Blog of Ortz

This is my mouse:

As you can see from the worn spots, I’ve been using it for many years. About six, I think. The bottom label simply says “Optical Mouse”.

Today Lifehacker had an article on the best mice according to the readers. Of course most of them were Logitech mice. And as you would expect, there were mice like the G5 and the fancy MX Revolution.

Now maybe other people use mice differently, but when I use mine, especially when I play games, I pick it up a lot. Take the MX Revolution:

I’ve never used this specific mouse, but I’ve never been able to lift these off the desk as easily as with regular $10 mice. And although it appears to be ergonomically designed, these types of mice seem to be presumptuous about how you like to hold it. Here are some more photos to help explain:

How I hold my mouse:

As you can see, I hold it with my fingertips. Maybe others hold it this way too, but I find that I have much more control this way. Not only can I pick it up easily, but side-to-side movement is easier too.

How mice like the MX Revolution seems to presume that you like to hold your mouse:

Kind of with your entire hand.

Another issue I have is with wireless mice. I really like the idea of not having a cord to interfere with the movement of the mouse, but look at where they put the sensor:

It’s way on the side! I guess maybe I use my mouse strangely because whenever I use a cordless mouse, the cursor goes in all sorts of crazy directions and makes me want to toss it across the room which I can do because it’s cordless.

I dunno, maybe it’s just me.

I’d like some comments on this though…

Note: If you saw this post unfinished it’s because I couldn’t figure out any other way to get it from the web interface to Live Writer than by posting it and editing it from Writer.

Speak louder! Stop talking to your microphone! If your character is talking to someone that’s 4 feet away, then you need to talk as if the mic is 4 feet away.

This is just something that has annoyed me about GMod movies.

Well, I decided to stay home today cause I’m not feeling well. I think I’m catching a cold or something.

So I’ve been waiting for the package to come today with all of the parts to my computer (except the case, which was supposed to come tomorrow, the 14th). Finally, I spot the UPS truck outside, but the guy never brings it to the door. Instead, I look out and see the truck driving off! Now, at this point, I had already seen on the UPS tracking page that the package was “out for delivery”, meaning it was on the truck to be delivered. So, I was a little confused. I just expected for it to come later in the day.

A few hours later, I look at the tracking page and I see this:

THE BUSINESS WAS CLOSED TODAY. A DELIVERY ATTEMPT WILL BE MADE ON THE NEXT BUSINESS DAY;PACKAGE WILL BE DELIVERED NEXT BUSINESS DAY-NO SATURDAY GUARANTEE

WHAT! This was a little maddening, but I wouldn’t get my case until the day , so I wouldn’t be able to put it all together until then anyway. So no big deal. BUT THEN, I look at the tracking page for the package with my case, and I see “Your package is in the UPS system and has a rescheduled delivery date of 06/15/2007.”

I’m a little mad but I guess one day is nothing to complain about.

As a followup to my post about Avril Lavigne’s new album, here’s an article on Slate.com that explains it very nicely:

http://www.slate.com/id/2165921/pagenum/all/#page_start (contains expletives)

No, really. He yells at you now. LINK

(Old link I forgot to post)

Whoops, you’re not supposed to see that picture. You’re supposed to see pictures of people jogging in New York in early January. You’re not supposed to see pictures of the ice storm that happened a week later or the huge blizzard a month later. My bad.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_2007_North_American_ice_storm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_2007_North_America_winter_storm

Have you seen their new commercials? Am I the only one that want to chop that arm off with a hacksaw?

Seriously, that has to be the worst commercial I’ve ever seen. And the jingle is just as bad as the hand thing.