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Optical Mouse. Less than Impressive.
Before she left for England, Htet Htet bought herself a "portable" mouse, meaning the cord retracts into the body. Pretty cool, actually. So, since my mouse is an utter piece of crap, I borrowed her old optical mouse that she left here.
On the one hand, it's nice because there's no place for crud to get caught and jam up the mouse -- regular readers should be able to fill in their own "dirty mouse balls" joke here. On the other hand, the mouse's sensor doesn't like my fake-wood desk very much. Sometimes the pointer won't move at all, and sometimes it'll jump randomly. Very annoying when I'm trying to use Photoshop.
My guess is that the fake wood grain isn't high-contrast enough for the mouse to know it's moving. When I get one of my own (being the cheap bastard I am, I'm waiting for a CompUSA rebate certificate to show up from something I bought earlier) I'll probably need to get a better mousepad than what I've got now.
Or maybe I'll just buy a non-cheapo ball-mouse and hope it doesn't degrade as quickly as my current one did.
pay for a mousepad?
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Posted by Andrew on January 9, 2003 6:57 PM.
um. arent mousepads free? i love my optical. its is very nice
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Posted by Jason on January 9, 2003 7:34 PM.
um. arent mousepads free? i love my optical. its is very nice
Well, they tend to come free with a computer, but if you just need a mousepad and there are no job fairs nearby you have to pay a couple bucks for them.
I talked to Rob, and he says his is great too. I'm wondering if it's maybe the brand of mouse. The one I've "liberated" for the time being is a Logitech; Rob's is a Microsoft. And I'm becoming slightly more sure that my desk being very smooth and not having much of a color difference is causing the problems. I may try putting some newspaper up here and see if that works...
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Dirty mouse ball jokes
Why did the chicken cross the road?
Dirty mouse balls!
What do you get when you cross a mountain climber with dirty mouse balls?
Nothing--a mountain climber's a scaler (scalar).
What's black and blue and hates dirty mouse balls?
A rape victim!
How do you keep the neighborhood kids from playing in your yard?
You molest them with dirty mouse balls!
I dunno. These "dirty mouse balls" jokes just aren't very funny.
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Re: Dirty mouse ball jokes
You're just not trying hard enough.
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Re: Dirty mouse ball jokes
There once was a man with dirty mouse balls
He loved those things most of all
When asked why they're so dirty
He replied in a hurry,
"The cat chases me out of the shower stall!"
Eh, it doesn't scan.
How do you make dirty mouse balls?
Make a regular mouse ball, but add the olive juice.
What's the deal with all these dirty mouse balls? I mean, doesn't anyone clean their mouse balls anymore?
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Re: Dirty mouse ball jokes
See? Those were much better. That limerick was almost there...
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