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Whether you like it or not, many people moved their clocks forward by one hour over the weekend, though some did not, and that is what makes it fun! It isn't quite as simple as putting a stop to DST adjustments tomorrow or next week, there's a lot going on behind the scenes. Start with this Wikipedia article about the ISO 8601 specs for time and date handling, or do what many do and get on with your day, whatever time you have.

ISO 8601

If you're looking for a decent movie about family greed, we were talking about this one, and it's a pretty decent movie with a nice twist, and no shortage of familiar celebrities. 

Knives Out

We talked a bit about suicide, if it's a topic on your mind lately, we are not experts by any means, nor are most of the people you know. Talk to people who know how to help you, or pass this on to someone who needs it: 

Suicide Prevention Lifeline

Click to dial: 1-800-273-8255

We talked about various projects that Dan is working on, not the least of which is the website for this podcast, and eventually support for live streaming and chat in an open source way. Services like ClubHouse are iPhone-only, and the service we use to produce these episodes so far, Zencastr, is okay, but software engineers are wont to fiddle with things... Dan's other podcast shows are FFS Talk and coming this week, Quoggling Sand. And FriendVenn, and MuniBits, and more shows and software platforms. Stay tuned!

Nancy has been podcasting for a good long while, you could stop by and check out Home Design Chat with Nancy at the main site for the podcast and all things Design-related, with some focus on Kitchens and Bathrooms but that's really only the beginning. 

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If you would like to be a guest on this show, send Nancy an email! [email protected]

If you would like to talk nerdy, and/or be a guest on the show, you can also send Dan an email! [email protected]

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First things first, it's a nice day and we're happy to talk about the weather, and then we try to avoid the topic of every day...

Take the words of an expert, there are a few out there, this is the one Dan likes when it comes to a concise update on the state of vaccinations and therapies and the virus we've all come to know and dislike strongly:

TWiV 727: COVID-19 clinical update #52 with Dr. Daniel Griffin

If you just want a picture as we evolve our status into the beginning of the second year of, whatever is going to happen, Johns Hopkins is one place to look:

https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/us-map

The main topic today, though, is a project we've been discussing for about two years in earnest, a bit longer in theory. Without spoiling it, the CasaNunzia Project is aimed at enabling and encouraging ideation, innovation, and implementation of so-called smart home technologies for those who need these technologies, which will ultimately make better products and services for those who want them. 

Give it a listen, it's a topic we'll have more to talk about in coming weeks!

In the mean time, if you want to hear more from Nancy you can give her long-running podcast a listen. Find Home Design Chat with Nancy at her Designers Circle website, where you can also find some other interesting items all around the world of design for your live and work spaces.

If you would like to be a guest and have a nice chat about your topics of expertise, drop us an email and join us on any given Sunday.

Email Nancy at [email protected]

Email Dan at [email protected]

The episode cover art this week should get you thinking about technology in the kitchen, though CasaNunzia is substantially larger in scope than just that... 

Photo by Jeff Sheldon on Unsplash

If you haven't spent the last year learning the ins and outs of price shopping for essentials,  groceries, and sundries, you've almost certainly over spent somewhere. As more and more shopping for everything has moved online, whether for pick-up or delivery or regular old shipping, we can all benefit by checking prices everywhere before we click "buy." You have the time, may as well save the money!

If one of those items is coffee, maybe you also had time to learn how to be your own barista. Nancy like a nice flavored decaf drip, in large quantities through the day to keep the to-do list check marks checking. Dan likes the science, and trying new methods, grinding whole beans for Turkish style, pour-over, French press, AeroPress, and manual press espresso... and maybe more! What's your favorite brew?

The name of this production was inspired in part by a great, long-running YouTube channel called Mental Floss. It has been around for many years and always delivers some interesting stuff to make you think!

Check them out on YouTube, https://www.youtube.com/user/MentalFlossVideo

As always, Nancy has another long-run podcast, Home Design Chat with Nancy, which you can find along with many other useful bits on her website, DesignersCircleHQ.com

Would you like to be a guest on HugoFloss? We love to talk and you probably have something interesting to say, we should get together!

Drop us an email about joining us, or anything else:

Email Nancy, [email protected]

Email Dan, [email protected]

Thanks for listening!

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Alternate show titles:

Here's a Wikipedia link about User Experience, a common thread in this episode

The Sidewalk Labs smart city project in Canada, called Quayside, which is no longer in active development.

