I used to have this really awesome early 2000’s transparent blue plastic keyboard with all the newest media keys. The only problem was that it had 4 windows keys on it! One on either side of the spacebar. The right side of the spacebar was Alt, Windows, Context menu, CTRL. That was a bit weird but it was alright. The next placements were crazy though. Someone figured there was space for more keys right below the Delete, End and Page Down keys but I guess they couldn’t really figure out what would be best for there so they put a 3rd Windows key, a 2nd Context Menu and then a 4th Windows key right there. This was pretty close to the arrow keys and if anyone remembers gaming in the early 2000’s, pressing the windows key accidentlly would often just crash your game completely. If you could get back into it, it could take quite a while for it to respond again. So if you were playing something like Warcraft 2 multiplayer, that button was a fucking nightmare.
Ugh, I loved the colour of that keyboard so much I put up with all those windows keys.
edit: I can’t believe I found it! I’ve tried searching for this keyboard a few times, but finally found proof on this site!
I’ve got a bunch of CBC podcasts that I love.
Under the Influence has great storytelling and talks a lot about the history of marketing in very interesting ways.
We Regret to Inform You is by the same people and talks about the hardships some people have had to go through before making it big. I really only listen to episodes about people I already know about though.
The Debaters is a great comedy podcast. I also listen to Laugh out Loud and have been caught laughing my head off in the middle of the dog park.
Backstage at the Vinyl Cafe is going through Stuart McLean’s Vinyl Cafe stories and adding a bit of background about each story. I thought I’d skip the background stuff, but it’s actually not bad to listen to. Stuart McLean was such an amazing story teller and I always love hearing these stories about Canada.
Quirks and Quarks is a great science podcast although I kicked it off my list for a while until I can clear my other backlog.
One US based podcast I would still recommend (They’re not political, but still not pro Trump) is Go Fact Yourself. Great podcast in a trivia game show format. The central idea is really cool. Pick 3 topics outside your field of work that you’re an expert in. They then quiz you on one of those three topics with a special guest expert in the topic who comes on at the end. And the people they get are absolutely amazing! They had Walter Koenig on as an expert, and then he liked the show so much he came back as a player.