334. A Pivotal Event in the Evolution of the Society of Quebec

Lords:

• SJ
  • https://neutralzonehotel.com/
• Benjamin

Topics:

• TD Place Arena in Ottawa is really weird in an interesting way
• Learning to ice skate when you're 40
• Is this keyboard layout more sensible than QWERTY?
  • https://media24.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads-2024/images/3/3597ddeb-e52e-4cda-a59c-c64600489fea/VfpwY7be.jpg
• She Walks in Beauty, by Lord Byron
  • https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43844/she-walks-in-beauty

Microtopics:

• Neutral Zone Hotel.
• Heated Rivalry.
• What a loon sounds like.
• Going to Canada but never going outside.
• A real dickhead in the history of hockey.
• Needing a new hockey arena and a new football stadium and putting one on top of the other.
• Backwards ice.
• Canadian Tire Center.
• The Ottawa '67s.
• Realizing that your two arenas on top of one another will collapse instantly if you ever hold two events at once.
• Asbestos sprinkles falling from the ceiling and delighting the crowd.
• Ice skaters falling over because the ice is too cold.
• What's up with fighting in hockey?
• When ice hockey goaltenders got masks.
• Regulating sports violence with additional violence.
• Spontaneous vs. pre-arranged hockey fights.
• The Gordie Howe Hat Trick.
• A triple double, except instead of impacting the outcome of the game, it impacts your soul.
• The Punch-up In Piestany and other bench-clearing brawls.
• Hockey's Post-Headshot Era.
• Learning new skills as an adult.
• The Kraken Community Iceplex.
• Complaining about swizzles for months.
• Pumping your legs to propel yourself forward.
• Swizzles vs. backwards swizzles.
• The point at which ice skating classes branch out into hockey classes and figure skating classes.
• Beer League teams.
• Born knowing how to skate.
• Jusse Saros erasure.
• Hockey players getting concussed by swimming while drunk.
• Circle to confirm and X to back out.
• A keyboard with all the calculator buttons on it.
• Interviewing the animator who designed the weird keyboard in Bubblegum Crisis.
• An argument for Colemak over Dvorak.
• The Z, X, C and V keys staying right where they are.
• Switching keyboard layouts to keep your college roommates from screwing with you.
• Why boredom is a good thing.
• Desperately trying to fill today's 16 waking hours with something, anything.
• Making content for the Internet.
• Cloudless climes and starry skies.
• Whether Lord Byron got his title by being on the show.
• Trying to rhyme brow and glow.
• Whether they had non-rhyming poetry 200 years ago.
• Only remembering your anxiety dreams.
• The recurring dream where you explore stone stairs leading down from a decrepit old fishing house, going deeper and deeper each time you have the dream until you finally get to the bottom of the stairs and find out what your whole life has been leading to.
• Tiny hockey community discords.