Read more about Sidewalk Labs, the Alphabet,Inc. company looking at making cities smarter... maybe too smart?

Learn more about CERT and volunteer in your community, to be ready for crisis and disaster!

Just another pedestrian hit in Vegas... cars and people are not always a good mix here the LV.

(Glib, yes, but as a pedestrian this is a point of frustration)

In the words of Billy Joel, I'm Movin' Out! But from where to where?

So many variations on this theme, but the Mercury newspaper, arguably the paper of record for silicon valley, writes about people leaving CA and NY.

Don't forget to check out Nancy's entire website and other podcast, Home Design Chat with Nancy, at DesignersCircle.

Would you like to be a guest on our show? Send Nancy an email and get on the list! [email protected]

Got questions about other things, or would you like to find out more about upcoming developments for the hugofloss website, other podcast projects, engineering, or nerdiness in general? [email protected] is your starting point.

Episode artwork this week:

Photo by David

Calendar holidays designed to encourage buying are our favorites! With the way of the world, getting together for any holiday has been a bit of a challenge and if you are at home chatting instead of visiting in person, you should have recorded a podcast! That's what we did...

Not that there's anything wrong with holidays, though we do agree that a calendar holiday can actually move to suit the needs of family and friends, when you really think about it. Sure, the sale on a tree or black and orange decorations or turkey might not align with the custom holiday calendar you come up with, but what is more important anyway? Well, sales on candy are important, though some people might believe that candy given out at Halloween is spiked with all manner of razor blades and poisons and whatnot. Well, start here and see where you land after doing your own research...

Wikipedia Poisoned Candy Myths

Candy is good in moderation, but so is moderation. Sometimes.

Obviously we mention vaccinations again, but now there are vaccinations in the past (and boosters in the future), are you getting yours? Have you made an appointment? 

As always, if you're interested in joining us as a guest, send an email to Nancy and either way you should visit Designers Circle to check out the Home Design Chat with Nancy podcast and other interesting stuff there... now not just for designers!

If you want to complain that our website isn't up yet, don't send an email to Dan, but there are some ideas bouncing around about enabling drop-in chat. Stay tuned.

In the mean time, please like, share, star, underline, and ring the bell, or maybe just subscribe to our podcast and see where this goes!

Lots to talk about this time around, and since we weren't watching The Big Game while you were, you get to listen in after the fact.

Dan is volunteering at a Vaccination POD in the City of North Las Vegas on Wednesday, Nancy is getting a shot some time in February, let's talk about this crazy undertaking yet again. Getting everybody willing to get inoculated on board with two injections 21 or 28 days apart, when we're not even sure if the various Variants of Concern will still be a problem after all of this... it's a crazy time, but still something to talk about because it will be a topic for just a bit longer. Or maybe even longer than that.

Take a break now and listen to the weekly clinical update from Dr Daniel Griffin on YouTube, about vaccinations and treatments and all sorts of other pandemic-related insight:

We had a nice chat about education, flipping back through Dan's history mostly, but Nancy was into creative works and drawing way way back when, it's amazing how we get to where we are and it's made easier when we want to learn about things that interest us, and if we can get to the tools. Dan was fiddling with computers wherever he could find one since around age 10, and look where he is now...

And as always, there are things that bother, and we talk about those things. If you've been looking for Nancy's Soapbox, well, this is the show for it, in most episodes so far. 

After you've finished this one, give the other shows a listen and if you think you'd like to hang out on a Sunday some time for about an hour and chat about interesting things, email at least one of us

Nancy Hugo is [email protected]

Dan Hugo is [email protected]

And don't forget to stop by Nancy's website, DesignersCircle and listen to her other podcast, Home Design Chat with Nancy, linked right from the front page. 

With the global pandemic still with us, but with vaccines becoming all the rage, 2021 is going to be an interesting year indeed!

Are you getting into a queue for your vaccine? Can you make an appointment, are you worried about allergies and side effects, are you hearing about Variants of Concern and thinking the worst? Well surely this will be an ongoing topic we bounce around, but get vaccinated! You get to go outside and hang out with other people, and you'll even get a second date out of it so you can all get your booster!

