Spatial anisotropy in the vicinity of a small massive sphere

What is a "mechanical mouse" ?:-)

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selection.

Because computer screens are wider than they are tall?

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Would that be a female mouse?

No balls, just a little red spot underneath.

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Because that's the direction along which it does the most movement?

Heh. I was about to check my mouse ball, but I had forgotten I have an optical mouse. :-)

(Is "clag" Brit for "crud"?)

Cheers! Rich

Why does clag collect mostly on the east-west roller in a mechanical mouse?

-- Regards, John Woodgate, OOO - Own Opinions Only. If everything has been designed, a god designed evolution by natural selection.

Most balls swing left/right rather than front back, according to some government study. Probably the Ministry of Ball Physics has some archives on it. Hence more foobar on the left/right sensors.

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More fingerprints/grease east & west of the mouse than north of it.

H.

It's nature. Traditionally the world has been more open to north-south transitions than east-west transitions. Compare the Mexico-US transition to the Berlin wall for example.

Clag? What's clag? We ain't got no clag. We don't need no stinkin' clag.

Take your pick.

Or rotate your desk 90 degrees.

Just checked mine, no such problem in the Southern Hemisphere. Mind you the LED of the mouse is pretty bright, I may have missed something.... :-)

Ken

I read in sci.electronics.design that Jim Thompson wrote (in ) about 'Spatial anisotropy in the vicinity of a small massive sphere', on Mon, 3 Oct 2005:

One with a 'small massive sphere', which engages with two rollers that operate optical rotation sensors.

Probably regarded as prehistoric in US.

I read in sci.electronics.design that Rich Grise wrote (in ) about 'Spatial anisotropy in the vicinity of a small massive sphere', on Mon, 3 Oct

Yes.

Like this, but smaller?

According to Fung Hooey, the NS axis represents career and success, whereas EW is home and children. Your career is dependent on your computer skills; the counterclaims of your home ties impede it. The mouse reflects this conflict.

The solution is to have a computer mat with a picture of your wife and children; change the desktop colout scheme to a metallic yellow- green colour, with a mountain scene as a screensaver; burn a joss-stick (scandalwood or emery paper); and let off firecrackers in the NW corner, or in extreme cases a small stick of dynamite.

Paul Burke

This raises an interesting question: Do inanimate objects have a gender? Ships, of course, are always female, except some warships have very male names, like "The Nimitz" - but, say, your car, or your computer - are they "he", or "she"? Currently, I have a 1986 Fiero, but I think it's kind of ambivalent - it wants to be a boy, but it has a lot of feminine attributes, like it keeps hanging in there supporting me even though it's subjected to some amount of neglect. The computer I'm at right now is "Daphne", which is a girl name, but I have another one named "Thunderbird", which sounds very masculine - our server is named "Ops", which is sort of a play on words - it's both an abbreviation for "operations", and the name of some ancient goddess...

Yeah, goddess of abundance and fertility. I like it!

Cheers! Rich

Nah, not prehistoric - it's just that they've all been cannibalized to make fast quadrature rotary position/velocity sensors.

With a PIC, of course. ;-)

Cheers! Rich

On Mon, 03 Oct 2005 23:18:49 +0000, Howard Eisenhauer wrote:

Oh, Geez, does this bring back memories! I was with a girlfriend once, who had a cat, and she brought one of those things home one day, and it was hilarious, for about 20 minutes. They go about 5 feet and have to be rewound, and it was more like the cat was playing "make a monkey out of the human", as it sat there and watched her wind the toy. Of course, the cat would sit there and let her get up and go retrieve the toy and wind it up for its benefit. Feh. It was supposed to be a housecat, but it would escape outside every chance it got, and so this woman would go chase it. It would go sit under a car, and when she got within arm's reach, it would casually get up and amble away, as if it didn't even care that it was being chased. It'd wander down the street, decide to stop and rest, and she'd chase after it, and just about when she got within catching range, the cat would go, "Oh, ho-hum, I guess I don't want to sit here any more" and walk another block or two. I used to rant at her: "Let it go! It'll come back when it gets hungry! It knows where the food is! It's just playing 'Make a monkey out of the human'!" She'd chase that cat for like six blocks before it got tired of the game and let her carry it back to the house. About two years after that girl and I had broken up, we were talking on the phone (we were "still friends") and she said, "Y'know? Buckwheat ran away again ("Buckwheat" was the cat's name, because it was pitch black. You should have seen her trying to explain that to the African-American solicitor that showed up at her door one day!), and I just got disgusted and left him out all night, and you know what? He came back!" Like, she was so astonished that the f****ng cat would come back for f****ng cat food. Duh. Guess I'm better off without her, although it was some of the most transcendental sex I've ever had. Sigh.

I went to look up "cat toys" at google, and, um...

Cheers! Rich

My current car is has no name and is not easily sexed, but the previous two were clearly female and male (feistly little red Kyoko and powerful silver Wolfgang) respectively. C.'s car Sven is more of a hermaphrodite- perhaps the automotive equivalent of the Man from Glad.

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