Episode 165 – A Chat With Lesley Sim

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Episode Transcript

Topher: Hi everyone! My name is Topher.

Nyasha: And my name is Nyasha.

Topher: And this is Hallway Chats. Before we get started, I want to draw your attention to Nexcess. They are our sponsor and we greatly appreciate it. I am a user of their services. The HeroPress site is around their servers. And it’s fantastic. I really like it.

They’re super fast. They have all the cool tools that I really like as a nerdy web developer. They have some cool stuff I haven’t got to use yet but I’m excited about. They do a lot of cool stuff with WooCommerce. They have automated testing, they have a sales performance monitor, there’s a plug-in performance monitor, and I’m looking forward to checking that out. And you should too. 

Now we’re gonna get on with our podcast. And our guest today is Lesley Sim. Welcome. 

Lesley: Hello.

Topher: I have a question about your name. Is the S hard or soft? Is it Les-ley or Lez-ley? 

Lesley: Oh, I prefer Less-ley. So soft. 

Topher: Okay. All right, cool. We’re talking about famous people named Leslie or Lesley before you came on. 

Lesley: How do you pronounce a famous people’s Ss? 

Topher: The one I know most famous is Leslie Nielsen. I mean, it sounds like there’s Z in it. But I’ve known some others.

Nyasha: I alternate. Leslie and Lesley.

Lesley: Cool.

Topher: So tell us about yourself. Where do you live? 

Lesley: I live in Singapore. It’s almost exactly on the equator. 

Topher: Oh, wow.

Lesley: So it’s hot and rainy all the time.

Topher: All the time. And your days are the same length year-round?

Lesley: Yep, that’s right. 

Topher: But it’s near the ocean. How’s the temperature like? Is it miserable hot all the time or is it you get a breeze from the ocean?

Lesley: It’s getting there with climate change. It’s getting like really hot, like searing hot. I think most of the time it’s somewhere between 26 and 30 degrees Celsius. 

Nyasha: Oh, wow. 

Lesley: I’m not sure what that is in Fahrenheit. 

Topher: It’s hot.

Nyasha: Hot, yeah. I was gonna say that’s hot.

Topher: I think 30 is just over 100 Fahrenheit. 

Lesley: Yeah. So 78 to 212 Fahrenheit.

Topher: Not 212. 

Lesley: No, wait, wait. I put in 100.

Topher: 86. That’s not bad at all.

Nyasha: That’s perfect, yeah. Where I grew up, that’s what the temperature was. I have always wanted to visit Singapore, by the way.