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My Weird Prompts
The human-AI collaboration podcast. A man, a sloth, and a donkey collaborate to create a podcast (with a little help from AI). No question is too obscure, no rabbit hole too deep. My Weird Prompts celebrates curiosity in all its forms. Daniel, the human, asks the questions that pop into his head at inconvenient moments. Corn the Sloth offers laid-back, thoughtful takes. Herman the Donkey brings boundless enthusiasm and energy. Together, they explore topics ranging from the mundane to the…
Episodes
My Weird PromptsStack Overflow for Agents: SOFA's Trust Model
Stack Overflow for Agents (SOFA) is a beta knowledge exchange built for AI agents and their human operators — an attempt to close what its makers call the…
My Weird PromptsWho Actually Draws the Follow-Up Chips?
When you finish a chat with an AI assistant, the little follow-up chips underneath look like the model thinking ahead. They're not. This episode walks the full…
My Weird PromptsInside Private Grids That Run Themselves
Most people never think about the electrical network behind a hospital, airport, or remote mine — but those private grids already do everything a utility does…
My Weird PromptsSNMP: The 40-Year-Old Stopgap Running Your Rack
Every rack has one: an SNMP checkbox nobody fully understands but everybody ticks. This episode opens up the protocol that quietly makes large-scale IT…
My Weird PromptsWhy You've Never Heard of Schneider Electric
Schneider Electric equipment is bolted to the wall of nearly every factory, office building, and data center you've ever walked through — and almost nobody…
My Weird PromptsWhat Does Siemens Actually Make?
Siemens books more revenue than the GDP of a mid-sized country, yet most people couldn't say what it makes. This episode walks through a factory floor, a…
My Weird Prompts500 Days in a Cave: How We Lose Track of Time
What happens to your sense of time when every external cue disappears? Beatriz Flamini spent 500 days alone in a Spanish cave with no light, clocks, or contact…
My Weird PromptsWhy 8 PM Bedtime Feels Wrong for Night Owls
Daniel has been a night owl his whole life, but fifteen months into fatherhood, his shared nursery and Ezra's pitch-black bedtime routine are wrecking his…
My Weird PromptsWhy You Shouldn't Dremel Your Antique Silver
Every polish removes a sliver of the original metal, and you can't put it back. That single fact reframes everything about caring for antique silver and brass…
My Weird PromptsPinterest Is a Pointer, Not a Backup
Daniel has spent years curating images of world leaders' desks, corporate office design, and emergency dispatch centers on Pinterest. But as a self-described…
My Weird PromptsWhy Servers Have Two Power Cords
Every year, data centers draw roughly 415 terawatt hours of electricity — about 1.5% of the world's power. But why does the equipment pulling that load have…
My Weird PromptsWhy Your Outlet Is 120 Volts and Europe's Is 230
Why does the US run 120 volts and Europe 230? The answer isn't physics — it's a standards table, a diplomatic handshake, and a lamp. This episode digs into IEC…
My Weird PromptsWhy the Grid Still Runs on AC When DC Won
Thomas Edison lost the war of the currents because you couldn't change DC's voltage — but modern power electronics can convert DC at eleven hundred kilovolts…
My Weird PromptsThe Blue Plug That Out-Engineers Your House
The blue IEC 60309 plug — the 230V, 16-amp "Commando" connector you see on campsites and marinas — is a genuinely tougher piece of hardware than the BS 1363…
My Weird PromptsWhat Makes a School System "Best"?
A BBC documentary called Korea's schools the best in the world — tutoring until midnight, up at six for class. A listener who lived it asks the question the…
My Weird PromptsYour Home Rack's Power Problem, Solved
A data center converts AC to DC three times and still looks immaculate, while your home rack converts it once and looks like a raccoon got into a box of…
My Weird PromptsUnpacking as a Warehouse Problem: Sorting vs. Tagging
Daniel moved into his modular Euro-box shelving system, Dremel-engraved the box purposes into the plastic — and still can't find anything, because the…
My Weird PromptsTwo Frances, One Protest: Reading the Same Streets Differently
It started on September 17 at a single high school in Créteil, where staff walked out over vacant teaching posts and crumbling buildings. By October 6…
My Weird PromptsQuando a Saudade de Casa Aparece Dentro da Própria Casa — De Qual Casa Estamos com Saudade?
