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Celebrity divorce between billionaires is all the rage lately. Sometimes power couples do things that have global impact, other times they sell shoes and make reality shows.

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Are you mask free? Interesting times as many places (definitely Las Vegas where Dan lives) are taking the CDC Guidance as gospel and flinging the doors open. Fingers crossed it all works out for us after our long slog staying healthy away from other humans...

Do check out This Week in Virology for their weekly Clinical Update, it's about 30 minutes to catch up on the science without any politics. Dr. Daniel Griffin is a qualified professional and he's still losing patients to COVID-19...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRmfzB-wINc

CasaNunzia continues!

We talked more about the CasaNunzia project and the motivation to get this entity formed so we can tackle some real world issues that Nancy and Dan encounter all the time (from the design side and the tech side, respectively). Now let us get some real people who really need the things that many want because they are cool or high-tech... 

We talked about this briefly, an example of a project that was very expensive to develop but ultimately didn't address real needs of real customers. Let's involve people in the process to make their lives better with real solutions!

https://theoutline.com/post/2452/when-disability-tech-is-just-a-marketing-exercise

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Picture taken by Dan Hugo in May in Las Vegas... this happens all the time, good luck if you have any challenges getting around without obstacles thrown up in your way!

It's true, and that is why a little bit of room echo is something we can just deal with, yes?

The HugoFloss Newsletters are launching! We can't let everybody else get on the newsletter train without hopping on ourselves, so moving forward we'll push show notes and eventually guest info, upcoming show info, Telegram shows, and all sorts of other fun stuff via Newsletters emailed to you when you subscribe!

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From this episode

Hot Pizza Vending Machines in Rome

The White House weighs in on Inflation

The Seattle Times was convinced Coffee Shops were Done (Oct 2020)

Own your brand! Linking to podcasts, or anything else you do, should start at your website!

We both had some things to say about cars and pedestrians and parking lots... be safe out there.

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Today is all about words and reading and learning and more words, and Kroger.

Nancy is not fond of some of the new uses of old words, and who is, really? 

Language is important, and there must be a reason why linguists are making such an impression on public discourse in recent months and years (and longer). Two we spoke about, whom you have probably heard of...

Education is a good topic, and so is history. We will almost certainly come back to these from time to time, if you want to join in the conversation, come on down!

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About the Show Title

A play on one of Dan's favorite TED talks from researcher Deb Roy, called The Birth of a Word, well worth a watch (TED talks are about 20 minutes and are almost always interesting, this one is always interesting). Also available on YouTube if you prefer:

Deb Roy: The Birth of a Word on YouTube

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Have you ever sent an email or left a voicemail or sent a text or any of the many thousands of ways we have nowadays to reach someone, only to never hear back from them, ever?

Ghosted.

Assuming you are not including that famous return address in your messages, why is Ghosting the new conversation ender? 

Outside is the new Inside

Dan had a friend visiting Vegas and on his way through town they went to check out a new and interesting destination in the Vegas called AREA15. This is a big warehouse-style space with a few attractions inside, with the one you may have heard about the one they went to see, Omega Mart.

There's a certain part of a visit here that is best left to the visitors, so we avoided spoilers, for the most part. It is arguably kid friendly (there's nothing overtly adult and it's generally a fun time with no shortage of visual, aural, and even tactile stimulation in the Omega Mart installation, but Area 15 is maybe slightly more adult-oriented, sorta like Vegas).

Have Pics, Will Share

There are only more interesting and useful ways to share anything on the internets, so is it a good idea to hide your thoughts, pictures, videos, and discussions behind a Facebook login? Sometimes yes, sometimes no. If sharing is caring, should we be embracing the possibilities, or falling back on the most awful social network advertising and privacy compromise platform on the planet? (There may be some editorial comment embedded in the previous sentence)

Shameless Plugs

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The first episode produced via our Telegram channel! (Nancy's audio sounds better than Dan's audio, hmmmm)

If you're using the Telegram messaging platform, you may have heard about their new drop-in-style audio chap feature enabled for channels, so that anyone can create an audio program with guests and text chat and whatnot, with the resulting audio file suitable for posting as a podcast episode! 

Our channel on Telegram is #HugoFloss.co 

If you are NOT using Telegram, it's arguably a better option than WhatsApp and it's definitely (but still arguably) better than plain old Text Messages. This is not a paid endorsement, it's just the new normal.

Check out Telegram on your mobile device or desktop computer (or even via your web browser) and take part in our live sessions on Sundays at 11am Mountain Time in Phoenix (so it's always MST). More on that week-by-week, but in the mean time,

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Wait, did you hear that Telegram is some sort of spyware? Not really... we can talk about this during a future episode, or you can chime in with your findings! Hint: It's fine...

Topics today include keeping the house clean, keeping outside clean, listening to your users and customers, bad customer support from Kroger, and whatever else came up. Listen in and find out!

As always, listen to Nancy's other podcast, Home Design Chat with Nancy, which you can find posted on the homepage (and via Anchor and a few dozen other podcast places) at her website, DesignersCircleHQ.

You can still drop us emails of course, but do consider joining in the discussions via Telegram (we might try some other tools as well, as long as they are available to all, none of this iPhone-only business!)

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Thanks for your support! Listening, sharing, and participating are great, too!

