Friday, May 27, 2005
F*cking Mouse
This mouse is dead.
Not only is it acting up. Not only is it an obnoxious size and shape that’s hurting my hand. It has an absurd design with buttons on the sides that, in the browser, invoke the back and forward functions. So yeah, the post I just wrote in the EE interface, coincidentally making fun of Microsoft at the religious right’s expense, was just wiped out by the fact that one can casually brush those buttons on the Microsoft brand mouse and changed browser windows unintentionally. Which wipes what’s been composed.
At least I have good impulse control compared to my younger days. My first urge was to bring my fist down on the offending mouse and smash it. The urge got filtered and stopped, even though I am about to replace it anyway, even though I have a spare sitting a couple feet away. Go me. I feel so grown up now. Or at least repressed and logical.
I’ll bring a mouse home from the office today to try to save my wrist and lower my frustration. Moronic design is the least of the problems with it.