Inferior Imitator

ep·i·gone n. A second-rate imitator or follower, especially of an artist or a philosopher.

Wednesday, January 11, 2006

I got a wireless mouse and keyboard at work, and I absolutely love them. I don't have any restrictions on where I'm typing or mousing (what's the verb for that?) and it's much more ergodynamic. Today I had a client come in for a Quickbooks tutorial, and I turned my extra monitor around and gave him the keyboard and mouse, and we could both use both comfortably as needed.

Or it was supposed to work that way. My mouse went completely wonky. It stopped working, and the only way I can get it to work is to press the button on the sensor/receptor, and it works for like ten seconds and then stops. So I have to press this button every time I want to use my mouse. I had to press the button for the client, and it completely wiped out the convenience of the whole set up. Stupid mouse. I went back to the in-laptop mouse, which makes using the wireless keyboard impractical. I want to use my wireless! [pout]

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6:23 PM, January 11, 2006, Chelsea: We have the craziest wireless mouse and keyboard set in our conference room at work. I was ginving a presentation today and i was having trouble clicking the correct button to get to my next slide and I had trouble opening my file!
10:25 PM, January 11, 2006, Technomage: What's the surface like where you run your mouse? That could be an issue, if you suddenly change surface types.

Does your wireless mouse or keyboard need fresh batties?

Just some thoughts. It's a guy thing. See a problem, find a solution.
11:04 PM, January 11, 2006, Mindi Scott: I was really excited to get a wireless mouse and keyboard, but I get kind of annoyed with how often the batteries need to be changed. Plus, I hardly move from this spot so it isn't like the wires were really holding me back.
7:05 AM, January 12, 2006, CosmicAvatar: I was all excited with my spanky new wireless keyboard and mouse (which matched my screen, very important), but they were crap so I'm still using my ancient Dell keyboard and mouse, which are just fine, thank you.

(Not all wireless rocks one's world, sadly.)
8:11 AM, January 13, 2006, Amanda: I ended up having to change the signal channel with the inset button on the bottom of my mouse, for any of you who are interested.

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If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you
But make allowance for their doubting too,
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:

If you can dream--and not make dreams your master,
If you can think--and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it all on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings--nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much,
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And--which is more--you'll be a Man, my son!

~Rudyard Kipling

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a man must be one.

That all men are created equal
and that everyone has within himself
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That God put the firewood there
but that every man
must gather and light it himself.

In being prepared
physically, mentally, and morally
to fight when necessary
for that which is right.

That a man should make the most
of what equipment he has.

That 'This government,
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and for the people'
shall live always.

That men should live by
the rule of what is best
for the greatest number.

That sooner or later...
somewhere...somehow...
we must settle with the world
and make payment for what we have taken.

That all things change but truth,
and that truth alone, lives on forever.

In my Creator, my country, my fellow man.

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