-Lip balm quote: "Natural Ice"-
I had a wonderfully detailed adventure dream last night... which I remember precisely none of because the alarm went off in the middle. It really is true that as soon as you move, you forget it. Ah well.
I finally have a mouse for my laptop, which is a nice step up from the touchpad. However, it did take some getting used to, even though the computer I previously used was a desktop. Apparently one loses skills mind-blowingly fast. I am still at the point where the cursor rockets around when I first grab the human interface device (really, why do the manufacturers call them that when NO ONE else in the entire WORLD calls them anything but "mice"? Is "mouse" too non-technical-sounding?) and I do tend to reach for the dead -- well, guess it's more accurately "nonresponsive" -- touchpad when I'm not thinking.
Reality check. If the mouse is plugged in, guess what? The touchpad doesn't work, dork. Ahhhhh... I literally reached for it again RIGHT AFTER TYPING THAT!!! There I go again!!!
6 years ago
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I always look like an idiot when I use any other computer but my own becouse I always have my mouse speed setting ramped up to max. It baffles me how people can happily use a surface area the size of a small Spanish town to navigate from one side of the screen to the other.
ReplyDeleteI wholeheartedly agree. I used someone else's (touchpad-operated) laptop soon after I posted this, and was annoyed to find that it took hundreds of swipes across that teeny surface to get ANYWHERE on the screen.
ReplyDeletePeople of the world with decent fine-motor control, unite!