But then, what about gathering in crowds of more than one indoors at trade shows and other such places? Will we ever venture to Vegas or LA or other cities around the US or even around the world to meander through crowds, to see and learn about the latest and greatest in the world of Consumer Electronics, Kitchens and Bathrooms, and such things as Guns and Rodeos and Broadcasting equipment and even Pizza! Online video meetings have changed the world, are we ready to go back to over-priced hotels and waiting for shuttles to and fro carrying branded bags of tchotchkes and some throat lozenges? It appears we have at least a few months to ponder the future.

Speaking of K/BIS, the Kitchen/Bath Industry Show (which we did, go ahead and listen!), did you know you can get signed up to attend and even get a Monogram tour, even if you're not in the Kitchen/Bath Industry? If you're thinking Virtual Attendance, they have a deal for you:

Give a listen to Nancy's podcast all about this, visit that episode at https://designerscirclehq.com/podcast-deron-renson/

As usual we have plenty to say about plenty of things, and we look forward to adding guests and interactive live streams and all sorts of modern conveniences. If we're going to be hanging out while vaccinations and mitigations are protecting all of us, why not have a chat?

Find Nancy's online endeavors (including her other podcast) at https://designerscirclehq.com/ and if you want to know more about anything from this or any episode, or if you'd like to be a guest on our new show, email! [email protected] 

Dan is still working between vaccination pod volunteer gigs and long quiet walks in his Las Vegas neighborhood. Got questions? Email always works for [email protected] 

Everybody needs Social Media to get through the day. Or do they?

Cancel culture, political rants, handing over your personal and/or business brand(s) to Big Tech, services going down or going away, has the world gone off the rails? How do we keep in touch with family and friends, conduct business, and express thoughts and opinions without the specter of suspension or expulsion hanging over us? Will this go down on our permanent record?

There are options! Listening to Eli the Computer Guy about his travails (including some community strikes) on YouTube as one example, there are more and more each day, from world leaders to... maybe you? 

A chat on the Mark & Carrie Podcast about Google in Australia (their episode from January 23, 2021) raised some additional questions about what happens if your platform of choice decides to pull up the stakes and move along, or sometimes they just disappear (with your stuff?).

If you're in the Arizona Design Community (or beyond), Nancy is setting up a bit of a contact list so everybody can still be found if the unifying force that is Facebook falls out of favor with a few people, check out Find Me Here on Nancy's professional networking pub at DesignersCircleHQ.

Dan is working on a thing that fits into this mess, the idea being to own your content and your brand and publish links back to your own website or other online destination... always keep your family, friends, and fans connected to you, let them discover you elsewhere but always invite them to your place to hang out! More news about that in the next episode or so...

We're going to have more guests and more participation, if you'd like to get in on this weekly discussion reach out to Nancy via the classic internet method, email! Send a quick note to [email protected] and describe what topic we can all have a chat about.

If you're interested in nerding out, send that note to [email protected] and we'll see what we can come up with.

Thanks for listening, and thanks for sharing and liking and friending and tweeting and whatever else you're into...

It finally happened, our first guest!

Attorney Tami Hugo Haley joins in to talk about prenuptials and business and assets and splitting things up between married and unmarried peoples. The laws may vary where you are, so these are only food for thought and most definitely not legal advice.

And what about the dog? You can listen in here and then visit haleylawaz.com if you need to get some actual legal advice.

Dan volunteered at a Vaccination POD in the City of North Las Vegas during the week, and so he was able to get the first of two vaccination shots. 

How did it all work out at the Point of Dispensary, how does the second shot work, side effects... would you like to know more?

As always, find out more about Nancy's other podcast and various other projects at

Designers Circle

Dan is in the middle of many things that he'll be dropping in the next show so stay tuned!

Please subscribe and share and like and favorite and retweet and regram and... or maybe just give us a listen this time and next and stay healthy while you're doing it!

Episode Artwork Photo by Kelly Sikkema on Unsplash

Business Cards are still a thing, but not everybody is still on board with that.

Add to this, the changing ways that people reach each other, from the good old telephone number to chat applications to social networking, and getting in touch is no easy task.

Do Nancy a favor, keep a few business cards handy, and make sure your contact information is easy to read!

In the mean time, it's a new year, and the future still depends on all of staying safe and healthy, so make sure your business cards are easy to toss at your friends and colleagues from a social distance...

Don't forget to check out Nancy's other podcast and general design stuff at

https://DesignersCircleHQ.com

As for Dan, well, engineers are always working on stuff on their local machines...