HPR2509: AudioBookClub 16 Matcher Rules

Summary: SUMMARY In this episode, the HPR_AudioBookClub discusses Matcher Rules by Mary Holland https://scribl.com/books/PDB66/matcher-rules NON-SPOILER THOUGHTS pokey: An enjoyable story, but not really for me. FiftyOneFifty: It's not about orgies... x1101: Liked it. A little slow. Thaj: It surprised me, I didn't expect to like it as much as I did. BEVERAGE REVIEWS As usual, the HPR_AudioBookClub took some time to review the beverages that each of us were drinking during the episode Thaj: Voice fading fast. Need a boost. With a little lemon and some local honey http://www.traditionalmedicinals.com/products/throat-coat/ x1101: Harpoon IPA - http://www.harpoonbrewery.com/beer/1/harpoon-ipa pokey: "my beer is a knife" Smuttynose Robust Porter https://smuttynose.com/beer/robust-porter/. I sharpen it with a Spyderco Triangle Sharpmaker https://www.spyderco.com/catalog/details.php?product=77. It is awesome. FiftyOneFifty: Junior Johnson's Midnight Moonshine THINGS WE TALKED ABOUT We discuss the upsides and downsides of affinity groups. Pokey wonders why terminology for simple things are changed in sci-fi stories. How exactly do population and economics work together? OUR NEXT AUDIOBOOK Blood Witness by David Hitt - https://scribl.com/books/PA513/blood-witness NEXT RECORDING We are currently working through a backlog of pre-recorded episodes. Once this is completed we will restart the Audiobook Club again. If you want to be notified when this happens please let us know via the HPR Mailing List 'hpr at hackerpublicradio dot org'. FURTHER RECOMMENDATIONS Nothing this time, well except for the typical Star Wars reference...and Star Trek, and comics. FEEDBACK Thank you very much for listening to this episode of the HPR_AudioBookClub. We had a great time recording this show, and we hope you enjoyed it as well. We also hope you'll consider joining us next time. Please leave a few words in the episode's comment section. As always; remember to visit the HPR contribution page HPR could really use your help right now. http://hackerpublicradio.org/contribute.php Sincerely, The HPR_AudioBookClub P.S. Some people really like finding mistakes. For their enjoyment, we always include a few. OUR AUDIO This episode was processed using Audacity http://audacity.sourceforge.net. We've been making small adjustments to our audio mix each month in order to get the best possible sound. It has been especially challenging getting all of our voices relatively level, because everyone has their own unique setup. Mumble is great for bringing us all together, and for recording, but it's not good at making everyone's voice the same volume. We're pretty happy with the way this month's show turned out, so we'd like to share our editing process and settings with you and our future selves (who, of course, will have forgotten all this by then). Mumble uses a sample rate of 48kHz, but HPR requires a sample