notes
Host: Dan Hugo
Summary: If you are familiar with The Hunt for Red October, you know that a possible aspect change may indicate what they called a Crazy Ivan, a sudden change in direction to see who is behind, be it a submarine or perhaps something else.
Links
Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo
Dan´s Ko-Fi https://ko-fi.com/danhugo
This (Medium Members Only) https://medium.com/moments-of-passion/i-wish-someone-told-me-to-disengage-whenever-this-happened-d15e41ab6ea3
Crazy Ivan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baffles_(submarine)
Dunbar´s Number https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar%27s_number
Mokusatsu: One Word, Two Lessons https://www.nsa.gov/portals/75/documents/news-features/declassified-documents/tech-journals/mokusatsu.pdf
Mokusatsu Mistranslation Analysis https://esnbu.org/data/files/2021/esnbu.21.1.6.pdf
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1h 38min
May 01, 2024Episode 0025: Anti Social Progress Report
Show Notes
Host: Dan Hugo
Summary: It has been a few months now since I really got away from Social Media (the big corp platforms everybody knows about), though actually years for Facebook. How did I get into all of this so many years ago and what lead me to want to get back to the old ways? It´s not me, it´s you…
Links
Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo
Dan´s Ko-Fi https://ko-fi.com/danhugo
My Bio.link https://danhugo.bio.link/
Doctorow on Enpoopification https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/
POSSE https://indieweb.org/POSSE
Semantic Web https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_Web
The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/171681821-the-anxious-generation
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1h 19min
April 24, 2024Episode 0024: Picking Friends and Their Locks
Show Notes
Host: Dan Hugo
Summary: As a fan of Magnum PI and Simon & Simon in the 80s, and one with a tinkering bent, it should go without saying that I obtained some lock picks and that I learned how to use them…
Links
Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo
Dan´s Ko-Fi https://ko-fi.com/danhugo
Phoenix Spy Shop http://www.phxspyshop.com/
Lock Picking Lawyer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LockPickingLawyer
Lock Bumping https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lock_bumping
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40min
April 17, 2024Episode 0023: First Time Programmer
Show Notes
Host: Dan Hugo
Summary: My very first role as an actual programmer, after my first year away at college, during which the Phoenix area had its hottest high temperature ever while I worked in an office with computers kept as cool as possible…
Links
Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo
Dan´s Ko-Fi https://ko-fi.com/danhugo
Hottest Days in Phoenix https://www.weather.gov/psr/ExtremeTemps
K & R https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_C_Programming_Language
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51min
April 10, 2024Episode 0022: Moving Moving Moving
Show Notes
Host: Dan Hugo
Summary: No, not moving. But moving is certainly something I have done, and I absolutely do not care for it. Should I?
Links
Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo
Dan´s Ko-Fi https://ko-fi.com/danhugo
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1h 15min

FAQs about Quoggling Sand:

How many episodes does Quoggling Sand have?

The podcast currently has 151 episodes available.