Month: May 2021

Back in the early to mid-90s, I took a typing class at a Junior College for fun. I was probably 12 or 13 years old, back when personal Macs and floppy disks were all the rage. One of the first things you learn is about the Home Row. Well, my right hand missed the memo for that lesson because to this day, it does whatever it wants on the keyboard. Mostly, I find that my index and middle finger do most of the typing, and the two lazy ones to the right of them do very little work. Meanwhile, the left-hand glides gracefully over its keys. My concern here is number of mistakes I make – the right hand seems to be married to the Backspace key, which doesn’t help it stay on the home row. I also can’t type 100 wpm like Laura does, which is one of my life goals (no, it’s not). But since I am right-handed I am disappointed in what it has not accomplished in the typing arena.

I stumbled across an interesting music website a while back that I gravitate to every now and again, especially when soap-cutting ASMR videos stop doing it for me. It’s called Radiooooo. It’s a music player that allows you to listen to music specifically created within a given country and decade, with their catalogue spanning the last 110 years.

The free version functions similarly to standard broadcast radio, sans having five-minute breaks where people tell you about the weather or Dua Lipa’s new hairstyle. You choose the region, the decade you want to hear music from, then just let it ride. In order to skip songs, skip ahead/rewind the current song, bookmark songs, and access listening history, you’ll have to sign up for their premium service.

The one I end up on the most is 1980s Japan, but the website is more of a curiosity for me than anything. It’s interesting to span the decades for a specific country and see at what point they really started to converge with the rest of the world.