The scroll wheel on our mouse gave up after less than two-&-a-half yrs.; after Tom Sawyering an innocent into Googling the opening of it for us (did no good) we bought an improved model, & for about $11.00 less than we paid for the now semi-useless one in 2008. Best aspect beside the return of scrolling is the "nano-receiver,"
an aesthetic & functional improvement over the thing sticking out here
(That is sneeze residue — if not worse — on the devil-box, not "orbs.") which would occasionally catch an unbuttoned sleeve or loose elbow & stop working for several secs., obviously counter-indicated when a mind as flighty as ours is in the middle of polishing a turd for the fourth or fifth time.
On/off switch on the new mouse; no more pulling the dongle out & shoving it in the mouse every night to save battery power. Doesn't work any better on the glass-topped desk than the previous model did, but we didn't figure that was worth the added expense.
Made by slave-labor who will die horribly & young from exposure to gawd-knows-what in China.
Also enjoying dusting the shit out of everything w/ a can of air.
I've a got a couple of feeble old mice from (former place of) work.
ReplyDeleteHoping they'll keep working. That new-fangled stuff looks tricksy.
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Ah. I wondered what you had meant the other day.
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ReplyDeleteOh, yes. If it weren't that Mr. McGravitas was the "innocent" in question, as well, we wouldn't have bothered at all. (Or, we would have gone into irksome detail.)