Other than using Telegram, this podcast and your hosts and their businesses are not affiliated with, nor taking compensation of any kind for, Telegram. Free mentions and free use of the platform and tools. Works pretty well, that's a good thing!

First things first, Zencastr doesn't make it so easy to recover from a network outage. In this case, while you will hear Dan mentioning that Nancy is offline (though strangely Nancy still hears Dan?), it is actually Dan's internet connection that dropped for long enough to make a one-sided conversation. While Zencastr (and other, similar services) records locally for just such eventualities, actually recovering everything is a matter of reading their support pages and learning about the... wait for it... /recovery suffix. 

It is not without irony that we were touching on Cognitive Load and how having too many things going on can distract and detract, and then this happened, throwing a small wrench into the usual workflow. It's something to think about, and if you'd like to get the Wikipedia version of what Cognitive Load is, check it out at https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_load

We will almost certainly be trying out drop-in chat in some form, starting with Telegram. This is open source software that runs on more than just iPhones, but otherwise it's a similar idea as is offered by Clubhouse. In fact, everybody is jumping on that bandwagon as far as the service side (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Telegram, Discord... the list grows).

Check out Telegram if you'd like to join the HugoFloss.co channel and future discussion! Go to https://telegram.org/

Listen in for the rest of the always-interesting chat, and remember, we want you to join in!

Monetize?

We're going to experiment with monetization strategies so that we can do things like use a better cloud creation platform, offset the website hosting and whatnot, and generally continue to pursue the show. Starting out slowly:

Buy Me a Coffee is similar to Patreon but not so, well, Patreon. We each have a BMaC page to cross over our various productions, and you can do with that what you will... this links will take you to the BMaC site:

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First things first, many congratulations to Nancy & James Hugo, these 52 years after a big wedding and plenty of adventure!

4/3/21 was a big day for weddings in Las Vegas. About 1000 couples, give or take.

Nancy does not like ghosting, especially when it comes to business! Who does, really? Return those emails and phone calls, because time is money!

Dan flew to Phoenix for the holiday and anniversary weekend. First time through airports in over one year, it was surprisingly uneventful.

Some forward progress on the CasaNunzia project, which you will no doubt hear more about in coming podcast episodes, until we create another show for those endeavors. 

Whichever side of the fence on which you sit, the HBO documentary, Q: Into The Storm, was really interesting, and it turns out the documentarian was following Fan on Twitter. So good there, then watch the 6 hours if you're inclined. Fascinating and Frightening...

https://twitter.com/CullenHoback

As always, check out the Home Design Chat with Nancy podcast, in addition to this one, both linked from Nancy's long time designer platform, DesignersCircleHQ.

If you're interested in learning more about these very early CasaNunzia project steps, or if you'd like to be a guest on our show, give us a shout, or an email would work just fine. If you would like to comment on editing an Anchor post using their mobile application, you will not find happiness on this end.

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Episode art this time is Ramen Noodle and Zoe doing double duty celebrating, they hope you had a great weekend!

Do you have a car or two? Do you use them? Dan had had a car of one shape or another for a couple of decades, but with world travel for work, it was sitting for months in a city with far too much automobile-related crime. Thus, for about 4 years now, Car(e) Free!

Obviously there are some downsides and challenges, but walking is healthy, public transportation is available, and ride sharing is a thing, so it's not impossible, and in fact there are many upsides. Listen in to learn more!

As well we talk about people and pandemics and other various bits, you can listen in on that stuff, too!

Even though it's not our favorite topic, you should stay on top of this virus so we come out on top in the end, and we always recommend taking about 30-40 minutes to get an update from a subject matter expert, Dr Daniel Griffin, via a weekly Clinical Update program from This Week in Virology, which you can watch on YouTube here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHzo4ujgaPA

As always, if you would like to listen to Nancy's other podcast, Home Design Chat with Nancy, you can find it and so much more at her website, Designers Circle, where you might also spot the HugoFloss show beside it on the homepage (as of this posting, anyway).

If you feel the need to join in the conversation, please contact Nancy via email and we'll get that ball rolling.

If you want to contact Dan via email about anything, feel free to do so!

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First things first: Stop pretending the pandemic is over! It's too late to slow down the rush to Spring Break, or to Vegas, but let's maybe try to make it to the finish line before we go nuts celebrating?

Some talking about vaccinations and whatnot, do check out the usual weekly resource for current information, provided by a subject matter expert!

Dr. Daniel Griffin, This Week in Virology weekly Clinical Update (YouTube Video)

Most of this episode, though, is about the Workie project, an open source community undertaking that Dan is starting to focus creative efforts in the Maker and Hacker (as in Hackathon) communities, to develop open source bases of technology and creativity to make the new era of working from home better and easier, especially for those with what some might call "special needs."

Workie will be a part of the CasaNunzia project, which we covered in a previous episode. Check that out as well, or stay tuned and we'll discuss the formation of the non-profit and other steps toward eventual world-changing success...

As always, you should be listening in to Nancy's other Podcast, Home Design Chat with Nancy, which you can learn more about next to all kinds of interesting things in the area of Design, at

Designers Circle (podcasts right at the top of the homepage!)

NancyHugo.com

Email Nancy here at HugoFloss if you would like to be a guest or if you have any particular questions for her

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As for Dan, always behind but with more time to catch up, on websites and open source projects to change the world and other podcasts...

Email Dan and he'll tell you all about it

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