Baseado no livro "Introdução ao Conhecimento Logosófico", capítulo "Conceitos-Mãe". Ronny parte do canto dos pássaros e da vontade de voltar para casa durante…
My Weird PromptsDesigning Rooms for ADHD Brains
What happens when you design a home for an ADHD brain? A UK standards body wrote the first national guidance on neurodiversity and the built environment, and…
My Weird PromptsNeurodesign: Building for the Human Nervous System
Neurodesign isn't a style or a palette — it's a performance claim about what a building does to the nervous system of the person inside it. This episode works…
My Weird PromptsFrom Sand to Trillion-Dollar Chips: Semiconductors in 5 Levels
Pure silicon is a disappointing material: it barely conducts and barely insulates, and you could hold a crystal in your hand and watch it do nothing. So why is…
My Weird PromptsWhat's Actually Inside an eSIM Adapter
Most eSIM coverage focuses on carriers and roaming revenue, but the real story sits at the bottom of the stack: a commodity secure element, a GSMA-rooted…
My Weird PromptsJamming Drones: The Physics of the Wearable Skylock Kit
Skylock's Wearable Kit is a compact RF counter-drone system now in operational service — detecting hostile drones out to two kilometers and jamming out to…
My Weird PromptsWhy Power Tool Cords Are So Short
That infuriatingly short cord on your angle grinder isn't a safety rule — UL 45 only sets a six-foot minimum and no maximum. The three-meter convention comes…
My Weird PromptsWhy Europlugs Fit Israeli Sockets So Badly
Daniel imports European appliances into Israel and can't stand how loosely the two-pin Europlug sits in an Israeli Type H socket — tolerable on a phone…
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A Geladeira Nova Chega e a Velha Vai Embora — Por Que Com as Ideias da Mente Não Fazemos o Mesmo?
Baseado no livro "Introdução ao Conhecimento Logosófico", capítulo "Caráter Intraindividual do Saber Logosófico". Ronny parte do Bota Fora de um shopping de…
My Weird PromptsBlue Tools, Green Tools: Inside Bosch's Channel Strategy
Bosch runs two completely separate tool ranges under a single brand: blue Professional tools for tradespeople, green Home and Garden tools for homeowners. Same…
My Weird PromptsWhy Claude Keeps Saying "Prior Art
Prior art" is a patent-law term of art, but it keeps showing up in Claude's output — and Daniel wants to know if it even belongs there. This episode digs into…
My Weird PromptsWhat Neuroarchitecture Says About Your Desk
Daniel wants the sticker off his laptop. Hannah designs buildings people actually notice. Their long-running argument about what a room should look like turns…
My Weird PromptsThe Bulb That Lit the 20th Century
One thousand hours of life, ten to seventeen lumens per watt, and a hoarding panic that pushed German bulb sales up 150% before the EU ban. This episode traces…
My Weird PromptsYour Vacuum's Best Upgrade Is the Head
When Daniel's toddler started crawling, he bought a vacuum in a hurry and regretted it. But then he discovered something most owners never do: the machine's…
My Weird PromptsWhy Your Vacuum Is Legally Weaker Than a Shop Vac
Daniel bought what his appliance guy in Jerusalem called the best vacuum for a fifteen-month-old's floor — then found out the professional version had more…
My Weird PromptsExorcism: 7 Religions, 67 Rites, Zero Records
Exorcism comes from the Greek exorkismos — "binding by oath." It's a legal act, not a medical one, and it's older than any institution that codified it. This…
My Weird PromptsWhy Measuring a $4 Spudger Tip Is Weirdly Hard
Daniel wrote in with a confession — he loves his spudger, the humble pry tool every electronics tinkerer owns — and a problem: he wants to measure the…
My Weird PromptsThe UK's 14 Overseas Territories, From Pitcairn to Chagos
The UK holds territory on every continent except Australia — but the fourteen British Overseas Territories and three Crown Dependencies are not the same kind…
My Weird PromptsThe Breaker Protects the Wire, Not You
When you plug in a space heater and the breaker trips, you're seeing the end of a long chain of engineering decisions that started at the utility transformer…
My Weird PromptsUSB Amps: What Actually Happens When You Plug In
Daniel wrote in with a drawer full of five-volt gadgets, dubious adapters, and one big question: does the plug have to match the device's expected amperage?…
My Weird PromptsWhy Your Raspberry Pi's Wi-Fi Keeps Dropping
Your Raspberry Pi's built-in Wi-Fi isn't badly designed — in an anechoic chamber it measures above -2 dB, roughly 70% efficiency. So why does the link fall…
My Weird PromptsWhy You Own 40 Unlabeled Power Supplies
A box of forty unlabeled power supplies, exactly one of which fits — and the reason it exists is that an entire industry spent fifty years failing to agree on…
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Quantos Dias Você Viveu até Hoje? Quantos Deles Ficaram em Você?
