Episodes

  • Episode 0153: The Interview Days

    Episode 0153: The Interview Days
    Oct 14 2026
    Show Notes
    • Host: Dan Hugo
    • Summary: I don’t think interviews go away in the modern job market, but they do change through one’s career, maybe not for the better.


    Links
    • Quoggling Sand Home https://quogglingsand.com/
    • Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo
    • Pod.link for Quoggling Sand https://pod.link/1560015517


    AI Disclosure
    • Unless otherwise specified, ALL writing and speaking contained in this episode of Quoggling Sand is 100% Human.
    • Cover art, a single frame image, may be constructed with a combination of generative AI, clip art, real photographs, visual elements, various type faces, and other miscellaneous elements.
    • A single cover art image may be converted to Video, to which the same disclosures apply.
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    45 mins
  • Episode 0152: Idiot Box II

    Episode 0152: Idiot Box II
    Oct 7 2026
    Show Notes
    • Host: Dan Hugo
    • Summary: Way back in Episode 0076 we covered the early Idiot Box and hinted at time-shifted modernity, well we can fill in the second half with the TiVo and YouTube today…


    Links
    • Quoggling Sand Home https://quogglingsand.com/
    • Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo
    • Pod.link for Quoggling Sand https://pod.link/1560015517


    AI Disclosure
    • Unless otherwise specified, ALL writing and speaking contained in this episode of Quoggling Sand is 100% Human.
    • Cover art, a single frame image, may be constructed with a combination of generative AI, clip art, real photographs, visual elements, various type faces, and other miscellaneous elements.
    • A single cover art image may be converted to Video, to which the same disclosures apply.
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    49 mins
  • Episode 0151: Home Towns

    Episode 0151: Home Towns
    Sep 30 2026
    Show Notes
    • Host: Dan Hugo
    • Summary: Sometimes we call the place where we were born our home town, but surely when you are returning home from travel elsewhere, for example, you don’t go there, you go to where you live now, or at least that is what I do…


    Links
    • Quoggling Sand Home https://quogglingsand.com/
    • Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo
    • Pod.link for Quoggling Sand https://pod.link/1560015517


    AI Disclosure
    • Unless otherwise specified, ALL writing and speaking contained in this episode of Quoggling Sand is 100% Human.
    • Cover art, a single frame image, may be constructed with a combination of generative AI, clip art, real photographs, visual elements, various type faces, and other miscellaneous elements.
    • A single cover art image may be converted to Video, to which the same disclosures apply.
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    49 mins
  • Episode 0150: Learning Then and Now

    Episode 0150: Learning Then and Now
    Sep 24 2026
    Show Notes
    • Host: Dan Hugo
    • Summary: I have talked about my own learning journey, libraries, polymath tendencies, and more, but lately I am seeing vast differences in the way people are learning today versus the way we did it back then…


    Links
    • Quoggling Sand Home https://quogglingsand.com/
    • Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo
    • Pod.link for Quoggling Sand https://pod.link/1560015517


    AI Disclosure
    • Unless otherwise specified, ALL writing and speaking contained in this episode of Quoggling Sand is 100% Human.
    • Cover art, a single frame image, may be constructed with a combination of generative AI, clip art, real photographs, visual elements, various type faces, and other miscellaneous elements.
    • A single cover art image may be converted to Video, to which the same disclosures apply.
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    43 mins
  • Episode 0149: Haircuts

    Episode 0149: Haircuts
    Sep 16 2026
    Show Notes
    • Host: Dan Hugo
    • Summary: Getting a haircut was sometimes a bit of an adventure, or maybe a chore, sometimes a piece of cake, lately a chore again. I still have hair, though, for better or worse…


    Links
    • Quoggling Sand Home https://quogglingsand.com/
    • Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo


    AI Disclosure
    • Unless otherwise specified, ALL writing and speaking contained in this episode of Quoggling Sand is 100% Human.
    • Cover art, a single frame image, may be constructed with a combination of generative AI, clip art, real photographs, visual elements, various type faces, and other miscellaneous elements.
    • A single cover art image may be converted to Video, to which the same disclosures apply.
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    33 mins
  • Episode 0148: Bananas and Canned Tuna

    Episode 0148: Bananas and Canned Tuna
    Sep 9 2026
    Show Notes
    • Host: Dan Hugo
    • Summary: My dietary preferences have evolved over time, with a few caveats, may as well save this in the pile of lifetime receipts…


    Links
    • Quoggling Sand Home https://quogglingsand.com/
    • Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo


    AI Disclosure
    • Unless otherwise specified, ALL writing and speaking contained in this episode of Quoggling Sand is 100% Human.
    • Cover art, a single frame image, may be constructed with a combination of generative AI, clip art, real photographs, visual elements, various type faces, and other miscellaneous elements.
    • A single cover art image may be converted to Video, to which the same disclosures apply.
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    28 mins
  • Episode 0147: Apple Quality

    Episode 0147: Apple Quality
    Sep 2 2026
    Show Notes
    • Host: Dan Hugo
    • Summary: The one where I finally get to Silicon Valley and have an opportunity to work at Apple Computer Corporation, but it is as a contractor, and it is as a Tester. The proverbial foot in the door, to be sure…


    Links
    • Quoggling Sand Home https://quogglingsand.com/
    • Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo
    • Katamari https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katamari


    AI Disclosure
    • Unless otherwise specified, ALL writing and speaking contained in this episode of Quoggling Sand is 100% Human.
    • Cover art, a single frame image, may be constructed with a combination of generative AI, clip art, real photographs, visual elements, various type faces, and other miscellaneous elements.
    • A single cover art image may be converted to Video, to which the same disclosures apply.
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    57 mins
  • Episode 0146: Tiger Teams

    Episode 0146: Tiger Teams
    Aug 26 2026
    Show Notes
    • Host: Dan Hugo
    • Summary: I learned what a Tiger Team is, in the tech product development sense, during an interview at Yahoo! and it turns out that I was probably a part of some sort of Tiger Team for a long time before and even after…


    Links
    • Quoggling Sand Home https://quogglingsand.com/
    • Profile Page Linking Everything https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo
    • Tiger Team on Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiger_team


    AI Disclosure
    • Unless otherwise specified, ALL writing and speaking contained in this episode of Quoggling Sand is 100% Human.
    • Cover art, a single frame image, may be constructed with a combination of generative AI, clip art, real photographs, visual elements, various type faces, and other miscellaneous elements.
    • A single cover art image may be converted to Video, to which the same disclosures apply.
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    57 mins