52 episodes
Quoggling Sand Dan Hugo et al.
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- Society & Culture
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 interesting type people.
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Episode 0032: Meet Me At The Library
Show Notes
Host: Dan Hugo
Summary: Learning how to read at about age three made books and learning an easily-reachable tool in the personal development toolbox early on. In the pre-digital age, there was much to be had visiting the Library, and this remains true today, in slightly different ways.
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Episode 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
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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/ -
Episode 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
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Getting Bayesian https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayesian_inference -
Episode 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
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The Loud Speaker Design Cookbook https://www.amazon.com/Loudspeaker-Design-Cookbook-Vance-Dickason/dp/0833801945 -
Episode 0028: The Good Old TARGA 2000
Show Notes
Host: Dan Hugo
Summary: Once upon a time, recording video was actually challenging.
Links
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Truevision (Wikipedia) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truevision -
Episode 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