Quoggling Sand
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.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 55 minutes
- Episodes
- 117
- Years Active
- 2021 - 2025
Episode 0097: Innovation
Show Notes
- Host: Dan Hugo
- Summary: A long time ago I had a variety of things I found interesting. Maybe too many. At some point I settled on becoming an Engineer of some kind, with the non-specific E…
00:38:50 |
Wed 17 Sep 2025
Episode 0096: Why Coffee
Show Notes
- Host: Dan Hugo
- Summary: I have talked about coffee in a previous episode, mostly my enjoyment of not only consuming it, but also making it, but this time we add in the backstory, the why.
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00:53:02 |
Wed 10 Sep 2025
Episode 0095: All-Nighters
Show Notes
- Host: Dan Hugo
- Summary: I have spoken before about my odd sleep schedule and of course about my winding career path, but every once in a while these have collided for reasons that are ulti…
00:55:09 |
Wed 03 Sep 2025
Episode 0094: Job Markets
Show Notes
- Host: Dan Hugo
- Summary: I entered the job market in 1993, in 2001, in 2005, in 2008, in 2013… when you think about it, the job market is not really a pipeline from the first day on a job t…
01:00:31 |
Wed 27 Aug 2025
Episode 0093: Dwellings
Show Notes
- Host: Dan Hugo
- Summary: I have come to prefer the apartment life, which I know will make anyone with any financial savvy cringe, but what can I say, houses are not for me. So where have I …
00:49:01 |
Wed 20 Aug 2025
Episode 0092: The VAX
Show Notes
- Host: Dan Hugo
- Summary: The old Digital Equipment Corporation, also known as DEC, had back in the day a PDP-11 successor for minicomputers known as VAX. On entering college back in those d…
00:26:49 |
Wed 13 Aug 2025
Episode 0091: Twelve Years of Vegas
Show Notes
- Host: Dan Hugo
- Summary: I moved from Silicon Valley to Las Vegas 12 years ago August 1, why not reflect on those early days, which have lead me, inexorably, here.
Links
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01:00:08 |
Thu 07 Aug 2025
Episode 0090: Pepperfest
Show Notes
- Host: Dan Hugo
- Summary: College is a great time to learn, to grow, and to try out dumb ideas, or to help others do the same. This was just such a bad idea.
Links
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00:20:29 |
Wed 30 Jul 2025
Episode 0089: Maps
Show Notes
- Host: Dan Hugo
- Summary: I was always fine with folding maps, the Thomas Guide, and even less-formal, sometimes less-precise maps to get around, but GPS and our mobile devices have been a b…
00:50:29 |
Thu 24 Jul 2025
Episode 0088: Layoffs
Show Notes
- Host: Dan Hugo
- Summary: I have been laid off a couple of times in my career, usually it is an opportunity, lately as I see this happening to others, it may not be.
Links
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00:33:03 |
Wed 16 Jul 2025
Episode 0087: Lotus Notes at Philips
Show Notes
- Host: Dan Hugo
- Summary: The nice thing about global technology companies, they have so many layers of middle management spread around the world that each require convincing that the other …
00:35:18 |
Wed 09 Jul 2025
Episode 0086: New York 95-96
Show Notes
- Host: Dan Hugo
- Summary: Start spreading the news… a long time ago I took my first trip back east after graduating college, with a college roommate, to see the city as it was back then, and…
00:34:03 |
Wed 02 Jul 2025
Episode 0085: Birthdays
Show Notes
- Host: Dan Hugo
- Summary: I just had another one over the weekend, why not reflect on some of the more memorable anniversaries before none of them are…
Links
- Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buym…
00:26:35 |
Wed 25 Jun 2025
Episode 0084: Stairs and Me
Show Notes
- Host: Dan Hugo
- Summary: I have had a few tangles with stairs, the stairs often win, particularly in these two scenarios.
Links
- Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo
- Buy Me An…
00:31:41 |
Wed 18 Jun 2025
Episode 0083: The Cake
Show Notes
- Host: Dan Hugo
- Summary: This is a story of an incident that actually occurred while I was an employee with Intel Corporation, and takes place in Turin, Italy; Rio Rancho, New Mexico; Queen…
00:25:57 |
Wed 11 Jun 2025
Episode 0082: Outsourcing and AI
Show Notes
- Host: Dan Hugo
- Summary: As a software engineer, among other things, I have been watching the changes to the marketplace, with more and more announcements that layoffs in favor of artificial …
00:45:44 |
Wed 04 Jun 2025
Episode 0081: Ideas
Show Notes
- Host: Dan Hugo
- Summary: For as long as I can remember, I have really enjoyed the challenge of solving problems, for however one might define Solving and Problems. I know, a lot of people w…
00:41:42 |
Wed 28 May 2025
Episode 0080: Learning Styles
Show Notes
- Host: Dan Hugo
- Summary: There is no such thing as learning styles, it is all a myth, so sit down and get back to your, what is the current teaching style, Common Core? You may already be sen…
01:06:51 |
Wed 21 May 2025
Episode 0079: Calendars
Show Notes
- Host: Dan Hugo
- Summary: In a world only more and more busy and even more noisy, the humble calendar seems like one of the most, if not the most useful tools ever created, to keep track of wh…
00:28:39 |
Wed 14 May 2025
Episode 0078: Friends
Show Notes
- Host: Dan Hugo
- Summary: Have you ever found yourself describing someone, with a mention that you have known this person, perhaps you have been friends with this person, for decades, since yo…
00:30:33 |
Wed 07 May 2025
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