Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!husc6!endor!siegel From: siegel@endor.harvard.edu (Rich Siegel) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: New mouse design... WHY?! Message-ID: <1793@husc6.harvard.edu> Date: 10 May 89 19:53:17 GMT References: <736@arisia.Xerox.COM> <13429@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> <30434@apple.Apple.COM> Sender: news@husc6.harvard.edu Reply-To: siegel@endor.UUCP (Rich Siegel) Organization: Symantec/THINK Technologies, Bedford, MA Lines: 28 In article <30434@apple.Apple.COM> chuq@Apple.COM (Chuq Von Rospach) writes: > >Because of above, whenever I move my Mac, I take a mouse pad -- it's small, >it's light, and it guarantees that if I put my mac down on a glass-top table >I don't have to turn the silly thing over and play trackball just to get >enough friction to move the cursor. Doing without a mouse pad is great, >until you run into a slick surface. I have found that in the absence of a good surface (or any at all!), that the fabric used in Levi Strauss brand 505 jeans works very well, especially when wrapped around one or more of my legs. :-) --Rich ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Rich Siegel Staff Software Developer Symantec Corporation, Language Products Group Internet: siegel@endor.harvard.edu UUCP: ..harvard!endor!siegel "She told me to make myself comfortable, so I pulled down my pants and sat in the pudding." -Emo Phillips ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~