> What can be improved about a mouse mat?
Well, if formerly you had a hard-surfaced triangular one, and now you had a
softfaced rectangular, I'd call that an improvement.
Best
Dave
----- Original Message -----
From: "Roger Collett" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, September 01, 2001 2:18 PM
Subject: Re: yr sister's mouse
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "david.bircumshaw" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Saturday, September 01, 2001 2:09 PM
> Subject: Re: yr sister's mouse
>
>
> > I emptied my desk at work mid-week, and, apart from some squeaky toys I
> once
> > bought for a jape, the one real memento I took home, after 13 years, was
> an
> > improved mouse-mat.
> >
>
> What can be improved about a mouse mat?
>
> > As far as I know, btw, the plural of 'mouse' as in pointing device is
> still
> > undecided. I do favour rodents, so to speak, but I wonder if anyone else
> has
> > a novel suggestion.
> >
>
> Always have been known as meece in this house, but then it is a crazy
place.
>
> Roger
>
> > I also wonder whether mouse disorientation is a side-effect of cyberdom,
> > y'know, the effect of staring screens on brain-wave patterns, etc?
Perhaps
> > there is a need for a study, as in Pavlov's Meece?
> >
> > Best
> >
> > Dave
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Alison Croggon" <[log in to unmask]>
> > To: <[log in to unmask]>
> > Sent: Saturday, September 01, 2001 12:45 AM
> > Subject: Re: yr sister's mouse
> >
> >
> > > David wrote:
> > > >
> > > > I would snarl at the bewilderments, go to Settings,
> > > > click the Mouse icon,
> > > > tail over to Pointers, as in pointing devices, and,
> > > > without compunction,
> > > > summon 'restore defaults'.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > I _never_ snarl, as all of you know. This mouse is
> > > beyond redeeming, since it has a very uncertain sense
> > > of direction. I _did_ go to defaults, which is how I
> > > got rid of the way the cursor turned into a flower and
> > > a beetle (who thinks of these bright ideas?) and I did
> > > clean it (thanks Andrew) which made no difference at
> > > all.
> > >
> > > However, back to business as usual by Monday, so I can
> > > then grumble about mine own rodent, which seemeth from
> > > these foreign climes to be a saintly beast indeed.
> > >
> > > Best
> > >
> > > Alison
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > http://travel.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Travel
> > > - Got Itchy feet? Get inspired!
> > >
> >
>
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