Baseado no livro "Introdução ao Conhecimento Logosófico", capítulo "Caráter Intraindividual do Saber Logosófico". Ronny reflete sobre ter passado de 20 mil…
My Weird PromptsInside the FlyDubai Cockpit Axe Interrogation
When a FlyDubai co-pilot allegedly attacked his captain with a crash axe mid-flight, the jet fell nearly 14,000 feet in under 30 seconds before off-duty pilots…
My Weird PromptsWhat 4 Gs Actually Does to a Body at 17,000 Feet
Seventeen thousand feet in under two minutes. That's roughly 140 feet per second — five times the descent rate any passenger has ever experienced. In this…
My Weird PromptsWhy There Are 1,500 Kosher Certifications
The kosher aisle looks like chaos — competing seals, competing standards, competing rabbis. But the story behind it isn't modern piety run amok. It starts with…
My Weird PromptsCan a Chatbot Have a Personality?
What does it take to give an AI character genuine depth — and can a pipeline built for factual accuracy even support it? Corn and Herman turn the lens on…
My Weird PromptsDo We Still Need This Memorial?
Most mornings, Daniel scrolls past the Times of Israel's "Those We Have Lost" section and thinks: do we still really need this? Then he feels ashamed for…
My Weird PromptsVetting Pilots: The Flydubai 1073 Questions
When a Flydubai first officer attacked his captain with a crash axe on the Dubai–Tel Aviv route, it exposed something the aviation industry already knew…
My Weird PromptsWhy Your Smart Light's Lowest Setting Is a Lie
Your smart bulb can hit a perfect 2700K and still snap off like a switch at 10% brightness. Dimming range is the parameter that never makes it onto the box…
My Weird PromptsHow Monitor Light Bars Actually Work
Desk lighting looks like a spec-sheet problem until you're staring at a catalogue trying to figure out where the light actually goes. This episode walks…
My Weird PromptsTask Lighting Spec Sheets: Wattage, CRI, Kelvin & Dimming
Task lighting spec sheets are marketing documents with three or four real numbers buried in them. This episode walks through the four parameters that matter —…
My Weird PromptsWhat Balanced Audio Actually Does in a DAC
Daniel has an editing workstation, monitor speakers, and a pile of outputs that don't line up. His question — what's the real path to a balanced signal out of…
My Weird PromptsWhat's the Red and Black Speaker Cable Actually Called?
Almost everyone has handled the red and black two-conductor cable that runs from amplifier to speaker, and almost nobody can name it. It's called zip cord, and…
My Weird PromptsActive, Passive, and the Speaker That Lied to Daniel
Daniel rented a Behringer PK110A, the gig went fine, and he walked away more confused than before. Was it a passive speaker? Why do standalone amplifiers…
My Weird PromptsWhen Bile Burns Your Stomach Lining
After gallbladder removal, bile drips continuously into the stomach — and for some patients, it chemically burns the lining. This episode breaks down the…
My Weird PromptsHow Far Can You Run RCA, XLR, and 3.5mm Cables?
Ask ten sources how far you can run an RCA cable and you'll get answers from three meters to two hundred feet — a sixty-to-one spread. This episode digs into…
My Weird PromptsWhat It Takes to Land on the Moon Again
Humans orbited the Moon again in 2026 for the first time since Apollo — but nobody has walked on it since 1972. NASA's Artemis IV, targeted for early 2028, is…
My Weird PromptsOne in 13 Million: What It Takes to Be an Astronaut
Fewer than 800 human beings have ever left Earth's atmosphere, out of 8.2 billion people alive today. What does it actually take to join that club? This…
My Weird PromptsNo Phone, No Panic: Safety Without Surveillance
Daniel asked one question that's really five: what do good communication and safety practices look like when a parent is unreachable for a few hours? This…
My Weird PromptsThe Moon's Junkyard Has a Gift Shop
There are roughly 3,000 human-made objects on the Moon — about 150 tons of hardware, trash, and souvenirs, almost all left without ceremony. But on a single…
My Weird PromptsWho Rescues You at the Ends of the Earth?
The Arctic has a binding search and rescue treaty signed by all eight Arctic states — including Russia and the United States. Antarctica has no equivalent at…