๐ HPR3167: A ramble with the Pentland Squires (part 1)
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Introduction
Once again the two HPR hosts based in Edinburgh got together over Mumble to have a chat during the COVID-19 pandemic.
We recorded this conversation in the evening of Sunday 23rd August 2020.
The audio was quite long when weโd finished, so we decided to cut it into two similar-length pieces and the remainder is released as a second episode.
Show title
Although a explaining a joke can often destroy it, itโs probably worth saying that the title of this show was derived from the name of a variety of potato, Pentland Squire, and the fact that the two participants were separated by the Pentland Hills in Edinburgh! "
Where was the joke?"
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Notes
Some of the topics we discussed:
- Our positions relative to the Pentland Hills: MrX is to the East and Dave is to the West of the area, which is to the south of Edinburgh, about 6 or 7 miles out.
- The state of COVID-19 and the lockdown in Scotland
- Scotland Coronavirus Tracker
- Coronavirus (COVID-19) in the UK - no longer offering a simple CSV download as it originally did, but now has a detailed API.
- Processing HPR shownotes:
- Experiences:
- HTML, preferred but needs to be high quality
- Markdown, if well formatted this is the easiest to deal with
- Plain text, gets converted to Markdown by volunteers
- ReText, an editor for Markdown and reStructuredText markup languages
- Experiences:
- Glasgow Podcrawl
- A virtual meeting this year over Jitsi
- Some people joined from very far away such as Klaatu in New Zealand
- Scripts written in recent times:
- MrX: finding the duration of a video with
ffprobe
. - Dave: choosing a meal from a list in a database to cook for the family
- MrX: finding the duration of a video with
- Vegetarianism
- MrXโs experiences
- Dave often makes a Nut Roast for Christmas dinner