work logic

[egypturnash]

Okay. Yesterday I got frustrated by the mouse at my work machine accumulating goo, made an effort at cleaning it off, and scavenged a mouse pad from a disused machine to use it on. When I got in, the machine was nearly done ftping some stuff, and the mouse pad was on the side, with the mouse sitting on the bare wood desk.

What's worse is this fact: when Spümcø was more inhabited, one machine had an optical mouse hooked to it. Guess which machine had a mouse pad? Right. The one that absolutely doesn't need help with a good surface for the ball to adhere to.

I really wish the Wacom stylus hadn't gone missing from around here.

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[mister-wolf.livejournal.com]

*looks at the optical mouse he is using at work*

*discretly removes mouse pad from beneath it*

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

I seem to vaguely recall that the optical mouse had an eye-fuddling, diffraction-grating-changes-when-you-turn-it mouse pad under it, too.

[momentrabbit.livejournal.com]

There are two types of optical mouse: the new sort, with the ergonomic design and leather claddings, compare digital photos of the surface they're sitting on a few times a second, and then interpolate what signals to send to the ps2/usb port. They need no mouse-pad. They're smarter than the average elevator controller.

Then there's the older ones - the sort Sun workstations used to come with. They had two holes in the bottom, emitter and receiver. Tended to be blocky, but have at least three buttons - no wheels. Without the shiny, diffraction-grating mouse pad they were shipped with, they didn't work at all. They were about as smart as calculator wristwatches.

But they meant well, of course.

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

Oh, no, this was people using the smart laser-guided works-on-anything mice on one of those mouse pads with a lenticular image on it. Yes, use one that's going to scatter the light wildly, lovely.

[momentrabbit.livejournal.com]

... I can hear the little mouse's screams as it was slowly, irrevocably, driven into madness. "THE ANGLES! THE ANGLES ARE ALL WRONG! THE MOUSEPAD OUT OF SPACE! THE COLOR OUT OF TIME! R'IIAAHGNF! FTHNAAGHN!! I'M A LITTLE TEAPOT! LALALALA I CAN'T SEE YOU!"

[unciaa.livejournal.com]

I have to use a sheet of paper under my optical mouse; the varnish on the desk is too reflective and makes it go berserk. Though, given most mousepads' tendancy to be shiny and plasticky and reflective, I'd say it would work better without than with it.

[doodlesthegreat.livejournal.com]

My mother uses a pad with her optical mouse, but only because it comes with a resting place for her wrist. No such thing with my own mouse.