Re: Friday's Question

On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 11:16 AM, Joshua Kehn <josh.kehn@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sep 20, 2013, at 1:04 PM, Daniel Brown <danbrown@php.net> wrote: > >> I'm in my mid-thirties and - despite having an optical mouse - I >> do indeed still use a mousepad. A customized one that the wife did >> for me for Christmas one year: images of Futurama, the Cleveland >> Browns, Minnesota Vikings, and several aircraft, all surrounding a >> picture of her and our daughter. I've found that shiny surfaces - >> such as my desk - reflect too much of the laser, causing the mouse to >> be far less responsive. > I'm in my 20's and rarely, if ever, use a dedicated mouse. I've transitioned to > having all my workstations be laptops of one sort or another and they have built-in trackpads. Of > course I also rarely use the mouse when there are so many keyboard shortcuts available. When I'm on my MacBook (which is most of the time) I use the trackpad. But in the unfortunate times I have to be on a Windows box I always connect a mouse.