<h2 id="introduction">Introduction</h2>
<p>Once again the two HPR hosts based in Edinburgh got together over Mumble to have a chat during the COVID-19 pandemic.</p>
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<li><a href="https://hackerpublicradio.org/correspondents/0201.html">MrX</a></li>
<li><a href="https://hackerpublicradio.org/correspondents/0225.html">Dave Morriss</a></li>
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<p>We recorded this conversation in the evening of Sunday 23<sup>rd</sup> August 2020.</p>
<p>The audio was quite long when we’d finished, so we decided to cut it into two similar-length pieces and the remainder is released as a second episode.</p>
<h3 id="show-title">Show title</h3>
<p>Although a explaining a joke can often destroy it, it’s probably worth saying that the title of this show was derived from the name of a variety of potato, <em>Pentland Squire</em>, and the fact that the two participants were separated by the Pentland Hills in Edinburgh! <code>"</code>Where was the joke?<code>"</code> you ask…</p>
<h2 id="notes">Notes</h2>
<p>Some of the topics we discussed:</p>
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<li>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.
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<li><a href="https://www.pentlandhills.org/">Pentland Hills Regional Park</a></li>
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<li>The state of COVID-19 and the lockdown in Scotland
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<li><a href="https://www.travellingtabby.com/scotland-coronavirus-tracker/">Scotland Coronavirus Tracker</a></li>
<li><a href="https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/">Coronavirus (COVID-19) in the UK</a> - no longer offering a simple CSV download as it originally did, but now has a detailed API.</li>
</ul></li>
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<li>Processing HPR shownotes:
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<li>Experiences:
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<li>HTML, preferred but needs to be high quality</li>
<li>Markdown, if well formatted this is the easiest to deal with</li>
<li>Plain text, gets converted to Markdown by volunteers</li>
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<li><a href="https://github.com/retext-project/retext">ReText, an editor for Markdown and reStructuredText markup languages</a></li>
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<li>Glasgow Podcrawl
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<li>A virtual meeting this year over Jitsi</li>
<li>Some people joined from very far away such as <a href="https://hackerpublicradio.org/correspondents/0078.html">Klaatu</a> in New Zealand</li>
</ul></li>
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<li>Scripts written in recent times:
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<li>MrX: finding the duration of a video with <a href="https://ffmpeg.org/ffprobe-all.html"><code>ffprobe</code></a>.</li>
<li>Dave: choosing a meal from a list in a database to cook for the family</li>
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<li>Vegetarianism
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<li>MrX’s experiences</li>
<li>Dave often makes a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nut_roast"><em>Nut Roast</em></a> for Christmas dinner</li>
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